Jules EVANS

Who am I!

I am Jules EVANS and I am currently doing a PhD at IRIT. I am part of the NumPEx project and more precisly the Exa-SofT branch. The title is “Energy-aware HPC Scheduling”, that is to say I work with HPC cluster RJMSs (Resource and Job Management Software). I am trying to make them minimise energy consumption and carbon emissions rather than completion time.

Supervisors :

• Georges DA COSTA
• Patricia STOLF

My Journey

• After high school, I went to what the french call “class prépa” which is really intense math, physics and engineering courses. At the end of the tow years, the students undergo a competition for engineering schools. The first gets to choose first and so on and so forth.
• I landed in Bordeaux at Enseirb-Matméca in the Comp-Sci departement.
• I had the opportunity to study one semester in Valparaíso, Chile and to do an intership in Osaka, Japan.
• I specialized in HPC (High Performance Computing).

Work Experiences

Internships

• Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Worked with Amina GUERMOUCHE, in the porting of PAPI-like features on AMD for power consumption reading. The initial goal was to directly use PAPI to read the chip’s msr registers and to use the readings in a tool DUF(Dynamic Uncore Frequency) which scales the CPU uncore frequencies in an attempt to reduce energy consumption. However, AMD chip’s power reading wasn’t implemented yet, so I had to do it by hand which took the entire time of the internship.
• Rokken Osaka Japan: Building of a rendering library for volumetric representations of solids. Raymarching was used and it needed an octree to improve performance. I saw what a C/C++ pipepline was and how to work with it and learned to code graphical applications using OpenGL.

Hobbies

Arts

• Listenning to Music (Concerts, Opera, …)
• Playing Music; I play the flute

Games

• Table top games
• Video games
• Role play
• Chess

Sports

• Running
• Swimming
• Bouldering