Título: Compiler-Driven Specialization through Data Streaming
Resumo: Data movement is still one of the main bottlenecks in modern computing. As such, the data streaming paradigm has reemerged as a potential solution by exploiting explicit decoupling of memory access and computation. Delegating address generation and data fetching to specialized streaming engines allows the computing core to operate in parallel with the memory subsystem. To do so, the compiler must automatically extract stream dataflow representations, modeling complex memory patterns as predictable streams and operations as computational graphs, to effectively bridge the gap between source code and stream-enabled hardware.
This presentation explores ongoing research in applying compiler-driven stream specialization across modern computing platforms. In particular, it will discuss how integrating these data streaming mechanisms into general-purpose processors effectively mitigates memory latency bottlenecks and improves computing efficiency, how linearizing complex memory accesses enhances vector execution within SIMD architectures, and how mapping stream-dataflow representations onto reconfigurable accelerator architectures can provide high-throughput domain-specific acceleration.
Orador: Nuno Filipe Simões Santos Moraes da Silva Neves, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Bio: Nuno Neves received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal, in 2019. He is an Assistant Researcher at INESC-ID, HPCAS Group, an Invited Assistant Professor at IST, and a lecturer at ULisboa School, Shanghai University.
His research interests include data stream computing, domain-specific accelerators, reconfigurable hardware, and compilers, to which he has contributed with several publications in flagship conferences and international journals, such as ISCA, ICS, IEEE TCAS-I/II, and Proceedings of IEEE. He is involved in several national, international, and European research programmes and projects, including the flagship European Processor Initiative and DARE projects, and he currently leads the INESC-ID team in the CHORYS EU project. He is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and serves as Secretary of the IEEE CEDA Portugal Chapter.

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