<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>This is a kind reminder that the first LI-LA-SiGMA seminar for this year</div><div>will be held tomorrow (Jan 26th ) at 1.00pm. Our speaker is Dr. Sven-Bodo</div><div>Sholtz from University of Hertfordshire, UK. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Title: How to have your cake and eat it too: High-Productivity and</div><div>High-Performance with Multicores</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Abstract: With the increasing diversity of multicore architectures</div><div>available it is no longer economically viable to tailor-make programs to the</div><div>executing hardware. Instead, we have to find ways to automatically create</div><div>such hardware-specific codes from generic program specifications. We have</div><div>been working on these issues for the last 15 years. One result of these</div><div>efforts is SaC, a functional array language (<a href="http://www.sac-home.org">www.sac-home.org</a>), and its</div><div>attendant compiler technology which combines high programmer productivity</div><div>with highly efficient executions on various multicore architectures. In this</div><div>talk, I will highlight the key issues we have encountered on our journey</div><div>towards compiling high-level, Matlab-like programs into high-performance</div><div>code. In particular, I will focus on the different requirements and</div><div>challenges found alongside the road when targeting diverse platforms: My</div><div>journey will go from general purpose hardware, via restrained settings like</div><div>GPGPUs towards cutting edge, massively parallel systems where concurrency</div><div>lies at the heart of performance.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Bio: Sven-Bodo Scholz received his Dr.rer.nat. and a German Habilitation</div><div>from the University of Kiel in 1996 and in 2004, respectively. Currently, he</div><div>is Reader at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Sven-Bodo Scholz's</div><div>research is driven by the desire to combine high-level program</div><div>specifications with highly efficient executions on multiprocessor systems.</div><div>Theoretical advances and new technologies that affect the interplay of these</div><div>goals are in the focus of his research. This includes novel type systems,</div><div>partial evaluation techniques, memory management techniques as well as</div><div>approaches to generic programming. He has led several research projects that</div><div>focused around the design and implementation of functional programming</div><div>systems all of which contributed to several ready-to-use systems in the</div><div>public domain. He is a key contributor to the design and implementation of</div><div>the functional array language SaC whose runtime performance competes with</div><div>that of industrial Fortran compilers. The design of SaC targets various</div><div>cycle-intensive computations from diverse application areas such as</div><div>scientific computing, financial modeling or medical image processing.</div><div>Several SaC-related projects over the last 10 years have led to a</div><div>substantial compiler framework for SaC. Its outstanding features are the</div><div>advanced optimisation techniques that are being applied and the</div><div>auto-parallelising capabilities for shared memory machines, GPUs, and other</div><div>novel multicore architectures.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>The access grid locations are as follow: </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Tulane: AG room: 403 Stanley Thomas Hall</div><div><br></div><div>University of Louisiana at Lafayette: AG room: Abdalla Hall</div><div><br></div><div>Southern University: AG room: 218 Moore Hall</div><div><br></div><div>UNO: AG room: SC 2002</div><div><br></div><div>LSU: AG room: Johnston 338</div><div><br></div><div>LATECH: AG room: 234 Netken Hall</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Please, distribute this email to your students and colleagues.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dentcho</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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