In the context of the CERN openlab collaboration, Tim Mattson, an applications programmer from Intel will give an IT computing seminar at CERN on Monday 27 September. His talk is entitled: 'Design Patterns: establishing a discipline of parallel software engineering'.

The lecture will start at 11AM in the IT Auditorium and is chaired by Sverre Jarp, CERN openlab CTO.

The biography of Tim Mattson and the abstract of his lecture are available to you below.

Mélissa Gaillard CERN openlab

Abstract of the lecture:

Many core processors present us with a software challenge. We must turn our serial code into parallel code. To accomplish this wholesale transformation of our software ecosystem, we must define established practice is in parallel programming and then develop tools to support that practice. This leads to design patterns supported by frameworks optimized at runtime with advanced autotuning compilers. In this talk I provide an update of my ongoing research with the ParLab at UC Berkeley to realize this vision. In particular, I will describe our draft parallel pattern language, our early experiments with software frameworks, and the associated runtime optimization tools.

Biography of the speaker:

Tim Mattson is a parallel programmer (Ph.D. Chemistry, UCSC, 1985). He does linear algebra, finds oil, shakes molecules, solves differential equations, and models electrons in simple atomic systems. He has spent his career working with computer scientists to make sure the needs of parallel applications programmers are met.   Tim has had the good fortune to work with brilliant people on truly great projects. Among these are (1) the first TFLOP computer (ASCI Red), (2) the OpenMP API for shared memory programming, (3) the OpenCL programming language for heterogeneous platforms, (4) programming Intel's first TFLOP chip (the 80 core research chip), and (5) the design and software architecture of Intel’s 48 core research chip. In addition, Tim has been working with a community of pattern writers to create pattern languages for parallel programming. This work builds on his book “Design Patterns in Parallel Programming” (written with Professors Beverly Sanders and Berna Massingill and published by Addison Wesley).