SEMINAR SCHEDULE
SUBJECT TO CHANGE

This schedule is tentative and will change as we go through the semester.

 

Date Topic Presenter
January 6 Introduction: Emerging Trends Bruce Childers
January 8 PMMA architecture, Santiago's Memory Simulator Bruce, Santiago
January 13 Paper #1: Half-DRAM: a High-bandwidth and Low-power DRAM Architecture from the Rethinking of Fine-grained Activation (ISCA 2014)
Discussion: Select papers for rest of semester, finalize seminar day/time
Rakan
January 15    
January 20    
January 22 Paper #2: Distintegrated control for energy efficient and heterogeneous memory systems, Tae Jjun Ham, B.K. Chelepalli, Neng Xue, B.C. Lee, HPCA 2013
Paper #3: Doe Hyun Yoon; Jichuan Chang; Schreiber, R.S.; Jouppi, N.P., "Practical nonvolatile multilevel-cell phase change memory," High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2013 International Conference for , vol., no., pp.1,12, 17-22 Nov. 2013
Adriano
Poovaiah
January 27    
January 29 Paper #4: DaDianNao: A Machine-Learning Supercomputer. In Proc. the 47th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture. 2014
Paper #5: Transactional Flash, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Lidong Zhou, OSDI 2008
Jiwei Liu
Yuyu Zhou
February 3    
February 5 Paper #6: Zombie memory: extending memory lifetime by reviving dead blocks, Azevdeo et al., ISCA 2013
Guest paper: Supporting Superpages in Non-Contiguous Physical Memory, Yu Du et al., HPCA 2015 (practice talk for conference)
Project Proposal Due: Submit a one page description of the project you want to undertake. The description should give 1) an overview of the effort, 2) your hypothesis that you wish to prove, 3) the steps for the effort, 4) the experimental results you want to gather (to support your hypothesis), and 5) what tools/benchmarks/etc. you will be using. Please prepare this description as a PDF file and submit by email with subject heading "CS3410 Project Proposal".
Shivam
Yu Du
February 10    
February 12 Paper #7: i-NVMM: a secure non-volatile main memory system with incremental encryption, Chhabra and Solihin, ISCA 2011
Paper #8: FREE-p: Protecting non-volatile memory against both hard and soft errors, Yoon et al., HPCA 2011
Joydeep
Xue Wang
February 17    
February 19 Already reserved - will fill in shortly
Paper #9: G. Kim et al., Memory-centric System Interconnect Design with Hybrid Memory Cubes, in Proceedings of 13 PACT
Paper #10: Kim, G., Lee, M., Jeong, J., & Kim, J.. "Multi-GPU system design with memory networks". In Microarchitecture (MICRO), 2014 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on (pp. 484-495). IEEE.
Quick project status update (1 minute max per project!)
Chelsea Mafrica
Wen Wen
February 24    
February 26 Paper #11: Long Chen; Zhao Zhang, "MemGuard: A low cost and energy efficient design to support and enhance memory system reliability," ISCA2014
Project Status: For each project, prepare 2 slides. Slide 1: A brief project description, motivation behind it (why do it?), and the steps that you will undertake. Slide 2: Current status, such as having completed a literature search, found, selected, installed and tried the software tools you'll use (e.g., simulators, benchmarks, etc.), what you are doing now, what are the next steps. Each project will be allotted 5 minutes for your two slides. Think of this as an "elevator pitch" to sell the idea to the seminar attendees.
Rujia Wang
March 3    
March 5 Paper #12:System Software for Persistent Memory, S. Dulloor, S. Kumar, A. Keshavamurthy, P. Lantz, D. Reddy, R. Sankaran, J. Jackson, Eurosys 2014
Paper #13: Memory Persistency, Steven Pelley; Peter M. Chen; Thomas F. Wenisch, ISCA 2014
Brian
Santiago
March 10 No class - Spring Break  
March 12 No class - Spring Break  
March 17    
March 19 Paper #14:PALLOC: DRAM Bank-Aware Memory Allocator for Performance Isolation on Multicore Platforms, Yun, Mancusco, Wu and Pellizzoni. RTAS 2015
Project Status:
Xianwei
March 24    
March 26 Paper #15: Efficient Memory Virtualization, Jayneel Gandhi, Arkaprava Basu Mark D. Hill Michael M. Swift, MICRO 2014
Project Status (Rotating)
Yuyu Zhou
March 31    
April 2 Paper #16:Mosaic: Exploiting the Spatial Locality of Process Variation to Reduce Refresh Energy in On-Chip eDRAM Modules, Aditya Agrawal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Amin Ansari (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign), Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), HPCA 2014
Project Status (Rotating)
Rakan
April 7    
April 9 Paper #17: Sethia, A., Jamshidi, D. A., & Mahlke, S. Mascar: Speeding up GPU warps by reducing memory pitstops. In High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2015 IEEE 21st International Symposium on (pp. 174-185). IEEE.
Project Status (Rotating)
Wen Wen
April 14    
April 16 Paper #18:CAMEO:A Two-Level Memory Organization with Capacity of Main Memory and Flexibility of Hardware-Managed Cache, Chou, Jaleel and Qureshi, MICRO 2014
Project Status (Rotating)
Rujia
April 21 Reserved for final project presentations  
April 23 Reserved for final project presentations