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Uppsala Architecture Research Team

The Uppsala Architecture Research Team is a multi-disciplinary research group that works on a broad range of challenges in computer architecture, including microarchitecture, memory systems, compilers, security, power efficiency, simulation and modeling, runtime optimizations, co-design, and distributed systems.

Professor Stefanos Kaxiras

(PhD Wisconsin) worked at Bell Labs before coming to Uppsala. His research interests include and memory consistency models, coherence, and microarchitecture with an emphasis on security and (reducing) speculation.

Professor David Black-Schaffer

(PhD Stanford) worked at Apple before coming to Uppsala. His research interests include runtime scheduling and memory system design.

Assistant Professor Yuan Yao

(PhD Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) has research interests in Network on Chip (NoC) and Non-Von-Neumann architectures.

Assistant Professor Chang Hyun Park

(PhD KAIST) conducts research on the virtual memory system on both the architecture and systems side.

Professor (Emeritus) Erik Hagersten

(PhD Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) was the chief server architect at Sun Microsystems before coming to Uppsala. His research interests include efficient memory system designs and modeling.

Postdocs and Visiting Researchers

Associate Professor Magnus Själander
Postdoc Researcher Peter Munch

Graduate Students

Per Ekemark
Johan Janzén
Hassan Muhammad
Marina Shimchenko
Pavlos Aimoniotis
Alireza Haddadi
Rashid Aligholipour
Ahmed Nematallah
Mehmetali Semi Yenimol
Xiaoyue Chen
Shiming Li
George Stoian
Hannah Atmer

UART Research Group photo 2019

Projects

Body Operating System

Challenge: Power efficient and secure computation in an in-body processing system. Link to project page: BOS

Efficient Processors

Challenge: Making general purpose processors more efficient.
Results: Offloading instructions to simpler schedulers to reduce scheduling cost (ICCD2018, HPCA2019, DATE2019, HPCA2020); caching in the pipeline (ISCA2019).

Security and Speculation

Challenge: Building processors that are secure by design; Reducing our reliance on speculation without losing its performance advantages.
Results: Understanding speculative shadows to reduce the impact of reduced speculation (ISCA2019); hiding speculative effects (CF2019), Non-Speculative techniques to reorder memory accesses (ISCA2017, IEEE Micro Top Picks 2018, ISCA2018, MICRO2018); Compiler orchestrated software-out-of-order execution on in-order cores (PACT2016 SRC-Bronze medal, CGO2017, PLDI2018, Best of CAL 2017, TransOnComputers2018 - Featured article of the month); Limited speculation cores (ISCA2015).

Compiling for Power Efficiency

Challenge: Co-designing the hardware and compiler to maximize efficiency.
Results: Decoupling access and execute to improve DVFS (ICS2013, CGO2014, CC2016 Best Paper, HIP3ES2016, HIP3ES2017);

Smart Memory Systems

Challenge: Understanding where and when data is needed to reduce the energy consumed in moving it and the time wasted waiting for it.
Results: Direct-to-data cache designs that avoid searches (MICRO2013, ISCA2014, MICRO2015, HPCA2018); intelligent policies for placing data based on reuse for CPUs (ICCD2016, SBAC-PAD2017, ICS2019) and GPUs (IISCW2017).

Scheduling

Challenge: Matching the heterogeneous behavior of tasks and applications to heterogeneous hardware for performance.
Results: CPU and GPU task analysis and modeling (JParallelComputing2018, ISPASS2018); GPU co-execution (SBAC-PAD),

Complexity-Effective Coherence

Challenge: Create novel coherence protocols to enable highly-efficient multi/many-core systems and software shared memory implementation.
Results: Application driven, highly-efficient, VIPS family of protocols (PACT2012, ISCA2013, ISCA2015, HPCA2015); ArgoDSM distributed shared memory system (HPDC2015); Racer TSO: data-race-detection coherence, transparent to software (MICRO2016, IEEE Micro Top Picks 2017 honorable mention); compiler-assisted cache coherence (IPDPS2015, TPDS2016, CGO2017, CCPR2017, TPDS2018).

