Christoph Kessler

Final theses examinated

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Final theses examinated

• Fredrik Hallenberg:
  Kodoptimering på stackbaserad maskin
  Project at Kreatel AB, Linköping. Presentation 23/8/2002.

• Johan Möller:
  Run-time system for PLEX on the JVM
  Project at Ericsson SoftLab AB, Linköping. Presentation 31/10/2002.

• Mikhail Chalabine:
  Parallelization of the interpreter in a test system for mobile telecommunication components
  Project at Ericsson AB, Linköping. Presentation 23/8/2002.
  ☆ Result published as conference paper at HPC-2003, Orlando, USA

• Svante Arvedahl:
  Java Just-In-Time Compilation for the IA-64 Architecture
  Project at Ericsson AB SoftLab, Linköping.
  Presentation 12/12/2002
  ☆ Conference paper submitted

• Rikard Hansson:
  Simulated Time and Online Backup in the ABB Industrial Training Simulator Operator Station
  Project at ABB AB, Västerås/Oslo.
  Presentation 5/6/2003.

• Jörgen Niemi and Lennart Johansson:
  En semiautomatisk konverter för användningsspecifika Perl-program till Java.
  Project at UNIT, Linköpings universitet.
  Presentation 19/9/2003.

• Stefan Eng:
  Heuristic Online Profile-Based Instruction Cache Optimisation in a Just-In-Time Compiler.
  Develops code layout strategies to optimize instruction cache performance for large JIT-compiled programs in telecommunication switches.
  Project at Ericsson AB Softlab.
  Presentation 23/1/2004.

• Susanne Jarl:
  TentaCheck: Ett verktyg för automatisk testning av TFK's tentaschemaremiss.
  Project at IDA for studierektor SaS.
  Co-supervised with Kristian Sandahl.
  Presentation 26/4/2004.

• Tobias Marciszko:
  A tool for optimized layout of flat cable harnesses for future on-board cabling systems in cars.
  Project at Daimler-Chrysler AG Forschung und Technologie, Esslingen.
  Presentation 16/4/2004.

• Anders Edqvist:
  High-level optimizations for OPTIMIST.
  Project at IDA, part of the OPTIMIST project.
  Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
  Presentation 21/10/2004.

• Johan Ericsson:
  Capacity characteristics of conditional execution
  Project at Ericsson AB, Linköping.
  Presentation 12/11/2004.

• David Landen:
  ARM9E processor specification for OPTIMIST.
  Project at IDA in cooperation with IAR Systems AB, part of the OPTIMIST project.
  Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
  Presentation 25/2/2005.

• Mattias Eriksson:
  Load balancing of irregular parallel divide-and-conquer algorithms in group-SPMD programming environments.
  Project at IDA.
  Presentation 21/10/2005
  ☆ Result published as conference paper at PASA'06, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• Johan Rees:
  Undersökning av algoritmers parallelliserbarhet i en parallellprocessor implementerad med rekonfigurerbar hårdvara..
  Project at Mitrionics AB, Lund.
  Presentation 8/12/2005.

• Henrik Abelsson:
  Evaluation of a reconfigurable architecture for supercomputing applications.
  Project at Mitrionics AB, Lund.
  Presentation 12/12/2005.

• Stefan Ottosson:
  Using Helper Threads to Hide Memory Latency in Telecom Switching Systems.
  Project at Ericsson AB Softlab, Linköping.
  Presentation 3/3/2006.

• Joar Sohl:
  A Scalable Run-Time System for NestStep on Cluster Supercomputers..
  Project at IDA.
  Presentation 6/3/2006.

• Andreas Rehnströmer:
  Xe: A graphical editor for writing xADML processor specifications.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
  Presentation 02/05/2006.

• Yongyi Yuan:
  Optimization of amplifier code for the Motorola DSP 56367 processor with OPTIMIST.
  Project in cooperation with Softube AB, Linköping.
  Co-supervised with Andrzej Bednarski.
  Presentation 25/04/2006.

• Andreas Karlsson:
  Kartering med autonomt fordon.
  Project at Saab Bofors Dynamics AB, Linköping.
  Presentation 13/12/2006.
  

