CSE 590g: Architecture Seminar

Fall 2013 — Mondays 12:30 PM — CSE 303

Date	Discussion Leader	Paper
Sep 30	Adrian	Organization!
Oct 7	Ben and Old Eric	"Language Support for Dynamic, Hierarchical Data Partitioning." Sean Treichler, Michael Bauer, and Alex Aiken. OOPSLA '13.
Oct 14 Columbus Day!	Katelin and New Eric	"AC-DIMM: Associative Computing with STT-MRAM." Qing Guo, Xiaochen Guo, Ravi Patel, Engin Ipek, and Eby G. Friedman. ISCA 2013
Oct 21	Jacob, Vincent, and Mike	"GiraphX: Parallel Yet Serializable Large-Scale Graph Processing." Serafettin Tasci and Murat Demirbas. EuroPar 2013.
Oct 28	Nate, Brandon H, and Thierry	"Triggered Instructions: A Control Paradigm for Spatially-Programmed Architectures." Angshuman Parashar, Michael Pellauer, Michael Adler, Bushra Ahsan, Neal Crago, Daniel Lustig, Antonia Zhai, Mohit Gambhir, Aamer Jaleel, Vladimir Pavlov, Randy Allmon, Rachid Rayess, Stephen Maresh, and Joel Emer. ISCA 2013.
Nov 4	Kendall and Adrian	"Continuous Real-World Inputs Can Open Up Alternative Accelerator Designs." Bilel Belhadj, Antoine Joubert, Zheng Li, Rodolphe Héliot, and Olivier Temam. ISCA 2013
Nov 11	Veterans' Day—no classes
Nov 18	Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne and Yasuko Eckert, AMD	Managing Hot Chips… Literally
Nov 25	Wayne Wong, Nintendo	Nintendo Wii U CPU
Dec 2	Doug Burger, MSR	Title TBD

Papers

"Thin Servers with Smart Pipes: Designing SoC Accelerators for Memcached." Kevin Lim, David Meisner, Ali G. Saidi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Thomas F. Wenisch. ISCA 2013.
"Efficient Virtual Memory for Big Memory Servers." Arkaprava Basu, Jayneel Gandhi, Jichuan Chang, Mark D. Hill, and Michael M. Swift. ISCA 2013
"LINQits: Big Data on Little Clients." Eric S. Chung, John D. Davis, and Jaewon Lee. ISCA 2013.
"On the Feasibility of Online Malware Detection with Performance Counters." John Demme, Matthew Maycock, Jared Schmitz, Adrian Tang, Adam Waksman, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Salvatore Stolfo. ISCA 2013
"How to be a Successful Thief: Feudal Work Stealing for Irregular Divide-and-Conquer Applications on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems." Vladimir Janjic (University of St Andrews, UK); Kevin Hammond (University of St Andrews, UK). EuroPar 2013.
"Bottle Graphs: Visualizing Scalability Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Applications." Kristof Du Bois, Jennifer B. Sartor, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout. OOPSLA '13.
"Multiverse: Efficiently supporting distributed high-level speculation." Kaushik Ravichandran and Santosh Pande. OOPSLA '13. (couldn't find it online, but could maybe get pre-print, or wait until later in quarter)
"Orchestrated Scheduling and Prefetching for GPGPUs." Adwait Jog, Onur Kayiran, Asit K. Mishra, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Onur Mutlu, Ravishankar Iyer, and Chita R. Das. ISCA 2013.
"Die-Stacked DRAM Caches for Servers: Hit Ratio, Latency, or Bandwidth? Have It All with Footprint Cache." Djordje Jevdjic, Stavros Volos, and Babak Falsafi. ISCA 2013.
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"Resilient Die-stacked DRAM Caches." Jaewoong Sim, Gabriel H. Loh, Vilas Sridharan, and Mike O'Connor. ISCA 2013.
"WeeFence: Toward Making Fences Free in TSO." Yuelu Duan, Abdullah Muzahid, and Josep Torrellas. ISCA 2013.

Papers in MICRO '13 are mostly not available yet (not even their abstracts). The camera-ready deadline is October 25:

"Quality-Programmable Accelerator for Approximate Computing." Swagath Venkataramani (Purdue University), Vinay K. Chippa (Purdue University), Srimat T. Chakradhar (NEC Laboratories America), Kaushik Roy (Purdue University), Anand Raghunathan (Purdue University).
"Kiln: Closing the Performance Gap Between Systems With and Without Persistence Support." Jishen Zhao (Penn State University), Sheng Li (Hewlett-Packard Labs), Doe Hyun Yoon (IBM), Yuan Xie (AMD Research/Penn State University), Norman P. Jouppi (Hewlett-Packard Labs).
"SAGE: Self-Tuning Approximation for Graphics Engines" Mehrzad Samadi (University of Michigan), Janghaeng Lee (University of Michigan), Davoud Jamshidi (University of Michigan), Amir Hormati (Google), Scott Mahlke (University of Michigan).
"Use It Or Lose It: Wear-out and Lifetime in Future Chip Multiprocessors." Hyungjun Kim (Texas A&M University), Arseniy Vitkovskiy (Cyprus University of Technology), Paul V. Gratz (Texas A&M University), Vassos Soteriou (Cyprus University of Technology).
"Energy-Efficient Data Exchange using Synchronized Counters." Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi (University of Rochester), Engin Ipek (University of Rochester).
"Meet the Walkers: Accelerating Index Traversals for In-Memory Databases." Onur Kocberber (EPFL), Boris Grot (EPFL), Javier Picorel (EPFL), Babak Falsafi (EPFL), Kevin Lim (HP Labs), Parthasarathy Ranganathan (HP Labs).