Abstract:
GRID superscalar is a programming framework that enabled to easily develop applications to be run in a computational Grid. The objective is that the Grid appears transparent to the programmer, that is, the user application should be as close as possible to a sequential application run is a personal computer. GRID superscalar is able to exploit the Grid resources, performing an automatic parallelization at function (task) level whenever is possible. The environment also takes care of all the Grid related functionalities: resource selection, scheduling, job submission, file transfer, etc. The talk will describe the behavior, interface and internals of GRID superscalar.

Bio:
Rosa M. Badia received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain in 1989 and 1994. Currently she is Associate Professor at Computer Architecture Dept., (UPC) and manager of Grid computing and clusters at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Her current research includes automatic parallelization on GRID environments, performance prediction and modelling of MPI applications and HW/SW codesign targeted to reconfigurable architectures.