Spring 2015 — Monday, 12:30pm — CSE 303

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Date	Discussion Leader	Paper
Mar 30	Everyone	Assign papers
Apr 6	Carlo	Darkroom: Compiling High-Level Image Processing Code into Hardware Pipelines
Apr 13	Qiao	DIABLO: A warehouse-scale computer network simulator on FPGAs
Apr 20	No meeting	—
Apr 27	James	High-Performance Fractal Coherence
May 4	Amrita & Brandon H	Sirius: An Open End-to-End Voice and Vision Personal Assistant and Its Implications for Future Warehouse Scale Computers
May 11	Mark W	BRAINIAC: Bringing Reliable Accuracy Into Neurally-Implemented Approximate Computing
May 18	Thierry	HELIX-UP: relaxing program semantics to unleash parallelization
May 25	Memorial Day	—
Jun 1	Bill	A Practical Methodology for Measuring the Side-Channel Signal Available to the Attacker for Instruction-Level Events

Paper Suggestions

• Sirius: An Open End-to-End Voice and Vision Personal Assistant and Its Implications for Future Warehouse Scale Computers. Johann Hauswald, Michael A. Laurenzano, Yunqi Zhang, Cheng Li, Austin Rovinski, Arjun Khurana, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor Mudge, Vinicius Petrucci, Lingjia Tang, and Jason Mars (University of Michigan). ASPLOS 2015.
• ApproxHadoop: Bringing Approximations to MapReduce Frameworks. Íñigo Goiri (Microsoft Research), Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University and Microsoft Research), and Santosh Nagarakatte and Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University). ASPLOS 2015.
• Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data Structures. Tudor David, Rachid Guerraoui, and Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL). ASPLOS 2015.
• Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural support for a memory-safe C abstract machine, David Chisnall and Colin Rothwell (University of Cambridge), Brooks Davis (SRI International), Robert N.M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Munraj Vadera, and Simon W. Moore (University of Cambridge), Peter G. Neumann (SRI International), and Michael Roe (University of Cambridge). ASPLOS 2015.
• DIABLO: A warehouse-scale computer network simulator on FPGAs. Zhangxi Tan, Zhenghao Qian, Xi Chen, krste Asanovic, and David Patterson (UC Berkeley). ASPLOS 2015.
• A Probabilistic Graphical Model-based Approach for Minimizing Energy Under Performance Constraints. Nikita Mishra, Huazhe Zhang, John D. Lafferty, and Henry Hoffmann (University of Chicago). ASPLOS 2015.
• CommGuard: Mitigating Communication Errors in Error-Prone Parallel Execution. Yavuz Yetim, Sharad Malik, and Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University). ASPLOS 2015.
• iThreads: A Threading Library for Parallel Incremental Computation. Pramod Bhatotia and Pedro Fonseca (MPI-SWS), Umut A. Acar (Carnegie Mellon University & Inria), Björn B. Brandenburg (MPI-SWS), and Rodrigo Rodrigues (Nova University of Lisbon/ CITI / NOVA-LINCS).
• HELIX-UP: relaxing program semantics to unleash parallelization. Simone Campanoni and Glenn Holloway and Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks (Harvard University). CGO 2015.
• BRAINIAC: Bringing Reliable Accuracy Into Neurally-Implemented Approximate Computing. Beayna Grigorian and Nazanin Farahpour and Glenn Reinman. HPCA 2015.
• PolyMage: Automatic Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines. Ravi Teja Mullapudi, Vinay Vasista, Uday Bondhugula. ASPLOS 2015.
• Supporting Differentiated Services in Computers via Programmable Architecture for Resourcing-on-Demand (PARD). Jiuyue Ma, Xiufeng Sui, Ninghui Sun, Yupeng Li, Zihao Yu, Bowen Huang, Tianni Xu, Zhicheng Yao, Yun Chen, Haibin Wang, Lixin Zhang, Yungang Bao
• Sapper: A Language for Hardware-Level Security Policy Enforcement. Xun Li, Vineeth Kashyap, Jason Oberg, Mohit Tiwari, Vasanth Rajarathinam, Ryan Kastner, Timothy Sherwood, Ben Hardekopf and Frederic T. Chong. ASPLOS 2014.
• High-Performance Fractal Coherence. Gwendolyn Voskuilen and T. N. Vijaykumar. ASPLOS 2014.

Papers we didn't pick last quarter

• Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory in Main-Memory Databases. Viktor Leis, Alfons Kemper, and Thomas Neumann. ICDE 14.
• Understanding the Impact of Gate-Level Physical Reliability Effects on Whole Program Execution. Raghuraman Balasubramanian and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam. HPCA 14.
• Efficient Memory Virtualization. Jayneel Gandhi, Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, and Michael M. Swift. MICRO 14.
• A Practical Methodology for Measuring the Side-Channel Signal Available to the Attacker for Instruction-Level Events. Robert Callan, Alenka Zajic, and Milos Prvulovic. MICRO 14.
• Enabling Realistic Fine-Grain Voltage Scaling with Reconfigurable Power Distribution Networks. Waclaw Godycki, Christopher Torng, Ivan Bukreyev, Alyssa Apsel, and Christopher Batten. MICRO 14.
• Hi-Rise: A High-Radix Switch for 3D Integration with Single-cycle Arbitration. Supreet Jeloka, Reetuparna Das, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor Mudge, and David Blaauw. MICRO 14.
• BuMP: Bulk Memory Access Prediction and Streaming. Stavros Volos, Javier Picorel, Boris Grot, and Babak Falsafi. MICRO 14.
• Darkroom: Compiling High-Level Image Processing Code into Hardware Pipelines James Hegarty, John Brunhaver, Zachary DeVito, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Noy Cohen, Steven Bell, Artem Vasilyev, Mark Horowitz, and Pat Hanrahan. SIGGRAPH 14.
• Equalizer: Dynamic Tuning of GPU Resources for Efficient Execution. Ankit Sethia and Scott Mahlke. MICRO 14.
• Adapton: Composable, Demand-Driven Incremental Computation. Matthew A. Hammer, Khoo Yit Phang, Michael Hicks, and Jeffrey S. Foster. PLDI 14.