PIPS: history
PIPS history
The PIPS acronym is overloaded because it simultaneously is the name of
a team, the name of a workbench and the name of a project. The
development of the PIPS compiler workbench by the PIPS team was
performed in different projects:
- 1988-91: Initial PIPS project, funded by DRET to evaluate the
potential of interprocedural parallelization for generic parallel
shared-memory machines
- 1989-91: WP65, part of the PUMA project, funded by the ESPRIT
Program (Project 2701);
automatic compiler-generated emulation of a shared memory for
distributed-memory machines, especially for INMOS T9000 and C104 based
machines
- 1991-93: PIPS-2 project, funded by DRET to exploit generic
techniques developped in project PIPS for Cray vector shared-memory
multiprocessors
- 1992-: HPFC project, supported by
ARCHIPEL and later by the Paradigme Project; the purpose is to develop
techniques for compiling HPF Fortran
- 1994: Compilation Techniques for Distributed-Memory Machines, joint project with PRISM laboratory and CEA, funded by DRET
- 1996: compilation of signal processing specifications for
distributed-memory machines, joint work with
Thomson-CSF, funded by DRET.
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