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Two papers accepted to ISCA 2015: Congratulations Indrani and Jin!

Posted by on Apr 8, 2015 in News | 0 comments

Congratulations to Indrani and Jin for their papers accepted by ISCA 2015! Indrani’s paper “Harmonia: Balancing Compute and Memory Power in High Performance GPUs”, coauthored with Wei N. Huang, Manish Arora and Sudhakar Yalamanchili, addresses the problem of efficiently managing the relative power demands of a high performance GPU and its memory subsystem. This work was collaborated with AMD Research. Jin’s paper “Dynamic Thread Block Launch: A Lightweight Execution Mechanism to Support Irregular Applications on GPUs”, coauthored with Norm Rubin, Albert...

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The paper “A Scalable Design Methodology for Energy Minimization of STTRAM: A Circuit and Architecture Perspective” Selected as the 2014 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Very Large Scale Integrated Systems Best Paper

Posted by on Nov 2, 2014 in News | 0 comments

Professors Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Saibal Mukhopadhyay and their recently graduated students, Subho Chatterjee and Mitchelle Rasquinha, received the 2014 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Very Large Scale Integrated Systems Best Paper Award for their paper “Scalable Design Methodology for Energy Minimization of STTRAM: A Circuit and Architecture Perspective”. Spin-Torque-Transfer RAM (STTRAM) is an emerging non-volatile memory technology that can retain information with practically no energy loss; it has the potential to dramatically transform the energy landscape of future...

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Paper “Power Multiplexing for Thermal Field Management in Many-Core Processors” Selected as the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology 2013 Best Paper

Posted by on Nov 2, 2014 in News | 0 comments

The paper “Power Multiplexing for Thermal Field Management in Many-Core Processors” was awarded the best publication in the Components: Characterization and Modeling category. Coauthors are ECE Professors Saibal Mukhopadhyay and Sudhakar Yalamanchili; their graduated ECE Ph.D. students Minki Cho, Chad Kersey, and Nikhil Sathe; ME Assistant Professor Satish Kumar; and Man Prakash Gupta, Kumar’s current ME Ph.D. student. This team’s paper presented a simple, yet effective approach known as power multiplexing, which periodically migrates the locations of active cores on a...

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Congratulations to William for his Paper “Lifetime Reliability Characterization and Management of Many-Core Processors” Selected as Best in Session at SRC TECHCON 2014

Posted by on Nov 2, 2014 in News | 0 comments

William Song took top honors in the System Design: Architectures and Thermal/Reliability Management Session at SRC TECHCON 2014. His paper, entitled “Lifetime Reliability Characterization and Management of Many-Core Processors,” represented the work of the Computer Architecture and Systems Laboratory, led by his Ph.D. advisor and ECE Professor Sudhakar Yalamanchili. Yalamanchili and ECE Associate Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay were Song’s coauthors on the paper. Song’s paper presents a characterization method for understanding how parallel applications create reliability...

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Sudhakar Yalamanchili gave a keynote address “The Era of Heterogeneity: Oppporunities and Challenges” at the Annual China National Computer Congress (CNCC) in Zhengzhou, China in October.

Posted by on Nov 2, 2014 in News | 0 comments

CNCC (the China National Computer Congress) is the largest and highest academic and technical conference in the area of computer science and technology in China. It was founded in 2003 and is annually held by CCF. This year, CNCC2014 was be held in Zhengzhou, Henan province on 23th-25th, October. The theme of CNCC2014 was ‘Information Security, Data being all important’; the topic is about Information Security. ACM and IEEE Computer Society have close participation in CNCC2014. Professor Yalamanchili was invited as a keynote speaker as a representative of the IEEE Computer Society.

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