On October 3rd, 2019 Andrea Gussoni, Niccolò Izzo, Domenico Iezzi will hold three talks on Hardware Performance Tuning and its Implications.

In the following the three abstracts of the talks:

Advanced Techniques for Compiler Analysis – Andrea Gussoni

The presentation will cover some advanced techniques used to build compiler analyses and transformations (such as the Polyhedral Model, Abstract Interpretation and Partial Evaluation).



Transient Execution Attacks – Niccolò Izzo

This talk will provide a global view on all the recent microarchitectural attacks, e.g. spectre, meltdown, zombieload. They highlight how performance optimizations often backfire on a computer security perspective.

Distributed Memory Programming and Algorithms – Domenico Iezzi

This talk will focus on tools and techniques used to parallelize some common applications, and the implementation of parallel algorithms using Message Passing and Partitioned Global Address Space.