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Joel Falcou

Founder & Training Advisor at Code Reckons

In his spare time, Joel is an associate professor at the University Paris-Saclay and Researcher at the Laboratoire de Recherche d’Informatique in Orsay, France. His research focuses on studying generative programming idioms and techniques to design tools for parallel software development.

The main parts of his work are:
• the exploration of Embedded Domain Specific Language design for parallel computing on various architectures;
• the definition of a formal framework for reasoning about meta-programs.

Joel is the co-host of the C++FRUG Meetup, president of the C++FRUG Association, co-organizes the CPPP Conference, and is part entrepreneur.

Also, he founded NUMSCALE in 2012 and is the founder and training advisor of Code Reckons.

Does Software Mature Like Cheese? The coming of age of an HPC library

Dec 02, 2020

In this talk, we want to take a look at our longest-running project and explain through the lens of its umpteenth rewrite, what we learned from each new version of our language, how we managed to keep up with the hardware evolution, and how our API is affected by those changes.

C++03 is 17 years old. Next year, it’ll be old enough to vote in most countries. Around 2003, Joel started working on his undergrad project — EVE — whose goal was to simplify the design of SIMD-aware HPC code. This was at the very beginning of Boost, the very beginning of understanding that C++ was more than it looked and a time when compilers were … existing…sort of?

Nowadays, while we are being ushered into the age of C++20, it will be interesting to watch what kind of impact five consecutive standards and a decade and a half of compilers technology have had on such a project.

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