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xDSL at ISC 2023

ISC is Europe's largest HPC conference with xDSL and the ExCALIBUR programme having a busy week!

Posted on May 21, 2023

ISC 2023 runs between Sunday the 21st and Thursday the 25th of May, and sees the world of HPC descend on Hamburg, Germany, to discuss the latest advances in the field and share latest research. It is a busy week with many different activities going on, and the wider ExCALIBUR... [Read More]

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xDSL at Durham HPC Days

Durham HPC Days saw a special focus session on ExCALIBUR with xDSL presenting

Posted on May 18, 2023

Between Tuesday 16th and Friday 19th of May Durham HPC Days was held in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. A focus session was held on ExCALIBUR and specifically the novel hardware that has been made availble as part of the ExCALIBUR H&ES programme. However, novel hardware is... [Read More]

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xDSL-MLIR hackathon and workshop

With Euro LLVM being held in Glasgow on May 10th and 11th, it was an ideal opportunity to co-locate our own activities

Posted on May 9, 2023

Starting Monday 1st of May, we hosted a week long xDSL/MLIR hackathon that culminated in an MLIR workshop on 9th of May in Edinburgh. The idea of the hackathon was to bring together those who are using, an those who are interested in using, xDSL with xDSL developers to further... [Read More]

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xDSL ETH Zurich presentation

xDSL's Michel Weber presented at the ETH Zurich seminar series

Posted on February 25, 2023

This week saw xDSL’s Michel Weber give a presentation at the ETH Zurich computer science research lab seminar about the xDSL project. Michel was talking about how, in the past year or so, xDSL has grown into a fully fledged open source compiler infrastructure library that enables programmers to build... [Read More]

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New year - new hackathon

2023 got off to a strong start with an xDSL hackathon in Edinburgh

Posted on January 16, 2023

Last week 2023 got off to a strong, but windy, start with an all week xDSL hackathon held in Edinburgh. With in-person participants from ETH Zurich and Imperial, and online attendees from as far away as Mumbai in India, it was a great opportunity to prioritise the list of tasks... [Read More]

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xDSL at the ExCALIBUR workshop

The xDSL project presented at the ExCALIBUR workshop

Posted on July 12, 2022

This week saw the two day ExCALIBUR workshop held at the Met Office where representatives from across the programme met and discussed project-level updates as well as opportunities for collaboration and interaction during the research. There were some very interesting projects presented, and clearly the programme is doing a fantastic... [Read More]

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DSL PASC mini-symposium

The xDSL project chairs the PASC DSL mini-symposium

Posted on June 24, 2022

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference brings together domain scientists, computer scientists, HPC professionals, and vendors to talk about some of the challenges and opportunities we face in HPC. Held annually and located this year in Basel, it will be the first time since 2019 that the conference... [Read More]

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IRDL paper presented at PLDI conference

Mathieu Fehr presents IRDL, one of the key technologies behind xDSL, at PLDI

Posted on June 12, 2022

IRDL is a domain-specific language to define intermediate representations (IRs). This is important because the current state-of-the-art with MLIR is to define a dialect using C++ and MLIR specific constructions which is a complex and time consuming process that required substantial expertise. By contrast IRDL is presented as a set... [Read More]

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Position available on xDSL project

We are hiring for a Postdoc RA at School of Informatics

Posted on December 13, 2021

Are you interested in Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), compilers, and HPC? If so then come work at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, where you will be involved revolutionising the compiler stack for DSLs to develop a common, unified, technology built on MLIR and LLVM. [Read More]

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PhD opportunity

Come to Edinburgh and work with us researching DSLs and compilers

Posted on November 20, 2021

We are advertising for a fully funded (with nationality restrictions) PhD position at the University of Edinburgh with the student based at EPCC and in collaboration with the School of Informatics. [Read More]

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BoF at SC21

We are running a BoF at Supercomputing around DSL ecosystem consolidation

Posted on November 10, 2021

Supercomputing is the top HPC conference in the yearly calendar and for 2021 is running in a hybrid mode with both physical and virtual attendance. Therefore it is a fantastic opportunity to hold a session around the consolidation of DSL ecosystems. [Read More]

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DSL keynote at IWOMP

xDSL's Paul Kelly gives keynote talk at IWOMP 2021

Posted on September 14, 2021

IWOMP is a popular annual conference focussed on parallel programming using OpenMP. It’s success has grown from the fact that there are always numerous interesting and innovative ideas being discussed. A major cornerstone of any conference is the keynote talk which this year was delivered by Paul Kelly, who is... [Read More]

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Project kicks off

August saw the start of the xDSL project

Posted on August 10, 2021

We held our project kickoff meeting today to mark the official start of the project and discuss the plan for the next three years. The intention was to set short term project goals and discuss the initial activities that must be undertaken by the team. We are very excited to... [Read More]

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