2020
1 Apr 20 | IEEE Spectrum publishes our perspective on game theory for datacenter management. A great article for a high-level introduction. |
30 Mar 20 | Pengfei Zheng defends his PhD dissertation on machine learning for datacenter operations. Congratulations! |
23 Mar 20 | Calvin Ma presents his thesis, on time series analysis for straggler prediction, for graduation with distinction in computer science. Well done! |
8 Mar 20 | Our SOSP 2009 paper -- Better I/O through byte-addressable persistent memory -- receives the Persistent Impact Prize for its exceptional impact on non-volatile memory research. |
5 Feb 20 | The ASIC Center meets and starts year two. The SAIL group will work with Lenovo Research and Samsung Research on datacenter architectures. |
2019
13 Dec 19 | Yuhao Li's paper on reinforcement learning for managing colocated workloads is accepted at TACO. Congrats! |
9 Dec 19 | Atefeh is awarded the Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship! Very well deserved! |
9 Dec 19 | Jake Chasan defends his undergraduate thesis jointly in Computer Science and Economics. Congratulations! |
7 Nov 19 | Atefeh and Aninda's paper on using Bayesian optimization to optimize high-level synthesis has been accepted to appear at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE). Congrats! |
31 Oct 19 | Ben Lee is elevated to ACM Senior Membership! |
14 Oct 19 | Ben Lee is presenting DynaSprint at MICRO in Columbus OH. |
22 Sep 19 | Ben Lee is at Wrightsville Beach attending the ECE program's graduate retreat. |
19 Sep 19 | Ben Lee is in Austin, presenting at the SRC System-Level Design review. |
16 Sep 19 | Ben Lee is in Austin for the Arm Research Summit and speaking about dynamic thermal and power management. |
3 Sep 19 | Ben Lee is at the University of Notre Dame, updating the ASIC research center with our research on machine learning for systems. |
20 Aug 19 | Ankita Nayak, MS alumna from our group, joins Draper Labs. Congrats and good luck! |
15 Aug 19 | Ben Lee is elevated to IEEE Senior Membership. |
25 July 19 | Our paper on dynamic cache sprints is accepted to MICRO-52. Congrats to Patrick Huang and our collaborators at ARM Research! |
11 May 19 | Tamara Lehman and Ziqiang Patrick Huang receive their doctorates. Tami will join the University of Colorado, Boulder. Patrick will join the University of Waterloo. Congratulations! |
7 May 19 | Yuhao Li passes his preliminary exam. |
22 Apr 19 | Atefeh Mehrabi passes her preliminary exam. |
11 Apr 19 | Ben Lee joins the the editorial board for the Communications of the ACM (CACM). |
1 Apr 19 | Patrick successfully defends his thesis. Congratulations! |
22 Mar 19 | Tami successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations! |
8 Mar 19 | Ben is in Chicago for the ISCA program committee meeting. |
13 Feb 19 | Ben attends the kick-off meeting for the Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing. Great meeting industry participants! |
1 Feb 19 | Songchun and Seyed's paper on game theory for computational sprinting appears a research highlight in the Communications of the ACM. Also see the technical perspective on our work by Thomas Wenisch! |
25 Jan 19 | Jacob Chasan joins the group for undergraduate research in algorithmic economics for systems management. Welcome! |
24 Jan 19 | Ben visits NVIDIA Research talking about algorithmic economics and machine learning for systems management. |
22 Jan 19 | Elizabeth Bartusiak joins the group for undergraduate research, studying workload auto-tuning and resource allocation. Welcome! |
10 Jan 19 | Ben is in Rochester, serving on the IEEE Micro Top Picks selection committee. |
2018
28 Nov 18 | Ben judges the M.S. poster session. Congratulations to graduating students! |
4 Oct 18 | Ben and Patrick participate in the System Level Design review for the Semiconductor Research Corporation. |
17 Sep 18 | Ben is in Cambridge UK, attending the ARM Research Summit and talking about interpretable machine learning for datacenter performance analysis. |
