Tech Chat: From SingleCore to MultiCore with Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo - MES031

Today it's up to Jeronimo Castrillon-Mazo. We got acquainted at the
Embedded World 2016 in Nuremberg. He is co-founder and adviser at
Silexica. They have won the Embedded Award 2015 in the
Tools-category for SLX MultiCore Toolsuite. That drives me to visit
their booth. Having an amazing talk I asked Jeronimo to appear in
this podcast. Let's have some tech-chat, widen the topic and
enlarge the audience for this interesting topic. Jeronimo has
studied Electrical Engineering in Colombia, achieved his
Master-degree at ALaRI-institute in Lugano, Switzerland. He has
made his Ph.D. 2013 at the well known RWTH Aachen. In 2014 Jeronimo
joined the department of computer science of the TU Dresden as
professor for compiler construction. He has a proven track record
of multi- and many-core programming. Moreover he is known as
specialist within the realm of automatic code generation. Nowadays
we have tons of single-core based legacy code. In parallel
multicore hardware platforms have overtaken. Usually software for
multicore needs to be designed manually. What might happen if the
amount of cores still increases in future? How shall we handle
existing code bases? Migrate all of them manually? Or might there
be automatica ways to move towards multicore structures? And how
can we improve software design for multicore deployment? For all of
that the SLX MultiCore Toolsuite's solutions will support. We're
discussing the benefits a tool has instead of redesigning code
manually for multicore systems. We dive into the models and
operations necessary to paralellize existing code. We identify
user-stories and we mention tricky pitfalls. Jeronimo unveils
details of automatic code-analysis and problems solved to provide a
tool like SLX MultiCore. Stay with me and enjoy the chat.