ECE Graduate Seminar - Alex Aiken

— 1:00pm

Location:
In Person - Panther Hollow 4105, Mehrabian Collaborative Innovation Center

Speaker:
ALEX AIKEN , lcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer ScienceStanford University
https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/

Efficiency in Parallel Runtime Systems

What makes a parallel runtime system "efficient"?  We present a metric, minimum effective task granularity (METG), that differs in important ways from previous approaches to measuring the performance of runtime systems.  We show that METG is generally applicable and can be used to meaningfully compare a wide variety of parallel runtime systems from scientific computing and data analytics.  We also present recent results in improving the METG of a class of task-based runtime systems, and show that we come close to reaching the minimum possible METG.

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Alex Aiken is the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Alex received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Music from Bowling Green State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003. His research interests are in areas related to programming languages. He is an ACM Fellow, a recipient of ACM SIGPLAN's Programming Languages Achievement Award and Phi Beta Kappa's Teaching Award, and a former chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. 
 

For More Information:
aliciabartman@cmu.edu

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