[LA-SiGMA] message from Dencho

[Randall Hall]

Dear All,

 

This is a kind reminder that the first LI-LA-SiGMA seminar for this year
will be held tomorrow (Jan 26th ) at 1.00pm. Our speaker is Dr. Sven-Bodo
Sholtz from University of Hertfordshire, UK. 

 

Title: How to have your cake and eat it too:   High-Productivity and
High-Performance with Multicores

 

Abstract:  With the increasing diversity of multicore architectures
available it is no longer economically viable to tailor-make programs to the
executing hardware. Instead, we have to find ways to automatically create
such hardware-specific codes from generic program specifications. We have
been working on these issues for the last 15 years. One result of these
efforts is SaC, a functional array language (www.sac-home.org), and its
attendant compiler technology which combines high programmer productivity
with highly efficient executions on various multicore architectures. In this
talk, I will highlight the key issues we have encountered on our journey
towards compiling high-level, Matlab-like programs into high-performance
code. In particular, I will focus on the different requirements and
challenges found alongside the road when targeting diverse platforms: My
journey will go from general purpose hardware, via restrained settings like
GPGPUs towards cutting edge, massively parallel systems where concurrency
lies at the heart of performance.

 

Bio: Sven-Bodo Scholz received his Dr.rer.nat. and a German Habilitation
from the University of Kiel in 1996 and in 2004, respectively. Currently, he
is Reader at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Sven-Bodo Scholz's
research is driven by the desire to combine high-level program
specifications with highly efficient executions on multiprocessor systems.
Theoretical advances and new technologies that affect the interplay of these
goals are in the focus of his research. This includes novel type systems,
partial evaluation techniques, memory management techniques as well as
approaches to generic programming. He has led several research projects that
focused around the design and implementation of functional programming
systems all of which contributed to several ready-to-use systems in the
public domain. He is a key contributor to the design and implementation of
the functional array language SaC whose runtime performance competes with
that of industrial Fortran compilers. The design of SaC targets various
cycle-intensive computations from diverse application areas such as
scientific computing, financial modeling or medical image processing.
Several SaC-related projects over the last 10 years have led to a
substantial compiler framework for SaC. Its outstanding features are the
advanced optimisation techniques that are being applied and the
auto-parallelising capabilities for shared memory machines, GPUs, and other
novel multicore architectures.

 

The access grid locations are as follow: 

 

Tulane: AG room: 403 Stanley Thomas Hall

University of Louisiana at Lafayette: AG room: Abdalla Hall

Southern University:  AG room: 218 Moore Hall

UNO: AG room:  SC 2002

LSU: AG room:  Johnston 338

LATECH: AG room: 234 Netken Hall

 

Please, distribute this email to your students and colleagues.

 

Kind Regards,

Dentcho



Randall W. Hall
Professor of Chemistry
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804
Email: rhall at lsu.edu  Web: http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hall
Phone: 225-578-3472 Fax: 225-578-3458 AIM: rwhneauxs

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