BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CSL-TR-94-620
       ENTRY:: November 10, 1994
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Computer Systems Laboratory
       TITLE:: The SUIF Compiler System: a Parallelizing and
 	       Optimizing Research Compiler
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Wilson, Robert
      AUTHOR:: French, Robert
      AUTHOR:: Wilson, Christopher
      AUTHOR:: Amarasinghe, Saman
      AUTHOR:: Anderson, Jennifer
      AUTHOR:: Tjiang, Steve
      AUTHOR:: Liao, Shih-Wei
      AUTHOR:: Tseng, Chau-Wen
      AUTHOR:: Hall, Mary
      AUTHOR:: Lam, Monica
      AUTHOR:: Hennessy, John
        DATE:: May 1994
       PAGES:: 8
    ABSTRACT:: Compiler infrastructures that support experimental research
               are crucial to the advancement of high-performance computing.
               New compiler technology must be implemented and evaluated in
               the context of a complete compiler, but developing such an
               infrastructure requires a huge investment in time and
               resources. We have spent a number of years building the SUIF
               compiler into a powerful, flexible system, and we would now
               like to share the results of our efforts.

               SUIF consists of a small, clearly documented kernel and a
               toolkit of compiler passes built on top of the kernel. The
               kernel defines the intermediate representation, provides
               functions to access and manipulate the intermediate
               representation, and structures the interface between compiler
               passes. The toolkit currently includes C and Fortran front
               ends, a loop-level parallelism and locality optimizer, an
               optimizing MIPS back end, a set of compiler development
               tools, and support for instructional use.

               Although we do not expect SUIF to be suitable for everyone,
               we think it may be useful for many other researchers. We thus
               invite you to use SUIF and welcome your contributions to this
               infrastructure. The SUIF software is freely available via
               anonymous ftp from suif.Stanford.EDU. Additional information
               about SUIF can be found on the World-Wide Web at
               http://suif.Stanford.EDU.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19941110]
         END:: STAN//CSL-TR-94-620