Monthly Archives: April 2012


Lecture Vector Fabrics

Date & Location

Thursday 3 May 2012 @ De Zwarte Doos, TU/e

 

Schedule

18:30

Reception

 

19:00

Diner

 

20:30

Lecture by Mr. Jos van Eijndhoven, Vector Fabrics

 

22:00

Drinks (until 22:30)

 

Title

Mapping applications into multi-processor system-on-chip: multi-threading and shared-memory behaviour

 

Synopsis

Multi-core processor systems have become industry-standard, not just in high-end computing but also in embedded systems. General purpose processors are combined with function-specific architectures to achieve sufficient computational efficiency. These trends have created highly complex systems which are very difficult to program. To take advantage of such processing resources,  application programs require both functional and data parallelization. Next to application parallelization, this presentation will discuss in particular the required underlying system support, with OS services for threading control, and hardware support such as cache coherency and memory consistency. Maintaining reasonable programmability requires both more software-friendly hardware architectures as well as improved tooling to support the application programmer.

 

Biography

Jos van Eijndhoven is co-founder of Vector Fabrics in February 2007. Before that he was principal architect at NXP Semiconductors Research, working on programmable multimedia hardware architectures and the associated mapping of media processing applications. He was leading the Processor Oriented Architectures research cluster since 2000, which in that time belonged to Philips Research. Inside Philips he participated in the regular reviews of the corporate patent portfolio, and received a patent infringement detection award in 2006. From 1984 to 1998 he was senior research member in the Design Automation group at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 1986 he spent a sabbatical at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights,

New York, pioneering the research on high level synthesis. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, obtaining the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1981 and 1984 for research on mixed-level simulation. Jos is (co-)author of about 100 scientific publications in the domains of design automation technology and media processing architectures. He currently holds 15 worldwide patents.


GMM 2012

Dear members of Xootic,
 
The board would like to invite you for our annual General Members Meeting.
The meeting is planned for Friday, April 20, 2012 at De Zwarte Doos (TU/e premises, “Limbopad”, Eindhoven) from 20:30h – 22:00h.
 
We also would like to invite you for the preceding dinner, starting at 19:00h (reception from 18:30h) free of charge.
 
The agenda for the GMM looks as follows:
  • Agenda
  • Overview 2011
  • Financial Overview 2011
  • Discharge Board
  • Proposals for 2012
  • Budget 2012
  • Committees for 2012
  • Any Other Business
  • Closing
Please register for the GMM (and preceding dinner) via a mail to secretary@xootic.org
Regarding to the dinner: please indicate if you would like a vegetarian meal.
 
Kind regards,
    The Xootic Board.