Institute of Computer Languages
Compilers and Languages Group
über
| Datum: | Donnerstag, 31. März 2011 |
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| Zeit: | 14:00 c.t. |
| Ort: | TU Wien, Bibliothek E185.1, Argentinierstraße 8, 4. Stock (Mitte) |
Spiral (www.spiral.net) is a program and hardware design generation system for linear transforms such as the discrete Fourier transform, discrete cosine transforms, filters, and others. We are currently extending Spiral beyond its original problem domain, using coding algorithms and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation as examples. For a user-selected problem specification, Spiral autonomously generates different algorithms, represented in a declarative form as mathematical formulas, and their implementations to find the best match to the given target platform. Besides the search, Spiral performs deterministic optimizations on the formula level, effectively restructuring the code in ways unpractical at the code or design level. Spiral utilizes special instructions and multiple processor cores. The implementations generated by Spiral rival the performance of expertly hand-tuned libraries. In this talk, we give a short overview on Spiral. We explain then how Spiral generates efficient programs for parallel platforms including vector architectures, shared and distributed memory platforms, and GPUs; as well as hardware designs (Verilog) and automatically partitioned software/hardware implementations. We overview how Spiral targets the Cell BE and PowerXCell 8i, the BlueGene/P PPC450d processors, as well as Intel's upcoming Larrabee GPU and AVX vector instruction set and Nvidia's Fermi GPU.
Franz Franchetti is an Assistant Research Professor with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell
Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team
winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive
system). Dr. Franchetti's research focuses on automatic performance
tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms,
including multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC),
graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs),
and FPGA-acceleration for CPUs. As member of the Spiral research team
(www.spiral.net),
his research goal is to enable automatic generation
of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel
functionality. Dr. Franchetti is co-founder of SpiralGen, a
Pittsburgh, PA company commercializing the technology developed in the
Spiral project.
(http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~franzf/)
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