ISPASS 2018 tutorial

We brought Lift to ISPASS with this tutorial titled "Lift — performance portable code generation on parallel accelerators". We went through the fundamental components of Lift: language primitives and their properties, Lift IR, type system, parallelism exploitation and memory management. We dived deep into rewrite rules and the arithmetic expression simplifier behind Lift; we covered the existing applications of the language along with some practical examples for those interested to try them out.

Schedule:

• 13:30 — Lift overview (motivation, principles, applications, performance results)
• 14:15 — Language design, IR and code generation
• 15:00 — Break
• 15:30 — Rewriting and exploration
• 16:00 — View system
• 16:30 — QA and practice session
• 17:00 — Finish