Daniel Wonsun Ahn

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science at UIUC


Research Interests:

Speculative Compiler Optimization, Thread Level Speculation, Compiler/Runtime/Hardware hybrid optimization etc.

Publications:

  • Xuehai Qian, Wonsun Ahn and Josep Torrellas. DirBlock: Scalable Cache Coherence for Atomic Blocks. Submitted to a conference at 2009.
  • Wonsun Ahn, Shanxiang Qi, Jae-Woo Lee, Marios Nicolaides, Xing Fang, Josep Torrellas, David Wong and Samuel Midkiff. BulkCompiler: High-Performance Sequential Consistency through Cooperative Compiler and Hardware Support. In International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2009.
  • James Tuck, Wonsun Ahn, Luis Ceze and Josep Torrellas. SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization. In Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences (TOPPICKS), January 2009.
  • Pablo Montesinos, Matthew D. Hicks, Wonsun Ahn, Samuel T. King and Josep Torrellas. Lessons Learned During the Development of the CapoOne Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay System. In Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), June 2009.
  • Josep Torrellas, Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos, Wonsun Ahn and Milos Prvulovic. The Bulk Multicore for Improved Programmability. In Communications of the ACM (CACM), December 2009.
  • James Tuck, Wonsun Ahn, Luis Ceze and Josep Torrellas. SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization. In International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2008.
  • Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Wonsun Ahn, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau and Josep Torrellas. POSH: A TLS Compiler that Exploits Program Structure. In Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), March 2006.

Contact Information

Daniel Wonsun Ahn
4238, Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science.
University of Illinois.
201 N. Goodwin.
Urbana, IL. 61801-2302.
Phone (217) 244-2445, fax 217-265-6582.
E-mail: dahn2-EN-uiuc.edu.
AIM: wonsun0309.