Paul Kelly: Current/recent research grants

Recent research grants

• A new simulation and optimisation platform for marine technology. Co-investigator, 01/03/15-28/02/2018. GBP 434,711. EPSRC EP/M011054/1.

• Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) on Open Performance portablE SeismiC Imaging (OPESCI), Co-investigator, 01/01/2015-31/12/2016 (USD 650K). See OPESCI Project home page.

• Adaptive program transformation and scheduling for heterogeneous systems. EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship, sponsored by ARM, 09/2014-03/2018.

• HiPEDS: High-performance Embedded and Distributed Systems - EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training. Co-Investigator, 01/10/2014-. See HiPEDS CDT home page.

• PAMELA: a Panoramic Approach to the Many-CorE LAndsape - from end-user to end-device: a holistic game-changing approach. Co-Investigator, 01/03/2013-28/02/2018 (Programme Grant, collaboration with groups at Manchester and Edinburgh, total value GBP 4,135,048). EPSRC EP/K008730/1. See PAMELA Project home page.

• Platform: Underpinning Technologies for Finite Element Simulation. Co-Investigator, 01/08/2013 31/07/2018 GBP 1,287,360. EPSRC EP/L000407/1. See PRISM project home page.

Historical research grants

• Adaptive model-driven scheduling and configuration in real-time vision and mapping applications. Industrially-sponsored PhD studentship (with Andy Davison). Student: Renato Salas-Moreno, 01/10/2011-30/09/2014. AMD Inc, GBP 88,000

• Multilayer Abstractions for Partial Differential Equations
  • 3.5 years from 2010. With David Ham, Mike Giles (Oxford) and Michael Fagan (Hull).

• Sustainable domain-specific software generation tools for extremely parallel particle-based simulations” (EPSRC, EP/I006761/1)
  • 3.5 years from 2010. With David Ham, Catherine O'Sullivan, Chris Skylaris, Jonathan Hirst (Nottingham), Stephane Bordas (Cardiff), Simon Lock (Plymouth)

• Strategic Investment in Low Carbon Engine Technology SILOET (Workpackage 3.7) (Rolls Royce plc and TSB)
  • 2.5 years from 2010. With Mike Giles (Oxford).

• Custom Computing for Advanced Digital Systems
  • EPSRC Platform Grant (led by Wayne Luk)

• IBM Faculty Award "Toward Autonomic Componentized Software Overlays"

• Field-Programmable Logic for Custom Computing (platform grant) 5 years from 2005. With Wayne Luk (PI), Peter Cheung, George Constantinides, Oskar Mencer.

• HiPEAC: High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (Network of Excellence) 5 years from 2004. (member of large consortium, funding distributed over project lifetime).

• Static and Dynamic Program Optimisation British Council ARC travel grant, to collaborate with Prof Christian Lengauer at the University of Passau, Germany. 2 years from 2004.

• Framework for domain-specific optimization at run-time Microsoft "Rotor" award, 1 year from 2004.

• Extensible domain-specific performance analysis using dynamic aspect weaving IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant, 1 year from 2004.

• DESORMI: Delayed-evaluation, self-optimising Java Remote Method Invocation. 1 RA for 3 years (2001 onwards), EPSRC. (jointly with Tony Field) See project page: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~samt/DESORMI/index.html

• OSCAR: Optimising scientific applications at run-time. 1 RA for 3 years (2001 onwards), EPSRC. (jointly with Tony Field)

• Compaqt: Combining Program and Query Transformation for the Efficient Exploitation of Parallel Database Hardware. 1 RA for 3 years (1993 onwards), EPSRC. (Jointly with Tony Field and Hessam Koshnevisan, Imperial).

• Cramp: Combining randomisation and mixed-policy caching for bounded-contention shared-memory. 1 RA for 3 years (1994 onwards), EPSRC. (Jointly with Tony Field, Imperial).

  Objectives:

  • To study the design of general-purpose shared-memory parallel computers.
  • to design data management protocols and policies with high average performance and reasonable worst-case performance,
  • to evaluate them using benchmark programs, and
  • to establish analytical bounds on the performance characteristics of different designs.
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• Futurespace The Optimisation of Coherency and Communication in Parallel Systems using Shared Abstract Data Types. 1 RA for 3 years (1994 onwards), EPSRC. (Jointly with Tony Field, Imperial).

  Objectives:

  • Extend the concept of shared memory to abstract data types
  • Design and implement a selection of shared ADT library functions
  • Evaluate alternative distribution, replication and scheduling techniques using simulation and analytical modeling
  • Demonstrate use of shared ADTs in example applications codes running under simulation and on available parallel equipment.