Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

MEDIACOM: Nano2012 Project with STMicroelectronics on SSA, Register Allocation, and JIT Compilation

Participants : Benoit Boissinot, Florian Brandner, Quentin Colombet, Alain Darte, Fabrice Rastello.

This contract has started in September 2009 as part of the funding mechanism Nano2012. This is the continuation of the successful previous project Sceptre with stm icroelectronics, which ended in December 2009. This new project concerns both aggressive optimizations and the application of the previously-developed techniques to JIT compilation. Related activities are described in Sections  6.2 to  6.7 .

Unfortunately, due to a unilateral decision of the government, all fundings related to Nano2012 have been cancelled, or at least frozen, in 2011. The salary of PhD students (such as Quentin Colombet) was guaranteed by contract but neither the salary of engineers and post-docs, nor the regular budget. Thanks to Inria who covered his salary, we succeeded to keep Florian Brandner until October 2011. However, the whole travelling budget was cut. Mediacom survived and will continue, as planned, until the end of 2012, but in a less ambitious format.