Hongzheng Wins the 3rd Place in PLDI 2024 Student Research Contest

The Student Research Competition (SRC) at PLDI allows students to present their research and get feedback from prominent members of the programming language research community. It’s an opportunity for students to network, practice presentation skills, and showcase their work. PLDI invites students (both at the graduate and undergraduate level) to submit their research. Hongzheng’s work titled Uncovering Magic with Magic: Schedule Reconstruction from High-Performance Kernel Libraries introduces a new research problem of reconstructing program transformations in schedule primitives from optimized C++ kernels. It aims to help performance engineers understand the “magic” behind those high-performance CUDA/HLS kernels. By carefully representing the kernels using polyhedral analysis, he leveraged program synthesis techniques to reconstruct the schedule.

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