Abstract
Nowadays, parallel applications are used every day in high performance computing, scientific computing and also in everyday tasks due to the pervasiveness of multi-core architectures. However, several implementation challenges have so far stifled the integration of parallel applications and automatic precision tuning. First of all, tuning a parallel application introduces difficulties in the detection of the region of code that must be affected by the optimization. Moreover, additional challenges arise in handling shared variables and accumulators. In this work we address such challenges by introducing OpenMP parallel programming support to the TAFFO precision tuning framework. With our approach we achieve speedups up to 750% with respect to the same parallel application without precision tuning.
Lev Denisov
Postdoctoral researcher
Lev Denisov is a computer science post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include sustainable computing, novel hardware architectures, big data and compilers.
Daniele Cattaneo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Giovanni Agosta
Associate Professor
Giovanni Agosta, Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, holds a Laurea in Computer Engineering (2000) and a PhD in Information Technology (2004). His research focuses on compiler-computer architecture interaction, emphasizing performance, energy-efficiency, and security. He has authored 100+ papers, won multiple awards, and participated in 17 EU-funded projects.