AERO: Developing an open-source software ecosystem for the European Processor Initiative hardware
2023-10-22, 16:25–16:55 (Europe/Athens), Αμφιθέατρο Β

In this talk we will present AERO, an EU project aiming to complement the efforts of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) project by developing the open-source software ecosystem required to not only improve the efficiency of the EPI hardware but also accelerate and ease the processor’s integration into the cloud. We will discuss why open-source is the right choice for this and how it can help achieve faster adoption.

Hi! I am Foivos (pronounced [‘fivos]) Zakkak and I am a Software Engineer in Red Hat’s Java platform team working on GraalVM and Mandrel. Prior to joining Red Hat I spent 9.5 years as a post-graduate and post-doctoral researcher. I worked at the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group of the University of Manchester where I led the development of the Maxine VM, a metacircular Java-in-Java VM. Before that I worked at the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory (CARV) of FORTH-ICS, where in the context of the GreenVM project, I developed DiSquawk, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that targets non-cache-coherent architectures. During my post-graduate studies I also explored compile time optimizations for task-based runtime systems and got involved in the development and performance analysis process of various task-based runtime systems.

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Polyvios Pratikakis is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science
Department of the University of Crete, and Collaborating Researcher at
ICS-FORTH. His research interests
include programming languages, type systems, dynamic and static
analysis, parallelism and concurrency, parallel and distributed
runtime systems, memory management, and data analytics. He has
successfully led or participated in several National and European
research projects.