Franz Franchetti

 

 

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Spiral: Software/Hardware Generation for Mathematical Functionality

-spiral

Collaborators: José M.F. Moura, Markus Püschel, James C. Hoe, Jeremy Johnson, and David Padua

Students: Daniel McFarlin (advisor: Püschel, Franchetti)

HotBench: An Optimization Workbench for Hotspots
Students:
Richard Veras (advisor: Franchetti)

Spiral for GPUs
Students:
Christos Angelopoulos (advisor: Franchetti, Püschel)

Automatic Program Generation for High Performance Data Dependent Applications
Students: Wei Yu (advisor: Hoe, Franchetti, graduated July 2011)

Supported by NSF through awards 0325687, 0702386, 011737, and by DARPA through the DOI grant NBCH1050009, the ARO grant W911NF0710416, and ONR grant 10219108, N000141110112. Industry support from Intel, Mercury, and Nvidia

[NSF Discovery article] [Latest ECE News] [older ECE News] [Video of Spiral talk]

 

High Performance Computing for Power Grid Stability

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A Computing Framework for Distributed Decision Making to Ensure Robustness of Complex Man-Made Network Systems: The Case of the Electric Power Networks
Medium NSF CPS project (
award ECCS0931978)
Collaborators:
Rohit Negi (PI), Marija Ilic,
Ole Mengshoel
Students: Tao Cui (advisor: Franchetti), Priya Sundararajan (advisor: Mengshoel, CMU east coast advisor: Franchetti)
[ECE News]

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Zero Knowledge Control in Smart Grids
SRC SGRC Seed Project
Collaborators:
Marija Ilic
Students: Tao Cui (advisor: Franchetti), Cory Thoma (visiting student from Washington Jefferson)

 

High-Level Tools for Circuits: Affordable Application-Specific Design

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From SPIRAL to Silicon: Synthesis of Ultra-High-Performance SAR in End-of-Roadmap CMOS
Collaborators: J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi
Students: Berkin Akin (advisor: Hoe, Franchetti)

Application-Specific Embedded Logic in Memory
Collaborators: J. C. Hoe, L. Pileggi, M. Horowitz
Students: Qiuling Zhu (advisor: Pileggi, Franchetti)

C2S2 Enterprise Theme projects, supported by SRC FCRP

 

Collaborations

ASCOT

Christoph W. Ueberhuber (Institute for Analysis und Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology)

FFT library for BlueGene/L: together with S. Kral,  J. Lorenz, and C.W. Ueberhuber

We ported FFTW-GEL by S. Kral (based on FFTW 2.1.5) to support BlueGene/L’s Double FPU.

BlueGene

IBM Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (CASC, LLNL), Argonne National Laboratory (ALCF, ANL)
The QBox team led by F. Gygi was Gordon Bell Prize 2005 finalists and won the Gordon Bell Prize 2006 (Peak Performance Award)
[SC 06 press release] [ECE news] [LLNL news]

 

HPC Challenge

Spiral-generated Global FFT benchmark for 128k+ cores
Together with
IBM Research and SpiralGen
[HPCC 2010 results] [ECE news]

 

Intel Libraries

 

PLUTO, PrimeTile

The Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) and Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) contain FFT kernels generated by Spiral

SIMD vectorization inside the polyhedral model. Together with P. Sadayappan, A. Rountev (OSU), and J. Ramanujam (LSU)

 

Professional Activities

ISPASS 2012

Program committee member

 

WEHA 2011

Program committee member

ParCo 2011

Program committee member

HiPEAC 2011

Program committee member

 

WEHA 2010

Program committee member

iWAPT 2010

Program committee member

PACT 2010

Finance chair and program committee member

ASPLOS XV

Publicity chair

ICS 2009

Publicity co-chair and program committee member

SMART 2009

Program committee member

PACT 2008

Program committee member

HIPS 2008

Program committee member

 

Affiliations and Memberships

SGRC

SRC Smart Grid Research Center (ECE, CMU)
Thrust Leader, Thrust 4 (Security)

 

CALCM

Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (ECE, CMU)

CenSCIR

Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (ICES, CMU)

EESG

Electric Energy Systems Group (CMU)

C2S2

Center for Circuits and System Solutions (CMU)

 

IRHPIT

Los Alamos Institute for Reliable High Performance Information Technology

 

IEEE

Member

ACM

Member

ASCINA

Austrian Scientists in North America
Chair, Pittsburgh Chapter

 

 

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