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CALCM Seminars

The CALCM seminar series is a weekly meeting of faculty and students with broad interests in Computer Architecture, and is open to all. The seminar is an excellent medium for CALCM students/faculty to present their recent research results and/or practice conference presentations, for students to polish their presentation skills and present external results from recent conferences, and for outside speakers to tell us about their work.

When / Where?

Usually every Tuesday 4:30-5:30 PM in Hamerschlag Hall D-210, unless otherwise noted.

If you are interested in giving a CALCM talk or have general questions, please contact the seminar organizer: Gennady Pekhimenko.

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Spring 2013 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time Material
January 29 C-to-CoRAM: Compiling Perfect Loop Nests to the Portable CoRAM Abstraction Gabriel Weisz (CS, CMU) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
February 12 Designing Efficient Processor Cores for Multicore Networking Rick Kessler (Cavium) HH 1107, 4:30PM-6:30PM Slides, Videos
February 14 Tiered-Latency DRAM: Low Latency and Low Cost DRAM Architecture Donghyuk Lee (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 5PM-6PM
February 19 MISE: Providing Performance Predictability in Shared Main Memory Systems Lavanya Subramanian (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
February 21 HAT: Heterogeneous Adaptive Throttling for On-Chip Networks Kevin Kai-Wei Chang (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
February 26 Application-Specific Logic in Memory Qiuling Zhu (ECE, CMU) HH 2117, 4:30PM-5:30PM
March 19 Taking SPIRAL Beyond Digital Signal Processing Richard Veras (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
April 5 Models and Architectures for Heterogeneous System Design Andreas Gerstlauer (UT Austin) HH 1107, 12:00PM
April 15 Green-Marl: Intuitive, Efficient and Scalable Graph Analysis Hassan Chafi (Oracle) GHC 4405, 3:00PM
April 16 Toward Programmable High-Performance Multicores Josep Torrellas (UIUC) CIC Panther Hollow Room, 4:30PM
April 23 Heterogeneous Core Microarchitecture for Energy Efficiency Chris Fallin (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
May 7 Designing Energy-Efficient Microprocessors in the Era of Unpredictable Transistors Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State) CIC Panther Hollow Room, 4:30PM


Fall 2012 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time Material
September 12 Customizing Communication and Computation Eric Chung (Microsoft Research) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
September 18 Memory Bandwidth Efficient Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm and Implementation for Large Problem Sizes Berkin Akin (CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM Slides
September 28 Aard---Algorithms, Architectures, Reliability, and Devices Phillip Stanley-Marbell (IBM Research) HH 1107, 10:30AM-12:15PM Slides
October 2 Evicted-Address Filter: A Unified Mechanism to Address Both Cache Pollution and Thrashing Vivek Seshadri (CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
October 8 Scale-Out Processors Boris Grot (EPFL) CIC Panther Hollow Room, 10AM-11AM
October 16 Biomolecular Reconfigurable Signal Processing via Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: From Biomedical to Engineering Systems Applications Gil Alterovitz (Harvard, MIT) HH B-206, 4:30PM-5:30PM
October 25 Computing Trends for Mobile Devices David Hansquine (Qualcomm) CIC Panther Hollow Room, 1:00PM-2:30PM
October 30 CONNECT: Re-Examining Conventional Wisdom for NoC Design in the Context of FPGAs Michael Papamichael (CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM Slides
November 6 No seminar Quals week HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
November 13 Tomorrow is Yesterday (or nearly so): Historical Lessons that Foretell the Future of Mobile Bob Iannucci (CMU-SV) HH 1107, 12:00PM-1:30PM
November 15 Building the Next-Generation Safety System for Scooters Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai (NTU) ISTC (CIC 4F), 11:00AM-Noon
November 20 No seminar Thanksgiving week HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
November 27 Error Patterns in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Measurement, Analysis and Application Yu Cai (CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM
December 4 Optimal Control Approach to Power Management for Multi-Voltage and Frequency Islands Multiprocessor Platforms under Highly Variable and Heterogeneous Workloads Paul Bogdan (CMU) HH D-210, 4:30PM-5:30PM


