Titulo Estágio
Par Language
Áreas de especialidade
Engenharia de Software
Local do Estágio
DEI
Enquadramento
Nowadays most computers are built on multicore processors. Multicore processors scale from high-end servers with 32 hardware threads to pocket-size quad-core smartphones. Thus, programmers must write parallel programs to speed up their programs.
Writing parallel programs is error-prone, specially when there are synchronization requirements for the program. Most common approaches use libraries and toolkits like OpenMPI that require the program to manually tune the parallelism.
There are a few languages like X10, Chappel that are parallel by default, but they are still low level and limited in terms of synchronization.
Objetivo
The main goal of this thesis is to develop a language that can be used for concurrent and parallel programs that makes use of multiple cores in CPUs and GPUs to accelerate the program.
It is also a part of the thesis to evaluate the approach to other solutions both in terms of programmer efficiency and execution time.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
17 Sep - 31 Oct
Review of the most recent approaches to this problem in the state of the art. Identification of the biggest challenges on this area.
1 Nov - 31 Nov
Approach - Definition of the requirements and work plan. Definition of the language grammar.
1 Dez - 31 Dez
Lexer and Parser implementation
1 Jan - 28 Jan
Writing and reviewing of the first semester report.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
15 Feb - 31 Mar
Generation of the Parallel Code for CPU and GPU
1 Apr - 30 Apr
Evaluation and Tuning of the Performance of Programs
1 May - 31 May
Evaluation and Tuning of Programmers Efficiency with the language.
1 Jun - 28 Jun
Writing and reviewing of the dissertation.
Condições
The proposed work plan will be performed in the Software and Systems Groups of CISUC, where the student will be given access to required hardware.
This is not a paid internship.
Observações
We are looking for a T-shaped student: he or she should be highly competent in systems programming in C, but should also be acquainted with higher level languages. A good understanding of parallel and concurrent programming is also a must.
Orientador
Alcides Aguiar Fonseca
amaf@dei.uc.pt 📩