Using Source-to-Source Transformation Tools to Provide Distributed Parallel Applications from OpenMP Source Code

Thanks to an easy way to express parallel opportunities, OpenMP has become the reference to develop applications for shared-memory architectures. As a result, several works have tried to provide an OpenMP compiler for distributed architectures. This article presents how the Turing eXtended Language (TXL) has been interfaced with the GCC compiler to implement the Checkpointing Aided Parallel Execution (CAPE) concepts in order to provide an OpenMP compiler for distributed architectures.