Following a final year end of semester project, Adrien Guinet, a 3rd year engineering student, presented a poster at the CGO (Code Generation and Optimization), international conference 2011 held in Chamonix from April 2 to 6.

Adrien Guinet presented a poster at the CGO 2011 conference.

Following on from work carried out as part of a final-year project supervised by Serge Guelton, a PhD student in the Computer Science Department, Adrien Guinet presented a poster at the CGO 2011 conference. “It was an interesting experience personally and professionally. It allowed me to see the current state of research in the field of compilation and also to meet scientists from around the world, “said Adrien Guinet.
The initial objective of the final-year project was far exceeded with the submission of a paper at the Pact 2011 conference (20th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques) and a poster presentations at the OGS 2011 conference. The final project is structured around the Pips project, a compiler that, among other things, makes it possible to generate source files supporting vector instructions. Adrien Guinet used ​​the Pips support for new sets of instructions present in the field of modern microprocessors and helped to optimize the algorithms for the generation of these instructions. The instructions are used to accelerate compute-intensive calculations on a microprocessor by a factor going from 4 to 8, on recent architectures.