ROSE compiler infrastructure

Mirror of ROSE documentation now available

Justin Too — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:49:11 +0000

We are pleased to announce today that the essential ROSE user/developer documents are now mirrored in both Github and Bitbucket.

We’ve introduced this extra level of redundancy to allow you to remain productive, especially during outages of our main website. We hope that you will find this to be a useful enhancement –– we’re always on the hunt for ways to improve the workflow of ROSE developers.

Happy coding!

Links:
See https://github.com/rose-compiler/rose-docs.
See https://bitbucket.org/rosecompiler/rose/downloads.

ROSE is on Ohloh.net!

Justin Too — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:35:15 +0000

Today, we are announcing that the ROSE compiler project is now being analyzed on Ohloh.net.

Check us out: https://www.ohloh.net/p/rose-compiler.

New version of rosecompiler.org is available

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:50:32 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of our newly renovated website, http://www.rosecompiler.org.

The previous version of the website was based on static HTML and CSS. But for this new design, we’ve decided to use a dynamic web content management system (CMS) (WordPress). The motivation behind this redesign was to provide ROSE users with a more intuitive and user-friendly web interface.

Equally important, this new web infrastructure provides the ROSE staff with an easier-to-maintain and easier-to-update solution for keeping you in-tune with the latest ROSE developments.

We appreciate any constructive feedback that you might have for us, so please feel free to drop us a note.

ROSE is on Github!

Justin Too — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:55:58 +0000

Today, we are announcing that the ROSE git source code repository is now being mirrored on Github.com. The old HTTP git repository has been deprecated in favor of this new mirror. We will also being phasing out the external subversion repository hosted at the SciDAC Outreach Center very soon.

Collaborating with us will be greatly simplified thanks to the wonderful infrastructure that Github provides, such as Pull Requests for contributing code and enabling code review, and Issues for software issue tracking.

Clone our official ROSE mirror into your own account at rose-compiler/rose, and feel free to submit a bug report or feature request at rose-compiler/rose/issues.

Happy coding!

Virtual machine image for ROSE has been released.

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:51:32 +0000

A virtual machine image for ROSE has been made available online. Created by using VMware Player, the image contains Ubuntu 10.04 and a pre-built ROSE. The intended users of this image could be first-time users who want to test drive ROSE without installing everything from scratch.

The image has 4.8 GB, with the following contents:

sourcetree, cloned from github.com/rose-compiler/rose on July 21, 2012: /home/demo/rose
buildtree: /home/demo/buildrose
installation tree (–prefix path): /home/demo/opt/rose-inst
A script to set environment variables to use the installed ROSE tools: /home/demo/set.rose.env
A test translator: /home/demo/myTranslator
Some dot graphs of a simplest function: /home/demo/dotGraphs

A demonstration user account (sudo user in Ubuntu) is provided as follows:

account: demo
password: password

Warning: running virtual machines within LLNL (or any other organizations) need additional authorization. This image is not authorized to be used within LLNL. Please check with your employers before running this image!

Wikibook for ROSE is available for community-edited documentation

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:50:58 +0000

We are pleased to announce that we are leveraging WikiBooks to allow anyone to contribute to documenting the ROSE compiler framework.

The goal of ROSE’S wikibook is to have a community documentation providing extensive and up-to-date instructional information about how to use and improve ROSE.

While the ROSE project website (http://www.rosecompiler.org) already has a variety of official documentations, having a wikibook for ROSE allows anybody to contribute to gathering instructional information about this software, such as tutorials, how-tos, FAQ, and various development methods.

Again, please note that ROSE’S wikibook is not the official documentation of ROSE. It is meant to be complementary to the official documents via the community efforts contributed by anyone just like you.

Haskell bindings have been released

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:52:48 +0000

ROSE now includes language bindings for the functional programming language Haskell. The bindings allow users to access and traverse ROSE’s intermediate representation (IR) from Haskell in a type-safe manner. Please refer to the chapter named “The Haskell Interface” in the ROSE tutorial as well as the API documentation for details about how to use this new feature.

OpenMP 3.0 implementation has been released

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:53:22 +0000

An initial OpenMP 3.0 implementation using ROSE has been released. ROSE now can parse OpenMP 3.0 directives and translate OpenMP programs into multithreaded code targeting the GCC GOMP runtime library. Please refer to the Chapter named “OpenMP support” in the ROSE manual for details about how to use this new feature.

Autotuning draft tutorial has been released

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:53:53 +0000

A draft tutorial of a ROSE-based end-to-end empirical tuning system has been made available online. ROSE is a central component in the SciDAC PERI project to enable performance portability of DOE applications through an empirical optimization system, which incorporates a set of external tools interacting with ROSE to support the entire life-cycle of automated empirical optimization of large scale applications. Please goto Internal ROSE Projects to learn more about the project and download the draft tutorial.

ROSE wins R&D 100 Award!

Chunhua (Leo) Liao — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:54:23 +0000

The ROSE group, led by Dr. Daniel J. Quinlan, has received the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its software, ROSE: Making Compiler Technology Accessible to all Programmers. The R&D 100 Awards, also called the “Oscars of Invention”, are presented annually by R&D Magazine to recognize the 100 most significant proven research and development advances introduced over the past year. ROSE was selected by an independent expert panel as one of the winners for 2009.