J. (Ram) Ramanujam

  John E. and Beatrice L. Ritter Distinguished Professor

102 Electrical Engineering Building Office:      +1 (225) 578-5628
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Fax:    +1 (225) 578-5200
and Center for Computation and Technology (302 Johnston Hall) Dept.:    +1 (225) 578-5241
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5901, USA E-mail:    j x r {@} ece.lsu.edu

 
Book: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing
E. Ayguade, G. Baumgartner, J. Ramanujam, and P. Sadayappan, Springer   
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Book: Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power
L. Benini, M. Kandemir, and J. Ramanujam, Kluwer Academic   
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Research

 
Research Interests

Compiler optimizations for high performance computers: GPUs, multicore, accelerators.
Embedded systems: compilers, design, processors
Parallel computing: architecture, algorithms, software
Computer architecture
Compilers, operating systems and architectures for low power
Hardware synthesis and optimization: behavioral-level, logic-level
 
Recent Research Grants
«   NSF Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (OCI STCI) grant: An Environment for Portable High Productivity High Performance Computing on GPUs/Accelerators, 2009-12
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  NSF Computing Processes and Artifacts (CISE CCF) Compilers grant: An Effective Automatic Parallelization Framework for Multi-Core Architectures, 2008-11

« NSF Computing Processes and Artifacts (CISE CCF) Compilers grant: Search-Based Model-Driven Framework for Compiler Optimizations, 2006-10
« NSF Computer Systems Research (CISE CSR) grant: CSR-AES: An Integrated Framework for Compile-time/Run-time Support for Multi-Scale Applications on High-End Systems, 2005-09
« NSF Nanoscale Exploratory Research grant: NER: Integration of Ab-Initio Computation with Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Nanomaterials Research,  2005-07
« NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) grant: Synthesis of High Performance Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations, 2001-07
« NSF DDDAS (CISE) grant: DynaCode: A General DDDAS Framework with Coast and Environment Modeling Applications, 2006-07
« Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant: Modeling Impacts of Climate Change on Wetland Ecosystems, 2002-05
« NSF (CISE) grant: Research and Training in Advanced Compiler Optimizations, 2001-05
« NSF (CISE) grant: Program and Storage Transformations for Improving Memory Performance, 2000-04

Software

PLUTO - An automatic parallelizer and locality optimizer for multicores   PLUTO website   Download PLUTO

PrimeTile -- A parametric multi-level tiler for imperfect loop nests   PrimeTile website  Download PrimeTile

Tensor Contraction Engine (TCE)

Publications

h-index:   28.     g-index:   44.
Total Number of Citations
(from the Science Citation Index):     601     (September 2004).

Recent Publications (most in pdf)

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Awards

NSF Young Investigator Award, 1994.

Ritter Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, 2005-present.

Distinguished Visitor, IEEE Computer Society, 2001-2003.

Best Paper Award (Applications Track) for "Efficient Synthesis of Out-of-core Algorithms Using a Nonlinear Optimization Solver," (authors: S. Krishnan, S. Krishnamoorthy, G. Baumgartner, C. Lam, J. Ramanujam, and P. Sadayappan) at the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (2004 IPDPS Conference), Santa Fe, April 2004.

Best Paper Award (Systems) for "Data Locality Optimization for Synthesis of Efficient Out-of-Core Algorithms," (authors: S. Krishnan, S. Krishnamoorthy, G. Baumgartner, D. Cociorva, C. Lam, P. Sadayappan, J. Ramanujam, D. Bernholdt, and V. Choppella) at the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 03), December 2003.

Recent graduates

ACACES 2009: Fifth International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems, Terrassa (near Barcelona), Spain, July 12-18, 2009. ACACES 2009 Lectures

CGO 2009: 2009 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Seattle, WA, March 22-25, 2009.

LCPC 2008: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC) 21st Annual Workshop, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 31 - August 2, 2008

POHLL 2008: Workshop on Performance Optimization via High-Level Languages and Libraries (to be held with IPDPS 2008), Miami, FL, April 14, 2008

Teaching

 

Spring 2010

Spring 2010: EE 4702: High-Level Synthesis and Embedded Systems

Fall 2009

Fall 2009: EE 7000: Software Optimizations for Multicore

Recent Courses
Spring 2009: EE 4760: Introduction to Compiler Optimizations Fall 2008: EE 7785: Compiler Optimizations
Spring 2008: EE 4702: High-Level Synthesis and Embedded Systems Fall 2007: EE 7785: Compiler Optimizations
Spring 2007: EE 4760: Introduction to Compiler Optimizations Fall 2006: EE 7000: Embedded Systems
Spring 2006: EE 7000: High-Level Synthesis Fall 2005: EE 7785: Compiler Optimizations
Spring 2005: EE 4760: Introduction to Compiler Optimizations Fall 2004: EE 7700: Architectures and Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Spring 2004: EE 7700: Energy Aware Computing Systems Fall 2003: EE 4702: High Level Synthesis

Fall 2003: EE 7700-1: Compiler Optimizations

Spring 2003: EE 7700: Embedded Systems  

 
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