• Miguel Svensson:
  Applying Model-Driven Engineering to the development of graphical applications
  Project at Saab Bofors Dynamics, Linköping.
  Presentation 15/3/2007

• Torbjörn Söderstedt:
  Size optimization of Java programs targetting the J2ME Platform
  Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
  Presentation 26/4/2007

• David Vest:
  A version aware data structure designed for incremental rendering of structured documents
  Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
  Presentation 20/2/2007

• Daniel Johansson:
  Porting the NestStep Run-time System to the CELL Broadband Engine.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Mattias Eriksson.
  ☆ Result published as conference paper at PARS'07, Hamburg, Germany
  Presentation 22/10/2007.

• Erik Axling:
  Automatic Generation of Simulation Models from Designs
  Project at ENEA, Linköping
  Presentation 5/12/2007

• Anders Karlsson:
  Multithreaded concurrency for faster web browsers
  Project at Opera Software, Linköping.
  Presentation 20/12/2007.

• Kjell Enblom and Martin Jungebro:
  Prestandaförbättringar av NETSim-simuleringar genom parameterjusteringar på OS-nivå
  Project at Ericsson, Linköping Presentation 11/01/2008.

• Markus Ålind:
  A Skeleton Library for Cell BroadBand Engine.
  Project at IDA, Linköpings universitet. Co-supervised with Mattias Eriksson.
  Presentation 22/2/2008.
  ☆ Result published as conference paper at IWMSE-2008, Leipzig, Germany

• Christian Åkerström:
  Utveckling av verktyg för generering av stubb- och mockobjekt för C
  Project at ENEA, Linköping.
  Presentation 30/5/2008.

• Said Aspen:
  Determining the feasibility of automatically translating SMILE to a Java framework.
  Project at Ericsson EAB, Linköping.
  Presentation 18/11/2008.

• Freddie Pintar:
  Investigation and Implementation of a Live Connection between Configura CET (R) and Revit (R) Architecture 2009
  Project at Configura AB, Linköping.
  Presentation 13/2/2009.

• Erik Elfström and Edward Carlstedt-Duke:
  Towards guidelines for the design of energy-efficient software.
  Project at CombiTech AB, Linköping.
  Presentation 2/3/2009.

• Erik Hansson:
  A Case Study of Semi-Automatic Parallelization of Divide and Conquer Algorithms Using Invasive Interactive Parallelization
  Project at PELAB, IDA, Linköpings universitet. Co-supervised with Mikhail Chalabine.
  Presentation 14/5/2009.

• Fredrik Wahlund:
  Parameter analysis and optimization of JVM
  Project at Drutt Sverige AB, Göteborg
  Presentation 19/5/2009.

• Emil Hammarstedt:
  Waveform visualization and plot optimization
  Project at AnSyn AB, Linköping.
  Presentation 18/9/2009.

• Rikard Hulten:
  Optimized On-Chip Software Pipelining on the Cell BE Processor
  Project at PELAB, IDA.
  Presentation 12/3/2010.
  ☆ Result published as conference paper at EuroPar-2010, Ischia, Italy, and in a subsequent journal article (2012).

• Magnus Holm:
  Compiling the parallel programming language NestStep to the CELL processor.
  Project at PELAB, IDA.
  Presentation 11/6/2010.

