Tutorial: The SMECY Project

Early Experiences With Tools and Applications

A Tutorial to be presented at HiPEAC 2012 : 7th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers

When: Monday, January 23, 2012 (2:30pm - 6:00pm)
Where: Paris, France

Organizer and Presenters

Select SMECY project partners

Abstract

The SMECY ARTEMIS project envisions that recently emerged multi-core technologies will rapidly develop to massively parallel computing environments which, due to improved performance, energy and cost properties, will extensively penetrate the embedded system industry in a few years. This will affect and shape the entire business landscape. Examples include:

Semiconductor vendors need to be capable of offering advanced multi-core platforms to diverse application sectors.
IP providers need to re-target existing and develop new solutions to be compatible with evolving multi-core platforms and the need of embedded system houses, in addition to product architecture adaptations and renewing their system, architecture, software and hardware development processes.

The mission of the SMECY project is to develop new programming technologies enabling the exploitation of many (100s) core architectures, see www.smecy.eu. The goal of this ARTEMIS project is to launch an ambitious European initiative to match and eclipse initiatives in Asia, e.g. teams funded by JST/CREST programmes, and USA, e.g. PARLAB in Berkeley, Parallel@illinois and Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory in Stanford.
In this tutorial, we are going to present and demonstrate some of the tools developed during the first 18 months of the SMECY project. We will share experiences from working with the tools on industrial applications.

Schedule

The schedule is broken into two 90 minutes sessions separated by a 30 minutes break. The first session provides an overview of the project and the second session provides more depth, goes into details and discusses some results. The different talks are outlined in the schedule below:

14:30 First session; Overview:
- 25 min. Welcome and introduction
- 30 min. Use case applications
- 30 min. Execution models and tools
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Second session; Depth:
- 20 min. Intermediate representation and tools in detail
- 20 min. Execution platforms
- 3x15 min. Highlights

Duration

Half day tutorial. Talks with demos.

Last Updated: January 22, 2012