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Christopher Lauderdale, SWARM Architect at E.T. International, Inc. (ETI), will present “Towards a Codelet-based Runtime for Exascale Computing” at the 2^nd International Workshop on Adaptive Self-Tuning Computing Systems for the Exaflop Era (EXADAPT 2012). ETI specializes in system software solutions and performance acceleration services based on its transformative SWARM (SWift Adaptive Runtime Machine) technology for heterogeneous and many-core hardware architectures.

Mr. Lauderdale will present research on how to solve the scalability and heterogeneity challenges for software posed by current and future many-core and hybrid systems. They will discuss a method of programming that breaks software components into “codelets” that can be dynamically scheduled without dependence on each other for binding to hardware or specific threads. As a path toward exascale, this method proposes use of a supporting runtime layer between the system interface and codelet-based application to enable a very high degree of parallelism, which can then be exposed, scaled, and scheduled on the available hardware more efficiently and intelligently. 

EXADAPT 2012 is co-located with the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) and provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, developers and application writers to discuss ideas, methodology, applications, practical techniques and tools to improve or change current and future computing systems using self-tuning technology. Papers cover research and theory on how to simplify, automate and standardize the design, programming, optimization and adaptation of large-scale computing systems for multiple objectives to improve performance, power consumption, utilization, reliability, and scalability. 

WHERE:       Royal Society

6-9 Carlton House Terrace

London SW1Y 5AG

United Kingdom

WHEN:          EXADAPT 2012 is on March 3, 2012. Mr. Lauderdale’s presentation will take place at 3:40pm.