Owen Stampflee

Abstract

Over the past twenty years, multicore software development has evolved from the novelty of the first generally available multicore processors and large clusters used for scientific research to every day safety critical devices such as automotive ECMs and the underpinnings of the AI revolution. Fixstars has focused on leveraging a variety of multicore products including GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to not only build faster applications but help every day developers build faster applications using multicore technology.

While the technology and it’s use has advanced, many of the core tenants to leverage multicore systems have remained consistent. We will be showcasing how we have used different methods of abstraction, orchestration, and observability in our development in the past and why these concepts  are just as important moving ahead to not only develop AI systems but also develop multicore software with the assistance of AI.

Biography

Owen is a Senior Software Engineer at Fixstars Solutions where he has worked on multicore software development projects in various industries, spanning both HPC and embedded settings since 2008. His most notable work includes developing Yellow Dog Linux and the orchestration system used on the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Condor Cluster which was constructed from 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3s.