Paul Kelly: Current/recent research grants

Current research grants

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)

Past 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.

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.