Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
Director, Engineering Research Accelerator
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Hamerschlag Hall A312
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
College of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Hall 6133
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: +1 412 268 8297
Fax: +1 412 268 3038
E-mail: franzf at ece.cmu.edu
Zoom: https://cmu.zoom.us/my/franzf
Affiliations:
Faculty Member of PQI
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Senior Visiting Researcher, RIKEN R-CCS
Western Pennsylvania Chapter Chair, ASciNA
Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria for Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania, USA [auf Deutsch]
Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM)
Office hours: Monday 2:00-3:00 p.m. in HH A312 or via Zoom (https://cmu.zoom.us/my/franzf) or by appointment
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IN THE NEWS
"Franchetti Appointed Associate Dean for Research," [ECE News and Events, Aug 2021]
Twitter - New Associate Dean for Research, [@CMUEngineering, Aug 2021]
"Franchetti Selected for DOE's X-Stack Teams," [ECE News and Events, July 2021]
“Pivotal Investments in Foundational Mathematics,” 40 Years of Innovation, 1980-2020 [DARPA Defense Sciences Office: Dec. 2020, p. 11]
Podcast - College of Engineering's Franz Franchetti on Artificial Intelligence [CMU Engineering, April 2019]
Video - Franz Franchetti: Turning Mathematics into Software [Jul 24, 2015]
Meet the Consul: Franz Franchetti [Austrian Embassy Washington, June 2019]
Object detection in 4K and 8K video using GPUs [Tech Xplore feature, Nov 7, 2018]
Academic conferences: where diverse people inspire one another [The Circuit, Issue 2017, page 8]
Skyscraper-style chip design boosts performance 1,000-fold [phys.org, Dec 10, 2015]
Franchetti’s Riff – Notes in Computer Engineering [OSTA Bridges Magazine, May 15, 2013]
CMU team gets $6M government grant to protect unmanned & high-end consumer autos from cyberattack [TribLIVE, Mar 19, 2013]
Forscher arbeiten an "schneller Mathematik" für Supercomputer und Co. [DerSTANDARD, 8 Feb 2019]
ASciNA related [APA Science, Jun 8, 2015]
Österreichischer Forscher Franz Franchetti neuer ASCINA-Chef [derSTANDARD, Oct 14, 2014]
Biography
Franz Franchetti is the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive system). In 2013 he was awarded the CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship by the College of Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Franchetti's research focuses on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms and algorithm/hardware co-synthesis. He targets multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC), graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), FPGA-acceleration for CPUs, and logic-in-memory and 3DIC chip design. Within the Spiral effort, his research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. In other collaborative research threads, Dr. Franchetti is investigating the applicability of domain-specific transformations within standard compilers and the application of HPC in smart grids and material sciences. He has led four DARPA projects in the BRASS, HACMS, PERFECT, and PAPPA programs and is Co-PI in the DOE ExaScale Project and XStack program as well as DARPA DPRIVE. Recent interests include leveraging the SPIRAL system for quantum computing.
Dr. Franchetti is the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering (Carnegie Institute of Technology) as well as the Director of the Engineering Research Accelerator (CIT) at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also CTO and Co-Founder of Spiral Gen, Inc., a Pittsburgh area startup that commercializes the Spiral technology. Previously, he has been Thrust Leader of the Security Thrust in Carnegie Mellon’s SRC Smart Grid Research Center and Faculty Senator for the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon.
Professor Franchetti is Immediate Past President of the Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America (ASciNA), and currently leads the ASciNA Western Pennsylvania chapter. Please contact him if you are an Austrian academic in the Greater Pittsburgh area. He is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria for Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania, USA.
Franz has been playing the electric guitar on-stage in various rock bands since 1993. Watch him perform live or visit Wr. Neustadt’s newcomer festival SCHMU, where he performed and served as stage engineer.
Open Source SPIRAL System
Open Source
SPIRAL is available here under non-viral license (BSD-style license). This is an initial version, and there will be an ongoing effort to open source whole system. Please let us know which parts of SPIRAL you are most interested in. Commercial support is available via SpiralGen, Inc.
SPIRAL was developed over 20 years by the SPIRAL team under funding from DARPA (OPAL, DESA, HACMS, PERFECT, BRASS, PAPPA, DPRIVE), DoE (XStack and ECP), NSF, ONR, DoD HPC, JPL, DoE, CMU SEI, Intel, Nvidia, and Mercury. The open sourcing of SPIRAL is an ongoing effort. The initial open source version of SPIRAL was supported by DARPA PERFECT.
Please subscribe to spiral-info@lists.andrew.cmu.edu to stay up-to-date regarding SPIRAL updates and new releases.
SPIRAL tutorial at HPEC 2019. See also [Overview], [Walk-Through], and [SPIRAL User Manual].
SPIRAL GIT repository
Selected Talks
F. Franchetti
SPIRAL: AI for High Performance Code with a Side of FFTX
Alphbet Inc., August 2021, virtual
F. Franchetti
SPIRAL: AI for High Performance Code
Joint work with the SPIRAL team at CMU and FFTX team at CMU and LBL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2019
Selected Publications
F. Franchetti, T. M. Low, D. T. Popovici, R. M. Veras, D. G. Spampinato, J. R. Johnson, M. Püschel, J. C. Hoe, J. M. F. Moura
SPIRAL: Extreme Performance Portability
Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 106, No. 11, 2018.
Special Issue on From High Level Specification to High Performance Code
F. Franchetti, Y. Voronenko, S. Chellappa, J. M. F. Moura, and M. Püschel
Discrete Fourier Transform on Multicores: Algorithms and Automatic Implementation
In IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on “Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores”, 2009.
B. Akin, F. Franchetti, J. C. Hoe
Data Reorganization in Memory Using 3D-stacked DRAM
42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2015.
D. T. Popovici, T. M. Low, F. Franchetti
Large Bandwidth-Efficient FFTs on Multicore and Multi-Socket Systems
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2018.
F. Franchetti, T. M. Low, S. Mitsch, J. P. Mendoza, L. Gui, A. Phaosawasdi, D. Padua, S. Kar, J. M. F. Moura, M. Franusich, J. Johnson, A. Platzer, and M. Veloso
High-Assurance SPIRAL: End-to-End Guarantees for Robot and Car Control
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2017, pages 82-103.
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