Open64 is a

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, optimizing

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for the

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and

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architectures. It derives from the

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compilers for the MIPS

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processor, called ''MIPSPro''. It was initially released in 2000 as

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software under the name Pro64. The following year, University of Delaware adopted the project and renamed the compiler to Open64. It now mostly serves as a research platform for compiler and

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research groups. Open64 supports Fortran 77/95 and C/C++, as well as the

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programming model

OpenMP OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) is an application programming interface (API) that supports multi-platform shared-memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++, and Fortran, on many platforms, instruction-set architectures and operating syste ...

. It can conduct high-quality

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, data

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, and

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. Development has ceased, although other projects can use the project's source.

The infrastructure

Its major components are the frontend for C/C++ (using GCC) and Fortran 77/90 (using the CraySoft front-end and libraries),

Interprocedural analysis Interprocedural optimization (IPO) is a collection of compiler techniques used in computer programming to improve performance in programs containing many frequently used functions of small or medium length. IPO differs from other compiler optimiz ...

(IPA), loop nest optimizer (LNO), global optimizer (WOPT), and

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(CG). Despite being initially written for a single computer architecture, Open64 has proven that it can generate efficient code for CISC,

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, and

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architectures, including MIPS,

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IA-64 IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic ISA specification originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was subsequently implemented by Intel in coll ...

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, and others.

Intermediate representation

A hierarchical

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(IR) with five main levels is used in this compiler to serve as the common interface among all the frontend and backend components. This IR is named WHIRL.

Versions

The original version of Open64 that was released in 2002 was missing its very advanced

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code generator, and had only a rudimentary code generator for Itanium. The entire original MIPSPro compiler, with this code generator, is available under a commercial license as the Blackbird compiler from Reservoir Labs. Th
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documents the code generator that was not included in Open64. The very advanced compiler from Tilera, for its 64-core TILE64 chip, is based on Blackbird. Open64 exists in many

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, each of which has different features and limitations. The "classic" Open64 branch is the Open Research Compiler (ORC), which produces code only for the Itanium (IA-64), and was funded by

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. The ORC effort ended in 2003, and the current official branch (which originated from the Intel ORC project) is managed by

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and the

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's Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory (CAPSL). Other important branches include the compilers from

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and the

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x86 Open64 Compiler Suite.

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is also using an Open64 fork to optimize code in its

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toolchain. Open64 is used as the backend for the HPE NonStop OS compilers on the x86-64 platform.

Open64 releases

AMD x86 Open64 releases

Current development projects

Open64 is also used in a number of research projects, such as the

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(UPC) and

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work at various universities. The 2010 Open64 Developers Forum describes projects done at Absoft,

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, HP,

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, and

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. The

ported Open64 to the

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II platform.

has extended and productized Open64 with optimizations designed for x86 multi-core processor advancements and multi-threaded code development. AMD supports Open64 as a complementary compiler to GCC. The University of Houston's OpenUH project, which is based on Open64, released a new version of its compiler suite in November 2015.OpenUH downloads page
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References

External links

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AMD Open64 page

The Berkeley UPC-to-C translator

OpenUH project at University of Houston
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The infrastructure

Intermediate representation

Versions

Open64 releases

AMD x86 Open64 releases

Current development projects

See also

References

External links