Professor for Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden

Christoph Kessler


Christoph Kessler Prof. Dr. Christoph Kessler
PELAB - Programming Environments Laboratory
Software and Systems Division
Department for Computer and Information Science (IDA)
Linköping University
S - 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Office: PELAB, B-house, room 3B:474
phone +46 13 28 2406
mobil +46 70 3666687
email: Christoph.Kessler \at liu.se
URKUND-address: chrke55.liu \at analys.urkund.se


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Open-Source Software:
Former Projects:
  • IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)
    EU H2020 ICT COST Action, 2015-2019
    Vice leader of Working Group 2 (Parallel Programming Models)
  • EU FP7 Execution Models for Energy-Efficient Computing Systems (EXCESS)
    EU FP7 project, Sep. 2013-Aug. 2016.
    • Language and tool infrastructure for energy-aware application synthesis, system modeling, performance and energy modeling, optimization techniques and autotuning for holistic energy optimization for heterogeneous multicore systems
    • Partly based on our previous work for FP7 project PEPPHER
    • Leading Workpackage 1 (Execution, Platform and Programming Models for Energy Optimization)
    • SkePU: auto-tunable skeleton programming library for Multicore CPU and Multi-GPU systems
    • MeterPU: generic, portable measurement abstraction library for Multicore CPU and Multi-GPU systems
    • Global Composition Framework
    • XPDL extensible platform description language
    • Automated performance modeling for guiding automatic selection in multi-variant computations
    • Short overview of our contributions to EXCESS (Proc. EXCESS workshop Gothenburg, Sweden, Aug. 2016)
  • EU FP7 Performance Portability and Programmability for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures (PEPPHER)
    EU FP7 project, Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2012.

  • Skeleton and Pattern Based Programming Environments
    • BlockLib: Skeleton programming library for Cell/B.E.
    • PRT Pattern Recognition Tool: Generic tool for automated recognition of computational patterns in legacy C programs, e.g. for pattern-based automatic parallelization.
    • SeRC-OpCoReS: Optimized Composition and Runtime Support for e-Science, 2011-2018,
      Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), core section on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Tools (2011-2015) and Parallel Software and Data Engineering (2016-2018).

  • Integrated Code Generation for Instruction-Level Parallel Architectures
    • OPTIMIST: Optimization algorithms for integrated code generation
      OPTIMIST is a retargetable, highly optimizing code generator for superscalar, VLIW, clustered VLIW, DSP and embedded processor architectures.
      To achieve high code quality, it simultaneously considers the optimization problems for instruction selection (including cluster assignment and resource allocation), instruction scheduling, and register allocation.
      Partially funded 2001-2007 by CENIIT and 2004-2005 by SSF RISE.
    • Integrated Software Pipelining
      SSF Optimal code generation for loops, integrating both instruction selection, cluster assignment, scheduling and register allocation including optimal spill code generation and scheduling, for embedded, VLIW and clustered VLIW processors.
      Funded 2006-2008 and 2010-2012 by Vetenskapsrådet (VR) and 2006-2011 by the CUGS graduate school.
  • REPLICA project (contract research).
    This VTT project developed a reconfigurable shared memory chip multiprocessor supporting strong memory consistency (CRCW PRAM on a chip). We developed a high-level parallel programming language, a compiler backend and system support for the REPLICA architecture.
  • DSP Platform for Emerging Telecommunication and Multimedia (ePUMA)
    SSF Optimizing DSP streaming applications for memory access cost on a new reconfigurable chip multiprocessor.
    WP3: Classification of memory access patterns in DSP applications; program analysis for memory access structures, and automatic selection of most suitable network configuration for parallel memory access.
    Funded 2008-2011 by SSF
    • PRT Pattern Recognition Tool
      Generic tool for automated recognition of computational patterns in legacy C programs, e.g. for pattern-based automatic parallelization.
  • On-chip pipelining of memory-intensive computations on multi-/manycore processors (Cell/B.E. and Intel SCC)
    Restructuring memory-intensive, streamable computations such as parallel mergesort to use on-chip forwarding of intermediate data between Cell SPEs allows to reduce the overall volume of off-chip memory accesses, making the application less memory bound and resulting in faster computation. We develop mapping algorithms that optimize trade-offs between computational load balance, on-chip buffer requirements and on-chip communication volume in on-chip pipelining.
    Applied to mergesort on Cell, this speeds up the dominating global merge phase of CellSort by up to 70% on QS-20 and up to 143% on PlayStation-3, see our paper at Euro-Par 2010.
  • Fork: Fork95 Language Definition and Compiler for the SB-PRAM, a scalable, massively parallel shared memory MIMD computer with uniform memory access time that works synchronously at the instruction level. The complete project is described in a book. The compiler and tools developed for the SB-PRAM have been used for research purposes and in programming labs for teaching parallel algorithms.
  • SPARAMAT A tool for automatic detection of sparse matrix computations and data structures in application programs by static and dynamic pattern matching techniques, which can be used for automatic parallelization and aggressive program transformations. (The successor of the former PARAMAT project at Saarbrücken.) Funded 1997-2000 by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • NestStep
    Design and implementation of a MIMD parallel global address space (PGAS) language based on the BSP (bulk-synchronous parallel) programming model, supporting shared variables and nested parallelism on top of message passing architectures.
    NestStep provides deadlock-free, deterministic parallel execution with BSP-compliant synchronicity and memory consistency.
    NestStep has been implemented for MPI clusters and for the heterogeneous multicore processor Cell/B.E.
  • Interactive Invasive Parallelization
    User-guided composition of parallel software with an incremental aspect-oriented parallelization approach.
    Covers both automatic parallelization, skeleton-based structured parallel programming and semiautomatic program restructuring.
    Support for automatic roundtrip engineering in aspect weaving.
    Part of the RISE project funded 2002-2005 and 2006-2007 by SSF.

Editorial Board Memberships



Teaching

Undergraduate and master-level courses

I also give guest lectures in

Graduate courses

I also give guest lectures in graduate courses on

Master thesis projects

Multicore Lab (since 2012)



Administration


Memberships:
ACM
IEEE Computer Society
- TCSC Scalable Computing
- TCPP Parallel Processing
- IEEE C Chapter Sweden
HiPEAC NoE HiPEAC European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation
EAPLS European Association for Programming Languages and Systems
GI Gesellschaft für Informatik
- GI/ITG-Fachgruppe PARS Parallel-Algorithmen, -rechnerstrukturen und -systemsoftware
- GI-Fachgruppe 2.1.4 Programmiersprachen und Rechenkonzepte
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
The Swedish/Nordic Multicore Initiative
ELLIIT Excellence Center at Linköping - Lund in Information Technology

LAO Linköpings Akademiska Orkester


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