• Andrei Mamon:
  Graphical visualization of software-pipelined code execution on pipelined and clustered VLIW DSP.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson.
  Presentation 14/6/2010.
• Johan Enmyren:
  A Skeleton Programming Library for Multicore CPU and Multi-GPU Systems.
  ☆ SkePU library, first open-source release 2010
  ☆ Workshop papers published at HLPP-2010, Baltimore, USA, MCC-2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, MULTIPROG-2011 Heraklion, Greece, and IWMSE-2011, Hawaii, USA. Book chapter accepted, 2011. Software prototype available as open-source.
  Presentation: 20/9/2010
• Magnus Pettersson:
  Optimized Generation of SIMD code for the CELL processor
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson. Presentation: 20/9/2010
• Faruk Emre Sahin and Muhammad Salman Khan:
  Simulation of Set-top box components on an x86 architecture by implementing a hardware abstraction layer.
  Project at Motorola, Linköping.
  Presentation: 22/12/2010
• David Granqvist:
  Distribuerat generiskt ramverk för simultan textredigering
  Project at Attentec, Linköping. Presentation 25/08/2011.
• Lu Li:
  Translating C/C++ applications to a task-based representation.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 26 Sep. 2011
  ☆ Result published in workshop papers at CPC-2012, MuCoCoS-2012, and a subsequent journal article.
• Amin Shafiee Sarvestani:
  Automated recognition of algorithmic patterns in DSP programs.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson.
  Presentation 17/12/2011.
  ☆ Workshop paper accepted, 2011. Journal article accepted, 2012. Workshop paper accepted, 2012.
  ☆ PRT software prototype available as open-source.
• Andreas Petersson:
  A tool for monitoring resource usage in large scale supercomputing clusters
  (Bachelor) Project at NSC, Linköpings universitet.
  Presentation on 7 feb 2012.
• Zesi Cai:
  Genetic Algorithm for Integrated Software Pipelining
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mattias Eriksson.
  Presentation: 9 March 2012.
• Daniel Åkesson
  An LLVM Back-end for REPLICA. Code Generation for a Multi-Core VLIW Processor with Chaining
  Project at PELAB. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 6 Feb 2012.
  ☆ Result published as part of 2 conference papers, 2012
• Andreas Lööw
  A Functional-Level Simulator for the Configurable (Many-Core) PRAM-Like REPLICA Architecture
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 11/06/2012.
• Erik Nilsson
  Abstract Syntax Tree Analysis for Plagiarism Detection.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 20/08/2012. DiVA fulltext
• Cheng Zhou
  A source-to-source compiler for the PRAM language Fork to the REPLICA many-core architecture.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 20/08/2012. DiVA fulltext
• Kianosh Moshir-Moghaddam
  Automated Reasoning Support For Invasive Interactive Parallelization
  Project at PELAB. Initially co-supervised by Mikhail Chalabine. Presentation 21/9/2012.
• Rasmus Svensson:
  Compiler for an Embedded Extension Language on Android
  Project at Attentec, Linköping. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 5 nov 2012.
• Anas Al-Trad:
  Optimized composition of parallel components on a Linux cluster.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Mudassar Majeed. Presentation 27 Nov. 2012.
• Niklas Holma
  Program Dependence Graph Generation and Analysis for Source Code Plagiarism Detection
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 27/11/2012. DiVA fulltext
• Patricia Sundin
  Adaptation of algorithms for underwater sonar data processing to GPU-based systems
  Project at Saab, Linköping. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 31/05/2013.
• Akhtar Ali:
  Comparative study of parallel programming models for multicore computing.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 14 June 2013.
  ☆ Workshop papers accepted at MCC-2011 and HiPEAC MULTIPROG-2012 Paris
• Swadhin Mangaraj
  Extending the SkePU skeleton programming library for execution on MPI clusters
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Mudassar Majeed. Presentation 7/10/2013.
• Markus Gustafsson
  A Server for ARINC 615A Loading
  Project at Saab. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 23/10/2013.
• Erik Alnervik
  Evaluation of the Configurable Architecture REPLICA with Emulated Shared Memory
  Project at PELAB. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson. Presentation 06/02/2014.
  ☆ Results partly presented at MCC-2013 workshop. Paper accepted for PASA-2014 workshop.
• Dongsheng Leng
  Exploratory study of energy-affecting factors by microbenchmarking on a server processor
  Bachelor project at PELAB. Co-supervised with Lu Li. Presentation 21 may 2014.
• Yutian Yuan
  Design and Implementation of Parallel AES and FFT in Javascript based on WebCL
  Project at Syntronic. Presentation 19 june 2014. Co-supervised with Kristian Sandahl.
• Jonas Henriksson
  Implementation of a real-time Fast Fourier Transform on a Graphics Processing Unit with data streamed from a high-performance digitizer
  Project at SP Devices. Co-supervised with Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 3 june 2014.
• Kenan Avdic:
  Optimized On-Chip Pipelining on the 48-core Intel SCC processor.
  Project at PELAB, IDA. Co-supervised by Nicolas Melot. Presentation 21 Feb 2014. DiVA fulltext
  ☆ Results partly published in workshop papers at A4MMC-2011, Intel MARC-3 (2011), MCC-2011 and ICCS WEPA-2012.
• Mikael Silven
  Evaluation and comparison of programming frameworks for shared memory multicore systems
  Project at Etteplan. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 4 june 2014.
• Johan Janzen
  Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithms for Streaming Computations on Massively Parallel Multicore Architectures
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised with Nicolas Melot. Presentation 19 aug 2014.
  ☆ Result is part of a joint paper accepted for ICPP-P2S2 workshop 2015
• David Stenberg
  Recompiling DSP applications to x86 using LLVM IR
  Project at Ericsson. Co-supervised with Erik Hansson. Presentation 8 sep 2014.
• Rosandra Cuello
  Providing Support for the Movidius Myriad1 Platform in the SkePU Skeleton Programming Framework
  Co-supervised with Lu Li, Usman Dastgeer. Presentation 27/10/2014.
  ☆ Result published as part of EU FP7 EXCESS project deliverable D1.3, also partial contribution to a conference paper at PDP-2016.
• Oskar Sjöström
  Parallelizing the EDGE application for GPU-based systems using the SkePU skeleton programming library
  Co-supervised with Usman Dastgeer, Lu Li.
  Presentation 27 jan 2015.
  ☆ Conference paper presented at ParCo'15, Edinburgh, Sep. 2015.
• Emil Lindberg
  Measuring the effect of memory bandwidth contention in applications on multi-core processors
  Project at Ericsson. Co-supervised with Erik Hansson.
  Presentation 29 january 2015.
• Lukas Gillsjö
  Using OpenCL to Implement Median Filtering and RSA Algorithms: Two GPGPU Application Case Studies
  Project at Syntronic. Co-supervised by Arian Maghazadeh.
  Presentation 6 february 2015.