31 Aug 18 | David Tran pursues undergraduate research, studying interpretable machine learning for datacenter performance analysis. |
15 Aug 18 | Ankita Nayak pursues independent study, focusing on the role of FGPAs in datacenters. |
3 Aug 18 | Data+ program concludes. Thanks to Cecily Chase, Brian Nieves, and Harry Xie for a great summer! They have successfully applied causal inference to datasets from a Lenovo datacenter. |
27 June 18 | Seyed and Songchun's paper on managing heterogeneous datacenters with tokens appears in the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO). Tokens help track processor allocations and ensure fairness across time. |
20 June 18 | Pengfei and Seyed attend SIGMETRICS to present their papers. Pengfei presents causal learning for datacenter straggler diagnosis and Seyed presents dynamic games for sharing datacenter processors. |
29 May 18 | Data+ starts! A team of undergraduates---Cecily Chase, Brian Nieves, and Harry Xie---study causal inference for performance analysis. |
13 May 18 | Dan Sun earns his undergraduate degree and will join our group at Duke for his Ph.D. Looking forward to our continued collaborations! |
13 May 18 | Aninda Manocha earns her undergraduate degree and will join Princeton for her Ph.D. Congratulations! |
13 May 18 | Seyed earns his doctoral degree and will join the University of Waterloo as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Good luck! |
16 Apr 18 | Matthew Faw, an undergraduate alumnus from our research group, joins the University of Texas, Austin, for his Ph.D. Congratulations! |
9 Apr 18 | Songchun's paper, in collaboration with Theodoros Salonidis at IBM, on swarm computing for mobile sensing is accepted to appear at ICDCS. Congrats! |
7 Apr 18 | Rupert Freeman has been invited to talk about our paper on game-theoretic approaches to dynamic proportional sharing at the International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) this summer. |
4 Apr 18 | Tami, Drew, and Ben receives the best paper award from ISPASS for her study of metadata access patterns in secure memory. |
4 Apr 18 | Ryan Piersma joins the group for undergraduate research in secure architectures as part of Duke's Grand Challenges Program. |
2 Apr 18 | SAIL receives a grant to study dynamic power allocation for systems-on-chips from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. |
19 Mar 18 | Ben is recognized at the Celebrating Mentors Reception for his contributions to undergraduate research advising. Thanks to Dan Sun for the nomination! |
19 Mar 18 | Seyed defends his dissertation on managing shared datacenter resources with game theory. Congratulations! |
14 Mar 18 | Songchun, Seyed, and Ben have been invited to write about the computational sprinting game for a Research Highlight in the Communications of the ACM. Look for it later this year. |
13 Mar 18 | Seyed has been invited to talk about our paper "Dynamic proportional sharing: A game-theoretic approach" at the INFORMS annual meeting this summer. Stay tuned! |
11 Mar 18 | Calvin Ma joins the group for undergraduate research in machine learning for systems. |
28 Feb 18 | Our paper on metadata access patterns in secure memory is nominated for best paper award at ISPASS. Congratulations to Tami and Drew! |
28 Feb 18 | The paper on Amdahl’s Law for datacenters receives the best paper award at HPCA. Congratulations to Seyed and Qiuyun! |
27 Feb 18 | Ben is inducted into the HPCA Hall of Fame, which recognizes authors who have published eight or more HPCA papers. |
23 Jan 18 | Songchun and Seyed are invited to publish the computational sprinting game, from ASPLOS 2016, as a Research Highlight in the Communications of the ACM. |
19 Jan 18 | Our paper on metadata access patterns in secure memory is accepted to appear at ISPASS 2018. Congrats to Tami and Drew! |
12 Jan 18 | Brendan Cheng joins the group for undergraduate research on accelerator design. Welcome! |
