Research in Machine Learning, Managed Runtime Environments and Parallelisation
intelligent Thread Level Speculation (iTLS) project
[Jamaica Project (predecessor)]
This website describes our research activities on a recently started project. We are collaborating with investigators in the University of Edinburgh.
Motivation
The present and future of processor architectures has been confirmed as multi-core (e.g. Intel's and AMD's dual core and quad core chips or Sun Microsystems's Niagara). Multicore processors set a new precedent for software developers: software will need to be multithreaded to take advantage of future generations of processors. Now more than ever, it is critical that we codevelop concurrent software abstractions and computer architectures.In a Nutshell
We are exploring how we can take existing applications that run on runtime managed environments (e.g. Java Virtual Machines) and optimise their execution on current and future multi-core architectures. A key element is parallelisation, but we are also interested in other opportunities.