• Daniel Antelius:
  Link extraction for crawling Flash on the web. Project at Picsearch AB, Stockholm.
  Presentation 22/4/2015.
• Marcus Johansson
  Generating SkePU Code from Automatically Detected Algorithmic Patterns in C Source Programs
  Bachelor thesis project at IDA. Co-supervised by Erik Hansson.
  Presentation 30/3/2016.
• Vishist Sharma
  Sparse-Matrix support for the SkePU library for portable CPU/GPU programming
  Project at IDA, started oct 2014. Co-supervised by Lu Li.
  Presentation May 2016.
• August Ernstsson
  SkePU 2: Language Embedding and Compiler Support for Flexible and Type-Safe Skeleton Programming.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Lu Li.
  Presentation 8 june 2016.
  ☆ Research paper presented at HLPP-2016, Münster, Germany, July 2016. Journal article published in International Journal of Parallel Programming 2017
  ☆ Best-Thesis Award by the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University and by Dataföreningen Östra Kretsen for the best master thesis 2016
  
• Sebastian Thorarensen
  A Back-End for the SkePU Skeleton Programming Library targeting the Low-Power Multicore Vision Processor Myriad 2
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Nicolas Melot.
  Presentation 12 nov 2016. DiVA fulltext
  ☆ Conference paper at PDP-2016, Heraklion, Greece, Feb. 2016
• Filip Strömbäck:
  A Syntax Highlighting and Code Formatting Tool for Extensible Languages
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Martin Sjölund. Presentation 16 June 2017. DiVA fulltext
  ☆ Conference paper accepted, 2018
• Ming-Jie Yang
  Design and Implementation of a Compiler for an XML-based Hardware Description Language to Support Energy Optimization
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by Lu Li. Presentation 1 sep 2017.
• Christian Luckey:
  Evaluating Clojure Spec.
  Project at Attentec, Linköping. Co-supervised by Bernhard A. Thiele. Presentation 4 sep 2017. DiVA fulltext
• Martin Söderen:
  Online transverse beam instability detection in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).
  Project at CERN, Switzerland. Co-supervised by Lu Li. Presentation 13 nov 2017. DiVA fulltext
• Tomas Öhberg:
  Auto-tuning Hybrid CPU-GPU Execution of Algorithmic Skeletons in SkePU.
  Project at IDA. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 5 jun 2018. DiVA fulltext
  ☆ Research article published in The Journal of Supercomputing, Springer, March 2019.

