6th meeting (October 2009)

Agenda.

• Presentations by cluster members
  • Prof. Hans Moritsch from U. of Innsbruck, Austria: group presentation and ongoing research; postponed.
  • Adam Piotrowski from T. U. Łódź, Poland: GCC middle-end passes for soft-error tolerance.
  • Basile Starynkevitch from CEA LIST, France: the MELT plugin of GCC.
    • See the attached presentation.
• Announcements: collaboration and support action grants available, GROW 2010 (with HiPEAC), ACM Computing Frontiers 2010.
• Web page enhancement, cross-cluster interaction: suggestions and help welcome.
• JIT-compilation platform: GCC4CLI + Mono, still looking for a postdoc or expert engineer (up to 2 years contract).
• cTuning: simply the best adaptive compiler (GCC-ICI coming as a plugin for GCC 4.6?).
• GCC GIMPLE-SSA back-end project.
  • See the attached presentation.
• Source-to-source GCC project. Stress test for MELT? OpenCL? Hardware synthesis?
• News about ongoing research and development in GCC: graphite, automatic parallelization, transactions, streaming, plugin system, link-time optimization, memory consistency model.