Here are the Year 2003/04 award winning research proposals and projects currently underway. If you are interested in starting a collaborative project we invite you to contact us.
~Full Papers~
Coherence Decoupling: Making Use of Incoherence
Jaehyuk Huh, Jichuan Chang*, Doug Burger, Gurindar S. Sohi*,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, *Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Medison
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and Xiaowei Shen, Research Staff Member, Scalable Server Network and MEM Systems
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Enhancing the Performance, Programmability, and Scalability of Next-Generation Enterprise System Memory Hierarchies
Coordinated Power, Energy, and Temperature Management for High-Performance Processors
Heather Hanson*, Stephen Keckler, Doug Burger, Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and John Keaty, STI Global Integration Leader, Systems Group, and Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Manager, Systems Software, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Power Management in High Performance Systems
Using Statistical Theory to Study Issues in Microprocessor Simulation
Yue Luo and Lizy John, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Developing a Methodology for Synthesizing Small and Representative Workloads
Combining Cooperative Compiler/Hardware Prefetching and Cache Replacement
Zhenlin Wang*, Kathryn S. McKinley, Doug Burger, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
*Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University
IBM Technical Contacts - Frank O'Connell, Future Processor Performance, IBM Systems Group, and Bob Blainey, Distinguished Engineer, AIM Compilation PDT & Technology
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Closing the Memory Gap for Future Memory Systems
Towards Power Oriented Synthetic Workloads
Ramkumar Srinivasan, Jeanine Cook, The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University
IBM Technical Contact - Aaron Sawdey, Cache and Memory Nest Models, Future Processor Models, Microelectronics Division
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Developing Power-Oriented Synthetic Workloads
Accurate and Complexity-Effective Spatial Pattern Prediction
Chi F. Chen, Se-Hyun Yang, Babak Falsafi, and Andreas Moshovos*, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, *Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
IBM Technical Contact - Daniel Skooglund, Custom Design, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Near-Optimal Precharging in High-Performance Nanoscale CMOS Caches
Se-Hyun Yang and Babak Falsafi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Daniel Skooglund, Custom Design, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: A Power-Aware Microarchitecture for Nanoscale CMOS Servers
Macromodeling of Interconnects, Discontinuities, and Logic Devices
F. G. Canavero, S. Grivet-Talocia, I. A. Maio, I. S. Stievano, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Torino, Italy
IBM Technical Contact - George Katopis, Distinguished Engineer, ESG Packaging Chief Engineer, Systems Technology Development
IBM Sponsors - George Katopis, Systems Technology Development, and Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Original Proposal: Extension of the Parametric Modeling Technique to Analog Circuit Design: the case of devices for differential signaling
Analysis of Wireless Information Locality and Association Patterns in a Campus
Francisco Chinchilla, Mark Lindsey, Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
IBM Technical Contact - Mark Pozefsky, Pervasive Computing, SWG
IBM Sponsor -Todd Moore, Manager, PvC Architecture and Technical Strategy
Original Proposal: Measurements and modeling of information and client associations in wireless infrastructures
Parallel Simulation of Multiprocessor Systems Using Reverse Execution
Kemin Yang and Richard Fujimoto, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact - Ram Rajamony, Research Staff Member, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Parallelization of the Mambo Full-System Simulator
Performance Impact of Gate-Body Signal Phase on DTMOS Inverters
Alan Drake and Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Analysis and Mitigation of CMOS Gate Leakage
Rahul Rao and Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Mitigation of CMOS Gate Leakage
Clock Network Sizing in Presence of Power Supply Noise
Kai Wang and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California-Santa Barbara
IBM Technical Contact - Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Parametric Yield Estimation Considering Leakage Variability
Rajeev Rao, Anirudh Devgan*, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor *IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contacts - Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Static Performance Analysis under Process and Environment Variations
Test and Debug in Deep-Submicron Technologies
Ramyanshu Datta, Antony Sebastine, Ravi Gupta, Whitney J. Townsend, and Jacob Abraham, Computer Engineering Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Technical Contacts - Robert Montoye, Verification and Analysis, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Design for Debug
Hierarchical Random-walk Algorithms for Power Grid Analysis
Haifeng Qian and Sachin Sapatnekar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota,
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Design of supply nets for high-performance applications
Hardware Results Demonstrating Fault Localization Using Power Supply
Dhruva Acharyya and James F. Plusquellic, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
IBM Technical Contact - Anne Gattiker, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces
Diana Villa, Jaime Acosta, Trevor Morgan, and Patricia Teller, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact - Bret Olszewski, AIX Performance
IBM Sponsor - Nick Bowen, Vice President, UNIX and xSeries Software Development
Original Proposal: Commercial Workload Performance on the p690 Memory Hierarchy
Phase 2 - A General Method of Generating Miss Rate Information for Future Systems
A Comparative Study of Common MOS VCO Topologies
J. H. C. Zhan, J. S. Duster, Kevin Kornegay, Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory, Cornell University
IBM Technical Contact - Abraham Torres, Executive Project Manager Emerging Products, Microprocessor Development
