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2024:

  1. Mosaic: Harnessing the Micro-architectural Resources of Servers in Serverless Environments,
    by Jovan Stojkovic, Esha Choukse, Enrique Saurez, Iñigo Goiri, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2024. [Presentation slides]
  2. FriendlyFoe: Adversarial Machine Learning as a Practical Architectural Defense against Side Channel Attacks,
    by Hyoungwook Nam, Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Bo Li, Nam Sung Kim, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), October 2024. [Presentation slides]
  3. Distributed-memory Parallel Algorithms for Sparse Matrix and Sparse Tall-and-Skinny Matrix Multiplication,
    by Isuru Ranawaka, Md Taufique Hussain, Charles Block, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Josep Torrellas, Ariful Azad,
    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), November 2024. [Presentation slides]
  4. ACE Center: Energy-efficient Distributed Computing for the Next Decade and Beyond,
    by Josep Torrellas,
    ACM SIGARCH blog, June 2024.
  5. HADES: Hardware-Assisted Distributed Transactions in the Age of Fast Networks and SmartNICs,
    by Apostolos Kokolis, Antonis Psistakis, Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024. [Presentation slides]
  6. EcoFaaS: Rethinking the Design of Serverless Environments for Energy Efficiency,
    by Jovan Stojkovic, Nikoleta Iliakopoulou, Tianyin Xu, Hubertus Franke, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024. [Presentation slides]
  7. Practical Online Reinforcement Learning for Microprocessors with Micro-Armed Bandit,
    by Gerasimos Gerogiannis and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Top Picks in Computer Architecture Issue, July-August 2024.
  8. Two-Face: Combining Collective and One-Sided Communication for Efficient Distributed SpMM,
    by Charles Block, Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Charith Mendis, Ariful Azad, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2024. [Presentation slides]
  9. Last-Level Cache Side-Channel Attacks Are Feasible in the Modern Public Cloud,
    by Zirui Neil Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2024. Extended Version in arXiv:2405.12469v1. [Presentation slides]
  10. Everywhere All at Once: Co-Location Attacks on Public Cloud FaaS,
    by Zirui Neil Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2024. [Presentation slides]
  11. MINOS: Distributed Consistency and Persistency Protocol Implementation & Offloading to SmartNICs,
    by Antonis Psistakis, Fabien Chaix, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2024. [Presentation slides]
  12. HotTiles: Accelerating SpMM with Heterogeneous Accelerator Architectures,
    by Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Sriram Aananthakrishnan, Josep Torrellas, Ibrahim Hur,
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2024. [Presentation slides]

2023:

  1. Micro-Armed Bandit: Lightweight & Reusable Reinforcement Learning for Microarchitecture Decision-Making,
    by Gerasimos Gerogiannis and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2023. [Presentation slides]
  2. ACE Center for Evolvable Computing,
    by Josep Torrellas,
    The Project Repository Journal (PRj), Volume 17, June 2023.
  3. RETROSPECTIVE: Bulk Disambiguation of Speculative Threads in Multiprocessors,
    by Luis Ceze, James M. Tuck, Calin Cascaval, Josep Torrellas,
    Collection of Retrospectives on Selected Papers from the Second 25 Years of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023.
  4. μManycore: A Cloud-Native CPU for Tail at Scale,
    by Jovan Stojkovic, Chunao Liu, Muhammad Shahbaz, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023. [Presentation slides]
  5. MXFaaS: Resource Sharing in Serverless Environments for Parallelism and Efficiency,
    by Jovan Stojkovic, Tianyin Xu, Hubertus Franke, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023. [Presentation slides]
  6. SPADE: A Flexible and Scalable Accelerator for SpMM and SDDMM,
    by Gerasimos Gerogiannis, Serif Yesil, Damitha Lenadora, Dingyuan Cao, Charith Mendis, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023. [Presentation slides]
  7. Untangle: A Principled Framework to Design Low-Leakage, High-Performance Dynamic Partitioning Schemes,
    by Zirui Neil Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2023. [Presentation slides]
  8. WISE: Predicting the Performance of Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication with Machine Learning,
    by Serif Yesil, Azin Heidarshenas, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas,
    Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), February 2023. [Presentation slides]
  9. Memory-Efficient Hashed Page Tables,
    Jovan Stojkovic, Namrata Mantri, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Tianyin Xu, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2023. [Presentation slides].
  10. SpecFaaS: Accelerating Serverless Applications with Speculative Function Execution,
    Jovan Stojkovic, Tianyin Xu, Hubertus Franke, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2023. [Presentation slides].

