Research

	Interests:		Computer architecture, computing technologies, compilers, OS.
	Group:		Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory (aka CART).
	Research:		The TRIPS project. See the distinguished TRIPS design team here!
	Off. Hours:		By appointment (Summer 2007)

Selected publications

Full list of publications by subject or by type, or on my resume / CV. Counting Dependence Predictors (ISCA-08) Composable Lightweight Processors (MICRO-07) Late-Binding: Enabling Unordered Load-Store Queues (ISCA-07) Dataflow Predication (MICRO-06) Merging Head and Tail Duplication with Convergent Hyperblock Formation (MICRO-06) Distributed Microarchitectural Protocols in the TRIPS Prototype Processor (MICRO-06) A Spatial Path Scheduling Algorithm for EDGE Architectures (ASPLOS-06) A NUCA Substrate for Flexible CMP Cache Sharing (ICS-05) Coherence Decoupling: Making Use of Incoherence (ASPLOS-04) Scalable Selective Re-execution for Speculative Dataflow Architectures (ASPLOS-04) Scaling to the End of Silicon with EDGE Architectures (IEEE Computer, July '04) Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation for High-ILP Processors (MICRO-03) An Adaptive, Non-Uniform Cache Structure for Wire-Dominated On-Chip Caches (ASPLOS-02) Modeling the Effect of Technology Trends on the Soft Error Rate of Combinational Logic (DSN-02) The Optimal Logic Depth Per Pipeline Stage is 6 to 8 FO4 Inverter Delays (ISCA-02) Clock Rate versus IPC: the End of the Road for Conventional Microarchitectures (ISCA-00)

Teaching

CS382M - Advanced Computer Architecture CS398T - Introduction to Graduate Research CS302 - Computer Fluency CS310 - Computer Organization CS352 - Computer Systems Architecture CS395T - Historical Readings in Computer Architecture CS395T - Billion-Transistor Architectures and Applications

Graduate students

Nitya Ranganathan Haiming Liu Aaron Smith Sadia Sharif Bert Maher Katie Coons (Co-advised) Behnam Robatmili Hadi Esmaeilzadeh Dong Li Renee St. Amant

Undergraduate students

Franzi Roesner Jamie Hargrove Patrick Simmons

CART Alums:

Ph.D.

Simha Sethumadhavan, August 2007 Dissertation: "Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation" First employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY. Changkyu Kim, July 2007 Dissertation: "A Technology Scalable Composable Architecture" First employment: Research Scientist, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA. Ramadass Nagarajan, May 2007 Dissertation: "Design and Evaluation of a Technology-Scalable Architecture for Instruction-Level Parallelism" First employment: Platform Architect, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR. Karu Sankaralingam, November 2006 (principal advisor: Steve Keckler) Dissertation: "Polymorphous Architectures: A Unified Approach for Extracting Concurrency of Different Granularities" First employment: Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Jaehyuk Huh, May 2006 Dissertation: "Hardware Techniques to Reduce Communication Costs in Multiprocessors" First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, CA. Rajagopalan Desikan, December 2005 Dissertation: "Distributed Selective Re-Execution for EDGE Architectures" First employment: Senior Design Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX. M.S. Hrishikesh, July 2004 Dissertation: "Design of Wide-Issue High-Frequency Processors in Wire-Delay Dominated Technologies" First employment: Senior Component Design Engineer, Intel, Folsom, CA. Vikas Agarwal, May 2004 (principal advisor: Steve Keckler) Dissertation: "Scalable Primary Cache Memory Architectures" First employment: Advisory Engineer, International Business Machines, Austin, TX.

B.S.

Kevin Bush First employment: M.S. program in Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin Jacob Leverich First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, Stanford University Yasuko Watanabe First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Luke Yen First employment: Ph.D. program in Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Miscellanea

UT Computer Architecture Seminar Faculty advisor for the UT Marathon team (2002 team pic)