ABSTRACT
Qualcomm Symphony is a unified framework that integrates performance and power optimizations in a clear and intuitive manner. Symphony enables the deployment of long-running applications, such as video surveillance (recording, encoding, understanding), Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Virtual Reality (VR), and gaming on mobile, embedded platforms. This deployment is attractive because of the low cost, low power, and the flexible form factors of mobile SoCs. However, many of these applications push the power and thermal limits of the platforms, since the platforms are primarily designed to sustain a high level of performance for very short periods of time. Symphony harnesses the power of the platform and provides developers of all skills with an environment in which optimizations for power and thermal are on par with performance optimizations. In this presentation, I will discuss the programming model exposed by Symphony and demonstrate its capabilities using several real case scenarios.

BIOGRAPHY
Calin Cascaval is a Sr. Director in Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley. He is leading the parallel and heterogeneous computing initiatives in Qualcomm. His team developed Qualcomm Symphony, a framework for power aware computing, which is orchestrates execution across different heterogeneous cores on Snapdragon platforms. He also lead the development of the first fully concurrent mobile browser (Zoomm) and other high performance libraries. Previously, he worked at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center on systems software, programming models, and compilers for large scale parallel systems projects, including Blue Gene and PERCS. Calin has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and more than 20 awarded patents.

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