Project description
Smarter compilers to handle more complex computing systems
Computing is evolving rapidly, moving beyond the traditional models that have powered technology for decades. As electronics scaling slows down, new hardware architectures and computing paradigms (e.g. compute-in-memory (CIM)) are emerging that break away from the classic von Neumann paradigm. This will bring the era of extreme heterogeneous computing systems that combine different and complex approaches that can no longer rely on incremental programming advances. The ERC-funded COMETH project will develop new compiler technologies and models to bridge high-level programming (e.g. Python) with these emerging systems. Researchers will start with well-understood paradigms like CIM and create flexible tools that can adapt to future paradigms. Project activities will help democratise high-performance, energy-efficient computing across various disciplines.
Objective
Computing has become a key pillar of many areas in society and science. For decades, the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems has been hidden via incremental advances in programming abstractions, compilers and runtimes environments. Underlying these abstractions is the 8-decade old von Neumann Computing (vNC) model. The demise of scaling laws in electronics, however, has sparked disruption in devices and Hardware (HW) architectures, leading to novel Non-von Neumann Computing (NvNC) paradigms. This will bring an era of Extreme Heterogeneous Computing Systems (ExHCSs), combining fundamentally different paradigms, whose complexity can no longer be effectively hidden behind incremental advances in vNC-based programming. COMETH’s goal is to lay the foundation for a new generation of compilers for ExHCSs. With a bottom-up approach, COMETH proposes novel models that generalize over NvNC paradigms. These models will enable a disruptive re-design of HW and compiler abstractions in COMETH, allowing to seamlessly bridge high-level code (e.g. math expressions in Python) and low- level parameters of emerging architectures (e.g. device dimensioning for retention-energy trade-offs). COMETH is organized into three Work Packages (WPs): WP1 focuses on modeling emerging NvNCs systems (Compute-in-Memory (CIM) and quantum-like), WP2 devises a multi-level compiler infrastructure with extensible HW abstractions, and WP3 investigates transformations and code partitioning across computing paradigms. To cope with risks stemming from its speculative nature, COMETH will (1) target paradigms that do not depend on the success of a particular technology, (2) start with the better-understood CIM paradigm, and (3) focus on flexibility to accommodate for upcoming emerging paradigms. COMETH thus greatly contributes to diminishing the barriers that sheer complexity poses to future applications on future systems to democratize high-performance and efficient computing across disciplines.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering computer hardware computer processors
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computational science
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering computer hardware quantum computers
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering computer hardware supercomputers
Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
- emerging computer architectures
- non-Von Neumann computing
- compute-in-memory
- analog computing
- hardware abstraction
- models of computation
- high-level compilers
- intermediate languages
- intermediate representations
- MLIR
- code optimization
- code transformation
- memory optimization
- domain-specific computing
- domain-specific compilers
- domain-specific languages
- energy-efficient computing
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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01069 Dresden
Germany
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