Spring 2012 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time Material
February 8 T4: A highly-threaded server-on-a-chip with native support for heterogeneous computing Jared Smolens (Oracle) CIC 4th floor Panther Hollow, 4PM-5PM Hot Chips 23
February 22 Stochastic Computing: Embracing Errors in Architecture and Design of Hardware and Software Rakesh Kumar (ECE, Illinois) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
February 29 Cosmic Rays Don't Strike Twice: Understanding the Nature of DRAM Errors and the Implications for System Design Ioan Stefanovici (CS, Toronto) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
March 7 No seminar - ASPLOS ---- —-
March 14 No seminar - Spring break ---- —-
April 18 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
April 25 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
May 24 Intelligent Cache Management for Reducing Memory System Waste Samira Khan (CS, UT San Antonio) CIC 4th floor Panther Hollow, 12PM-1PM


Fall 2011 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time Material
September 7 Efficient, Heterogeneous, Parallel Processing: The Design of a Micropolygon Rendering Pipeline Kayvon Fatahalian (CS, CMU) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM slides
November 2 Hardware-Assisted Run-Time Monitoring for Trustworthy Computing Systems Ed Suh (ECE, Cornell) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
November 30 Application-Aware Memory Channel Partitioning Lavanya Subramanian (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
December 7 Physical Unclonable Functions : Raising the Bar of Security Mudit Bhargava (ECE, CMU) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM


Spring 2011 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time
August 4 Matching access and error patterns for low Vcc L1 cache architecture Sungjoo Yoo (POSTECH, Korea) HH D-210, 2PM-3PM
February 8 CHIPPER: A Low-complexity Bufferless Deflection Router Chris Fallin HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
February 15 Introduction to the ARM Architecture William Hohl HH 1112, 4PM-5PM
March 1 Impact of Process Variation on Endurance Algorithms for Wear-Prone Memories Santiago Bock HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
March 8 No seminar - Spring break ---- —-
April 5 Statistical Thermal Evaluation and Mitigation for 3D Chip-Multiprocessors Da-Cheng Juan HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
April 12 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
April 19 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
May 6 Sustainable Silicon: Energy-Efficient VLSI Interconnects Patrick Chiang HH 2117, 12PM-1PM
May 10 Non-Stationary Traffic Modeling and Analysis in Network-on-Chip Based Chip Multi-Processors Paul Bogdan HH D-210, 4PM-5PM


Fall 2010 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location & Time
September 9 Service Guarantees in Networks-on-a-Chip Boris Grot (UT Austin) HH D-210, 1PM-2PM
September 14 Automatic Pipeline Synthesis from Transactional Datapath Specifications Eriko Nurvitadhi HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
September 21 Improving the end-to-end dependability of distributed systems Tudor Dumitras HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
September 28 Airblue: A System for Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development Kermin Elliott Fleming (CSAIL, MIT) HH 1112, 12:30PM-1:30PM
September 28 Intel Open House Intel Open House CIC 4th floor, 3PM-6PM
October 1 Green System Design: Beyond Operational Energy to Sustainability Justin Meza GHC 2109, 1PM-2PM
October 5 —– —– —–
October 7 ECE/SCS Distinguished Lecture: RARE: Rethinking Architectural Research and Education Chuck Thacker (Microsoft) Rashid Auditorium (Gates/Hillman), 4:30PM
October 8 Performance is Dead, Long Live Performance! Ben Zorn (Microsoft Research) GHC 6115, 11AM - Noon
October 12 Next Generation On-Chip Networks: What Kind of Congestion Control Do We Need? George Nychis HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
October 19 Detecting Rootkits Through Analysis of Network and Disk Data Flows in Home Computers Peter Klemperer HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
October 22 ASPLOS PC Symposium Systems faculty from different universities GHC-6115, 9:00AM-3:30PM
October 26 Single-Chip Heterogeneous Computing: Does the Future Include Custom Logic, FPGAs, and GPGPUs? Eric Chung HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
November 2 TBD TBD
November 9 No Seminar Quals Week
November 16 High Performance Cache Management for Addressing the Memory Wall on CMPs Joel Emer (Intel/MIT) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
November 23 No Seminar Thanksgiving Week
November 30 Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling Yoongu Kim HH D-210, 4PM-5PM

