Recent News:
- August 2024: PhD student Zirui Neil Zhao graduated and will start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. Check out his thesis "You Share, You Leak: Practical Side-channel Attacks and Defenses in Modern Clouds".
- August 2024: One paper is accepted in MICRO 2024.
- March 2024: Josep Torrellas is awarded the 2023-2024 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, College of Engineering, UIUC.
- March 2024: Two papers are accepted in ISCA 2024.
- January 2024: Four Papers in 2024 IEEE Top Picks on Computer Architecture Conferences:
One Top Pick
(Micro-Armed Bandit: Lightweight & Reusable Reinforcement Learning for Microarchitecture Decision-Making) and
Thee Honorable Mentions
(μManycore: A Cloud-Native CPU for Tail at Scale; Untangle: A Principled Framework to Design Low-Leakage, High-Performance Dynamic Partitioning Schemes; SPADE: A Flexible and Scalable Accelerator for SpMM and SDDMM).
- December 2023: Two papers are accepted in ASPLOS 2024.
- November 2023: Two papers are accepted in HPCA 2024.
- September 2023: One paper is accepted in MICRO 2023 and one in ASPLOS 2024.
- March 2023: Three papers are accepted in ISCA 2023.
- January 2023: One paper is accepted in ASPLOS 2023.
- January 2023: Josep Torrellas is the Director of the SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 ACE Center for Evolvable Computing. See the
Center Announcement, as well as the SRC announcements (here and here) and the
DARPA announcement.
- November 2022: One paper is accepted in PPoPP 2023.
- October 2023: Two papers are accepted in HPCA 2023.
- March 2022: One paper is accepted in ISCA 2022.
- January 2022: Two papers are accepted in IEEE Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2022:
Distributed Data Persistency (MICRO 21) and
Maya: Using Formal Control to Obfuscate Power Side Channels (ISCA 21) .
- November 2021: Two papers are accepted in ASPLOS 2022.
- September 2021: One paper is accepted in MICRO 2021.
- May 2021: The SDO paper receives the
First Place in the Inaugural Intel Hardware Security Academic Award.
- May 2021: CSL article on the Draco System Call Security Software upstreaming to Linux v5.11.
- April 2021: IBM-Illinois C3SR center article on
our upstreaming of
the Draco System Call Security Software to Linux v5.11.
- March 2021: Two papers are accepted in ISCA 2021.
- February 2021: Torrellas received the
IEEE Computer Society
2021 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, "For contributions to energy efficient and programmable
shared-memory multiprocessor architectures." Also see article from the Computer Science Department.
- January 2021: One Paper (BabbleFish)
in the 12-paper IEEE Micro 2021
Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, plus one
Honorable Mention (Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables).
- December 2020: The upstreamed Draco is featured in
Linux Security at Phoronix.
- December 2020: Draco has been upstreamed in the Linux Kernel.
- December 2020: One paper is accepted in HPCA 2021 and two papers in ASPLOS 2021.
- August 2020:
Raghavendra Pothukuchi graduated and will start as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University
with Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee.
- August 2020:
Dimitrios Skarlatos graduated and will start as an Assistant Professor in the CS Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
- July 2020: Four papers are accepted in MICRO 2020.
- July 2020: STT paper selected for Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM (CACM).
- March 2020: Two papers are accepted in ISCA 2020.
- March 2020:
The University of Illinois Shines at ISCA 2019.
- March 2020: Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2020. Also see article from the Computer Science Department.
Video
of the talk "Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables: Rethinking Virtual Memory Translation for Parallelism".
- February 2020: Video
of the HPCA/PPoPP/CGO 2020 Keynote
by Josep Torrellas on "Interdisciplinary Research at a Time of Pervasive Changes".
- January 2020: Two Papers (MicroScope and STT) in the 12-paper IEEE Micro 2020
Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences,
plus one Honorable Mention (Vertical Processors).
- November 2019: One paper is accepted in ASPLOS 2020.
- October 2019: Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019.
- August 2019:
Mengjia Yan graduated and will start as an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at MIT.
- August 2019: Two papers are accepted in MICRO 2019.
- June 2019: One paper is accepted in SC 2019.
- March 2019: Three papers are accepted in ISCA 2019.
