Dr. Soner Onder received an NSF Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award in the amount of $97,944 in support of his research investigating alternative execution paradigms. The project is titled “EAGER: Combining Data and Instruction Level Parallelism through Demand Driven Execution of Imperative Programs”.
Dr. Onder states that demand-driven execution can potentially lead to the development of multi-core processors in which multiple processors can collaboratively and efficiently execute a single threaded program, eliminating the need to develop parallel versions of programs. Funding will be used to evaluate the feasibility of, establish theoretical performance bounds for and identify the key scalability aspects of demand-driven execution paradigm.
According to NSF, “EAGER awards can be used to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. This work could be considered especially “high risk-high payoff” in the sense that it involves radically different approaches, applies new expertise, or engages novel disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.”