Kunle Olukotun: 2016 Plenary Session

2:00pm

Analyzing big data in a modern computing environment requires the use of heterogeneous hardware platforms composed of multicores with SIMD execution units, GPUs, clusters, and recently FPGAs. However, programming in this environment is extremely challenging due to the need to use multiple low-level programming models and then combine them together in ad-hoc ways.Furthermore, many data analytics algorithms do not take full advantage of modern hardware capabilities. To optimize big data applications both for modern hardware and for modern programmersneeds algorithms specialized for modern hardware and a programming model that executes efficiently on heterogeneous parallel hardware. In this talk, I will describe the Delite DSL framework, which uses nested parallel patterns encapsulated in domain specific languages (DSLs). I will describe how this DSL programming model can be used to develop new data analytics algorithms that are optimized for architectures as diverse as multicore/NUMA, clusters, GPUs, and even FPGAs.

Kunle Olukotun is the Cadence Design Systems Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Olukotun is well known as a pioneer in multicore processor design and the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip mutlipocessor (CMP) research project. Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low-power multicore processors for server systems. The Afara multicore processor, called Niagara, was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Niagara derived processors now power all Oracle SPARC-based servers. Olukotun currently directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL), which seeks to proliferate the use of heterogeneous parallelism in all application areas using Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). Olukotun is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.