- February 2019: Two papers are accepted in PLDI 2019.
- January 2019: InvisiSpec paper receives an Honorable Mention in the
2019 IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
- December 2018: We published
the Report on the NSF-sponsored Visioning Workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems.
- November 2018: One paper is accepted in ASPLOS 2019.
- November 2018: Two papers are accepted in HPCA 2019.
- August 2018: Received an Intel Strategic Research Alliance (ISRA) grant to work on InvisiSpec.
- July 2018: A paper is accepted in MICRO 2018: InvisiSpec: Making Speculative Execution Invisible
in the Cache Hierarchy. Corrected version of the paper.
One-page explanation of the correction.
- June 2018: A paper is accepted in PACT 2018.
- March 2018: Two papers are accepted in ISCA 2018.
- March 2018: A paper is accepted in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- October 2017: One paper is accepted in HPCA 2018.
- July 2017: Two papers are accepted in MICRO 2017.
- March 2017: Two papers are accepted in ISCA 2017.
- February 2017: Torrellas received the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring.
- November 2016: Torrellas elected
Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
- July 2016: Torrellas, Padua and Misailovic
receive an NSF XPS grant to
advance scalability for on-chip wireless communications.
- June 2016: Two papers accepted to appear in MICRO 2016.
- March 2016: A paper accepted to appear in ISCA 2016.
- March 2016: Torrellas elected to
the Computing Research Association (CRA)
Board of Directors.
- January 2016: Torrellas named Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- November 2015: Two papers accepted to appear in HPCA 2016.
- November 2015: Two papers accepted to appear in ASPLOS 2016.
- March 2015: Torrellas received the
IEEE Computer Society
2015 Technical Achievement Award, for "Pioneering contributions
to shared-memory multiprocessor architectures and thread-level
speculation".
- January 2015: Our paper
Tangle: Route-Oriented Dynamic Voltage Minimization for
Variation-Afflicted, Energy-Efficient On-Chip Networks
received an Honorable Mention in the IEEE Micro Top Picks 2015.
- December 2014: A paper was accepted in ASPLOS 2015.
- June 2014: Our paper
Improving JavaScript Performance by Deconstructing the Type System
received a Distinguished Paper Award in PLDI, June 2014.
- March 2014: Two papers from our group will appear in ISCA 2014.
- February 2014: Our paper
Tangle: Route-Oriented Dynamic Voltage Minimization for
Variation-Afflicted, Energy-Efficient On-Chip Networks
was Best Paper Nominee in HPCA, February 2014.
- February 2014: We will publish the paper
Improving JavaScript Performance
by Deconstructing the Type System in PLDI in June 2014,
describing how one can easily improve the performance of JavaScript.
- September 2013: We published
Making Parallel Programming Easy: Research Contributions from Illinois,
a book summarizing the accomplishments of the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC).
- November 2013: Our group has 1 paper in ASPLOS-2014,
3 papers in HPCA-2014, and
1 paper in MICRO-2013.
- November 2013: Two excellent Ph.D. students are graduating and looking
for an academic or research job starting Fall 2012:
Nima Honarmand, and
Wonsun Ahn .
Please check their resumes.
- September 2013: On September 10-11, we are celebrating the
"2013 Illinois Symposium on Parallelism: Current State of the Field and the Future",
in Champaign-Urbana.
- September 2013: We published
Coping with Parametric Variation at Near-Threshold
Voltages in IEEE Micro Magazine, Special
Issue on Reliability-Aware Microarchitecture
Design.
- September 2013: Our group has 1 paper in MICRO-2013.
- June 2013: In a collaboration between our group, Prof. Sam King's, and Intel, we develop
QuickRec, a prototype for Record and Deterministic Replay.
- June 2013: Torrellas gives a Keynote Address at the
International
Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and
Processors (ASAP) on "Extreme Scale Computer Architecture:
Energy Efficiency from the Ground Up".
- June 2013: Torrellas will be the Program Chair of the
International Conference
on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT),
in Edmonton, Alberta, August 2014.
- March 2013: Our group has 2 papers in
ISCA-2013.
- November 2012: Our group has 3 papers in
ASPLOS-2013.
- November 2012: Our group has 4 papers in
HPCA-2013.
