Patent ID: 8495603
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of generating an executable version of an application using a distributed compiler operating on a plurality of compute nodes, the method comprising: receiving, by each compute node, a portion of source code for an application; compiling, in parallel by each compute node, the portion of the source code received by that compute node into a portion of object code for the application; performing, in parallel by each compute node, inter-procedural analysis on the portion of the object code of the application for that compute node, including sharing results of the inter-procedural analysis among the compute nodes, wherein sharing the results among the compute nodes further comprises performing by the compute nodes an All-To-All collective operation; optimizing, in parallel by each compute node, the portion of the object code of the application for that compute node using the shared results of the inter-procedural analysis including: generating the executable version of the application in dependence upon the optimized portions of the object code of the application.