2022:

  1. Binoculars: Contention-Based Side-Channel Attacks Exploiting the Page Walker,
    by Zirui Neil Zhao, Adam Morrison, Christopher Fletcher, Josep Torrellas,
    USENIX Security Symposium, August 2022. [Presentation slides].
  2. Graphite: Optimizing Graph Neural Networks on CPUs Through Cooperative Software-Hardware Techniques,
    Zhangxiaowen Gong, Houxiang Ji, Yao Yao, Christopher W. Fletcher, Christopher J. Hughes, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2022. [Presentation slides].
  3. Cloak: Tolerating Non-Volatile Cache Read Latency,
    Apostolos Kokolis, Namrata Mantri, Shrikanth Ganapathy, Josep Torrellas, John Kalamatianos,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2022. [Presentation slides].
  4. Dense Dynamic Blocks: Optimizing SpMM for Processors with Vector and Matrix Units Using Machine Learning Techniques,
    Serif Yesil, Jose E. Moreira, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2022. [Presentation slides].
  5. Maya: Using Formal Control to Obfuscate Power Side Channels,
    Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Sweta Pothukuchi, Petros Voulgaris, Alex Schwing, Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Top Picks in Computer Architecture Issue, May-June 2022.
  6. Distributed Data Persistency,
    Apostolos Kokolis, Antonis Psistakis, Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Top Picks in Computer Architecture Issue, May-June 2022.
  7. Parallel Virtualized Memory Translation with Nested Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables,
    J. Stojkovic, D. Skarlatos, A. Kokolis, T. Xu, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2022. [Presentation slides].
  8. Pinned Loads: Taming Speculative Loads in Secure Processors,
    Z. Zhao, H. Ji, A. Morrison, D. Marinov, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2022. [Presentation slides].

2021:

  1. Distributed Data Persistency,
    Apostolos Kokolis, Antonis Psistakis, Benjamin Reidys, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2021. [Presentation slides].
  2. Maya: Using Formal Control to Obfuscate Power Side Channels,
    Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Sweta Pothukuchi, Petros Voulgaris, Alex Schwing, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2021. [Presentation slides].
    Details on the design of the formal controller are in Designing a Robust Controller for Obfuscating a Computer’s Power, Technical Report, June 2021.
  3. Execution Dependence Extension (EDE): ISA Support for Eliminating Fences,
    Thomas Shull, Nikos Nikoleris, Ilias Vougioukas, Wendy Elsasser, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2021. [Presentation slides].
  4. BabelFish: Fusing Address Translations for Containers
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Umur Darbaz, Bhargava Gopireddy, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Top Picks in Computer Architecture Issue, May-June 2021.
  5. Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
    by Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Artem Khyzha, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher Fletcher,
    Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2021.
  6. UniHeap: Managing Persistent Objects Across Managed Runtimes for Non-Volatile Memory,
    Daixuan Li, Benjamin Reidys, Jinghan Sun, Thomas Shull, Josep Torrellas, Jian Huang,
    International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR), June 2021. [Presentation slides].
  7. Jamais Vu: Thwarting Microarchitectural Replay Attacks,
    Dimitrios Skarlatos, Zirui Neil Zhao, Riccardo Paccagnella, Christopher Fletcher, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2021. [Presentation slides].
  8. Speculative Interference Attacks: Breaking Invisible Speculation Schemes,
    M. Behnia, P. Sahu, R. Paccagnella, J. Yu, Z. Zhao, X. Zou, T. Unterluggauer, J. Torrellas, C. Rozas, A. Morrison, F. Mckeen, F. Liu, R. Gabor, C. Fletcher, A. Basak, A. Alameldeen,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2021. [Presentation slides].
  9. WiDir: A Wireless-Enabled Directory Cache Coherence Protocol,
    Antonio Franques, Apostolos Kokolis, Sergi Abadal, Vimuth Fernando, Sasa Misailovic, Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2021. [Presentation slides].
  10. One Protocol to Rule Them All: Deep Reinforcement Learning Aided MAC for Wireless Network-on-Chips,
    Suraj Jog, Zikun Liu, Antonio Franques, Vimuth Fernando, Sergi Abadal, Josep Torrellas, Haitham Hassanieh,
    USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2021. [Presentation slides].
  11. Fuzzy-Token: An Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless-Enabled Manycores,
    Antonio Franques, Sergi Abadal, Haitham Hassanieh, Josep Torrellas,
    Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), February 2021. [Presentation slides].

