METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A COMPILER AND RELATED COMPONENTS FOR STREAM-BASED COMPUTATIONS FOR A GENERAL-PURPOSE, MULTIPLE-CORE SYSTEM

• US 20150347106A1
• Filed: 08/13/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cornami, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sviral, Inc.
• Inventors: Master, Paul, Furtek, Frederick
• Granted Patent: US 9,934,011 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/45 Exploiting coarse grain parallelism in compilation, i.e. parallelism between groups of instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/456 Parallelism detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/54 Link editing before load time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/38 Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

A method and system of compiling and linking source stream programs for efficient use of multi-node devices. The system includes a compiler, a linker, a loader and a runtime component. The process converts a source code stream program to a compiled object code that is used with a programmable node based computing device having a plurality of processing nodes coupled to each other. The programming modules include stream statements for input values and output values in the form of sources and destinations for at least one of the plurality of processing nodes and stream statements that determine the streaming flow of values for the at least one of the plurality of processing nodes. The compiler converts the source code stream based program to object modules, object module instances and executables. The linker matches the object module instances to at least one of the multiple cores. The loader loads the tasks required by the object modules in the nodes and configure the nodes matched with the object module instances. The runtime component runs the converted program.

Claims

1. A system to convert a source code stream based program to execute on a multiple node computing device comprising:

a compiler to convert the source code stream based program to object modules, object module instances and executables;

a linker to match the object module instances to at least one of the multiple nodes;

a loader to load the tasks required by the object modules in the nodes and configure the cores matched with the object module instances; and

a runtime component to run the converted program.

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