Projects 2004/2005

Here are the Year 2004/05 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 ~

Exploiting Regularity for Bridge Fault Extraction
Jason G. Brown and R. D. (Shawn) Blanton, Center for Silicon System Implementation
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Anne Gattiker, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Test and Diagnosis of Manufacturability-Oriented Technologies

Reducing Clock Skew Variability Via Cross Links
Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Rabi Mahapatra*, Department of Electrical Engineering,
*Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Fast Interconnect Optimization for Integrated Synthesis/Layout System

Developing An Optimized UPC Compiler For Future Architectures
Tarek El-Ghazawi, Francios Cantonnet, Yiyi Yao,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
IBM Technical Contact: Ram Rajamony, Manager, Novel Systems Architecture,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Efficient UPC Implementations on the PERCS Architecture

Pre-Layout Interconnect Lengths Prediction with Applications to Clustering, Placement, and Logic Synthesis
Qinghua Liu and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Research on Physical Synthesis

A Chip-Level Electrostatic Discharge Simulation Strategy
Haifeng Qian, Joseph N. Kozhaya*, Sani R. Nassif** and Sachin Sapatnekar,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota,
*IBM ASIC Methodology, **IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Efficient Circuit Analysis of ESD Protection Networks

Evaluating Instruction Reorderings And Transformations For Microarchitecture Power Reduction
Ram Srinivasan and Jeanine Cook, The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University
IBM Technical Contact - Lee Eisen, STSM, eClipz Power Lead
IBM Sponsor - Ralf Fischer, Director, eClipz Development
Original Proposal: Power-Oriented Workloads-Characterization, Synthesis, and Compiler Interaction

The Garbage Collection Advantage: Improving Program Locality
X. Huang 1., S. M. Blackburn 2., K. S. McKinley 1., J. E. B. Moss 3., Z. Wang 4., and P.Cheng*,
3. University of Massachusetts, 4. Michigan Technological University, *IBM Research,
IBM Technical Contacts: Frank O'Connell, Technical Computing Performance, IBM Systems Group,
Hazim Shafi, Architecture and Performance Evaluation, IBM Austin Research Laboratory and
Roch Archambault, STSM, Compiler Optimization Technology and Compiler Focal Point for HPC,
IBM Software Group/Application Integration Middleware
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Cooperative Software/Hardware Caching for Future Memory Systems

Modeling of Interconnects, Drivers and Receivers in Packaged Systems
Rohan Mandrekar, Bhyrav Mutnury and Madhavan Swaminthan,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact - Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor - Vijay Lund, Vice President, Hardware Development
Original Proposal: Macro-Modeling of Non-Linear I/O Drivers

Mining Performance Data from Sampled Event Traces
Ricardo Portillo, Diana Villa, and Patricia J. Teller,
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contacts - Carole Gottleib and Bret Olszewski, Unix Performance
IBM Sponsor - George Wang, Vice President of Systems Performance
Original Proposal: Comprehensive Memory Performance Studies of IBM POWER-based Platforms

Accurate and Efficient Gate-Level Parametric Yield Estimation Considering Power/Performance Correlation
Dennis Sylvester, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
IBM Technical Contact - Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Joint Statistical Optimization of Static Power Consumption and Performance

An Imperical Investigation of Symbolic Pointer Analysis Algorithms
Ben Hardekopf and Calvin Lin, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts - Doc Shankar, Linux Security Lead, Linux Technology Center, and Ray Young, Manager, Linux Technology Center
IBM Sponsor - Ralph Christ, Program Manager, Linux System Technology, Linux Technology Center
Original Proposal: Diagnosing Software Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities

Measuring Program Similarity: Experiments with SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Aashish Phansalkar, Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout*, and Lizy K. John
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
*Ghent University, Belgium
IBM Technical Contact - Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Using Statistical Theory to Synthesize Benchmarks and Future Workloads

Capturing The Essence of Benchmarks: A New Approach to Benchmark Synthesis
Rob Bell, Jr.* and Lizy Kurian John, *IBM Systems and Technology Division,
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: Using Statistical Theory to Synthesize Benchmarks and Future Workloads

Interconnect Modeling on the IBM Blue Gene/L Using The Parallelized Maxwell Solver PFDTD
Raj Mittra, Tao Su, Wenhua Yu and Reza Hasheimi,
Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
IBM Technical Contact - Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor - Vijay Lund, Vice President, Hardware Development
Original Proposal: Current Path Discontinuity Effects on Signal Transmission

Routing Algorithms for High-Speed VLSI Packaging
Muhammet Mustafa Ozdal and Martin Wong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
IBM Technical Contacts: Philip Honsinger, IBM Microelectronics, John Ludwig, Systems Group,
Daniel Miller, Manager Routing and Signal Integrity, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsor: Mary Lee Froese, Director Electronic Design Automation
Original Proposal: A Routing System for the Design of Complex Cards

Performance Evaluation of Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
Michael J. Schulte, Nick Lindberg, and Anitha Laxminarain,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
IBM Technical Contact: Eric Schwarz, Floating-Point Hardware Technical Leader,
Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Original Proposal: Design Exploration for Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic

Efficient Digital Data Transmission Assessment via Macromodeling
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 Sponsor - George Katopis, Systems Technology Development, and Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Original Proposal: Addressing Analog Design Challenges for Multi-Gigabit Systems

4.0GHz 0.18um CMOS PLL Based on an Interpolative Oscillator
Fadi H. Gebara, Jeremy D. Schaub*, Alan J. Drake*, Kevin J. Nowka*, Richard B. Brown**,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
*IBM Austin Research Laboratory, **Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
IBM Technical Contact: Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Robust Low-Leakage Circuits