• Albin Odervall and Mattias Hellsing:
  Efficient Multi-Core Implementation of the IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload Protocol for a Single Security Association.
  Project at Ericsson, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presented 26 sep 2018.
• Robin Dahlberg
  Optimizing a software build system through multi-core processing
  Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 4 feb 2019.
• Noak Ringman:
  Using Graphical Processors to Implement Radio Base Station Control Plane Functions
  Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 10/6/2019.
• Joakim Bertils:
  Implementation of Principal Component Analysis for Anomaly Detection using CUDA
  Project at Cybercom Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 19/8/2019.
• Oscar Pap and Markus Johansson:
  Implementing and Comparing Static and Machine-Learning Scheduling Approaches using DPDK on an Integrated CPU/GPU
  Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 11 nov 2019.
• Rasmus Viitanen:
  Evaluating Memory Models for Graph-Like Data Structures in the Rust Programming Language: Performance and Usability
  Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by Rouhollah Mahfouzi. Presentation 16/6/2020.
• Alexander Wilkens:
  Optimizing the LLVM ELF linker for a distributed compilation environment -- Concurrent Linking with LLVM LLD
  Project at Opera Software, Linköping. Co-supervised by August Ernstsson. Presentation 23/9/2020.
• Jonatan Barr:
  Just-in-time compilation for improved performance in web applications
  Bachelor thesis project, co-supervised by Jonas Wallgren. Presentation 26/10/2020.
• William Sjöblom:
  Idiom-driven innermost loop vectorization in the presence of cross-iteration data dependencies in the HotSpot C2 compiler
  Presentation 18/12/2020
• Markus Karlsson:
  A Navigation Mesh-Based Pathfinding Implementation in CET Designer
  Project at Configura, Linköping. Co-supervised by Viktor Lagerkvist. Presentation 20 May 2021.
• Rasmus Karlbäck, Anton Orö:
  Holistic view on alternative programming languages for Radio Access Network applications in cloud and embedded deployments
  Project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised by John Tinnerholm. Presentation 31 May 2021

• Simon Wrede:
  Memory efficient Monte-Carlo methods for computing shortest paths in stochastic graphs
  External project at Foreseeti, co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presentation 15 June 2021.
• Joel Almqvist:
  Integrating SkePU's algorithmic skeletons with GPI on a cluster
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presentation 20 Jan 2022
• Robin Andersson:
  Optimization of hardware trace processing on a clustered 5G multicore CPU architecture by multi-threading
  External project at Ericsson Linköping. Co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presentation 15 jan 2022.
• Basel Nsralla:
  Modernizing and Evaluating the Autotuning Framework of SkePU 3.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented 3 June 2022.
• Erik Tedhamre:
  A systematic performance study of the parallel programming framework SkePU 3 using HPC-benchmarks.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented 14 June 2022.
• Ivar Härnqvist:
  Performance-Aware Code Size Optimization of Generic Functions through Automatic Implementation of Dynamic Dispatch.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with John Tinnerholm. Presented 17 June 2022.
• Björn Birath:
  Skeleton computing for reconfigurable architectures.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson and John Tinnerholm. Presented in February 2023.
  ☆ Research article based on this work published in Int. Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer, 2024.
• Alexander Zeijlon:
  Design and implementation of a plain-MPI based cluster execution backend for the SkePU 3 skeleton programming framework
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson and John Tinnerholm. Presented in June 2023.
• Dennis Berntsson:
  Empirical evaluation of construction methods for relaxed decision diagrams in scheduling.
  Project at Saab, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2023.

• Victor Löfgren:
  Compiler testing by random source code generation
  Project at Configura, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2023.
• Josef Olsson, Isak Stenström:
  Rust async for thread-per-core packet processing
  Project at Ericsson, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2023.
• Max Helmrich, Linus Käll:
  Parallelization of boolean operations for CAD software using WebGPU
  Project at SkyMaker, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2023.
• Henrik Henriksson:
  Using Task Parallelism for Distributed Parallel Skeleton Programming - Implementing a StarPU Back-End to SkePU 2.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented in March 2024.
• Elin Frankell:
  Design and Implementation of a Performance Visualization Tool for the High-Level Parallel Programming Framework SkePU.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented in March 2024.
  ☆ Research article partly based on this work presented at HLPP-2024, Pisa, July 2024.
• Felix Lagnöhed:
  Integration of Reproducibility Verification with Diffoscope in GNU Make.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with Sehrish Qummar. Presented in June 2024.
• Mario Impesi:
  Evaluation of Linux Scheduler Algorithms for Low Latency Control Plane Applications.
  Project at Ericsson, co-supervised with Sajad Khosravi. Presented in June 2024.
• Marcus Örnås:
  Editor integration with source analysis and debugging for the SkePU parallel programming framework.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson. Presented in Aug. 2024.

• August Svensson:
  SkePU Streaming: Distributed Stream Processing Pipelines for the Heterogeneous Edge-Cloud Continuum.
  Project at IDA, co-supervised with August Ernstsson and Sajad Khosravi. Presented in Aug. 2024.

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