2020:

  1. Speculation Invariance (InvarSpec): Faster Safe Execution Through Program Analysis
    Zirui Neil Zhao, Houxiang Ji, Mengjia Yan, Jiyong Yu, Christopher W. Fletcher, Adam Morrison, Darko Marinov, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2020. [Presentation slides].
  2. P-INSPECT: Architectural Support for Programmable Non-Volatile Memory Frameworks
    Apostolos Kokolis, Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2020. [Presentation slides].
  3. SAVE: Sparsity-Aware Vector Engine for Accelerating DNN Training and Inference on CPUs
    Zhangxiaowen Gong, Houxiang Ji, Christopher W. Fletcher, Christopher J. Hughes, Sara Baghsorkhi, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2020. [Presentation slides].
  4. Draco: Architectural and Operating System Support for System Call Security
    Dimitrios Skarlatos, Qingrong Chen, Jianyan Chen, Tianyin Xu, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2020. [Presentation slides].
  5. Speeding Up SpMV for Power-Law Graph Analytics by Enhancing Locality and Vectorization
    Serif Yesil, Azin Heidarshenas, Adam Morrison, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), November 2020. [Presentation slides].
  6. SparseTrain: Leveraging Dynamic Sparsity in Software for Training DNNs on General-Purpose SIMD Processors
    Zhangxiaowen Gong, Houxiang Ji, Christopher W. Fletcher, Christopher J. Hughes, and Josep Torrellas,
    The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), October 2020. [Presentation slides].
  7. BabelFish: Fusing Address Translations for Containers
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Umur Darbaz, Bhargava Gopireddy, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2020. [Presentation slides]. Selected as Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
  8. Speculative Data-Oblivious Execution: Mobilizing Safe Prediction For Safe and Efficient Speculative Execution
    by Jiyong Yu, Namrata Mantri, Josep Torrellas, Adam Morrison, and Christopher W. Fletcher,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2020. [Presentation slides]. Selected as First Prize in Intel Hardware Security Academic Award.
  9. SNUG: Architectural Support for Relaxed Concurrent Priority Queueing in Chip Multiprocessors
    by Azin Heidarshenas, Tanmay Gangwani, Serif Yesil, Adam Morrison, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2020. [Presentation slides].
  10. V-Combiner: Speeding-up Iterative Graph Processing on a Shared-Memory Platform with Vertex Merging
    by Azin Heidarshenas, Serif Yesil, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Sasa Misailovic, Adam Morrison and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2020. [Presentation slides].
  11. Elastic Cuckoo Page Tables: Rethinking Virtual Memory Translation for Parallelism
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Apostolos Kokolis, Tianyin Xu, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2020. [Presentation slides]. [Video]. ASPLOS 2020 Best Paper Award. Also Selected as an Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
  12. MicroScope: Enabling Microarchitectural Replay Attacks
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Mengjia Yan, Bhargava Gopireddy, Read Sprabery, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher Fletcher,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Volume 40, Issue 3, May-June 2020.
  13. Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
    by Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Artem Khyzha, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher Fletcher,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Volume 40, Issue 3, May-June 2020.
  14. Engineer the Channel and Adapt to it: Enabling Wireless Intra-Chip Communication
    by Xavier Timoneda, Sergi Abadal, Antonio Franques, Dionysios Manessis, Jin Zhou, Josep Torrellas, Eduard Alarcon, and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio,
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 5, 2020.
  15. Control Systems for Computing Systems: Making Computers Efficient with Modular, Coordinated and Robust Control
    by Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Sweta Pothukuchi, Petros Voulgaris, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Control Systems Magazine, April, 2020. [Cover Article].
  16. Cache Telepathy: Leveraging Shared Resource Attacks to Learn DNN Architectures
    by Mengjia Yan, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Josep Torrellas,
    USENIX Security Symposium (USS), August 2020. [Presentation slides].

