The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Broad Research Area: Hardware / Architecture, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Networks / Operating Systems

Research Interests:

My research falls inside the fields of power-aware computer architecture, power-agile computing/OS and low-power VLSI design.

I have three main projects that a potential postdoc fellow could develop drive and mentor the PhD students on the project:

• AfterBurner: Efficient Performance Scaling via Post-Retirement Processing. NSF funded project with Amir Roth, UPenn that targets region of low ILP in modern out-of-order microprocessors. We need a fellow with a strong microarchitecture background to drive the simulator development of this project.
• Accelerator-based computing. As the industry moves to SoC based systems in the mobile and server space future systems are going to be composed of heterogeneous accelerators and cores. We need someone with strong application profiling skills (or binary instrumentation skills) to help profile the accelerators that my VLSI students are trying to build.
• Power-agile computing. See the HotOS 2011 paper. We are trying to model future heterogeneous systems composed of difference types of cores, memory, and storage. Potential fellows should have experience with architecture simulators and operating systems.

Contact Information:

E-mail: mhempstead [at] coe dot drexel dot edu or phone 215-571-3688