Kees van Berkel
Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Exascale Computing for Radio Astronomy: Mapping Pulsar Search on Dataflow
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Next generation radio telescopes will generate compute workloads in the exascale range, that is, roughly 1B scalar units running @1GHz [MPSoC'15]. GPUs as accelerators will fall one decimal order of magnitude short to meet the power target of 100GFLOPs/Watt, whereas FPGAs might just do the trick [MPSoC'16]. Dataflow appears to be a promising programming model for this purpose [MPSoC'17], where dataflow graph transformations can be used to scale throughput [MPSoC'18]. Next we will explore some dataflow graphs.
Biography
Kees van Berkel started his R&D career at Philips Research in 1980, after receiving an MSc degree in EE from TU Delft. Since 2000 he has been a fellow at Philips, NXP, ST-Ericsson, and Ericsson, until mid 2015. He obtained a PhD in CS from TU Eindhoven in 1992, where he is a part-time full professor since 1996. Kees pioneered asynchronous VLSI from theory to mass production, as well as embedded vector processing for software-defined radio. His research interests include software-defined radio, vector processors, multi-core architectures, resource management, and low power computing. His current research interest is exascale computing for radio astronomy. See also http://www.win.tue.nl/~cberkel/StaccatoLab-program.html