ViC*: A Compiler for Virtual-Memory C*

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR97-323

	Alex Colvin
	Thomas H. Cormen

Date: November 1997

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-323.ps.Z> (112KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-323.pdf> (276KB)

Abstract:
 This paper describes the functionality of ViC*, a compiler for a
 variant of the data-parallel language C* with support for out-of-core
 data.  The compiler translates C* programs with shapes declared
 outofcore, which describe parallel data stored on disk.  The compiler
 output is a SPMD-style program in standard C with I/O and library
 calls added to efficiently access out-of-core parallel data.  The ViC*
 compiler also applies several program transformations to improve
 out-of-core data layout and access.

Note:
 Revised version appeared in the Proceedings of the Third International
 Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive
 Environments (HIPS '98), March 1998, pages 23-33.