High Performance Computers and Compilers: A Personal Perspective
Date | Thursday December 03 2009 |
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Time | 14:00 - 15:00 |
Location | University of Waterloo - DC 1302 |
Contact | Ilias Kotsireas (ikotsire@wlu.ca) |
URL | http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/events/2009/dls.shtml#FranAllen |
Speaker: Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM Research The talk will describe a related sequence of projects including some early, very bold projects that profoundly influenced high performance computing even as some of them failed. The talk includes a personal perspective of what worked and what didn’t, the historical threads of some ideas and the lessons learned. The talk concludes by identifying some current compiler challenges and the need for a new focus on new compilers. About the speaker: Fran is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and the Computer History Museum. Fran has several honorary doctorate degrees and has served on numerous national technology boards including CISE at the National Science Foundation and CSTB for the National Research Council. Fran is an active mentor, an advocate for technical women in computing, an environmentalist and an explorer. |