Previous Projects

Modeling

Challenge: Using low-overhead profile information to quickly model memory system behavior and performance.
Results: Architecturally independent performance models for memory systems (CGO2012, IISWC2012) and performance (ISPASS2015) and resource-sharing performance profiling (CGO2013, PACT2012).

Software Optimization for Memory Systems

Challenge: Automatic software-based cache bypassing and prefetching without hurting co-execution on multicores.
Results: Adaptive software bypassing (HPCA2013) and prefetching (PACT2015).

Startups

ETA Scale logo
Eta Scale AB works to commercialize memory coherence technology for both efficient scalable hardware implementations and software distributed shared memory. (Active)

Green Cache Logo
Green Cache AB took the Direct-to-Data memory system technology and worked with clients to investigate the energy-savings potential in their future mobile SoCs. (IP purchased)

Acumem Logo
Acumem AB developed the StatCache statistical memory modeling technology into the ThreadSpotter turn-key tool to help developers identify and fix memory system related issues in their software. (Sold to Rouge Wave)

Alumni (and first job)

PhD Alumni

Christos Sakalis (PhD 2021, IAR, Sweden)
Mehdi Alipour (PhD 2020, Ericsson, Sweden)
Kim-Anh Tran (PhD 2020, Google, Germany)
Ricardo Alves (PhD 2019, Intel, USA)
Nikos Nikoleris (PhD 2019, ARM, UK)
Germán Ceballos (PhD 2018, Ericsson, Sweden)
Magnus Norgren (Swedish Patent Office)
Andreas Sembrant (PhD 2017, Nvidia, USA)
Mahdad Davari (PhD 2017, Ericsson, Sweden)
Muneeb Khan (PhD 2016, Ericsson, Sweden)
Moncef Mechri (IMC, Netherlands)
Vasileios Spiliopoulos (ZeroPoint, Sweden)
Konstantinos Koukos (PhD 2016, KTH, Sweden)
Andreas Sandberg (PhD 2014, ARM, UK)
David Eklöv (PhD 2011, Samsung, USA)
Håkan Zeffer (PhD 2006, Sun Microsystems, USA)
Henrik Löf (PhD 2006, Stanford University, USA)
Erik Berg (PhD 2005, Xelerated, Sweden)
Martin Karlsson (PhD 2006, Sun Microsystems, USA)
Dan Wallin (PhD 2006, Virtutech, Sweden)
Zoran Radovic (PhD 2005, Sun Microsystems, USA)

Licentiate Alumni

Gustaf Borgström (Lic 2022, IAR, Sweden)

Postdoc Alumni

Dr. Anirban Nag (Huawei, Switzerland)
Dr. Mihail Popov (Huawei, UK)
Professor Rakesh Kumar (NTNU, Norway)
Dr. Gregory Vaumourin (Atos, France)
Dr. Andra Hugo (DDN Storage, France)
Professor Trevor Carlson (NUS, Sinagpore)
Professor Magnus Själander (NTNU, Norway)
Professor Alberto Ros (University of Murcia, Spain)
Dr. Nina Shariati (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Recent Publications


Full UART publications list.

Group History

The Uppsala Architecture Research Team was founded in 1999 when Professor Erik Hagersten (PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology) moved back to Sweden from his position as chief server architect at Sun Microsystems. For the first 10 years UART did pioneering work in statistical cache modeling, leading to a successful commercialization of the technology. Professor Stefanos Kaxiras (PhD from Wisconsin) joined the group in 2010, moving from the University of Patras in Greece and bringing extensive experience in power efficiency and coherency. Professor David Black-Schaffer (PhD from Stanford) also joined in 2010, bringing heterogeneous runtime experience from his work on OpenCL at Apple. Professors Hagersten, Black-Schaffer, and Kaxiras, together with PhD student Andreas Sembrant, successfully commercialized their work in direct-to-data memory systems in the company Green Cache AB, whose IP was purchased in 2018. Associate Professor Alexandra Jimborean (PhD from University of Strasbourg ) joined in 2012, bringing experience in compile-time and run-time code analysis and optimization. Since then the group has grown to include multiple PhD students and postdocs.

Updated  2024-02-01 17:03:40 by Chang Hyun Park.