Christoph Kessler
Final theses examinated
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Final theses examinated
in chronological order of last examination moment. Master thesis, unless stated otherwise.- Fredrik Hallenberg:
Kodoptimering på stackbaserad maskin
Project at Kreatel AB, Linköping. Presentation 23/8/2002. - Johan Möller:
Run-time system for PLEX on the JVM
Project at Ericsson SoftLab AB, Linköping. Presentation 31/10/2002. - Mikhail Chalabine:
Parallelization of the interpreter in a test system for mobile telecommunication components
Project at Ericsson AB, Linköping. Presentation 23/8/2002.
☆ Result published as conference paper at HPC-2003, Orlando, USA - Svante Arvedahl:
Java Just-In-Time Compilation for the IA-64 Architecture
Project at Ericsson AB SoftLab, Linköping.
Presentation 12/12/2002
☆ Conference paper submitted - Rikard Hansson:
Simulated Time and Online Backup in the ABB Industrial Training Simulator Operator Station
Project at ABB AB, Västerås/Oslo.
Presentation 5/6/2003. - Jörgen Niemi and Lennart Johansson:
En semiautomatisk konverter för användningsspecifika Perl-program till Java.
Project at UNIT, Linköpings universitet.
Presentation 19/9/2003. - Stefan Eng:
Heuristic Online Profile-Based Instruction Cache Optimisation in a Just-In-Time Compiler.
Develops code layout strategies to optimize instruction cache performance for large JIT-compiled programs in telecommunication switches.
Project at Ericsson AB Softlab.
Presentation 23/1/2004. - Susanne Jarl:
TentaCheck: Ett verktyg för automatisk testning av TFK's tentaschemaremiss.
Project at IDA for studierektor SaS.
Co-supervised with Kristian Sandahl.
Presentation 26/4/2004. - Tobias Marciszko:
A tool for optimized layout of flat cable harnesses for future on-board cabling systems in cars.
Project at Daimler-Chrysler AG Forschung und Technologie, Esslingen.
Presentation 16/4/2004. - Anders Edqvist:
High-level optimizations for OPTIMIST.
Project at IDA, part of the OPTIMIST project.
Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
Presentation 21/10/2004. - Johan Ericsson:
Capacity characteristics of conditional execution
Project at Ericsson AB, Linköping.
Presentation 12/11/2004. - David Landen:
ARM9E processor specification for OPTIMIST.
Project at IDA in cooperation with IAR Systems AB, part of the OPTIMIST project.
Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
Presentation 25/2/2005. - Mattias Eriksson:
Load balancing of irregular parallel divide-and-conquer algorithms in group-SPMD programming environments.
Project at IDA.
Presentation 21/10/2005
☆ Result published as conference paper at PASA'06, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - Johan Rees:
Undersökning av algoritmers parallelliserbarhet i en parallellprocessor implementerad med rekonfigurerbar hårdvara..
Project at Mitrionics AB, Lund.
Presentation 8/12/2005. - Henrik Abelsson:
Evaluation of a reconfigurable architecture for supercomputing applications.
Project at Mitrionics AB, Lund.
Presentation 12/12/2005. - Stefan Ottosson:
Using Helper Threads to Hide Memory Latency in Telecom Switching Systems.
Project at Ericsson AB Softlab, Linköping.
Presentation 3/3/2006. - Joar Sohl:
A Scalable Run-Time System for NestStep on Cluster Supercomputers..
Project at IDA.
Presentation 6/3/2006. - Andreas Rehnströmer:
Xe: A graphical editor for writing xADML processor specifications.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
Presentation 02/05/2006. - Yongyi Yuan:
Optimization of amplifier code for the Motorola DSP 56367 processor with OPTIMIST.
Project in cooperation with Softube AB, Linköping.
Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
Presentation 25/04/2006. - Andreas Karlsson:
Kartering med autonomt fordon.
Project at Saab Bofors Dynamics AB, Linköping.
Presentation 13/12/2006.
