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Teaching Support Needed
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The new year is starting soon and many courses, including my own are still in need of teaching support. I need tutors, demonstrators and markers.
Gamified Coding
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Coding Interviews
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Getting Things Done
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Programming Club Web Launch
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The University of Edinburgh Programming Club now has its own web page. Join us for the first session this Friday the 22nd of September in Appleton Tower, Room 6.06.
New Page Launched
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With me starting as University Teacher in Edinburgh, I believe it is time to have an actual academic page. So here it is …
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Design and Implementation of an Efficient Instruction Set Simulator for an Embedded Multi-Core Architecture
Published in , 2011
This thesis develops the concepts required for efficient multi-core just-in-time dynamic binary translation and demonstrates its feasibility and high simulation performance through an implementation in the ARCSIM simulator platform.
Recommended citation: Volker Seeker. Design and Implementation of an Efficient Instruction Set Simulator for an Embedded Multi-Core Architecture. Diploma Thesis. Programmierung Eingebetteter Systeme, Technische Universität Berlin, 2011.
Scalable Multi-Core Simulation Using Parallel Dynamic Binary Translation
Published in IC-SAMOS, 2011
In this paper we develop a fast and scalable simulation methodology for multi-core platforms based on parallel and just-in-time dynamic binary translation.
Recommended citation: Oscar Almer, Igor Böhm, Tobias J.K. Edler von Koch, Björn Franke, Stephen Kyle, Volker Seeker, Christopher Thompson, and Nigel Topham. "Scalable Multi-Core Simulation Using Parallel Dynamic Binary Translation." Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modelling, and Simulation, Samos, Greece, July 2011.
Parallel Dynamic Binary Translator for Efficient Multi-Core Simulation
Published in IJPP, 2012
Conference extension of the 2011 SAMOS paper on multi-core system simulation using just-in-time dynamic binary translation.
Recommended citation: Oscar Almer, Igor Böhm, Tobias J.K. Edler von Koch, Björn Franke, Stephen Kyle, Volker Seeker, Christopher Thompson, and Nigel Topham. "A Parallel Dynamic Binary Translator for Efficient Multi-Core Simulation." Published in the International Journal of Parallel Programming.
[Best Paper] Measuring QoE of Interactive Workloads and Characterising Frequency Governors on Mobile Devices
Published in IISWC, 2014
This paper introduces a novel methodology to automatically quantify user perceived system response times of interactive mobile workloads.
Recommended citation: Volker Seeker, Pavlos Petoumenos, Hugh Leather and Björn Franke. "Measuring QoE of Interactive Workloads and Characterising Frequency Governors on Mobile Devices." In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, October 2014.
User Experience Driven CPU Frequency Scaling On Mobile Devices Towards Better Energy Efficiency
Published in , 2017
This thesis presents methods and tools necessary to develop user experience driven techniques to dynamically control cpu voltage and frequency. It describes how those methods can be used to improve energy efficiency on mobile devices whilst keeping the quality of experience high for end users.
Recommended citation: Volker Seeker. User Experience Driven CPU Frequency Scaling On Mobile Devices Towards Better Energy Efficiency. Ph.D. Thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2017.
Device-Hopping: Transparent Mid-Kernel Runtime Switching for Heterogeneous Systems
Published in TACO, 2021
This paper presents a study to make CPU + GPU systems more flexible with respect to switching between cores in the middle of kernel execution.
Recommended citation: Metzger, P, Seeker, V, Fensch, C & Cole, M 2021, Device-Hopping: Transparent Mid-Kernel Runtime Switching for Heterogeneous Systems, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.
Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
Published in arXiv, 2023
We explore the novel application of Large Language Models to code optimization.
Recommended citation: Cummins, Chris, Volker Seeker, Dejan Grubisic, Mostafa Elhoushi, Youwei Liang, Baptiste Roziere, Jonas Gehring, et al. “Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization.” arXiv, September 11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07062.
[Best Paper] Revealing Compiler Heuristics through Automated Discovery and Optimization
Published in CGO, 2024
We present Heureka, a tool to automatically discover heuristic functions in compiler source code.
Recommended citation: V. Seeker, C. Cummins, M. Cole, B. Franke, K. Hazelwood and H. Leather, "Revealing Compiler Heuristics Through Automated Discovery and Optimization," 2024 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 55-66, doi: 10.1109/CGO57630.2024.10444847.
talks
teaching
Extreme Computing
Honours course, Co-Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation
Non-Honours course, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
Informatics 1 - Object-Oriented Programming
Non-Honours course, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics
Programming Club
Undergraduate Peer-Learning Activity, Co-Organiser, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics