2013
16 May 13 | Krishna Malladi passes his oral exams at Stanford. Congratulations! |
15 May 13 | Congratulations to Sam Xi, whose paper on system power mode latencies will appear at ISLPED 2013. |
15 May 13 | Congratulations to Emily Bragg, whose paper on the power effects of web search query complexity will appear at ISLPED 2013. |
14 May 13 | Group dinner at Talulla's. |
12 May 13 | Congratulations to Sam Xi, who receives his degrees in ECE and Physics with departmental distinction. He will study towards his PhD at Harvard. |
6 May 13 | Ziqiang (Patrick) Huang joins the group for summer research. Welcome! |
22 Apr 13 | Songchun Fan joins the group after her successful MS defense. Welcome! |
19 Apr 13 | Marisabel completes her prelim exam. Congrats! |
7 Apr 13 | Ben is on the HiPEAC 2013 Board of Distinguished Reviewers. |
4 Apr 13 | In a ceremony today, Marisabel is awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring and is profiled by the graduate school. Congrats! |
19 Mar 13 | Ben is on the program committee for MICRO 2013 (Int'l Symp. on Microarchitecture). |
15 Mar 13 | Ben is on the program committee for HotPower 2013. |
13 Mar 13 | Ben is on the program committees for ISCA workshops WEED on energy efficiency and WDDD on debunking/duplicating. |
7 Mar 13 | Ben is on the program committee for the 2013 International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC). |
26 Feb 13 | Tae Jun presents our work on disintegrated controllers for heterogeneous memories at HPCA-19. |
25 Feb 13 | Marisabel presents our work on market mechanisms for managing heterogeneous processors at HPCA-19. |
17 Jan 13 | Ben and SAIL are part of the new $28M Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR) funded by SRC and DARPA! We'll be focusing on datacenters and memory systems. |
9 Jan 13 | Marisabel is selected for the 2013 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring! Congrats on this admirable recognition from the Duke Graduate School. |
7 Jan 13 | Nazia Tabassum receives a prestigious Pratt Fellowship and joins the group for undergraduate research. Welcome! |
7 Jan 13 | Ben is teaching introduction to computer architecture (ECE496) for undergraduates. |
2012
8 Dec 12 | Group dinner at Four Square. Happy holidays! |
5 Dec 12 | Ben presents inferred hardware-software models with applications to system management at MICRO-45. |
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13 Nov 12 | Double congratulations to Marisabel and Tae Jun! Their papers will appear in HPCA 2013. Marisabel studies market mechanisms to manage heterogeneous processors. Tae Jun studies modular controllers to manage heterogeneous memory. |
1 Sep 12 | Qiuyun Wang and Seyed Zahedi join the group for their PhDs. Welcome! |
30 Aug 12 | Double congratulations to Weidan and Krishna! Weidan's work on dynamically inferred models and Krishna's work on new DRAM powermodes have been selected to appear in MICRO 2012. |
28 Aug 12 | Ben is teaching graduate computer architecture! |
13 Aug 12 | Check out the final report from the Workshop on Cross-Layer Power Optimization and Management. |
9 Aug 12 | Ben is in Seattle for the DOE Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Exascale Systems & Applications. |
27 Jul 12 | Casey and Emily complete their research projects. Thanks for a great summer! |
21 Jul 12 | Group outing at the American Dance Festival with Marisabel, Casey, and Emily. |
11 Jun 12 | Krishna presents "Towards energy-proportional datacenter memory with mobile DRAM," to a packed session at ISCA (600+ registrants)! |
10 Jun 12 | The group (Ben, Weidan, Krishna, Marisabel) attends ISCA in Portland. |
31 May 12 | Ben discusses simulators and evaluation methodology at the NSF Workshop on a Community Supported Computer Architecture Design and Evaluation Framework. |
29 May 12 | Emily Bragg (Georgia Tech) and Casey Mackin (Arizona) join the group via NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates. Welcome! |
13 May 12 | Congratulations to Tae Jun! Having received his BSE with departmental distinction in Fall 2011, he is participating in commencement and will continue his studies at Princeton. |
9 May 12 | Call for papers! Ben is serving on the ACM TACO review board as part of the HiPEAC conference, which has an interesting publication model. |
28 Apr 12 | Group dinner at Four Square! |
25 Apr 12 | IEEE Spectrum covers ARM versus Intel with mention of Xeons and Atoms for web search! |
7 Apr 12 | Congratulations to Krishna! Our paper on mobile DRAM for energy-proportional datacenters will appear at ISCA 2012. |
20 Mar 12 | Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for the Fourth Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED) at ISCA. Deadline is Apr 2. |
