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),
Dongzhen Piao (advisor: Mengshoel, CMU east coast advisor: Franchetti)

[ECE News]

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

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

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