Ter@ops is a long-term research and development project bringing
together industrial and academic partners of the Paris region.

The project aims for a radical evolution in both software development
productivity and computational efficiency, for a variety of
high-performance embedded signal-processing applications. We will design:

- a massively parallel processor architecture template, with instances
  of different power and performance profiles, aiming for hundreds of
  giga to tera-operation per second and per processor;

- a complete programming, parallelizing and design-space exploration
  tool-chain, aiming for maximal flexibility, dependability and
  sustained performance.

The project is currently in its first phase, focusing on prototyping
and exploring the design space, and considering the future development
of a complete product line.

The back-end compiler is a cornerstone in the tool-chain. the Gnu
Compiler Collection (GCC) appeared as the most promising
infrastructure for such a project. It is a guarantee of long-term
availability, steady performance improvement, and economical
development by leveraging on recent research and development involving
GCC (including loop transformations, automatic parallelization,
automatic vectorization, and instruction scheduling).

INRIA Futurs and Thales Research and Technology are looking for a
compiler engineer to retarget GCC for a hardware accelerator template,
aiming at maximizing the automatic extraction of fine-grain data
parallelism.

The first phase of the development (12 months) will be based in the
Alchemy Group at INRIA Futurs, tightly coupled with research
activities. This requires a prior experience in porting and/or
extending a compiler, but no specific expertise in GCC; training and
support will be provided by GCC internal experts along the
project. This first phase may be followed by a longer-term contract or
a research extension of the work as a PhD thesis.

Non French-speaking applicants are very welcome.

For more information or application, please contact:
Albert COHEN - INRIA Futurs Saclay, France - mailto: Albert.Cohen@inria.fr