Design and implementation of the Almanet environment

Abstract

Algebraic mapping networks can describe time/space dependencies either at coarse- or fine-grained level. The work reported here is focused on how compiler technology can be adapted to deal with the Almanet description of fine-grain time/space dependencies within a single program. In the first phase, special Almanet statements are embedded in C/C++ and a prototype compiler is developed which successfully interprets these dependencies and generates the correct executables. At the heart of this compiler is the space-time routine which generates a space-time matrix for each dependent variable. The compiler effectively translates an Almanet program, which is basically data-oriented, into separate process-oriented C programs.