Low-Leakage Robust Circuit Design
Rahul Rao and Richard Brown, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Robust Low-Leakage Circuits

Study of Wide LSDL Circuit Implementations
Jayakumaran Sivagnaname, Hung C. Ngo*, Kevin J. Nowka*,
Robert K. Montoye* and Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Exploratory VLSI Design, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Robust Low-Leakage Circuits

Methodology for Instruction Level Power Estimation in Pipelined Microsystems
Robert M. Senger, Eric D. Marsman, and Richard B. Brown
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Robust Low-Leakage Circuits

Characterizing The Duration And Association Patterns Of Wireless Access In A Campus
Maria Papadopouli, Haipeng Shen* and Manolis Spanakis**
Department of Computer Science, *Department of Statistics & Operations Research,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, **Department of Computer Science,
University of Crete and ICSFORTH
IBM Technical Contact - Mark Pozefsky, Pervasive Computing, SWG
IBM Sponsor - Todd Moore, Manager, PvC Architecture and Technical Strategy
Original Proposal: Analysis of Information and Client Associations in Wireless Infrastructures and Location-Sensing

Scan Design and AC Test
Ramyanshu Datta, Ravi Gupta, Antony Sebastine, Jacob A. Abraham and Manuel d’Abreu*
Computer Engineering Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, * Sun Microsystems
IBM Technical Contact: Robert Montoye, Research Staff Member,
Verification and Analysis, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Design for Test and Debug

User Interface Design, Transaction Measurement, and Usability Engineering for Remote Devices
Randolph G. Bias, Bill Bodin*, Sam Burns, Anuj Nanavati and Ann Marie Maynard**
School of Information, University of Texas at Austin,
*IBM Austin Advanced Technology and Research, **IBM Austin Research Laboratory
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
Original Proposal: User Interface Design, Transaction Measurement, and Usability Engineering for Digital Rights Managed Media on a Cluster of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices

Hardware Results Demonstrating Defect Detection Using Power Supply Signal Measurements
Dhruva Acharyya, Jim Plusquellic, Department of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
IBM Technical Contact - Anne Gattiker, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Original Proposal: Defect Based Test for Detection and Localization

Open-Loop Clock and Data Recovery Systems
Kevin Kornegay, Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory, Cornell University
IBM Technical Contact - Robert Putney, STI Analog/IO, Packaging, & SPC
IBM Systems &Technology Group
IBM Sponsor - Kathy Papermaster, Director, STI Design Center
IBM Systems &Technology Group
Original Proposal: Low power, High Performance Clock and Data Recovery Circuits

The UT Grid Project: Building a Comprehensive Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education
John R. Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact – Albert Bunshaft, Vice President, Grid Computing Sales and
Business Development, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor – Mike Dawkins, GM, IGS Global Operations and Albert Bunshaft, Vice President,
Grid Computing Sales and Business Development, Systems Group

Net Traveler: A Framework for Autonomic Web Services Collaboration, Orchestration and Choreography in E-Government Information Systems
Hillary Caituiro-Monge and Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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

Coordinated Management: Power, Performance, Energy, and Temperature
Heather Hanson* and Stephen W. Keckler, Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Rob Bell, Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group

Risk Management In New Product Development Decisions
James S. Dyer and Saurah Bansal, McCombs School of Business,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Bill Ciarfella, Squadrons Program Management, HW Program Management
IBM Sponsor: Erich Baier, Vice President, HW Program Management

Accurate and Efficient Gate-Level Parametric Yield Estimation Considering Power/Performance Correlation
Dennis Sylvester, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact: Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory

Diffusion-Based Placement Migration
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan*, Charles Alpert**, Paul Villarrubia,
IBM Systems & Technology Group, Electronic Design Automation,
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
**IBM Austin Research Laboratory, IBM Electronic Design Automation
IBM Technical Contacts: Prabhakar Kudva, T.J. Watson Research Center, and
Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory

~ Additional Research ~

Autonomic Power and Performance Management of Clustered Services [Proposal]
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
IBM Technical Contact - Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor - Vijay Lund, Vice President, Hardware Development

Chiller: A Framework for Dynamic Feedback-Based Thermal Management in Server Processors [Proposal]
Babak Falsafi, Computer Architecture Lab (CALCM), Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contacts - Brian Curran, Distinguished Engineer, Power6 Core Architect, and Dan Skooglund, Manager, Processor Subsystem Development
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group

Scalable Multi-threaded Multiprocessor Architectures [Proposal]
Mark Heinrich, School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
IBM Technical Contact - Evan Speight, System Software, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory

Assessing Test Coverage of Shape Manipulation Algorithms [Proposal]
Shi Zhong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
IBM Technical Contact - David DeMaris, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsors - William Leipold, Data Prep Development, Microelectronics, Dan Maynard, Yield & Physical Design Characterization, Microelectronics, and Lynn Gill, Manager, Mfg & Yield Enhancement, Electronic Design Automation

A Study of AC Timing Defects: Test Pattern Quality and its Relationship to Real-Time System Errors [Proposal]
Ray Mercer, Computer Engineering Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact - Matthew W. Mehalic, PowerPC Application Engineering Manager, Enablement and Validation, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsor - Henry Levine, Manager PowerPC Product Management, IBM Microelectronics

Test Circuits for Variability Characterization & Modeling [Proposal]
Duane Boning, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
IBM Technical Contact - Manjul Bhushan, Microprocessor Technology & Design, Systems Group, IBM Microelectronics,
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group

Extremely Fast Placement Algorithms [Proposal]
Chris Chong-Nuen Chu, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory

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

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 - George Wang, Vice President of Systems Performance

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