Spring 2010 Schedule

Date Title Speaker Location and Time
January 26 Simple Virtual Channel Allocation for High Throughput and High Frequency On-Chip Routers Yi Xu (Pitt) HH B-206, 4PM-5PM
January 26 A Framework for End-to-end Simulation of High-performance Computing Systems and Its Applications Jian Li (IBM Austin) HH 1112, 1PM-2PM
February 16 Coordinated Task Scheduling, Allocation and Synchronization on Multiprocessors Karthik Lakshmanan HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
February 23 Butterfly Analysis: Adapting Dataflow Analysis to Dynamic Parallel Monitoring Michelle Goodstein HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
March 2 ParaLog: Enabling and Accelerating Online Parallel Monitoring of Multithreaded Applications Evangelos Vlachos HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
March 9 No seminar - Spring break ---- —-
March 16 No seminar - ASPLOS ---- —-
March 18 Increasing Efficiency and Scalability with Tunable Error Protection and Memory Access Granularity Mattan Erez (UT Austin) HH-2124 12PM-1PM
April 1 Customizable Domain-Specific Computing Jason Cong (UCLA) HH 1112, 1PM-2PM
April 6 TBD TBD HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
April 13 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
April 20 No seminar - Quals week ---- —-
April 27 Converging Architecture, Implementation, and Software Development through Parallelized Simulators Derek Chiou (UT Austin) HH-112, 12Noon-1PM
April 27 Architectures for Energy Efficient Computing at Ultra-low Voltages Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State) HH D-210, 4PM-5PM
April 28 Emerging 3D Stacking and Non-volatile memory technologies and their impact on Computer Design Yuan Xie (Penn. State) D-210, 4PM-5PM
April 30 A Case for Runtime Adaptation using Cross-Layer Approaches Kim Hazelwood (U. Va.) GHC 6510, 12-1PM

Fall 2009 Schedule

Date Title Speaker
September 15 ATLAS: A Scalable and High-Performance Scheduling Algorithm for Multiple Memory Controllers Yoongu Kim
September 22 No seminar. No seminar.
September 29 Program Generation for Transforms: Tackling the Memory Hierarchy Marek Telgarsky
October 6 Core Fusion Revisited: Overcoming Single-Thread Performance Hurdles Janani Mukundan
October 13 Computer Generation of Fourier Transform Libraries for Distributed Memory Architectures Vas Chellappa
October 20 Data-Oriented Transaction Execution Ippokratis Pandis
October 27 No seminar. (Please attend Burton Smith's talk on the same day.) No seminar.
November 03 No seminar. No seminar.
November 10 Hot Trace Optimizations for Lifeguards Olatunji Ruwase
November 17 No seminar. No seminar.
November 24 No seminar (Thanksgiving). No seminar.
December 1 Designing Embedded Multiprocessor Networks-on-Chip with Users in Mind Chen-Ling Chou
December 8 StimulusCache: Boosting Performance of Chip Multiprocessors with Excess Cache Hyunjin Lee

Spring 2009 Schedule

Date Title Speaker
January 27 REDAC: Distributed, Asynchronous Redundancy in Shared-Memory Servers Brian Gold
February 3 Variation-Aware Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling Sebastian Herbert
February 10 Practical Off-chip Meta-data for Temporal Memory Streaming Mike Ferdman
February 17 An FPGA-based Reliability and Security Engine for Protecting Critical Power Infrastructure Peter Klemperer
February 24 Real-time Stereo Vision Using the GPU Wei Yu
March 3 Enabling Dynamic Parallel Monitoring of Multithreaded Applications Evangelos Vlachos
March 10 Spring break - No seminar No seminar
March 17 Self-optimizing Microprocessors: A Machine Learning Approach Jose Martinez
March 24 No seminar No seminar
March 31 Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era Ippokratis Pandis
April 7 Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era Mark Hill
April 14 DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-scale Field Study Bianca Schroeder
April 21 Register Allocation Deconstructed David Koes
April 28 No seminar No seminar
May 5 DPA: A Decoupled Parameterizable Architecture for Data-Intensive Algorithms Qian Yu


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Historical: CALCM Seminar Czars since 2007

  • Gennady Pekhimenko: S13; Prof. Mowry
  • Da-Cheng Juan: F12; Prof. Marculescu
  • HanBin Yoon and Hongyi Xin: S12; Prof. Mutlu
  • Michael Papamichael: F11; Prof. Hoe
  • Weinan Ma: S11; Prof. Mai
  • Evangelos Vlachos: F10; Prof. Mowry
  • Sidarth Garg: S10; Prof. Marculescu
  • Yoongu Kim; F09; Prof. Mutlu
  • Eric Chung; S09; Prof. Hoe
  • Eric Menedez; F08; Prof. Mai
  • Theo Strigkos; S08; Prof. Mowry
  • Jangwoo Kim; F07; Prof. Falsafi
  • Sebastian Herbert; S07; Prof. Marculescu
  • Old timers from before 2007 should drop me a note to get added to this list