Seamless Computing

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• Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham
• Wednesday 10 October 2012, 13:00-14:00
• UG09, Learning Centre.

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Computer systems are evolving away from the conventional Von Neumann model of one CPU plus one RAM . Besides long-established distributed architectures we have a rapid expansion of GPU -based general-purpose computing and the emergence of FPGA -based reconfigurable computing. Increasingly, access to the computational platform is not physical but remote, “in the cloud”. Along with new platforms, a plethora of new special-purpose languages and dialects are being introduced. Is platform-dependent programming throwing us back to the times of machine-dependent programming? Is there any hope for general-purpose architecture-independent programming languages? My research is about giving a positive answer to the second question.

This talk is part of the Computer Science Lunch Time Talk Series series.

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