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Research interests

• Software engineering for multi-core systems
• Design of coarse-grained parallel applications
• Performance optimization (auto-tuning) of parallel applications
• Nested parallelism

Current Research Projects:

• "Tunable Architectures": Pattern-based framework to design parallel tunable applications
• "Atune": Search-based Auto-Tuner for parallel applications
• "Atune-IL": Instrumentation language to define tuning information in applications

Publications

2010 - PhD. thesis Schaefer, Automatische Performanzoptimierung Paralleler Architekturen 2010 - Conference Article Frank Otto, Christoph A. Schaefer, Matthias Dempe, Walter F. Tichy, A Language-Based Tuning Mechanism for Task and Pipeline Parallelism Christoph A. Schaefer, Victor Prankratius, Walter F. Tichy, Engineering Parallel Applications with Tunable Architectures

2009 - Journal Article Thomas Karcher, Christoph A. Schaefer, Victor Pankratius, Auto-Tuning Support for Manycore Applications - Perspectives for Operating Systems and Compilers 2009 - Conference Article Christoph A. Schaefer, Victor Pankratius, Walter F. Tichy, Atune-IL: An Instrumentation Language for Auto-Tuning Parallel Applications Jochen Schimmel, Tom Gelhausen, Christoph A. Schaefer, Gene Expression with General Purpose Graph Rewriting Systems Christoph A. Schaefer, Reducing Search Space of Auto-Tuners Using Parallel Patterns 2009 - Talk Christoph A. Schaefer, Auto-Tuning Parallel Applications Christoph A. Schaefer, Multicore Software-Engineering: Entwurf, Implementierung und automatische Optimierung paralleler Programme

2007 - Book Christoph A. Schaefer, Wissensmanagement für Falldatenbanken 2007 - Technical Report Victor Pankratius, Christoph Schaefer, Ali Jannesari, Walter F. Tichy, Software Engineering for Multicore Systems - An Experience Report

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