5 Jan 18 | Our paper on Amdahl's Law for datacenters is nominated for best paper at HPCA. We will open the conference with the first talk. |
2017
15 Dec 17 | Pengfei's paper on causal inference for diagnosing datacenter stragglers is accepted to appear at SIGMETRICS 2018. Great job! |
15 Dec 17 | Rupert and Seyed's paper on dynamic proportional sharing is accepted to appear at SIGMETRICS 2018. Congratulations! |
15 Dec 17 | Aninda Manocha wins 1st place and Vishnu Gottiparthy wins 2nd place in the ECE undergraduate research poster session. Very well done! |
23 Oct 17 | Seyed and Qiuyun's paper on Amdahl's Law for datacenters is accepted to appear at HPCA 2018. Congratulations! |
13 Oct 17 | Ben is in Cambridge for the HPCA program committee. |
19 Sep 17 | Ben is in Ann Arbor for the annual meeting of the Center for Future Architectures (CFAR). |
8 Sep 17 | Qiuyun returns as an alumna and keynote speaker at the annual ECE graduate student workshop. |
28 Aug 17 | Vishnu Gottiparthy joins the group for undergraduate research in security. Welcome! |
24 Aug 17 | Keerthana Jetty joins the group for research in accelerator design. Welcome! |
7 July 17 | Ben is in Silicon Valley, meeting with industry collaborators. |
29 June 17 | Ben is in Toronto for the MICRO program committee meeting. |
22 June 17 | Ben is appointed group leader of the computer engineering curricular group. |
15 May 17 | Yuhao successfully presents his Research Initiation Proposal, the first milestone towards the computer science Ph.D. |
13 May 17 | Prof. Lee hoods Drs. Songchun Fan and Qiuyun Llull in commencement ceremonies. Congrats! |
12 May 17 | Qiuyun Llull receives the ECE Outstanding Dissertation Award for "Microeconomic models for managing shared datacenters." Excellent work! |
10 May 17 | Ben is in Ann Arbor, attending the semi-annual meeting for the Center for Future Architectures. |
19 April 17 | Frederick Xu joins the group for undergraduate research. He will study statistical machine learning for systems management. |
13 Apr 17 | Zhiyu Zhang successfully defends his M.S. in computer science. He will join Google. Congrats! |
29 Mar 17 | Congrats to Eli Cole, an undergraduate research collaborator in our lab, who will pursue his PhD at Caltech. |
24 Mar 17 | Qiuyun successfully defends her thesis. Congratulations Dr. Llull! She will join VMware. |
7 Mar 17 | Ben talks about systems management with game theory at Qualcomm. |
3 Mar 17 | Ben is in Chicago for the ISCA program committee meeting. |
20 Feb 17 | Songchun gives a HotMobile talk on Telepath, predicting sensory data and extending battery life for wearable devices. |
7 Feb 17 | Qiuyun gives an HPCA talk on Cooper, a cooperative game for colocating datacenter tasks. |
2 Feb 17 | Atefeh Mehrabi joins the group for her PhD. She is co-advised by Dan Sorin. |
11 Jan 17 | Aninda Manocha joins SAIL for undergraduate research on mobile systems. Dan Sun, a Pratt Fellow, joins SAIL for undergraduate research on datacenter systems. Welcome! |
3 Jan 17 | The Computational Sprinting Game appears by invitation in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. See new comparisons to other schedulers and a cost of ownership analysis. |
2016
20 Dec 16 | Two papers from SAIL are honorable mentions for IEEE Micro Top Picks -- PoisonIvy (MICRO) and Computational Sprinting Game (ASPLOS). Congrats to all the authors! |
17 Dec 16 | Songchun's paper on Telepath, sensory offloading from wearable to mobile devices, is accepted to appear at HotMobile 2017. Congrats! |
16 Dec 16 | Ziqiang (Patrick) passes his preliminary exam. |
15 Dec 16 | Tami passes her preliminary exam. |
9 Dec 16 | Ben hosts SAIL for a group dinner. Happy Holidays! |
5 Dec 16 | Ben, Qiuyun, Seyed, and Yuhao are in Ann Arbor for the CFAR Annual Meeting. |
7 Nov 16 | Ben is in Austin for the ASPLOS program committee meeting. |
