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How to program large-scale heterogeneous parallel computers
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- High-performance computing
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- Institute for High Performance Computing Systems
- Scalable Parallel Computing
According to the European Research Council, its ERC grants “aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe”. Professor Torsten Hoefler has been awarded one of these prestigious grants. His group addresses a fundamental and increasingly important challenge in computer science: how to efficiently program heterogeneous supercomputers with millions of processors of different architectures.
Shaping synergies between science and industry
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- Information and Communication Systems
- Microsoft Swiss JRC
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- Parallel computing
- Information systems
- Institute for Computing Platforms (Systems Group)
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Human-computer interaction, machine vision, performance and energy scalability, mobile computing, and data center optimization – these are some of the most significant challenges that computer science will have to face in the years to come. In the Microsoft Research - Swiss Joint Research Center, a collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research, EPFL and ETH Zurich, science and industry try to tackle these challenges together. Professor Gustavo Alonso elaborates.