Assistant
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721-0104
Office phone: (520) 626-5149
Fax:(520) 621-8076
e-mail: akoglu@ece.arizona.edu
Ali Akoglu was born in Turkey. He earned his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University. His active research area is on reconfigurable computing specializing in application specific reconfigurable architecture design space.
Active research projects in "Reconfigurable Computing Lab"
New course in Fall 2008, ECE506 Reconfigurable Computing
RA Position Available as of April 26, 2008
Project
Title: H.264 Video Compression Standard on CELL BE Processor
Objective: The slowing pace of commodity microprocessor performance
improvements combined with ever-increasing chip power demands has become
of utmost concern to computational scientists. As a result, the high
performance computing community is examining alternative architectures
that address the limitations of modern cache-based designs. In this
work, we will examine the potential of using the CELL BE Processor on
H.264 Video Compression Standard.
Cell uses a conventional high performance PowerPC core that controls eight simple SIMD cores, called synergistic processing elements (SPEs), where each SPE contains a synergistic processing unit (SPU), a local memory, and a memory flow controller. This architecture poses several challenges to programming: an explicitly controlled memory hierarchy, explicit parallelism between the 8 SPEs and the PowerPC, and a quadword based ISA. Our goal is to select the programming paradigm that offers the simplest possible expression of an algorithm while being capable of fully utilizing the hardware resources of the Cell processor.
Required
Background: Excellent Algorithms and Data Structures Knowledge
Programming Skills: C/C++, MPI and Multithreaded programming