Paris Meeting (November 2008)

Paris Meeting

The 3rd Adaptive Compilation cluster meeting was on Thursday 27th November. We had four talks from cluster members and then split into three groups to talk about parallelisation, continuous optimisation and low power.

Talks

We had talks from the following cluster members

• Grigori Fursin (INRIA) Plans are to continue working on the Interactive Compilation Interface for GCC to enable collaborative research and collective optimisation and extend run-time adaptation technique for heterogeneous reconfigurable processors based on static multiversioning and low-overhead dynamic monitoring of program and system behaviour.
• Sandro Bartolini (Siena) Topics of interest in a very general form can be summarised as "Synergistic software/hardware research aimed at optimising significant end-user metrics such as performance/power/predictability in specific application domains"
  • Parallel programming: models, auto-parallelisation, optimisations, software/hardware transactional memory
  • Multicore (homogeneous/heterogeneous) architectures, domain-specific accelerators
  • Articulated memory hierarchies (caches, scratchpad), NoCs
  • Reconfigurability
• Hans Vandierendonck (Ghent) Passing information between compiler and hardware using register names.
• Georgios Goumas (Athens)

Subgroups

The meeting was split into groups, each with their own leader, discussing the following topics

• Parallelisation - Mikel Lujan (Manchester)
• Continuous Adaptation - Josep Herrero (UPC)
• Low Power - Olivier Zendra (INRIA)

For more details, please see the attachments to this page.