- Miguel Svensson:
Applying Model-Driven Engineering to the development of graphical applications
Project at Saab Bofors Dynamics, Linköping.
Presentation 15/3/2007 - Torbjörn Söderstedt:
Size optimization of Java programs targetting the J2ME Platform
Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
Presentation 26/4/2007 - David Vest:
A version aware data structure designed for incremental rendering of structured documents
Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
Presentation 20/2/2007 - Daniel Johansson:
Porting the NestStep Run-time System to the CELL Broadband Engine.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Mattias Eriksson.
☆ Result published as conference paper at PARS'07, Hamburg, Germany
Presentation 22/10/2007. - Erik Axling:
Automatic Generation of Simulation Models from Designs
Project at ENEA, Linköping
Presentation 5/12/2007 - Anders Karlsson:
Multithreaded concurrency for faster web browsers
Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
Presentation 20/12/2007. - Kjell Enblom and Martin Jungebro:
Prestandaförbättringar av NETSim-simuleringar genom parameterjusteringar på OS-nivå
Project at Ericsson, Linköping Presentation 11/01/2008. - Markus Ålind:
A Skeleton Library for Cell BroadBand Engine.
Project at IDA, Linköpings universitet. Co-supervised with Mattias Eriksson.
Presentation 22/2/2008.
☆ Result published as conference paper at IWMSE-2008, Leipzig, Germany - Christian Åkerström:
Utveckling av verktyg för generering av stubb- och mockobjekt för C
Project at ENEA, Linköping.
Presentation 30/5/2008. - Said Aspen:
Determining the feasibility of automatically translating SMILE to a Java framework.
Project at Ericsson EAB, Linköping.
Presentation 18/11/2008. - Freddie Pintar:
Investigation and Implementation of a Live Connection between Configura CET (R) and Revit (R) Architecture 2009
Project at Configura AB, Linköping.
Presentation 13/2/2009. - Erik Elfström and Edward Carlstedt-Duke:
Towards guidelines for the design of energy-efficient software.
Project at CombiTech AB, Linköping.
Presentation 2/3/2009. - Erik Hansson:
A Case Study of Semi-Automatic Parallelization of Divide and Conquer Algorithms Using Invasive Interactive Parallelization
Project at PELAB, IDA, Linköpings universitet. Co-supervised with Mikhail Chalabine.
Presentation 14/5/2009. - Fredrik Wahlund:
Parameter analysis and optimization of JVM
Project at Drutt Sverige AB, Göteborg
Presentation 19/5/2009. - Emil Hammarstedt:
Waveform visualization and plot optimization
Project at AnSyn AB, Linköping.
Presentation 18/9/2009. - Rikard Hulten:
Optimized On-Chip Software Pipelining on the Cell BE Processor
Project at PELAB, IDA.
Presentation 12/3/2010.
☆ Result published as conference paper at EuroPar-2010, Ischia, Italy, and in a subsequent journal article (2012). - Magnus Holm:
Compiling the parallel programming language NestStep to the CELL processor. Project at PELAB, IDA.
Presentation 11/6/2010. - Andrei Mamon:
Graphical visualization of software-pipelined code execution on pipelined and clustered VLIW DSP.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson.
Presentation 14/6/2010. - Johan Enmyren:
A Skeleton Programming Library for Multicore CPU and Multi-GPU Systems.
☆ SkePU library, first open-source release 2010
☆ Workshop papers published at HLPP-2010, Baltimore, USA, MCC-2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, MULTIPROG-2011 Heraklion, Greece, and IWMSE-2011, Hawaii, USA. Book chapter accepted, 2011. Software prototype available as open-source.
Presentation: 20/9/2010 - Magnus Pettersson:
Optimized Generation of SIMD code for the CELL processor
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson. Presentation: 20/9/2010 - Faruk Emre Sahin and Muhammad Salman Khan:
Simulation of Set-top box components on an x86 architecture by implementing a hardware abstraction layer.
Project at Motorola, Linköping.
