Compiling methods for the Fresh Breeze processor

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).The Fresh Breeze project is designing a new parallel architecture that is designed to serve as a model for high-performance computing while maintaining good software programming principles. One of the unique aspects of this architecture is a write-once memory model with hardware-based garbage collection and a global address space. Due to this memory immutability, new designs are needed before code generation can be developed for the Fresh Breeze compiler. This paper outlines designs for arrays and the method calling protocol. These designs are analyzed with respect to running times, possible alternatives, and algorithm performance.by Curtis George Fonger, Jr.M.Eng