[HiPEAC-announce] PhD opportunity in Performance/Watt multicore programming (Green IT) at NTNU, Norway (Deadline 10. June)

[Lasse Natvig]

A PhD research fellowship is offered in the Department of Computer and
Information Science (IDI), Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics
and Electrical Engineering (IME) at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU).

Multicore architectures and their associated software give many new
opportunities to reduce the energy consumption of computers. Heat
generation/power dissipation necessitates expensive cooling systems and is a
serious and increasing problem in most IT systems. Furthermore, reduced
energy consumption in IT equipment is a goal in all market segments (i.e.
from sensor networks, via mobile phones, laptops, servers and up to compute
clusters and supercomputers). Common for all these platforms is the
widespread and increasing use of multicore technology. These new multicore
solutions must balance the desire for low energy consumption against the
need for high performance. Consequently, they are at the heart of the
collective endeavor named “Green IT”.

In this research project, we will study the trade-off between low energy
consumption and high performance. A crucial choice is the degree of
parallelization, e.g. the distribution of the computations on one, a few or
many processor-cores. The project includes evaluation of existing methods,
techniques and tools for optimizing the metric performance/watt, as well as
proposing and exploring new programming methods. System level simulations of
both architecture and software will be used to evaluate the proposed
techniques. Modern approaches such as design space exploration, autotuning
and use of performance & energy counters is relevant. The research will be
related to the activities in the research cluster “Programming model and OS”
of EU-7FP HiPEAC2 NoE (Network of Excellence).

Further information on the fellowship may be obtained from Professor Lasse
Natvig, mob. +47 906 44 580, e-mail lasse at idi.ntnu.no See also
http://research.idi.ntnu.no/multicore/

Applications should be submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical
Engineering, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway, or by e-mail to
application at ime.ntnu.no Applications should be marked IME-039-2009 Closing
date: 2009-06-10

For further information, see this link:
http://innsida.ntnu.no/getfile.php/vedlegg/4a13a267bb3fe8.82866996/Ime-039-2
009+Fulltxt.eng.pdf

Best regards
Lasse Natvig
Professor NTNU

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Lasse Natvig      http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~lasse/ 
Dept. Computer & Information Science (IDI, IME)
Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU) 
Tel:+47 73593685|Cell:+47 90644580|lasse at idi.ntnu.no
Snail-mail: Sem Sælands vei 9, Gløshaugen, N-7491
Trondheim, NORWAY. ///   Member of HiPEAC Network 
of Excellence http://www.hipeac.net/
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