{"57946":{"#nid":"57946","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vuduc Earns NSF CAREER Award for Autotuning Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERich Vuduc (CSE) has received an NSF CAREER Award for his work in tuning software to run on parallel systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESoftware engineers long have \u0022tuned\u0022 existing programs to run on more parallel systems, but the work is laborious and very time consuming. Vuduc, assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, develops ways to perform this work automatically, hence \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/features\/instant-upgrade\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003Eautotuning\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0022 He received the CAREER award for his proposal, \u0022Autotuning Foundations for Exascale Systems.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The major research goal is to study the major parallel programming and performance tuning problems that arise on these very large systems, which are projected to have many millions of processing cores,\u0022 Vuduc said. \u0022We hope to discover new techniques for overcoming these problems, and plan to work on them with collaborators at Intel, among other places.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about Vuduc\u0027s proposal or read the full abstract, visit the NSF \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0953100\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERich Vuduc (CSE) has received an NSF CAREER Award for his work in tuning software to run on parallel systems. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2010-06-08 10:13:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:43","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}