Asymptotic Performance Modeling for Application-Architecture
Co-Design
Vladimir Getov
University of Westminster, London, U.K.
http://www2.wmin.ac.uk/getovv/
Date and Location: Tuesday, January
28th, 2014, 12:45pm - 1:45pm @ SB 111.
Abstract
Building on previous results this work proposes an asymptotic
performance model for characterizing the couple
application-architecture and a methodology for their co-design. Two
groups of parameters are introduced based on several typical
high-end computer architectures. A set of suitability functions and
corresponding equations are then defined using those parameters to
characterize specific architecture solutions such as pipelining,
multiprocessing (Amdahl’s law), cache memory and message passing.
These models could be used for both optimizing the
application-architecture co-design as well as for scalability and
comparative performance analysis.
Biography
Vladimir Getov is a professor of distributed and high-performance
computing and group leader for the Distributed and Intelligent
Systems Research Group at the University of Westminster, London. His
research interests include parallel architectures and performance,
autonomous distributed computing, and high-performance programming
environments. Vladimir Getov has an extensive track record of
international collaboration and achievements. Between 1992 and 1998,
he actively contributed to the work of the International PARKBENCH
(Parallel Kernels and Benchmarks) Committee. He was also a founding
member of the Java Grande Forum (1998) and then chair of the Java
Grande Message Passing Group. Later, Vladimir was elected Research
Group co-chair in the Open Grid Forum (2001 – 2004). Since 2005,
Professor Getov has been on the Steering Committee of the John
Vincent Atanasoff Initiative, working towards worldwide recognition
of the inventor of electronic digital computing. He is a Senior
Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the BCS, and the area editor for
high-performance computing of the IEEE Computer Magazine.