10 Feb 12 | Ben talks about balanced machine design at the NSF Workshop on Cross-Layer Power Optimization and Management. |
20 Jan 12 | Marisabel talks about datacenter management at the Google GRAD CS Forum. Congrats to Marisabel on the invite! |
14 Jan 12 | Group dinner! Kicking off the new semester with Marisabel, Weidan, and Tae Jun at Chamas Churrascaria. |
12 Jan 12 | Ben is teaching a research seminar on energy-efficient computer systems. The course surveys efficiency from circuits to applications and everything in between. |
11 Jan 12 | John Cuffney joins the group for undergraduate research and independent study. Welcome! |
2011
16 Dec 11 | Ben receives the NSF CAREER award! |
12 Dec 11 | Congratulations to Tae Jun Ham! He placed 1st in the Fall 2011 ECE Independent Study Poster Session. |
9 Dec 11 | The Lab seeks a post-doctoral researcher in parallel system architecture and graphics/image processing. Position available immediately. One year appointment with highly competitive compensation. Re-appointments subject to performance and funding. See application instructions. |
5 Dec 11 | Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for the International Green Computing Conference. Deadline is Jan 20. |
21 Nov 11 | The Lab receives a Google research award to study emerging memory technologies! |
26 Sep 11 | Our study of inefficiencies in general-purpose chips is a CACM Research Highlight. Also see Chuck Moore's perspective. Congrats to Rehan and team! |
13 Sep 11 | Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee of ISPASS 2012. Deadline is Oct 3. |
1 Sep 11 | Michael Ansel joins the group for undergraduate research. Welcome! |
26 Aug 11 | See our comprehensive treatment of Atoms for Microsoft web search in the August issue of ACM TOCS. |
31 Jul 11 | Ben is teaching advanced computer architecture. Students interested in modern computer architecture and engineering should check it out! |
22 Jul 11 | Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for HPCA 2012. We look forward to your papers! |
18 Jul 11 | Call for tutorials. Ben is the tutorials chair for ISCA 2012. Deadline is December 16th. |
13 Jul 11 | Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee (architecture track) for IPDPS 2012. Consider participating! |
28 Jun 11 | Call for papers. Ben is on the External Review Committee for ASPLOS 2012. Please consider submitting! |
31 May 11 | Thanks to the participants of the Workshop on Emerging Supercomputing Technologies, we had an interesting program and an engaging discussion. |
6 May 11 | End-of-semester group dinner with Marisabel and Weidan at Four Square. Congrats on a strong finish to the academic year! |
10 Apr 11 | Thanks to the IBM Austin Research Lab and Jiayuan Meng of Argonne, we had two highly successful tutorials at ISPASS. |
15 Feb 11 | Call for papers. Ben is co-organizing the Workshop on Emerging Supercomputing Technologies at the 25th International Conference on Supercomputing. Please consider submitting! |
12 Jan 11 | Marisabel Guevara and Weidan Wu join the group as CS and ECE PhD students, respectively. Taejun Ham joins the group for undergraduate independent study. With these inaugural members, we officially have a group! |
2010
30 Dec 10 | Rethinking digital design with chip generators makes the cover of IEEE Micro! For additional detail, see recent ISCA papers on efficiency trade-offs and specialization. |
22 Dec 10 | ISPASS 2011 is delighted to announce tutorials from John Carter et al. (IBM, Austin) on energy-efficient data centers and from Jiayuan Meng (Argonne) on the MV5 simulator for heterogeneous multicores. |
11 Dec 10 | Group dinner with Marisabel and Weidan at Magnolia Grill. Happy Holidays! |
19 Oct 10 | Call for ISPASS tutorials and workshop proposals. Deadline is 15 Dec. Please consider submitting! |
3 Oct 10 | See our comprehensive treatment of inference and architecture: "Applied Inference: Case Studies in Microarchitectural Design" in the September issue of ACM TACO. |
1 Sep 10 |
Opportunities are available at undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate levels. Strong candidates encouraged to apply! |
30 Aug 10 | Emerging memory hits popular press! New York Times is running a front page article: "Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips Again." See our thoughts on PCM as a scalable DRAM alternative [CACM'10] and its implications for system software [SOSP'09]. |
30 Aug 10 |
Ben is teaching a new research seminar on energy-efficient computer systems. Students interested in a holistic view of efficiency from circuits to applications and everything in between should check it out! |
15 Aug 10 |
Systems Architecture Integration Laboratory founded. |
