The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is widely recognized as a world class centre for Computer Science research. The recent 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed Edinburgh’s position as the UK’s leading centre for research in Computer Science contributing 10% of the UK’s world-leading research.
The proposed research is to be carried out at the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA). ICSA has a vibrant research community with over 30 PhD students and an extensive research record in several areas directly related to this project: automatic parallelizing compilation, machine-learning based compilation and low power compilation/architecture co-design.
Edinburgh recently coordinated the EU FP6 MilePost project. This highly successful project has developed a machine-learning enabled version of GCC. MilePost GCC which has produced extensive interest in the industry and academia even featuring in the wall street journal. Edinburgh through its leadership of the project, has produced cutting-edge research in machine-learning enabled compilation.