18 Oct 16 | Tami, Drew and Ben are in Taipei for MICRO. Tami delivers a great talk on her paper -- PoisonIvy. |
12 Oct 16 | Qiuyun's paper on task colocation with cooperative game theory is accepted to appear at HPCA 2017! |
6 Oct 16 | Ben is in Houston for the HPCA program committee meeting. |
15 Sep 16 | Ben is in the UK! He is talking about "Rethinking Systems Management with Game Theory" at the ARM Research Summit. |
7 Sep 16 | Matthew Faw joins the group for undergraduate research in datacenter systems. Welcome! |
31 Aug 16 | Brian Zhou joins the group for undergraduate research in mobile systems. Welcome! |
30 Aug 16 | Songchun Fan defends her thesis - congratulations! She will join Google. |
29 Aug 16 | Yuhao Li joins the group for graduate research in datacenter design and management. Welcome! |
8 Aug 16 | Ben is invited to serve on the program committee for HPCA 2017. |
2 Aug 16 | Ben is invited to serve on the 2017 IEEE Top Picks selection committee. |
30 July 16 | Our demo on collaborative computing with mobile devices has been accepted for MobiCom 2016. Congrats to Songchun and Theo! |
15 July 16 | Ben talks about "Rethinking Systems Management with Game Theory" at the Microsoft Workshop on System Design for Cloud Services. |
15 July 16 | Ben is invited to serve on the ASPLOS 2017 program committee. |
13 July 16 | Ben is in Redmond for the Microsoft Faculty Summit. |
12 July 16 | Ben appointed to the President's Council on Black Affairs at the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council. |
1 July 16 | President Brodhead, at the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Academic Council, has appointed Ben to the University Judicial Board. |
25 June 16 | Congrats to Tami and Drew! Our paper on safe speculation for secure memory has been accepted for MICRO 2016. |
21 June 16 | Ziqiang presents decoupled loads at ISCA. |
2 June 16 | Abhimanyu Yadev from IIT-Kanpur joins the lab for summer research. Welcome! |
31 May 16 | Bryan Prosser presents his Research Initiation Proposal, which focuses on system security. |
20 May 16 | Songchun releases ActionBench, mobile benchmarks for user-phone interaction -- see here. |
9 May 16 | Rahul Swaminathan presents paper on Spark characterization, his independent study, to graduate with departmental distinction (GWDD). Congrats! |
3 May 16 | Ben, Qiuyun, and Pengfei are in Ann Arbor for the semi-annual CFAR meeting. Ben talks heterogeneous design and Qiuyun demos server simulation methods. |
27 April 16 | Group dinner at Four Square, celebrating the close of a productive semester! |
4 Apr 16 | Ben is in Atlanta for ASPLOS 2016. Seyed and Songchun present computational sprinting. |
30 Mar 16 | Max Demoulin defends his Masters thesis. Congratulations! |
7 Mar 16 | Congrats to Ziqiang and Drew! Our paper on decoupled loads has been accepted to appear at ISCA 2016. Stay tuned. |
4 Mar 16 | Songchun and Seyed's game-theoretic perspective on computational sprinting will be awarded best paper at ASPLOS 2016. Congrats! |
6 Feb 16 | Ben's synthesis lecture on datacenter design and management is online! It surveys datacenter research from a computer architect's perspective. |
26 Jan 16 | Randall Johnson joins the group for undergraduate research in statistical machine learning and distributed systems. Welcome! |
25 Jan 16 | Hunter Lee joins the group for undergraduate research in the management of heterogeneous hardware. Welcome! |
21 Jan 16 | Ben is in Dallas, visiting Texas Instruments and discussing the future of collaborative, mobile sensing. |
19 Jan 16 | Congrats to Songchun! Her characterization of heterogenous computing for mobile applications will appear in ISPASS 2016. |
18 Jan 16 | Aninda Manocha joins the group for undergraduate research in algorithmic economics for hardware allocation. Welcome! |
8 Jan 16 | Ben is in Chicago for the Top Picks committee meeting. Congrats to the selected papers! |
2015
