Continuing on with our coverage of ICSE 2011, meet Dr. Victor Pankratius. Dr. Pankratius heads the Multicore Software Engineering investigator group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He also serves as the elected chairman of the Software Engineering for parallel Systems (SEPARS) international working group. Dr. Pankratius' current research concentrates on how to make parallel programming easier. His work on multicore software engineering covers a range of research topics including empirical studies, auto-tuning, language design, and debugging.
In this video, Wolfram Schulte joins Victor to discuss the challenges of making concurrency easier for developers. One of the really interesting approaches that Victor and team are investigating is concurrency auto-tuning, and the example discussed here involve adding OS kernel-level support for auto-tuning user mode applications for manycore processor architectures. This is very fascinating research with great potential. Concurrency auto-tuner in an OS kernel? Concurrency-enlightened operating systems? Why not? Always great to meet young innovators with no fear of failure. I hope to see this type of thing materialize. Very interesting research and real world problem. Go Victor. Go!
Thanks to Wolfram and Victor for another great conversation. Tune in.
I enjoyed those interviews that Charles and Wolfram Shutte did. Wolfram is like Eric Meijer in that he so deeply gets it that he can ask questions that make the interview flow
I do chuckle however at the way he compulsively expresses things in the "in some sense" monad ;-)
btw: relieved to see some posts from Charles on Going Deep -I swear that Going Deep is the one thing that keeps me coming back for more microsoft -after a week of a broken channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Charles I was fearing Charles had been killed by a renaissance pointer and no one had told us
Posted by: kiwi | November 17, 2011 at 01:42 AM