On October 5th, 2020 a new appointment of Necst Monday Talk will be held in NECSTLab Meeting Room at DEIB.

During this talk Christian Pilato, Deib Assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano, will speak about “EVEREST: A design environment for extreme-scale big data analytics on heterogeneous platforms”.

The distributed and heterogeneous nature of the data sources in High Performance Big Data Analytics (HPDA) applications, along with the required computational power, is pushing designers towards novel computing systems that combine HPC, Cloud, and IoT solutions (for efficient and distributed computation closer to the data) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms (for knowledge extraction and decision making). Future Big Data systems will be of course data-driven, but also featuring complex heterogeneous and reconfigurable architectures that must be redesigned or customized based on the nature and locality of the data, and the type of learning/decisions to be performed.

EVEREST is a novel EU-funded project that aims at matching problem between the characteristics of the underlying heterogeneous hardware and the requirements of the application and the data. EVEREST proposes a design environment that combines state-of-the-art, stable programming models, and emerging communication standards, with novel and dedicated domain-specific extensions. The EVEREST design environment will support designers in the hardware/software co-design for heterogeneous, distributed, scalable and secure HPDA systems. This is achieved by simplifying the programmability of heterogeneous and distributed architectures through a “data-driven” design approach, the use of hardware-accelerated AI, and an efficient monitoring of the execution with a unified hardware/software paradigm.

Christian Pilato is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDB) at Politecnico di Milano. He was a Post-doc Research Scientist at Columbia University (2013-2016) and at the ALaRI Institute of the Università della Svizzera italiana (2016-2018). He was also a Visiting Researcher at New York University, Delft University of Technology, and Chalmers University of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano (2011). His research interests focus on heterogeneous system-on-chip architectures and reconfigurable systems, with emphasis on memory and security aspects during high-level synthesis and system-level design. He is currently serving as the Scientific Coordinator of the H2020 EVEREST project. He served as program chair of EUC 2014 and is currently serving in the program committees of many conferences on EDA, CAD, embedded systems, and reconfigurable architectures (DAC, ICCAD, DATE, CASES, FPL, ICCD, etc.) He is an IEEE Senior Member, and a member of ACM and HiPEAC.

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https://tinyurl.com/necstmondaytalk2021.

The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures.

Every week, the “NECST Monday Talk” invites researchers, professionals or entrepreneurs to share their work experiences and projects they are implementing in the “Computing Systems”.