19 Nov 15 | Qiuyun's HotPower'15 on communication costs in blade servers is selected as a best paper to appear in Operating Systems Review. Congrats! |
18 Nov 15 | Ben and his group are in Ann Arbor for the annual meeting of the Center for Future Architectures Research. |
16 Nov 15 | Congratulations to Songchun and Seyed! Their game-theoretic perspective on computational sprinting will appear in ASPLOS 2016. |
19 Oct 15 | Ben gives an invited talk on statistical methods for computer design at ICCD in New York. |
4 Oct 15 | Qiuyun presents technology models of communication costs within blade servers at HotPower in Monterey CA. |
30 Sep 15 | We have finalized "Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability," a report on an NSF-sponsored workshop for XPS investigators. Please read and share! |
22 Sep 15 | Tami received the Charles Rowe Vail Memorial Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award for the 2014-2015 academic year. Congrats! |
18 Sep 15 | Seyed Majid Zahedi receives the Outstanding Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Award from the computer science department. Congrats on this well deserved recognition! |
31 Aug 15 | Cody Li joins the group for undergraduate research. Welcome! |
24 Aug 15 | Bryan Prosser joins the group for graduate research in mobile systems. Welcome! |
17 Aug 15 | Qiuyun's paper on power models for blade servers has been accepted to HotPower 2015. Congrats! |
4 Aug 15 | Seyed Majid Zahedi passes his prelim. Congrats! |
3 Aug 15 | Michael Liou joins the group as an undergraduate researcher, working on machine learning for datacenter profiles. Welcome! |
31 July 15 | Ben, in collaboration with Valeria Bertacco and Graziano Pravadelli, will present in a special session of ICCD on data mining for computer design! Stay tuned. |
13 July 15 | Ben is in Fiuggi (Italy), teaching a week-long course on datacenter systems design and management at the HiPEAC summer school on advanced computer architecture. |
22 June 15 | Ben visits the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, presenting our latest research. |
18 June 15 | Ben presents work on economic mechanisms for datacenter management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. |
14 June 15 | Qiuyun Wang and Tami Lehman present a tutorial on datacenter simulation methodologies at ISCA 2015. |
13 June 15 | Justin Wang joins the group as an undergraduate researcher, working on machine learning for datacenter profiling. Welcome! |
10 June 15 | Justine receives admission to the MS program in management at Seoul National University. Congratulations! |
1 June 15 | Ben co-chairs the NSF Workshop on Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS). Stay tuned for the workshop report! |
21 May 15 | Paul Kim, an undergrad researcher, will start as a research assistant in Economics at the University of Chicago. Congrats! |
14 May 15 | Congrats to Qiuyun Wang, who passes her preliminary exam! Next step, thesis! |
10 May 15 | Congratulations to Justine Kim and Paul Kim, undergraduate researchers in our lab who receive degrees in electrical and computer engineering today. Good luck! |
10 May 15 | Congratulations to Justine Kim and Paul Kim, undergraduate researchers in our lab who receive degrees in electrical and computer engineering today. Good luck! |
4 May 15 | Ben is in Ann Arbor for the semi-annual meeting of the Center for Future Architectures Research. |
14 Apr 15 | The Center for Future Architectures Research (CFAR) is renewed! In phase two, Ben and the research group will study datacenter systems and security. |
7 Mar 15 | Ben is serving on the program committee for MICRO 2015. And he is on the Board of Distinguished Reviewers for TACO. Please submit your work! |
31 Mar 15 | ISPASS 2015 concludes successfully. Thanks to the organizing committee for its hard work. Good luck to Erik Hagersten (GC) and Andreas Moshovos (PC) for ISPASS 2016 in Uppsala! |
