Open AccessAutoParBench: A Unified Test Framework for OpenMP-based Parallelizers
Author(s) -
Gleison Souza Diniz Mendonça,
Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira,
Chunhua Liao
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/ctd.2021.15755
Subject(s) - compiler , computer science , programming language , software engineering , software bug , software , national laboratory , parallel computing , software testing , operating system , engineering , engineering physics
After decades of advances in techniques of automatic parallelization, software developers can count, today, on many different tools that transform a program, so that it runs in parallel. Yet, most of these tools are still considered research artifacts. They contain latent bugs, often consequence of a sparsity of testing frameworks for autoparallelizers. This dissertation describes one such framework: AutoParBench - the product of a cooperation between UFMG's Compilers Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. AutoParBench is today publicly available, and has been successfully used to find three zero-day bugs in the Intel C Compiler. Its usage also uncovered problems in more research-oriented tools: 2 bugs in DawnCC, 4 in Rose AutoPar and 2 in Cetus. All these bugs have been confirmed, and some of them have been already fixed as an aftermath of this work.