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From the 29.05.2017 to the 09.06.2017, Prof. Isaza and Prof. Velasquez visited the CC Chair. They are both assistant professors at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia, and are members of the SISTEMIC lab. Prof. Isaza’s and Prof. Velasquez’s visit took place in the context of the TU Dresden’s internationalization strategy “TU Dresden - Mit der Welt Verbunden”, funded by guests@TUD. During their visit, Prof. Isaza and Prof. Velasquez discussed research cooperation possibilities with members of the CC Chair, members of the cfaed Excellence Cluster and researchers of the Computer Science Department of the TU Dresden. They also contributed a talk to the “cfaed Seminar Series”, entitled “Tackling the computational challenges of DNA data compression and computer architecture simulation”. We thank the TU Dresden and the UdeA for their support, and specially, Prof. Isaza and Prof. Velasquez for their time. We are looking forward to continuing collaborations with the SISTEMIC lab. 

 

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We welcome Asif Ali Khan to the Chair for Compiler Construction. Asif received his bachelor and master degrees from the Department of Computer Systems Engineering (DCSE), University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar Pakistan in 2012 and 2015 respectively. After his graduation in 2012, Mr. Khan was with PeopleLogic Pakistan as System Programmer where he worked on various ARM processors. In September 2013, he joined DCSE as lecturer. Asif joins the group with a a DAAD scholarship. At the CC Chair, Asif will work on "Languages and Compilers for Systems with Heterogeneous Memories" together with Fazal Hameed. This project aims to provide the programming and compilation support required for exposing memory-heterogeneity to the application programmer. We are glad to have Asif with us and looking forward to working with him.

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In April 21st, 2017, Prof. Castrillon was selected as a member of the ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA), a new initiative by ACM to support and foster the next generation of computing professionals. Over 300 applicants from academia and industry applied to become members of this inaugural class of the ACM FCA. A selected group of 45 members will meet for the first time in San Francisco, USA, on June 25, after attending the ACM’s celebration of 50 years of the ACM Turing Award on June 23 - 24 at the Westin St. Francis. To the ACM FCA, Prof. Castrillon will contribute his vision of the future of computing systems with a cfaed perspective. We are very proud of being part of the ACM FCA and are looking forward to see how it develops. 

 

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The chair for compiler construction had two papers during the DATE week, from March 27th to 31st, 2017. DATE is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. Fazal Hameed presented his paper at the main conference on “Rethinking On-chip DRAM Cache for Simultaneous Performance and Energy Optimization” in a session that discussed novel memory designs and efficient mapping in flash storage. Norman Rink gave a presentation at the co-located event “Workshop on Resiliency in Embedded Electronic Systems (REES 2017)”. Norman talked about “flexMEDiC: flexible Memory Error Detection by Combined Data Encoding and Duplication”.

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We welcome Nesrine Khouzami to the Chair for Compiler Construction. Nesrine received her bachelor and masters degrees from the Superior National Engineering School of Tunis. She then joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for about a year and a half. At the CC Chair, Nesrine will work on domain specific languages (e.g., for computational biology) in the high-performance computing domain. We are glad to have Nesrine with us and are looking forward to working with her.

 

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From February 5 to 10, 2017 the Dagstuhl seminar 17061 „Wildly Heterogeneous Post-CMOS Technologies Meet Software“ took place, organized by Jeronimo Castrillon (TU Dresden, leader of the Orchestration path), Tei-Wei Kuo (National Taiwan University), Heike E. Riel (IBM Research Zurich), and Sayeef Salahuddin (University of California, Berkeley). The 30 participants, among them 5 from cfaed, enjoyed one week of interesting talks and intensive, interdisciplinary discussions about the challenges and opportunities of advancing computing beyond current CMOS technology. The participants covered the whole spectrum from post-CMOS materials research up to software development for future heterogeneous computing systems. Soon, a report about the seminar will be compiled and made available at the seminar website. During the seminar, Prof. Castrillon gave an overview of the research topics in the Orchestration Path of cfaed. Apart from the technical program, the seminar had ample space for discussions and social activities (e.g., a tour in the city of Trier).  

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The International Symposiom on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) is a premier event in compiler construction. This year's CGO took place in Austin, Texas, in the USA, between the 4-8 of February and was co-located with PPoPP and HPCA, two other major conferences. The joint venue hosted a plethora of workshops and tutorials that brought together experts on compiler technologies and programming languages. During the conference, Andrés Goens presented a poster with the title "Optimizing for Data-Parallelism in Kahn Process Networks" as part of the ACM Student Research Competition.

 

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The Chair for Compiler Construction was well represented at this year’s HiPEAC Conference, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden from the 23th-25th of January. The HiPEAC conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for embedded and general-purpose systems. Prof. Castrillon gave a talk on flexible and scalable dataflow programming for manycores in a tutorial entitled “Heterogeneous multicore design automation: current and future”. He also talked about general mapping problems for manycores during the MULTIPROG’17 Workshop and participated in a panel discussion to close the event. 

 

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Christian Menard received the Hermann-Willkomm prize for his Diploma Thesis entitled “Mapping KPN-based Applications to the NoC-based Tomahawk Architecture”. The prize is awarded to the best thesis in the area of Information Systems Engineering (Informationssystemtechnik). Christian’s work was supervised by Andrés Goens, a researcher of the Chair for Compiler Construction. The techniques described in the thesis are part of a compiler developed in the context of the Orchestration Path of the Excellence Cluster cfaed. The compiler targets the Tomahawk architecture developed at the Vodafone Chair, headed by Prof. Gerhard Fettweis.

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From 6-7 October, Daniele Spampinato, who is a Ph.D. candidate at ETH Zürich, visited the Chair for Compiler Construction. Daniele's research focuses on representations of mathematical expert knowledge for high-performance synthesis. In his work he has produced the LGen compiler for performance-optimized linear algebra computations. At ETH Zürich, Daniele is supervised by Markus Püschel, who is known for his work on SPIRAL. On 6 October, Daniele gave a talk on his work on LGen at the Andreas-Pfitzmann-Building. Apart from this formal presentation, Daniele's visit led to numerous useful informal discussions at the CC Chair.