- October 2012: Josep Torrellas receives the High-Impact
Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer Design
(ICCD), for "one of the 5 most cited papers in the first
30 years of ICCD (1983-2012)" for the paper "FlexRAM: Toward an
Advanced Intelligent Memory System", ICCD 1999.
Here is an
article about the award.
- October 2012: Josep Torrellas, Nam Sung Kim (Univ. of Wisconsin)
and Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State Univ.) receive a DARPA PERFECT
Award of $2.8M over 5.5 years to improve the power efficiency
of embedded systems.
- September 2012: A new paper on architecture for detecting sequential consistency violations will appear in MICRO-2012.
Here is an
article about the paper.
Here is a video of a presentation.
- June 2012: Our PhD students
Ulya Karpuzcu
and Abdullah Muzahid
are starting in the Fall 2012 as Assistant Professors at University of Minnesota and
University of Texas San Antonio, respectively.
Here is an
I2PC article about them.
- June 2012: We released
VARIUS-NTV: A model of within-die process variation for Near Threshold Voltage
Computing and resulting timing errors in manycores for microarchitects.
- May 2012: Torrellas is a co-author of
21st Century Computer Architecture,
A Community White Paper.
- November 2011: Our research group has three papers accepted in
the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA),
New Orleans, LA, February 2012.
- July 2011: Josep Torrellas is the Program Chair of ISCA-2012
(Call for Papers).
- June 2011: Josep Torrellas will moderate a panel on
"Broadening Computer Architecture Research: Embracing New
Areas to Keep the Field Vibrant" at
the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA),
San Jose, CA, June 2011 .
- April 2011: Abdullah Muzahid, one of the graduate students
in our group, has just been awarded an Intel PhD Fellowship
and a Mavis Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) award (an award to
facilitate the training of the next generation of
great engineering professors).
- February 2011: Our research group has two papers accepted in
the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA),
San Jose, CA, June 2011 .
- December 2010: Josep Torrellas is named ACM Fellow.
- October 2010: We released
Failure is not an Option: Popular Parallel Programming,
the report from the First Workshop on Advancing Computer Architecture
Research (ACAR-1), which was sponsored by the
Computing Community Consortium (CCC).
[Summary slides].
More information can be obtained from
http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/acar1.
- September 2010: Mark Oskin and Josep Torrellas co-organize
Laying a New Foundation for IT: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond,
the Second Workshop on Advancing Parallel Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-2),
sponsored by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Computing
Community Consortium (CCC) in Seattle, WA.
- August 2010: Josep Torrellas, as part of an Intel-lead team, receives
a DARPA grant to design an extreme scale
multiprocessor under the
Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program.
Learn more
about this here
- August 2010: Our group has three papers
at the International
Conference on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Atlanta, December 2010.
- August 2010: Josep Torrellas receives a DOE grant on
"Advanced Architectures and Critical Technologies for Exascale Computing"
with colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Labs
and UC San Diego.
- June 2010: Josep Torrellas will participate in a Course in
High Performance Computing and in the Parallel@Illinois Symposium in
Singapore, Singapore, June 2010.
- February 2010: Josep Torrellas and Mark Oskin co-organize
Failure is not an Option: Popular Parallel Programming,
the First Workshop on Advancing Parallel Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-1),
sponsored by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Computing
Community Consortium (CCC) in San Diego, CA.
- January 11, 2010: Josep Torrellas organizes a panel
at HPCA 2010 in Bangalore on
Extreme Scale Computing: Challenges and Opportunities.
- January 9-10, 2010: Josep Torrellas co-organizes an
NSF-sponsored workshop to discuss
collaboration in research and education between researchers in
India and the U.S. in the area of parallel and high-performance
computing.
- December 2009: Our paper
The BubbleWrap Many-Core: Burning Cores for Sequential Acceleration
receives the Best Paper Award at the International
Conference on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, December 2009.
[Presentation slides]
- December 2009: Our group publishes an article in
the December 2009 issue of the Communications of the ACM on
The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Improved Programmability
[Presentation slides]
- November 2009: Josep Torrellas publishes an article in the
November 2009 issue of IEEE Computer on
Architectures for
Extreme-Scale Computing.
[Presentation slides]
- August 2009: Our group has three papers accepted
at the International
Conference on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, December 2009.