{"id":15062,"date":"2018-11-05T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=15062"},"modified":"2018-11-28T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:26:22","slug":"rh-drepper-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2018\/11\/05\/rh-drepper-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat Colloquium: &#8220;Software-Configured Compute Environments&#8221;, Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0November 14th, 2018,\u00a012:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<br \/>\nrefreshments &amp; networking\u00a0at 11:30 AM<br \/>\nHariri Institute for Computing<br \/>\n111 Cummington Mall, Room 180<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2018\/11\/DSC_0319_Ulrich_Drepper-1-636x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"152\" class=\" wp-image-15064 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/11\/DSC_0319_Ulrich_Drepper-1-636x555.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/11\/DSC_0319_Ulrich_Drepper-1-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/11\/DSC_0319_Ulrich_Drepper-1-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/11\/DSC_0319_Ulrich_Drepper-1.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>Ulrich Drepper<\/strong><br \/>\nEngineer, Office of the CTO at Red Hat<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Software-Configured Compute Environments<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Hardware and software environments are designed as a compromise between many different requirements. This sacrifices performance, among other aspects, while at the same time the need for compute increases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span>Specialists can certainly create more optimized systems. The challenge is to automate this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To research these new systems, hardware\u00a0specialists need to create re-configurable processors, compiler writers to deduce the best architecture from source code and generate configurations for hardware and OS, improved OSes to efficiently run that code. All that while preserving API and ideally ABI compatibility. First steps toward this are already on the way in the BU\/Red Hat collaboration with the OpenShell project to utilize FPGAs as a suitable platform and the Linux-based unikernel project to optimize the runtime environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nB<\/strong><strong>io:\u00a0<\/strong>Ulrich Drepper joined Red Hat again in 2017, after a seven year hiatus when he worked for Goldmann Sachs. He is part of the office of the CTO and concentrates on technologies for machine learning and high- performance computing. His main interests are in the areas of low-level technologies like machine and processor architectures, programming language, compilers, high-performance and low-latency computing. In addition he is interested in using statistics and machine learning for performance analysis of programs and security of application and OS environments. Ulrich received his Diploma in Informatics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,\u00a0November 14th, 2018,\u00a012:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM refreshments &amp; networking\u00a0at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Ulrich Drepper Engineer, Office of the CTO at Red Hat &nbsp; Software-Configured Compute Environments Abstract:\u00a0Hardware and software environments are designed as a compromise between many different requirements. This sacrifices performance, among other aspects, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11748,11779,11747,11716,11777],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions\/15072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}