2019:

  1. Tangram: Integrated Control of Heterogeneous Computers
    by Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Joseph L. Greathouse, Karthik Rao, Christopher Erb, Leonardo Piga, Petros Voulgaris, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2019. [Presentation slides].
  2. Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data
    by Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Artem Khyzha, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher Fletcher,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2019. [Presentation slides]. MICRO 2019 Best Paper Award. Also Selected as one of 12 IEEE Micro 2020 Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. Also Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM (CACM).
  3. Understanding Priority-Based Scheduling of Graph Algorithms on a Shared-Memory Platform
    by Serif Yesil, Azin Heidarshenas, Adam Morrison, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), November 2019. [Presentation slides].
  4. Designing Vertical Processors in Monolithic 3D
    by Bhargava Gopireddy and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019. [Presentation slides]. Selected as an Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro 2020 Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
  5. SecDir: A Secure Directory to Defeat Directory Side-Channel Attacks
    by Mengjia Yan, Jen-Yang Wen, Christopher Fletcher, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019. [Presentation slides].
  6. MicroScope: Enabling Microarchitectural Replay Attacks
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Mengjia Yan, Bhargava Gopireddy, Read Sprabery, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher Fletcher,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019. [Presentation slides]. Selected as one of 12 IEEE Micro 2020 Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
  7. AutoPersist: An Easy-To-Use Java NVM Framework Based on Reachability
    by Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2019. [Presentation slides].
  8. Reusable Inline Caching for JavaScript Performance
    by Jiho Choi, Thomas Shull, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2019. [Presentation slides].
  9. Replica: A Wireless Manycore for Communication-Intensive and Approximate Data
    by Vimuth Fernando, Antonio Franques, Sergi Abadal, Sasa Misailovic, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2019. [Presentation slides].
  10. Opportunistic Beamforming in Wireless Network-on-Chip
    by Sergi Abadal, Adrian Marruedo, Antonio Franques, Hamidreza Taghvaee, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Jin Zhou, Josep Torrellas, and Eduard Alarcon,
    International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2019. [Presentation slides].
  11. QuickCheck: Using Speculation to Reduce the Overhead of Checks in NVM Frameworks
    by Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), April 2019. [Presentation slides].
  12. Designing a User-Friendly Java NVM Framework
    by Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, and Josep Torrellas,
    10th Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, March 2019. [Presentation slides].
  13. NoMap: Speeding-Up JavaScript Using Hardware Transactional Memory
    by Thomas Shull, Jiho Choi, Maria J. Garzaran, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2019. [Presentation slides].
  14. PageSeer: Using Page Walks to Trigger Page Swaps in Hybrid Memory Systems
    by Apostolos Kokolis, Dimitrios Skarlatos, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2019. [Presentation slides].
  15. Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems for the 2020s
    by Albert Cohen, Xipeng Shen, Josep Torrellas, James Tuck, and Yuanyuan Zhou,
    Report on the NSF-sponsored Visioning Workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems, March 2018. The ACM Digital Library also has a copy of the report.
  16. Attack Directories, Not Caches: Side Channel Attacks in a Non-Inclusive World
    by Mengjia Yan, Read Sprabery, Bhargava Gopireddy, Christopher Fletcher, Roy Campbell, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), May 2019. [Presentation slides]. Also, Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP), June 2018, [slides from the talk].
  17. Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Formal Analysis
    by Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Artem Khyzha, Adam Morrison, Josep Torrellas, and Christopher W. Fletcher,
    Technical Report, October 2019.

