Active Grants and Contracts for R. Clint Whaley

I have several sole-PI grants and some collaborative grants.

Sole-PI Grants and Contracts

I am currently the sole PI on two active grants. Both involve research on, and improvements to, the ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project. The first is a NSF grant and the second is a DOD Contract. These two contracts both concern research with the aim of improving ATLAS. My research work has also been supported by $10,000 gift to support ATLAS research.

Research Synopsis for NSF CRI CNS-0551504 and DoD H98230-06-C-0443

These projects involve research on increasing the performance of linear algebra routines beyond the current capabilities of ATLAS, as well as improving the maintainability of ATLAS's auto-adapting framework. It is a long-running project, with many ideas for identified for eventual investigation. Currently, we are looking at the affect of using more accurate algorithms on performance, the automation of prefetching strategies, and the use of adaptive blocking to further extend performance. We plan on investigating new methods of exploiting the more recent CMP (Chip MultiProcessors) and their relavant cache heirarchies, the affect of problem shape on optimization, techniques for improving SIMD vectorization support, extension of optimization to higher-level operations, and into iterative compilation frameworks. More software-oriented areas include improving the automated install harness, adding support for full 64-bit kernels, improving timing methodolies and statistics, search heuristics, and basic architecture probing.

NSF CRI CNS-0551504

Total amount : $100,000
Period : 03/01/06 - 02/28/08, no-cost extension until 02/28/09
Contract info: NSF CRI award, CNS-0551504
Students supported: Supports up to two students.

Department of Defense Maryland Procurement H98230-06-C-0443

Total amount : $790,446
Period : July 31, 2006 - July 31, 2010 (with yearly approval)
Contract info: Maryland Procurement H98230-06-C-0443
Students supported: Presently supporting Tony Castaldo. Supports up to three students in later years.

SiCortex Research Gift

Total amount : $10,000
Period : donated April 2007
Contract info: Gift to support ATLAS research

Collaborative Grants and Contracts

Dr. Qing Yi and I collaborate on empirical optimization research. As part of this work, we have obtained an REU supplement for my ATLAS NSF CNS-0551504 grant, which we use to fund research at the undergraduate level. I am also co-PI on an NSF CCF-0833203.

REU Supplement for CNS-0551504

Total amount : $12,000
Period : 04/22/08 - 02/28/09
Contract info: REU supplement to NSF CRI CNS-0551504. Used to support undergraduate research. Dr. Qing Yi and I collaborate on this work.
Students supported: Support for two students; presently supporting Mike Bell.

NSF award CCF-0833203

Total amount : $462.000
PI: Qing Yi
Co-PIs: Dan Quinlan and R. Clint Whaley
Period : 09/01/08 - 09/31/10
Contract info: Empirical tuning with ATLAS, POET and ROSE.
Students supported: No student support for me in this grant.
See Dr. Yi's grant page for full details.

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