Here are the Year 2006/07 award winning research proposals and projects currently underway. If you are interested in starting a collaborative project we invite you to contact us.
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On-chip Process Variation Detection and Compensation for Parametric Yield
Enhancement in sub-100nm CMOS technology
Amlan Ghosh and Richard B. Brown, University of Utah
IBM Technical Contacts: Rahul M. Rao, High Performance VLSI Design and
Ching-Te Chuang, Manager, High-Performance Circuit Design, IBM Research
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Extraction and Modeling of Process Variations for Robust Nanoscale Design
Wei Zhao, Yu Cao, Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University
IBM Technical Contacts: Frank Liu, Kanak Agarwal, Dhruya Acharyya, Sani Nassif,
Kevin Nowka, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Built-in-Self-Test Methods for Big-D/Small-A Systems
Erdem S. Erdogan and Sule Ozev, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
IBM Technical Contact:: Jim Dillinger, STI Design Center - Staffing Focal Point and Manager
of Layout and Integration, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kathy Papermaster, Director, STI Design Center, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Electrical Design Space Exploration for High Speed Servers
Caleb Wesley, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University
IBM Technical Contacts: Bhyrav Mutnury, Nam Pham, Erdem Matoglu and Moises Cases,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Jan Janick, Vice President, Modular Server and Storage Development,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Gate Sizing for Cell Library-Based Designs
Shiyan Hu, Mahesh Ketkary*, Jiang Hu, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, *Strategic CAD Labs, Intel Corporation
IBM Technical Contact: Chuck Alpert, Austin Research Lab, Tools & Technology
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Pentium M Power and Thermal Analysis
Heather Hanson* and Stephen Keckler, Department of Computer Sciences,
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Karthick Rajamani, Power Aware Systems, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
HeDGE: Hybrid Dataflow Graph Execution in the Issue logic
Suriya Subramanian Kathryn S. McKinley, Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Frank O'Connell, Technical Computing Performance,
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Performance Cloning: A Technique for Disseminating Proprietary Applications as Benchmarks
Ajay Joshi1, Lieven Eeckhout 2, Robert H. Bell Jr.3, and Lizy John1,
1The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, 2Ghent University, Belgium,
3IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Technical Contacts: Alan Mackay, Commercial Performance and Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU Benchmarks on Intel's Core Microarchitecture based processor
Sarah Bird, Aashish Phansalkar, Lizy K. John, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts: Alex Mericas and Rajeev Indukuru, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Techniques and Frameworks for Multithreaded Workload Synthesis
Clay Hughes and Tao Li, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
IBM Technical Contact: Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design and Performance Analysis,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Jan Janick, Vice President, Modular Server and Storage Development,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
RAMP-White: An FPGA-Based Coherent Shared Memory Parallel Computer Emulator
Hari Angepat, Dam Sunwoo and Derek Chiou, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Volker Strumpen, Verification & Analysis, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Developing Techniques for Dependability Benchmarking of Operating Systems
Weining Gu, Ravi Iyer and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Center for Reliable and High-Performance
Computing (CRHC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
IBM Technical Contact: Bruce Mealey, Tom Mathews and Sara Epsztein, AIX RAS,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kumar Nallapati, Director, AIX Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Accomodating Workload Diversity in Chip Multiprocessors via Adaptive Core Fusion
Jose Martinez, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University
IBM Technical Contact: Evan Speight, Novel Systems Architecture, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Adaptive System Design for Circuit Aging
Subhasish Mitra, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
IBM Technical Contact: Pia Sanda, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Microarchitecture within a Systems Context
Yale Patt, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Dan Skooglund, z/pSeries Processor Design, IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
On-Chip Jitter Measurement and Duty-Cycle Adjustment
Michael Schulte, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
IBM Technical Contact: Cindy Yokley, STI Bring Up and Validation Manager, IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Robert Putney, Business Engagement Manager, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Design Exploration for Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
Kevin Kornegay, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact: Eric Schwarz, Floating-Point Hardware Technical Leader,
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President, Systems Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Robust SRAM Design
Borivoje Nikolic, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California-Berkeley
IBM Technical Contact: Kevin Nowka, Research Senior Manager, VLSI Systems,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
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