Section: Dissemination

Workshops, seminars, invitations, visitors

Seminars

• A. Seznec has presented a seminar on "What you will never have wanted to know on branch prediction" at University of Cyprus (April 2012), ETH Zurich (May 2012), Qualcomm (August 2012, Raleigh, North Carolina), Georgia Tech (August 2012) and ARM Sophia Antipolis (October 2012).

• A. Seznec has presented invited talks on "Should we defy the Amdahl's Law" at MATEO 2012 workshop in honor of Mateo Valero (Barcelona, June 2012), and at the "Let's Imagine the Future Workshop" in honor of Jean-Pierre Banâtre (Rennes, November 2012).

• A. Seznec has presented a seminar on "Revisiting value prediction" at Intel Hillsboro in December 2012.

• A. Seznec has presented a seminar on "HAVEGE, HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion: unpredictable random number generation at user level" at the LPMA laboratory (Paris, September 2012).

• I. Puaut has presented a seminar on "WCET estimation for multi-core architectures" at CNES, Toulouse, in December 2012.

• Pierre Michaud has presented a seminar on "Hardware acceleration of sequential loops" at Intel, Boston in December 2011.

• E. Rohou gave a talk at the GDR GPL/5es journées françaises de compilation: "Défis des architectures à venir - Quelle compilation pour demain ?" (Rennes, Irisa/Inria April 2012)

• E. Rohou gave an invited talk at Harvard University: “Compilation Challenges for Upcoming Architectures”, (September 2012)

• E. Rohou gave a invited talk at the Workshop on Language Virtual Machines and Multicore Architectures: “Compilation Challenges for Future Architectures” (September 2012, LIP6 Paris)

• E. Rohou gave an invited talk at the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology in Alexandria:“Performance of Future Architectures and Compilation Challenges” (May 2012).

Visits

• Pr Ahmed El-Mahdy, from the Egyptian-Japanese University of Science and Technology visited the ALF project for 1 week in October 2012.

• Pr Qureshi from Georgia Tech visited the ALF project-team for 3 weeks in July 2012 in the framework of the DAL ERC project.

• Pr Baniasidi from Victoria university visited the ALF project-team for 1 week in October 2012. This visit was funded by the French embassy in Canada.

• Keisuke Kuroyanagi from University of Tokyo was a master intern in the ALF team from April 2012 to July 2012. He worked on memory scheduling [21] .