Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

I'll discuss:
1. Why you (and Intel) need to worry about parallelism at all
2. The problems with explicitly using threads or OpenMP
3. What Cilk is
4. Cilk's advantages
5. Give some comparison with Threading Building Blocks (TBB)

 
Jim Cownie is a Principal Engineer in the Software and Services group at Intel. He has worked on parallelism since joining Inmos when it started in 1979. He left Inmos with five others in 1985 to found Meiko, a Bristol based parallel super-computer company that lasted approximately ten years. He represented Meiko on the HPF and MPI fora, where he was chair of the 'Profiling' sub-committee. After Meiko he worked on the TotalView parallel debugger for ten years before joining Intel in 2005. At Intel he has worked on many dead projects, but is now working with the Cilk, TBB and OpenMP runtime teams on Many Integrated Core ('Kinghts') support.

Jim lives in Bristol, works from his house, and would rather be skiing (http://skiingjim.blogspot.com) (but is off to La Rosiere on Sunday 5 Feb).