15-745: Projects, Fall 2024

Projects from Previous Years

• Fall 2023, Spring 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Handouts

• How to write up your project proposal (PDF)
  • due Thursday, October 24th, 11:59pm
• How to write up your milestone report (PDF)
  • due Wednesday, November 20th, 11:59pm
• How to write up your final project report (PDF)
  • due Wednesday, December 4th, 11:59pm

Meetings

• Project proposal idea(s) meeting:
  • Tuesday, October 22nd (during regular lecture slot), in GHC 9113
  • Sign up using our signup sheet (on SignUpGenius).
• Milestone and project status meeting:
  • Thursday, November 21st (during regular lecture slot), via Zoom
  • We will use the same schedule from our original signup sheet.

Resources

Here are some links to compilers, documentation, tools, etc., that you may find useful:

• MLIR (Multi-Level IR) Compiler Framework
  • An extensible compiler infrastructure, from the creator of LLVM.
  • Paper describing MLIR: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11054
  • Talks and tutorials on MLIR
• The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
  • LLVM Documentation
  • Projects built with LLVM
  • Open LLVM Projects
• GraalVM
  • Dynamic optimization framework from Oracle
• OpenJ9
  • Dynamic optimization framework from IBM (especially good for Java)
  • OpenJ9's JIT compiler
  • JitBuilder library
• TVM
  • End-to-end deep learning compiler stack
• Lists on Wikipedia:
  • Open source compilers
  • Research compilers
• Jikes: open source Java compiler from IBM.
• Soot: a Java optimization framework from McGill University.
• Trimaran: focuses on compiling for ILP, targeting VLIW-style instruction sets.
• GCC: highly portable C compiler.