Improving Access to Heterogeneous Computing (PhD Early Stage Review)

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• Gordon Inggs, Circuits and Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
• Wednesday 26 September 2012, 14:00-15:00
• Mahanakorn Room, Level 9, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building.

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The era of heterogeneous computers is nigh, but we appear woefully unprepared. Increasingly computer engineers and scientists are confronted by architecturally distinct computing devices that are interconnected with a high degree of diversity. Making effective use of such systems and systems-of-systems not only poses significant technical challenges, but also a considerable conceptual challenge as to how we think about computing.

In response to these questions, I am pursuing two avenues of research:

1. Domain-Orientated Computing – describing computational problems in a manner linked to a particular application domain (such as computational finance), and exploring how such means of expressions might map onto a heterogeneous computing system with greater ease (and optimality!) than conventional approaches.
2. Mental Models of Computing – there is work in cognitive psychology that helps computer engineers provide mental models for end-users and programmers. Bringing this work to heterogeneous computing could provide valuable insights as to how to represent such computers.

The end result of this research will be a design process for creating a means of programming heterogeneous computing, taking advantage of the lessons learnt from both domain-orientated computing and the associated mental models.

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