2018:

  1. InvisiSpec: Making Speculative Execution Invisible in the Cache Hierarchy
    by Mengjia Yan, Jiho Choi, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Adam Morrison, Christopher W. Fletcher, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2018.
    Corrected version of the paper.
    One-page explanation of the correction.
    [Presentation slides]. Honorable Mention in 2019 IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences.
  2. Structured Singular Value Control for Modular Resource Management in Multilayer Computers
    by Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Sweta Yamini Pothukuchi, Josep Torrellas, and Petros Voulgaris,
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 2018. [Presentation slides].
  3. Biased Reference Counting: Limiting Atomic Operations in Reference Counting for Garbage Collection
    by Jiho Choi, Thomas Shull, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), November 2018. [Presentation slides].
  4. An Empirical Study of the Effect of Source-level Loop Transformations on Compiler Stability
    by Zhangxiaowen Gong, Zhi Chen, Justin Szaday, David Wong, Zehra Sura, Neftali Watkinson, Saeed Maleki, David Padua, Alexander Veidenbaum, Alexandru Nicolau, and Josep Torrellas,
    Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), November 2018. [Presentation slides].
  5. Defining a High-Level Programming Model for Emerging NVRAM Technologies
    by Thomas Shull, Jian Huang, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Managed Languages and Runtimes (ManLang), September 2018. [Presentation slides].
  6. HetCore: TFET-CMOS Hetero-Device Architecture for CPUs and GPUs
    by Bhargava Gopireddy, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Wenjuan Zhu, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2018. [Presentation slides].
  7. Yukta: Multilayer Resource Controllers to Maximize Efficiency
    by Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Sweta Yamini Pothukuchi, Petros Voulgaris, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2018. [Presentation slides].
  8. Millimeter-Wave Propagation Within a Computer Chip Package
    by Xavier Timoneda, Sergi Abadal, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Dionysios Manessis, Jin Zhou, Antonio Franques, Josep Torrellas and Eduard Alarcon,
    International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2018. [Presentation slides].
  9. RnR-Safe: Record-Replay Architecture as a General Security Framework
    by Yasser Shalabi, Mengjia Yan, Nima Honarmand, Ruby Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2018. [Presentation slides].
  10. OrthoNoC: A Broadcast-Oriented Dual-Plane Wireless Network-on-Chip Architecture
    by Sergi Abadal, Josep Torrellas, Eduard Alarcon, and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio,
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume: 29 Issue: 3, March 2018.
  11. Medium Access Control in Wireless Network-on-Chip: A Context Analysis
    by Sergi Abadal, Albert Mestres, Josep Torrellas, Eduard Alarcon, and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio,
    IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2018.

2017:

  1. PageForge: A Near-Memory Content-Aware Page-Merging Architecture
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2017. [Presentation slides].
  2. Xylem: Enhancing Vertical Thermal Conduction in 3D Processor-Memory Stacks
    by Aditya Agrawal, Josep Torrellas, and Sachin Idgunji,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2017. [Presentation slides].
  3. LORE: A Loop Repository for the Evaluation of Compilers
    by Zhi Chen, Zhangxiaowen Gong, Justin Szaday, David Wong, David Padua, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander Veidenbaum, Neftali Watkinson, Zehra Sura, Saeed Maleki, Josep Torrellas, and Gerald DeJong,
    International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), October 2017. [Presentation slides].
  4. Sthira: A Formal Approach to Minimize Voltage Guardbands under Variation in Networks-on-Chip for Energy Efficiency
    by Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Amin Ansari, Bhargava Gopireddy, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2017. Best Paper Nominee. [Presentation slides].
  5. ShortCut: Architectural Support for Fast Object Access in Scripting Languages
    by Jiho Choi, Thomas Shull, Maria Garzaran, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2017. [Presentation slides].
  6. Secure Hierarchy-Aware Cache Replacement Policy (SHARP): Defending Against Cache-Based Side Channel Attacks
    by Mengjia Yan, Bhargava Gopireddy, Thomas Shull, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2017. [Presentation slides].
  7. Survive: Pointer-based In-DRAM Incremental Checkpointing for Low-Cost Data Persistence and Rollback-Recovery
    by Amirhossein Mirhosseini, Aditya Agrawal, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), July-December 2017.

