[Colloquium] Re: [ci-announce] Seminar Announcement: RAPID: enabling CUDA kernels on Android based mobile and embedded devices

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Computation Institute Presentation - Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)

Speaker: Raffaele Montella, Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy
Hosts:  Kyle Chard and Alison Brizius
Date:  April 7, 2017
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
Location: The University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Ave.

Title: Heterogeneous Secure Multi-level Remote Acceleration Service for Low-Power Integrated Systems and Devices: enabling CUDA kernels on Android based mobile and embedded devices

Abstract: The success of Android is based on its unified Java programming model that allows to write platform-independent programs for a variety of different target platforms. We describe the first, to the best of our knowledge, offloading platform that enables Android devices with no GPU support to run Nvidia CUDA kernels by migrating their execution on high-end GPGPU servers. The framework is highly modular and exposes a rich Application Programming Interface (API) to the developers, making it highly transparent and hiding the complexity of the network layer. We present the first preliminary results, showing that not only GPGPU offloading is possible but it is also promising in terms of performance.


Short bio:
Raffaele Montella works as assistant professor, with tenure, in Computer Science at Department of Science and Technologies, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy since 2005. He got his degree (MSc equivalent) in (Marine) Environmental Science at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in 1998 defending a thesis about the “Development of a GIS system for marine applications” scoring with laude and an award mention to his study career. He defended his PhD thesis about “Environmental modeling and Grid Computing techniques” earning the PhD in Marine Science and Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
The research main topics and the scientific production are focused on tools for high performance computing, such as grid, cloud and GPUs with applications in the field of computational environmental science (multidimensional big data/distributed computing for modeling and scientific workflows and science gateways) leveraging on his previous (and still ongoing) experiences in embedded/mobile/wearable/pervasive computing and internet of things. He joined the CI/RDCEP of the University of Chicago as Visiting Scholar and as Visiting Assistant Professor working on the FACE-IT project. He leads the IT infrastructure of the University of Naples “Parthenope” Centre for Marine and Atmosphere Monitoring and Modelling (CCMMMA). He technically leads the University of Naples “Parthenope” research units of the European Project “Heterogeneous secure multi-level Remote Acceleration service for low-Power Integrated systems and Devices (RAPID)” focusing on GVirtuS development and integration (General purpose Virtualization Service) enabling CUDA kernel execution on mobile and embedded devices. He leads the local funded project: “Modelling mytilus farming System with Enhanced web technologies (MytiluSE)” focused on high performance computing based coupled simulations for mussel farms food quality prediction and assessment for human gastric disease mitigation. He leads the research prototype project: “FairWind: smart, cloud-based, multifunctional navigation system” targeting the coastal marine data gathering as crowdsourcing for environmental protection, development and management.  

Information: Lunch will be provided


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