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Nicolas Fritz

About Me

Currently I am employed half time as a research assistant at the Chair for Programming Languages and Compiler Construction and half time as a software engineer at AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH.

Research Interests

Code geeneration for multi-media instruction sets.
General Purpose Programming for GPUs.
Pipeline Analysis for the VAMP architecture.

Projects

CGiS: Design and implementation of a data-parallel programming language on GPUs and CPUs.
Verisoft

Publications

Conference Papers

Exploiting SIMD Parallelism with the CGiS Compiler Framework
N. Fritz, P. Lucas, and R. Wilhelm
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC'07), 2008. [bib]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Fritz08,
   author = {Nicolas Fritz and Philipp Lucas and Reinhard Wilhelm},
   title = {Exploiting {SIMD} Parallelism with the {CGiS} Compiler Framework},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC'07)},
   year = {2008},
   editor = {Vikram Adve and Mar\'ia Jes\'us Garzar\'an and Paul Petersen},
   volume = {5234},
   series = {LNCS},
   pages = {246--260},
   month = {October},
   publisher = {Springer}
 }

The Development of the Data-Parallel GPU Programming Language CGiS
P. Lucas, N. Fritz, and R. Wilhelm
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'06) (4), 2006. [doi] [bib]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Lucas06,
   author = {Philipp Lucas and Nicolas Fritz and Reinhard Wilhelm},
   title = {The Development of the Data-Parallel {GPU} Programming Language {CGiS}},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'06) (4)},
   year = {2006},
   editor = {Vassil N. Alexandrov and G. Dick van Albada and Peter M. A. Sloot and Jack Dongarra},
   volume = {3994},
   series = {LNCS},
   pages = {200--203},
   publisher = {Springer Verlag},
   doi = {10.1007/11758549_31}
 }

The CGiS Compiler—A Tool Demonstration
P. Lucas, N. Fritz, and R. Wilhelm
Proceedings of the 15h International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC'06), 2006. [doi] [bib]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Lucas06a,
   author = {Philipp Lucas and Nicolas Fritz and Reinhard Wilhelm},
   title = {The {CGiS} Compiler---A Tool Demonstration},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15h International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC'06)},
   year = {2006},
   editor = {Alan Mycroft and Andreas Zeller},
   volume = {3923},
   series = {LNCS},
   pages = {105--108},
   publisher = {Springer Verlag},
   doi = {10.1007/11688839_10}
 }

CGiS, a new Language for Data-Parallel GPU Programming
N. Fritz, P. Lucas, and P. Slusallek
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop ``Vision, Modeling, and Visualization'' (VMV'04), 2004. [url] [bib]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Fritz04,
   author = {Nicolas Fritz and Philipp Lucas and Philipp Slusallek},
   title = {{CGiS}, a new Language for Data-Parallel {GPU} Programming},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop ``Vision, Modeling, and Visualization'' (VMV'04)},
   year = {2004},
   editor = {Bernd Girod and Hans-Peter Seidel and Marcus Magnor},
   pages = {241--248},
   url = {http://rw4.cs.uni-saarland.de/~phlucas/pubs/VMV04.html}
 }

Validierung des Zeitverhaltens von kritischer Echtzeit-Software
C. Ferdinand, D. Kästner, F. Martin, M. Langenbach, M. Sicks, S. Wilhelm, R. Heckmann, N. Fritz, S. Thesing, F. Fontaine, H. Theiling, M. Schmidt, A. A. Evstiougov-Babaev, and R. Wilhelm
GI Jahrestagung (1), 2003. [pdf] [bib]

@INPROCEEDINGS{Ferdinand03,
   author = {Christian Ferdinand and Daniel K\"astner and Florian Martin and Marc Langenbach and Martin Sicks and Stephan Wilhelm and Reinhold Heckmann and Nicolas Fritz and Stephan Thesing and Frank Fontaine and Henrik Theiling and Michael Schmidt and Alexander A. Evstiougov-Babaev and Reinhard Wilhelm},
   title = {{V}alidierung des {Z}eitverhaltens von kritischer {E}chtzeit-{S}oftware},
   booktitle = {GI Jahrestagung (1)},
   year = {2003},
   pages = {335--339},
   language = {ngerman},
   url = {http://www.bmw-carit.de/gi/papers/Validierung_des_Zeitverhaltens_von_kritischer_Echtzeit-Software.pdf}
 }

PhD Theses

SIMD Code Generation in Data-Parallel Programming
N. Fritz
Universität des Saarlandes, 2009. [bib]

@PHDTHESIS{Fritz09,
   author = {Nicolas Fritz},
   title = {{SIMD} Code Generation in Data-Parallel Programming},
   school = {Universit\"at des Saarlandes},
   year = {2009},
 }

MSc Theses

Generische Value-Analyse für Maschinenprogramme
N. Fritz
Universität des Saarlandes, 2001. [bib]

@MASTERSTHESIS{Fritz01,
   author = {Nico Fritz},
   title = {{G}enerische {V}alue-{A}nalyse f\"ur {M}aschinenprogramme},
   school = {Universit\"at des Saarlandes},
   year = {2001},
 }

Selected Talks

Nicolas Fritz, Philipp Lucas, Philipp Slusallek:
CGiS, a new Language for Data-Parallel GPU Programming.
9th International Fall Workshop Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV'04), Stanford, November 2004.
(Pdf)
Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand, Dr.-Ing. Daniel Kästner, Dr.-Ing. Florian Martin, Marc Langenbach, Martin Sicks, Stephan Wilhelm, Nico Fritz, Stephan Thesing, Frank Fontaine, Dr.-Ing. Henrik Theiling, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wilhelm. Validierung des Zeitverhaltens von kritischer Echtzeit-Software. Workshop Automotive Software Engineering and Concepts. Jahrestagung der GI 2003.
N. Fritz, D. Kästner, F. Martin. Automatically Generating Value Analyzers for Assembly Code. Workshop on Compilers and Tools for Constrained Embedded Systems (CTCES), San Jose, 2003.

Miscellaneous

Posters
- CGiS, VMV04
- Lehrstuhl für Übersetzerbau und Programmiersprachen, Unternehmertag 2003

Teaching

Address

Nicolas Fritz
Compiler Design Lab
FR 6.2 – Informatik
Universität des Saarlandes
Postfach 15 11 50
66041 Saarbrücken
Building E1 3, Room 429
Germany

Tel.: +49-681-302-5583
Fax: +49-681-302-3065

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