2016:

  1. Compiler Support for Software Cache Coherence
    by Sanket Tavarageri, Wooil Kim, Josep Torrellas, and P. Sadayappan,
    International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), December 2016. [Presentation slides]
  2. ReplayConfusion: Detecting Cache-based Covert Channel Attacks Using Record and Replay
    by Mengjia Yan, Yasser Shalabi, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2016. [Presentation slides]
  3. Snatch: Opportunistically Reassigning Power Allocation between Processor and Memory in 3D Stacks
    by Dimitrios Skarlatos, Renji Thomas, Aditya Agrawal, Shibin Qin, Robert Pilawa, Ulya Karpuzcu, Radu Teodorescu, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2016. [Presentation slides]
  4. A MAC Protocol for Reliable Broadcast Communications in Wireless Network-on-Chip
    by Albert Mestres, Sergi Abadal, Josep Torrellas, Eduard Alarcon, and Albert Cabellos-Aparicio,
    International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc), October 2016. [Presentation slides]
  5. WearCore: A Core for Wearable Workloads
    by Sanyam Mehta and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2016. [Presentation slides]
  6. Using Multiple Input, Multiple Output Formal Control to Maximize Resource Efficiency in Architectures
    by Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Amin Ansari, Petros Voulgaris, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2016. [Presentation slides].
    Details on the model and methodology are in A Guide to Design MIMO Controllers for Architectures, Technical Report, April 2016.
  7. Architecting and Programming a Hardware-Incoherent Multiprocessor Cache Hierarchy
    by Wooil Kim, Sanket Tavarageri, Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2016. [Presentation slides]
  8. CASPAR: Breaking Serialization in Lock-Free Multicore Synchronization
    by Tanmay Gangwani, Adam Morrison, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2016. [Presentation slides]
  9. WiSync: An Architecture for Fast Synchronization through On-Chip Wireless Communication
    by Sergi Abadal, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio, Eduard Alarcon, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2016. [Presentation slides]
  10. SCsafe: Logging Sequential Consistency Violations Continuously and Precisely
    by Yuelu Duan, David Koufaty, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2016. [Presentation slides]
  11. ScalCore: Designing a Core for Voltage Scalability
    by Bhargava Gopireddy, Choungki Song, Josep Torrellas, Nam Sung Kim, Aditya Agrawal, and Asit Mishra,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), March 2016. [Presentation slides]

2015:

  1. Asymmetric Memory Fences: Optimizing Both Performance and Implementability
    by Yuelu Duan, Nima Honarmand and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2015. [Presentation slides]
  2. Extreme-Scale Computer Architecture
    by Josep Torrellas,
    National Science Review, Special Issue on High Performance Computing, Oxford University Press, 2015.
  3. Many-Core Architecture for NTC: Energy Efficiency from the Ground Up
    by Josep Torrellas,
    Near Threshold Computing - Technology, Methods and Applications, Michael Huebner and Cristina Silvano Editors, Springer, 2015.

2014:

  1. Using an Adaptive HPC Runtime System to Reconfigure the Cache Hierarchy
    by Ehsan Totoni, Josep Torrellas, and Laxmikant V. Kale,
    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2014. [Presentation slides]
  2. Replay Debugging: Leveraging Record and Replay for Program Debugging
    by Nima Honarmand and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2014. [Presentation slides]
  3. OmniOrder: Directory-Based Conflict Serialization of Transactions
    by Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2014. [Presentation slides]
  4. Improving JavaScript Performance by Deconstructing the Type System
    by Wonsun Ahn, Jiho Choi, Thomas Shull, Maria Garzaran, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2014. Distinguished Paper Award. [Presentation slides]
  5. Making Parallel Programming Easy: Research Contributions from Illinois
    by Josep Torrellas, Sarita V. Adve, Vikram S. Adve, Danny Dig, Minh N. Do, Maria Jesus Garzaran, John C. Hart, Thomas S. Huang, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Samuel T. King, Darko Marinov, Klara Nahrstedt, David A. Padua, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Sanjay J. Patel, and Marc Snir,
    September 2013.
  6. RelaxReplay: Record and Replay for Relaxed-Consistency Multiprocessors
    by Nima Honarmand and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2014. [Presentation slides]
  7. Extreme-Scale Computer Architecture: Energy Efficiency from the Ground Up
    by Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2014. [Presentation slides]
  8. Mosaic: Exploiting the Spatial Locality of Process Variation to Reduce Refresh Energy in On-Chip eDRAM Modules
    by Aditya Agrawal, Amin Ansari, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2014. [Presentation slides]
  9. Tangle: Route-Oriented Dynamic Voltage Minimization for Variation-Afflicted, Energy-Efficient On-Chip Networks
    by Amin Ansari, Asit Mishra, Jianping Xu, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2014. Best Paper Nominee in HPCA. Honorable Mention in 2015 IEEE Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. [Presentation slides]
  10. Dynamically Detecting and Tolerating IF-Condition Data Races
    by Shanxiang Qi, Abdullah Muzahid, Wonsun Ahn, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2014. [Presentation slides]