Presentation: 22/12/2010 - David Granqvist:
Distribuerat generiskt ramverk för simultan textredigering
Project at Attentec, Linköping. Presentation 25/08/2011. - Lu Li:
Translating C/C++ applications to a task-based representation.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 26 Sep. 2011
☆ Result published in workshop papers at CPC-2012, MuCoCoS-2012, and a subsequent journal article. - Amin Shafiee Sarvestani:
Automated recognition of algorithmic patterns in DSP programs.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson.
Presentation 17/12/2011.
☆ Workshop paper accepted, 2011. Journal article accepted, 2012. Workshop paper accepted, 2012.
☆ PRT software prototype available as open-source. - Andreas Petersson:
A tool for monitoring resource usage in large scale supercomputing clusters
(Bachelor) Project at NSC, Linköpings universitet.
Presentation on 7 feb 2012. - Zesi Cai:
Genetic Algorithm for Integrated Software Pipelining
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson.
Presentation: 9 March 2012. - Daniel Åkesson
An LLVM Back-end for REPLICA. Code Generation for a Multi-Core VLIW Processor with Chaining
Project at PELAB. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 6 Feb 2012.
☆ Result published as part of 2 conference papers, 2012 - Andreas Lööw
A Functional-Level Simulator for the Configurable (Many-Core) PRAM-Like REPLICA Architecture
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 11/06/2012. - Erik Nilsson
Abstract Syntax Tree Analysis for Plagiarism Detection.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 20/08/2012. DiVA fulltext - Cheng Zhou
A source-to-source compiler for the PRAM language Fork to the REPLICA many-core architecture.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 20/08/2012. DiVA fulltext - Kianosh Moshir-Moghaddam
Automated Reasoning Support For Invasive Interactive Parallelization
Project at PELAB. Initially co-supervised by Mikhail Chalabine. Presentation 21/9/2012. - Rasmus Svensson:
Compiler for an Embedded Extension Language on Android
Project at Attentec, Linköping. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 5 nov 2012. - Anas Al-Trad:
Optimized composition of parallel components on a Linux cluster.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mudassar Majeed. Presentation 27 Nov. 2012. - Niklas Holma
Program Dependence Graph Generation and Analysis for Source Code Plagiarism Detection
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 27/11/2012. DiVA fulltext - Patricia Sundin
Adaptation of algorithms for underwater sonar data processing to GPU-based systems
Project at Saab, Linköping. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 31/05/2013. - Akhtar Ali:
Comparative study of parallel programming models for multicore computing.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 14 June 2013.
☆ Workshop papers accepted at MCC-2011 and HiPEAC MULTIPROG-2012 Paris - Swadhin Mangaraj
Extending the SkePU skeleton programming library for execution on MPI clusters
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Mudassar Majeed. Presentation 7/10/2013. - Markus Gustafsson
A Server for ARINC 615A Loading
Project at Saab. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 23/10/2013. - Erik Alnervik
Evaluation of the Configurable Architecture REPLICA with Emulated Shared Memory
Project at PELAB. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 06/02/2014.
☆ Results partly presented at MCC-2013 workshop. Paper accepted for PASA-2014 workshop. - Dongsheng Leng
Exploratory study of energy-affecting factors by microbenchmarking on a server processor
Bachelor project at PELAB. Co-supervised with Lu Li. Presentation 21 may 2014. - Yutian Yuan
Design and Implementation of Parallel AES and FFT in Javascript based on WebCL
Project at Syntronic. Presentation 19 june 2014. Co-supervised with Kristian Sandahl. - Jonas Henriksson
Implementation of a real-time Fast Fourier Transform on a Graphics Processing Unit with data streamed from a high-performance digitizer
Project at SP Devices. Co-supervised with Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 3 june 2014. - Kenan Avdic:
Optimized On-Chip Pipelining on the 48-core Intel SCC processor.
Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Nicolas Melot. Presentation 21 Feb 2014. DiVA fulltext
☆ Results partly published in workshop papers at A4MMC-2011, Intel MARC-3 (2011), MCC-2011 and ICCS WEPA-2012. - Mikael Silven
Evaluation and comparison of programming frameworks for shared memory multicore systems
Project at Etteplan. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 4 june 2014. - Johan Janzen
Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithms for Streaming Computations on Massively Parallel Multicore Architectures
Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 19 aug 2014.
☆ Result is part of a joint paper accepted for ICPP-P2S2 workshop 2015 - David Stenberg
Recompiling DSP applications to x86 using LLVM IR
Project at Ericsson. Co-supervised with Erik Hansson. Presentation 8 sep 2014. - Rosandra Cuello
Providing Support for the Movidius Myriad1 Platform in the SkePU Skeleton Programming Framework
Co-supervised with Lu Li, Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 27/10/2014.
☆ Result published as part of EU FP7 EXCESS project deliverable D1.3, also partial contribution to a conference paper at PDP-2016. - Oskar Sjöström
Parallelizing the EDGE application for GPU-based systems using the SkePU skeleton programming library
Co-supervised with Usman Dastgeer, Lu Li.
Presentation 27 jan 2015.
☆ Conference paper presented at ParCo'15, Edinburgh, Sep. 2015. - Emil Lindberg
Measuring the effect of memory bandwidth contention in applications on multi-core processors
Project at Ericsson. Co-supervised with Erik Hansson.
Presentation 29 january 2015. - Lukas Gillsjö
Using OpenCL to Implement Median Filtering and RSA Algorithms: Two GPGPU Application Case Studies
Project at Syntronic. Co-supervised by Arian Maghazadeh.
Presentation 6 february 2015. - Daniel Antelius:
Link extraction for crawling Flash on the web. Project at Picsearch AB, Stockholm.
Presentation 22/4/2015. - Marcus Johansson
Generating SkePU Code from Automatically Detected Algorithmic Patterns in C Source Programs
Bachelor thesis project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson.
Presentation 30/3/2016. - Vishist Sharma
Sparse-Matrix support for the SkePU library for portable CPU/GPU programming
Project at IDA, started oct 2014. Co-supervised by Lu Li.
Presentation May 2016. - August Ernstsson
SkePU 2: Language Embedding and Compiler Support for Flexible and Type-Safe Skeleton Programming.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Lu Li.
Presentation 8 june 2016.
☆ Research paper presented at HLPP-2016, Münster, Germany, July 2016. Journal article published in International Journal of Parallel Programming 2017
☆ Best-Thesis Award by the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University and by Dataföreningen Östra Kretsen for the best master thesis 2016
- Sebastian Thorarensen
A Back-End for the SkePU Skeleton Programming Library targeting the Low-Power Multicore Vision Processor Myriad 2
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Nicolas Melot.
Presentation 12 nov 2016. DiVA fulltext
☆ Conference paper at PDP-2016, Heraklion, Greece, Feb. 2016 - Filip Strömbäck:
A Syntax Highlighting and Code Formatting Tool for Extensible Languages
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Martin Sjölund. Presentation 16 June 2017. DiVA fulltext
☆ Conference paper accepted, 2018 - Ming-Jie Yang
Design and Implementation of a Compiler for an XML-based Hardware Description Language to Support Energy Optimization
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Lu Li. Presentation 1 sep 2017. - Christian Luckey:
Evaluating Clojure Spec.
Project at Attentec, Linköping. Co-supervised by Bernhard A. Thiele. Presentation 4 sep 2017. DiVA fulltext - Martin Söderen:
Online transverse beam instability detection in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).
Project at CERN, Switzerland. Co-supervised by Lu Li. Presentation 13 nov 2017. DiVA fulltext - Tomas Öhberg:
Auto-tuning Hybrid CPU-GPU Execution of Algorithmic Skeletons in SkePU.
Project at IDA. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 5 jun 2018. DiVA fulltext
☆ Research article published in The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, March 2019. - Albin Odervall and Mattias Hellsing:
Efficient Multi-Core Implementation of the IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload Protocol for a Single Security Association.