IBM Sponsor - Chekib Akrout, Vice President, PowerPC & Networking Technology Development, Microelectronics Division
Original Proposal: High-Speed Serial Links
~New Research~
Making Open Source Software More Secure
Walter Chang and Calvin Lin,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Ray Young, LTC Test, Linux Technology Center, and Doc Shankar, Linux Security Lead, Linux Technology Center
IBM Sponsor - Ralph Christ, Program Manager, Linux System Technology, Linux Technology Center
Top Gun: UTEP’s p690 – a Foundation for Building HPC Capability
IBM Shared University Research (SUR)
Patricia Teller, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact - Robert Acosta, Linux Project Management
IBM Sponsor - Robert Amezcua, Vice President, pSeries Operations
CISE Terascale Facility for GRID Applications at UPRM
IBM Shared University Research (SUR)
Dr. Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez, Dr. Wilson Rivera, Dr. Jaime Seguel, Dr. Bienvenido Velez-Rivera, Dr. Jaime Ramirez-Vick, Dr. Domingo Rodriguez, Dr. Pedro I. Rivera Vega, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of General Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
IBM Technical Contact - Jim Knighton, AIX Diagnostics Development, and Norm Pass, Manager of File System and Application Technology
IBM Sponsor - Pat Butterfield, Manager, AIX Network Security, Java, LDAP, Grid Toolbox
User Interface Design, Transaction Measurement, and Usability Engineering for Digital Rights Managed Media on a Cluster of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices
Randolph G. Bias, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Bodin, Senior Technical Staff Member - Pervasive Computing Division, Director of Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chief Technology Officer - Internet Home Alliance
IBM Sponsor - Todd Moore, CTO Pervasive Computing, Architecture/Performance/User Experience/Standards
Mastodon: Large-Memory Scientific Simulation
IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Proposal
Doug Burger and Stephen Keckler, Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Hazim Shafi, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Simulating Enterprise-Class Servers
Alan Cox, Department of Computer Sciences, Rice University
IBM Technical Contact - Andrew Wack, pSeries Clusters Test Architect, Pseries Software Build and System Test
IBM Sponsor - Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, Pseries Regatta Servers, and Erich Baier, Director, UNIX Hardware Development
Exploiting Thread-Level Speculation to Accelerate Database Performance on Chip Multiprocessors
Todd Mowry, Department of Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Rick Eickemeyer, Future Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Quantifying Design Correctness during Multi-Processor Verification and Validation
M. Ray Mercer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact - Matthew Mehalic, PowerPC Engineering Manager, High Performance Processor Development, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsor - Henry Levine, Manager PowerPC Product Management, IBM Microelectronics
HF-Measurements & Characterization of Product Related Interconnect Test Structures
Hartmut Grabinski, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hannover (Germany)
IBM Technical Contact - Thomas-Michael Winkel, Systems Group
IBM Sponsors - George Katopis, Systems Technology Development, and Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Towards Autonomic Computing: Adaptive Network Routing and Scheduling
Peter Stone, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Russell Blaisdell, Performance Monitoring Architect, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Bob Madey, Vice President, Performance and Availability Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Jeff Dean, Tivoli Architecture and Technology
Original Proposal: Layered Learning towards Autonomic Computing
Semisupervised Clustering for Intelligent User Management
Raymond Mooney, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Mark Johnson, Tivoli Technical Strategy, Tivoli Architecture and Technology
IBM Sponsor - Robert Yellin, Vice President of Technology, Tivoli Software, Software Group
Original Proposal: Semisupervised Clustering for Intelligent User Management
~Supported Ph.D. Projects~
Exploring a Mythical Culture: Everyday Life of a Unique Species Called "IBM Hardware Program Manager
Senem Guney, University of Texas at Austin and Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, Based on research: “Lessons Learned from Research and Practice in Organizational Complexity”, Senem Guney, UT Austin Communications Department
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, UNIX Hardware Development
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director, UNIX Hardware Development
A Practical Symmetric Multi-Processor Architecture Design Study using Optical Multi-Drop Networks
Oluwafemi O. Ogunsola and Alan Benner (IBM Mentor), Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. James D. Meindl, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact - Alan Benner, eServer Architecture and Technology Development
IBM Sponsor - Lisa Kurzajeski, Manager, eServer Technology
Test Vector Compression Using 3-Stage Linear Network
C.V. Krishna and Nur A. Touba, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Johnny LeBlanc, Microprocessor Design for Test, Hardware Verification
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
~Additional Research~
Self-tuning networks and servers [Proposal]
Arun Venkataramani, Ravi Kokku, Mike Dahlin,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Jeff Achtermann, Configuration and Operations Architecture, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Jeff Smith, Vice President, Configuration and Operations Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
Autonomic Modeling for System Management [Proposal]
Ben Kuipers, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Neil Pennell, STSM Tivoli Performance and Availability Product Development, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Bob Madey, Vice President, Performance and Availability Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
~Ph.D. Fellowships~
Let us congratulate our Ph.D. students, many who belong to these awarded projects.
Fellowship Awards
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Credit: State Capital photo by Michael Murphy/TxDOT
