Paul Kelly: Current/recent research grants

Current research grants

• 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.

  Past funding

• 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.