Computer Systems Architecture Group
Informatics Institute
Faculty of Science
University of Amsterdam
Room C3.101
Sciencepark 904
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email: R (dot) Bakker (at) uva (dot) nl
Personal homepage: www.roybakker.nl
Agenda: see here
Info for students at UvA FWNI who wants to use Linux machines can be found on this page (in Dutch).
Information about the practical assignments for courses in wich I am involved can be found at:
Abstract
Current multi-core processor architectures face several scalability issues. The
Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) is an experimental 48-core processor created by
Intel Labs for the Many-Core applications research community. The architecture
combines several new design approaches that should allow for a better scalability
of many-core systems. The SCC features relatively simple but fully functional
general purpose cores on a scalable on-chip mesh network with large bandwidth.
The University of Amsterdam was selected to receive one of the prototype boards
for use in their research on many-core programming methods.
In this thesis we explore the properties, possibilities and pitfalls of this new
architecture. Based on these results we propose and make modifications to an
implementation of the SVP concurrency model developed at the University of Amsterdam.
SVP is an abstract concurrent programming model that is applicable to multiple
levels of granularity and is communication deadlock free under the assumption of
sufficient resources.
The Intel MARC community.
View the complete pdf version here.
Supervised by Chris Jesshope and Michiel van Tol.
Abstract
Over the last decades, medical imaging techniques have become better, faster and more detailed.
As a result, more and more data is produced that needs to be analyzed by diagnostic clinicians
and researchers. In some cases, conventional visual inspection on computer displays is impossible
due to the sheer number of images. In this work a solution is presented to visualize large numbers
of medical images on a high resolution display device, a so-called Tiled Panel Display. A use
case, based on an fMRI computer study performed at the AMC, generating a large number of
images is used to test our solution. A neuro psychologist visited us to inspect the results and
provide feedback on the application.
View the complete pdf version here, and you may download the sourcecode for my program here.
Supervised by Robert Belleman and Silvia Olabarriaga.
For more information about the fMRI research, see the Virtual Lab for functional MRI.
(last check at June 6, 2011)