[Colloq] Thesis Defense: Vlad Slavici Monday May 14th at 11:00am 366 WVH

[Nicole Bekerian]

The College of Computer and Information Science presents:

  Date: Monday, May 14th, 2012
  Time: 11:00 am
  Location: 366 WVH
  
  Title:
  Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Programming Models for Emerging HPC Architectures:
                         Parallel Disks, Hybrid CPU-GPU and Many-Core"

 
  Abstract:

  We present programming models for computing with emerging technologies such as
  the aggregate disks of computer clusters, hybrid CPU-GPU architectures or
  many-core machines. The purpose of these programming models is to enable the
  migration of algorithms and computations from the CPU to the specified emerging
  architectures.

  Starting with the mid-2000s it has become increasingly unlikely that a
  new hardware generation would provide significant performance improvement
  to legacy code over the previous hardware generation, due to technological
  and price barriers.

  To overcome these obstacles, hardware vendors have proposed solutions that
  disrupt the traditional sequential CPU control flow: multi-core CPUs and CPU
  clusters for computationally-intensive tasks, aggregate (a.k.a.  parallel)
  disks for data-intensive tasks that are space-limited, and, more recently,
  GPGPUs for computationally-intensive tasks that can accommodate a SIMD model.

  However, these hardware solutions have brought a major challenge to software
  developers by introducing restrictions to control and data flow, thus rendering
  parts of legacy code obsolete. This work addresses the important challenge of  
  migrating legacy algorithms from single- and multi-core CPUs or CPU clusters to  
  the aggregate disks of a cluster (for data-intensive, space-limited
  applications), to hybrid CPU-GPU architectures (for computationally-intensive
  applications) or to many-core computers (for data-intensive applications).

  
  Committee:
  * Gene Cooperman (advisor)
  * Mirek Riedewald
  * Pete Manolios
  * Steve Linton (external)



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Best, 
Nicole 

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Nicole Bekerian 
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Northeastern University 
College of Computer and Information Science 
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