Samuel Z Guyer



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Samuel Z. Guyer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Texas at Austin

New: I have a job!

I am now an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University in Boston. Please see my new web-page.

Who I am

New research

For two years I worked as a post-doc for the DaCapo project. I was also part of the Speedway compiler group.

Some of the things I've worked on:

High-level optimizations, domain-specific optimizations
Precise and scalable pointer analysis
Automatic error checking
Compiler-assisted memory management

I'm on the program committee for PACT 2005

Last year I was "web-master" for ASPLOS 2004.

Free-Me Compiler Analysis for Eager Reclamation in Garbage Collectors
with Kathryn S. McKinley and Daniel Frampton
Rejected from OOPSLA 2005
Send me mail if you'd like a copy.

"Treat yourself to something of quality."
-- Fortune cookie.

"Programs are complicated; that's why we're here."
-- Eran Yahav at SAS '03

DaCapo is a multi-institution research project that aims to improve the performance of Java programs, with a particular focus on garbage collection and memory performance. I'm working with Prof. Kathryn S. McKinley here at UT.

	People			Other DaCapo Researchers
	Prof. Kathryn S. McKinley Xianglong "Long" Huang Maria Jump Ben Wiedermann Mike Bond Jen Sartor			J. Eliot B. Moss at UMass Amherst Steve Blackburn at Australian National University Amer Diwan at the University of Colorado Darko Stefanovic at the University of New Mexico Tony Hosking at Purdue University Emery Berger at UMass Amherst
	Jikes RVM			Private stuff
	Jikes RVM is a research virtual machine made public by the nice folks at IBM Watson Research -- it's now managed under SourceForge.			Internal UT DaCapo web-site Machine reservations

The Broadway compiler supports domain-specific compilation by extending compiler support to software libraries. Our annotation language is used to express domain-specific information about library interfaces, which is used by our configurable compiler framework to perform library-level optimization and error checking. This work is part of my recently completed Ph.D. dissertation work with my advisor Calvin Lin.

	C-Breeze Compiler
	C-Breeze is an infrastructure for building C compilers. It is written in C++, and consists of a set of classes for representing a C program as an abstract syntax tree (AST). It includes many support classes for inspecting, manipulating, and analyzing the program in the AST form. We also provide a front end that parses C code (ANSI/ISO 9899-1990 standard) and generates the initial AST.
	PLAPACK Parallel Linear Algebra Package
	PLAPACK is a library for coding high-performance parallel linear algebra algorithms. The interface maintains a higher level of abstraction, insulating the user from many of the details of data distribution and matrix indexing.

Finding Your Cronies: Static Analysis for Dynamic Object Colocation
with Kathryn S. McKinley
Accepted to OOPSLA 2004
Final version:[PDF][Slides]

Error Checking with Client-Driven Pointer Analysis
with Calvin Lin
Invited to Science of Computer Programming -- an expanded version of our SAS '03 paper below.
[Postscript] [PDF]

Broadway: A Compiler for Exploiting the Domain-Specific Semantics of Software Libraries
with Calvin Lin
Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Program Generation, Optimization, and Platform Adaptation
[Postscript] [PDF]

Client-Driven Pointer Analysis
with Calvin Lin
10th Annual Static Analysis Symposium. June 2003 with FCRC '03.
[Postscript] [PDF] [Slides]

Incorporating Domain-Specific Information into the Compilation Process
Advisor: Calvin Lin
Doctoral dissertation May 2003
[Postscript] [PDF] [Slides]

Detecting Errors with Configurable Whole-Program Dataflow Analysis
with Emery D. Berger and Calvin Lin
UTCS TR-02-04
[PDF]

Broadway: A Software Architecture for Scientific Computing
with Calvin Lin
The Architecture of Scientific Software. R. F. Boisvert and P. T. P. Tang Editors. Kluwer Academic Press, 2000.
[Postscript] [PDF]

Optimizing the Use of High Performance Libraries
with Calvin Lin
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. August 2000.
[Postscript] [PDF] [Slides]

An Annotation Language for Optimizing Software Libraries
with Calvin Lin
2nd Conference on Domain Specific Languages. October 1999.
[Postscript] [PDF]

	Family
	Andrea Guyer at BMC Software Bernard "Pops" Guyer at Johns-Hopkins School of Public Health Jane Guyer at Johns-Hopkins Department of Anthropology Kate Guyer at Bearing Point, Inc. Nate Guyer at National Gallery of Art Amanda Guyer at National Institutes of Health
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	Phoebe Weidmann: Mistress of "Lambda" Emery Berger: Mr. Memory Manager Brendon Cahoon: Professor Prefetching Daniel Jimenez: Sir Branch Predictor Ram Mettu: Captain Clustering Joanna Parham: The Honorable Senator from Georgia Yannis Smaragdakis at Georgia Tech Jeff Thomas at Momentum Software Nils Reker at Mak Technologies Melanie Butcher at Press Access

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