Section: New Software and Platforms

ACR

Adaptive Code Refinement

Keywords: Approximate computing - Optimizing compiler

Functional Description: ACR is to approximate programming what OpenMP is to parallel programming. It is an API including a set of language extensions to provide the compiler with pertinent information about how to approximate a code block, a high-level compiler to automatically generate the approximated code, and a runtime library to exploit the approximation information at runtime according to the dataset properties. ACR is designed to provide approximate computing to non experts. The programmer may write a trivial code without approximation, provide approximation information thanks to pragmas, and let the compiler generate an optimized code based on approximation.

• Contact: Cédric Bastoul

• URL: https://github.com/Syllo/acr