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Prof. Veljko Milutinovic,

Fellow of the IEEE
Life Member of the ACM
Member of Academia Europaea
Member of the Serbian Academy of Engineering
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Maxeler
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Moskowitz-Jacobs

DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData Analytics

This presentation analyses the essence of DataFlow SuperComputing, defines its advantages and sheds light on the related programming model. DataFlow computers, compared to ControlFlow computers, offer speedups of 20 to 200 (even 2000 for some applications), power reductions of about 20, and size reductions of also about 20. However, the programming paradigm is different, and has to be mastered. The talk explains the paradigm, using Maxeler as an example, and sheds light on the ongoing research in the field. Examples include DataEngineering, DataMining, FinancialAnalytics, etc. A recent study from Tsinghua University in China reveals that, for Shallow Water Weather Forecast, which is a BigData problem, on the 1U level, the Maxeler DataFlow machine is 14 times faster than the Tianhe machine, which is rated #1 on the Top 500 list (based on Linpack, which is a smalldata benchmark). Given enough time, the talk also gives a tutorial about the programiing in space, which is the programming paradigm used for the Maxeler dataflow machines.

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About the Speaker:

Prof. Veljko Milutinovic received his PhD from the University of Belgrade, spent about a decade on various faculty positions in USA (mostly at Purdue University), and was a codesigner of the DARPAs first GaAs RISC microprocessor. Now he teaches and conducts research at the University of Belgrade, mostly in datamining and dataflow computing, with stress on simulations and mappings of algorithms. He has over 2400 Google Scholar citations.

About the University of Belgrade:

In August 2013 it was announced that it shares the position 301 at the Shanghai top 500 list (ARWU). At the same time, for mathematics (which includes the theoretical computer science), it was announced that it shares the position 101. Except for 18 schools in UK, France, and Germany, only 6 other European schools are ranked better than Belgrade; none in SouthEast Europe that includes about 20 countries.