Project at Ericsson, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presented 26 sep 2018. - Robin Dahlberg
Optimizing a software build system through multi-core processing
Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 4 feb 2019. - Noak Ringman:
Using Graphical Processors to Implement Radio Base Station Control Plane Functions
Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 10/6/2019. - Joakim Bertils:
Implementation of Principal Component Analysis for Anomaly Detection using CUDA
Project at Cybercom Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 19/8/2019. - Oscar Pap and Markus Johansson:
Implementing and Comparing Static and Machine-Learning Scheduling Approaches using DPDK on an Integrated CPU/GPU
Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 11 nov 2019. - Rasmus Viitanen:
Evaluating Memory Models for Graph-Like Data Structures in the Rust Programming Language: Performance and Usability
Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 16/6/2020. - Alexander Wilkens:
Optimizing the LLVM ELF linker for a distributed compilation environment -- Concurrent Linking with LLVM LLD
Project at Opera Software, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 23/9/2020. - Jonatan Barr:
Just-in-time compilation for improved performance in web applications
Bachelor thesis project, co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 26/10/2020. - William Sjöblom:
Idiom-driven innermost loop vectorization in the presence of cross-iteration data dependencies in the HotSpot C2 compiler
Presentation 18/12/2020 - Markus Karlsson:
A Navigation Mesh-Based Pathfinding Implementation in CET Designer
Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by Viktor Lagerkvist. Presentation 20 May 2021. - Rasmus Karlbäck, Anton Orö:
Holistic view on alternative programming languages for Radio Access Network applications in cloud and embedded deployments
Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by John Tinnerholm. Presentation 31 May 2021 - Simon Wrede:
Memory efficient Monte-Carlo methods for computing shortest paths in stochastic graphs
External project at Foreseeti, co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presentation 15 June 2021. - Joel Almqvist:
Integrating SkePU's algorithmic skeletons with GPI on a cluster
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presentation 20 Jan 2022 - Robin Andersson:
Optimization of hardware trace processing on a clustered 5G multicore CPU architecture by multi-threading
External project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presentation 15 jan 2022. - Basel Nsralla:
Modernizing and Evaluating the Autotuning Framework of SkePU 3.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented 3 June 2022. - Erik Tedhamre:
A systematic performance study of the parallel programming framework SkePU 3 using HPC-benchmarks.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented 14 June 2022. - Ivar Härnqvist:
Performance-Aware Code Size Optimization of Generic Functions through Automatic Implementation of Dynamic Dispatch.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presented 17 June 2022. - Björn Birath:
Skeleton computing for reconfigurable architectures.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson and John Tinnerholm. Presented in February 2023.
☆ Research article based on this work accepted for publication in Int. Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer, 2024. - Alexander Zeijlon:
Design and implementation of a plain-MPI based cluster execution backend for the SkePU 3 skeleton programming framework
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson and John Tinnerholm. Presented in June 2023. - Dennis Berntsson:
Empirical evaluation of construction methods for relaxed decision diagrams in scheduling.
Project at Saab, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2023. - Victor Löfgren:
Compiler testing by random source code generation
Project at Configura, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2023. - Josef Olsson, Isak Stenström:
Rust async for thread-per-core packet processing
Project at Ericsson, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2023. - Max Helmrich, Linus Käll:
Parallelization of boolean operations for CAD software using WebGPU
Project at SkyMaker, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2023. - Henrik Henriksson:
Using Task Parallelism for Distributed Parallel Skeleton Programming - Implementing a StarPU Back-End to SkePU 2.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented in March 2024. - Elin Frankell:
Design and Implementation of a Performance Visualization Tool for the High-Level Parallel Programming Framework SkePU.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented in March 2024. - Felix Lagnöhed:
Integration of Reproducibility Verification with Diffoscope in GNU Make.
Project at IDA, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2024. - Mario Impesi:
Evaluation of Linux Scheduler Algorithms for Low Latency Control Plane Applications.
Project at Ericsson, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2024.
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