7 Mar 15 | Ben is general chair of ISPASS 2015. Please consider joining us in Philadelphia! Also see Seyed and Qiuyun's tutorial on datacenter simulation methodologies on 29 Mar 2015. |
6 Mar 15 | Ben speaks about economic mechanisms for datacenter management at North Carolina State. |
17 Feb 15 | Ben visits UC Berkeley, speaking about economic mechanisms for datacenter management. |
9 Feb 15 | Ben attends HPCA in San Francisco and chairs the best paper session. |
4 Feb 15 | Kevin Delgado joins the group for undergraduate research, with a focus on mobile systems. Welcome! |
26 Jan 15 | Resource elasticity fairness is an IEEE Micro Top Pick from computer architecture conferences in 2014. Congrats Seyed! |
2014
15 Dec 14 | Congrats to Lance, who completes his BS + MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke! |
13 Dec 14 | Tami, Qiuyun and Ben present a tutorial on Datacenter Simulation Methodologies at MICRO 2014. |
19 Nov 14 | Tami, Seyed, and Ben are in Ann Arbor for the Annual Meeting of the Center for Future Architectures Research. |
6 Nov 14 | ISPASS 2015 will be held at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing on Mar 29-31. Mark your calendars. |
2 Nov 14 | Ben visits Oak Ridge National Lab, speaking about statistical methods for exascale system design and management. Thanks to Jeff and his team for a series of great meetings. |
27 Oct 14 | IISWC is in Raleigh! We enjoyed seeing architects and researchers in the Research Triangle. |
22 Oct 14 | Wuchun Feng (VaTech) and Ben are organizing the NSF XPS workshop for exploiting parallelism and scalability in Arlington VA next year. XPS investigators, please stay tuned. |
20 Oct 14 | Ben is at the University of Illinois, talking about economic mechanisms for datacenter management. Thanks to Wen-mei and Rakesh for hosting my visit! |
15 Oct 14 | Ben is at UMass Amherst, talking about economic mechanisms for datacenter management. Thanks to David Irwin for the invitation to speak! |
23 Sep 14 | Ben is at Georgia Tech, talking about economic mechanisms for datacenter management. Thanks to Moin and Hyesoon for hosting my visit! |
26 Aug 14 | Pengfei Zheng and Max Demoulin join the group for graduate research in datacenter architecture and systems. Welcome! |
25 Aug 14 | Ben is teaching a research seminar on energy-efficient computer systems. Students interested in a holistic view of efficiency should check it out! |
13 Aug 14 | Ben is serving on the program committees for HPCA and DATE. Please submit your work! Deadlines are Sept 12 (HPCA) and Sept 14 (DATE). |
23 July 14 | SAIL is awarded supplemental funding from the NSF to support research experiences for undergraduates. Contact us if you're a Duke undergrad looking for research projects! |
16 July 14 | Ben speaks about economic mechanisms for managing risk in datacenters at Microsoft Research and its Ultra-Low Power Computing Workshop. Thanks to Brandon Lucia and Jie Liu for the invitation! |
15 July 14 | SAIL, in collaboration with Kamesh Munagala and Sungjin Im, is awarded a four-year NSF grant to study multi-dimensional scheduling for datacenters! |
13 July 14 | Ben is in Redmond for the Microsoft Faculty Summit, hearing about the latest and greatest from MSR! |
15 June 14 | Ben talks about economic mechanims for managing risk in energy-efficient datacenters at the ISCA workshop on Energy Secure System Architectures (ESSA). Thanks to Augusto Vega and Alper Buyuktosunoglu for the invitation to speak! |
30 May 14 | Paul (Hyung Suk) Kim joins the group for undergraduate research. Welcome! |
11 May 14 | Congratulations to Dr. Marisabel Guevara! She receives her PhD in computer science and will join Oracle! |
11 May 14 | Congrats to Tamara Silbergleit and Ziqiang Huang! They receive their MS degrees and will continue toward the PhD in our group. |
11 May 14 | Congrats to Nazia Tabassum! She receives her BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Nazia will continue her studies, pursuing her PhD at the University of Virginia. Good luck! |
