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07-14-2009, 06:54 PM
IBM has announced the availability of an open source machine learning compiler, Milepost GCC that optimises applications .Milepost GCC is the result of a collaboration between IBM (http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/ibm-new-development-powerhouse-722) and partners in the European Union-funded Milepost consortium. IBM expects the compiler to dramatically reduce the time-to-market for new software designs as applications can be more quickly tuned for a targeted architecture.
"Our technology automatically learns how to get the best performance from the hardware — whether mobile phones, desktops, or entire systems — the software will run faster and use less energy," said Bilha Mendelson, manager of code optimisation technologies at IBM Research. "We opened the compiler environment so it can access artificial intelligence and machine learning guidance to automatically determine exactly what specific optimizations should be used and when to apply them to ramp up performance." The Milepost GCC compiler is available from the consortium website. (http://www.milepost.eu/)
"Our technology automatically learns how to get the best performance from the hardware — whether mobile phones, desktops, or entire systems — the software will run faster and use less energy," said Bilha Mendelson, manager of code optimisation technologies at IBM Research. "We opened the compiler environment so it can access artificial intelligence and machine learning guidance to automatically determine exactly what specific optimizations should be used and when to apply them to ramp up performance." The Milepost GCC compiler is available from the consortium website. (http://www.milepost.eu/)