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Dr. Mauricio Álvarez-Mesa and Andrés Goens

30 June 2015

Mauricio, a postdoc researcher at Prof. B. Juurlink’s group at the TU Berlin, visited the chair for compiler construction. He works at the “Embedded Systems Architectures” group, in topics ranging from low-power embedded systems to massively parallel high-performance systems. Mauricio gave a talk where he addressed the challenges of mapping today’s video codecs to modern architectures, including SIMD instruction and GPUs. He discussed the gap between manual and auto-vectorized code for today’s video applications.

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portrait professor Andy Pimentel

30 June 2015

Andy Pimentel, lead of the Computer Systems Architecture group at the University of Amsterdam, visited the chair for compiler construction on the 24th - 25th of June 2015. With this visit, we kicked off the HiPEAC collaboration and defined a timeline for the stay of our Ph.D. student Andrés Goens at Andy’s group. Andy also gave a cfaed Seminar on “Perspectives on System-level MPSoC Design Space Exploration” (see PDF).

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09 June 2015

Andrés Goens, a Ph.D. student of our CC chair received a grant from the European project HiPEAC. He will visit Prof. Andy Pimentel at the University of Amsterdam to work in a new collaboration between the CC chair and the Computer Systems Architecture group of Prof. Pimentel in Amsterdam. This collaboration shall expand on the research of both groups in mapping applications to heterogeneous multiprocessor systems. We hope this will lead to excellent work!

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08 May 2015

Prof. Castrillon gave a talk at the HiPEAC computing systems week (CSW), in a thematic session on portable libraries for hybrid systems. The session was organized and moderated by Christian Brugger and Christian De Schryver from Microelectronic Systems Design Group at the TU Kaiserslautern. The HiPEAC CSW is an event at which members of the network of excellence convene to discuss topics that revolves around advancing computing. This spring the HiPEAC CSW was held at the University of Oslo from the 4th-8th of May and was attended by 290 researchers from 135 different institutions. Prof. Castrillon talked about extensions to a mapping flow for KPN applications that are needed to support computing platforms with HW and SW accelerated routines. For more information see the presentation slides (and all presentations of the session here).

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30 April 2015

As of beginning of May 2015, the Chair for Compiler Construction welcomes a new researcher to the team. Sebastian Ertel has a background in computer science and worked towards his PhD at the chair from Professor Fetzer at the TU Dresden. He has experience in dataflow languages and compiler analysis to ensure safe concurrent execution of parallel programs. We are very glad to have Sebastian on board!

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Between March 2nd and March 6th PhD students, postdocs and investigators of the Orchestration and Resilience paths of cfaed spent a week of workshops and discussions in the wild winter nature of Geising (Erzgebirge), hosted by the Waldhotel am Aschergraben. Organized by Dr. Marcus Völp and Prof. Castrillon, the retreat’s purpose was to have some time to learn more about each other’s research topics and recent innovations as well as discovering new links and deepening existing research collaborations---or simply getting some things done.
Initially, PhD students of both paths gave a short talk about their research topics receiving valuable feedback from the audience. Moreover, investigators from other paths like HAEC (M. Dörpinghaus), SiNW (Jens Trommer) and CIP (Andreas Richter) were invited to present their newest research results and to get in touch with the people at the retreat. Of course, there were plenty of other highlights such as a plenary talk by Prof. Fettweis on the new 5G Lab Germany, a talk on Storage Class Memories by Dr. C. Mohan and a nice social event in the Eishalle and Ratskeller Geising.

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Prof. Castrillon organized a special session: “Hot Topic - Multi/Many-Core Programming: Where Are We Standing?” at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. DATE is a leading international event for design and engineering of Systems-on-Chip, Systems-on-Board and Embedded Systems Software. There were six contributions from different speakers at the session, including views from researchers working in methods in academia, from companies offering solutions and from companies requiring solutions (more details). Prof. Castrillon gave a talk on programming methodologies for multimedia and signal processing applications, and provide an outlook about the challenges addressed in the HAEC and cfaed large-scale projects.

session picture prof. jeronimo castrillon introduces the special session at DATE 2015 conference

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On January 28th 2015, Prof. Jeronimo Castrillon together with Prof. Thorsten Strufe gave their inaugural lectures on “Compilers for Multi and Many Processor Systems” and “Privacy vs. Surveillance and Censorship in Online Services”, respectively. The lectures were well attended, with around 130 colleagues, students and friends coming mostly from the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering faculties. In this event, both professors gave an introduction to themselves and their research areas in collegial, friendly atmosphere. The presentations were followed by a get together, full with interesting follow-up discussions.

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The Chair for Compiler Construction was well represented at this year’s HiPEAC Conference, which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 19th-21st 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 keynote on simulation and estimation tools for MPSoC programming during the RAPIDO’15 workshop and a talk about tools for dataflow-based programming models during the PEGPUM’15 workshop. For more information visit RAPIDO’15 (Link to presentation, PDF), PEGPUM’15 (Link to Presentation, PDF) and HIPEAC’15.

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Lecture title: Compilers for Multi and Many Processor Systems
This event will be a joint lecture of Prof. Jeronimo Castrillon and Prof. Thorsten Strufe, who is professor for Privacy and Security at Technische Universität Dresden. His contribution is titled "Privacy vs. Surveillance and Censorship in Online Services".
The inaugural lectures will be followed by a small reception.
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Andreas Pfitzmann Building, room E023
Click here to see full information and abstracts