11 May 14 | Congrats to Zachary Michaelov! Zach receives his BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He will start his career in Silicon Valley at TellApart. |
11 May 14 | Lance Co Ting Keh receives his BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Lance will continue his research in the SAIL group as part of his MS studies. Congrats! |
2 May 14 | Songchun Fan passes a milestone -- the computer science preliminary exam. Great job! |
18 April 14 | Yifan Zhang defends her MS thesis on server power management. She will join Cisco after graduation. Congrats! |
25 Mar 14 | ISPASS 2014 concludes. Thanks to everyone who helped organize the conference. Thanks also to the authors for submitting great papers! |
19 Mar 14 | Seyed defends his research initiation proposal. |
14 Mar 14 | Ben is serving on the HPCA 2015 program committee! |
7 Mar 14 | Marisabel defends her thesis, "Coordinating the design and management of heterogeneous datacenters." Congrats! |
3 Mar 14 | Seyed presents our work on game-theoretic fairness and shared chip multiprocessors at ASPLOS 2014 in Salt Lake City. |
17 Feb 14 | Marisabel presents our work on risk-aware design for heterogeneous systems at HPCA-20 in Orlando. |
1 Feb 14 | See our article in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for a comprehensive look at markets for managing heterogeneous processors! |
20 Jan 14 | Ben talks about economic mechanisms for managing risk in datacenters at IBM Yorktown Heights as part of a CFAR project review. |
16 Jan 14 | Group dinner at Chamas! Great to see everyone at the start of a new semester! |
15 Jan 14 | Lance Co Ting Keh and Zachary Michaelov join the group for independent study (research). Weclome! |
10 Jan 14 | Will Chang joins the group for undergraduate research as part of the Duke CSURF program. Welcome! |
2013
11 Dec 13 | Ben chairs the session on heterogeneity at MICRO 2014. |
7 Dec 13 | Ben chairs the ISPASS 2014 program committee meeting. We accept 22 papers for a 33% acceptance rate. Thanks to Qiuyun for helping! |
11 Nov 13 | Congrats to Marisabel Guevara! Her paper on anticipating risk in heterogeneous system design will appear in HPCA 2014. |
11 Nov 13 | Elder Yoshida joins the group for undergraduate research in datacenter systems. Welcome Elder! |
4 Nov 13 | Justine Kim joins the group for undergraduate research in mobile systems. Welcome Justine! |
1 Nov 13 | Congratulations to Seyed Majid Zahedi! His paper on game theory and fairness in computer architecture will appear in ASPLOS 2014. |
31 Oct 13 | Weidan completes his prelim exam. Congrats! |
14 Oct 13 | Ben is a member of the SIGMETRICS 2014 program committee. Please submit your work in analysis, simulation, and performance evaluation! |
5 Sep 13 | Mohamed Ibrahim joins the group for his PhD in electrical and computer engineering. Welcome! |
3 Sep 13 | SAIL, in collaboration with Vince Conitzer, has been awarded a four-year NSF grant to study datacenter management, game theory, and strategic agents! |
27 Aug 13 | Ben is teaching a research seminar on datacenter architecture! For more info, see the course description. |
20 Aug 13 | Ben is on the program committee for Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2014. Please submit your work! |
12 Aug 13 | Ben is the ISPASS programm committee chair. Please submit your latest work on performance analysis! |
5 Aug 13 | Tamara Silbergleit joins the group for her PhD. Welcome! |
26 Jul 13 | Stephanie completes her REU. Thanks for helping us out this summer! |
13 Jul 13 | Group outing at the American Dance Festival. |
11 Jul 13 | A night of baseball and the Durham Bulls for Duke computer engineering. |
28 May 13 | Stephanie Morris joins the group for a summer REU from the University of Alabama. Welcome! |
20 May 13 | Xin Zhou joins the group for summer research. Welcome! |
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. |
3 Dec 12 | |
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. |
