Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:17:40 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:07:27 GMT Content-length: 2400 Linda Torczon

Linda Torczon

Faculty Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Rice University



Research Interests
Linda Torczon is one of the principal investigators on the Massively Scalar Compiler Project at Rice and the project director of an effort funded by the State of Texas to study compiler-based optimization of non-numerical code. Her research interests include code generation and optimization, interprocedural data-flow analysis and optimization, and programming environments. In the code generation and optimization realm, she has published a set of improvements to graph coloring register allocation. She is also one of the key implementors of an optimizing compiler for Fortran. In the area of interprocedural analysis and optimization, she has developed techniques for interprocedural constant propagation and recompilation analysis. She has also completed studies on the effectiveness of several interprocedural constant propagation techniques. In the programming environment arena, she was one of the driving forces behind the ParaScope programming environment project. She was a principal architect of the framework for whole program analysis in the ParaScope programming environment. The current D System project is a descendant of the ParaScope programming environment.

Related Publications
Torczon has produced a number of publications related to the Massively Scalar Compiler Project.


Other Projects
Linda Torczon is the Executive Director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, an NSF Science and Technology Center devoted to making massively parallel computer systems usable---as usable as conventional supercomputer systems are today. She is also involved in the The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, a Rice-Houston Independent School District laboratory school for students from kindergarten through eighth grade.