2013:

  1. BulkCommit: Scalable and Fast Commit of Atomic Blocks in a Lazy Multiprocessor Environment
    by Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices, Josep Torrellas, and Depei Qian,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2013. [Presentation slides]
  2. Coping with Parametric Variation at Near-Threshold Voltages
    by Ulya Karpuzcu, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Special Issue on Reliability-Aware Microarchitecture Design, Volume:33 Issue:4, July-Aug. 2013.
  3. QuickRec: Prototyping an Intel Architecture Extension for Record and Replay of Multithreaded Programs
    by Gilles Pokam, Klaus Danne, Cristiano Pereira, Rolf Kassa, Tim Kranich, Shiliang Hu, and Justin Gottschlich (Intel), and Nima Honarmand, Nathan Dautenhahn, Sam King and Josep Torrellas (UIUC),
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2013. [Presentation slides]
  4. WeeFence: Toward Making Fences Free in TSO
    by Yuelu Duan, Abdullah Muzahid, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2013. [Presentation slides]
  5. DeAliaser: Alias Speculation Using Atomic Region Support
    by Wonsun Ahn, Yuelu Duan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2013. [Presentation slides]
  6. Cyrus: Unintrusive Application-Level Record-Replay for Replay Parallelism
    by Nima Honarmand, Nathan Dautenhahn, Josep Torrellas, Samuel King, Gilles Pokam and Cristiano Pereira,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2013. [Presentation slides]
  7. Volition: Scalable and Precise Sequential Consistency Violation Detection
    by Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices, Josep Torrellas and Depei Qian,
    International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2013. [Presentation slides]
  8. Runnemede: An Architecture for Ubiquitous High-Performance Computing
    by Nicholas P. Carter, Aditya Agrawal, Shekhar Borkar, Romain Cledat, Howard David, Dave Dunning, Joshua Fryman, Ivan Ganev, Roger A. Golliver, Rob Knauerhase, Richard Lethin, Benoit Meister, Asit K. Mishra, Wilfred R. Pinfold, Justin Teller, Josep Torrellas, Nicolas Vasilache, Ganesh Venkatesh, and Jianping Xu,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2013. [Presentation slides]
  9. EnergySmart: Toward Energy-Efficient Manycores for Near-Threshold Computing
    by Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Abhishek Sinkar, Nam Sung Kim, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2013. [Presentation slides]
  10. Refrint: Intelligent Refresh to Minimize Power in On-Chip Multiprocessor Cache Hierarchies
    by Aditya Agrawal, Prabhat Jain, Amin Ansari and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2013. [Presentation slides]
  11. Illusionist: Transforming Lightweight Cores into Aggressive Cores on Demand
    by Amin Ansari, Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Josep Torrellas, and Scott Mahlke,
    International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2013. [Presentation slides]

2012:

  1. Vulcan: Hardware Support for Detecting Sequential Consistency Violations Dynamically
    by Abdullah Muzahid, Shanxiang Qi and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2012. [Video of a presentation at UIUC]. [Presentation slides]
  2. FlexRAM: Toward an Advanced Intelligent Memory System. A Retrospective Paper
    by Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), September 2012. [Presentation slides]
  3. 21st Century Computer Architecture
    by Mark Hill, Sarita Adve, Luis Ceze, Mary-Jane Irwin, David Kaeli, Margaret Martonosi, Josep Torrellas, Thomas Wenisch, David Wood and Katherine Yelick,
    A Community White Paper, Computing Community Consortium, May 2012. [Presentation slides]
  4. VARIUS-NTV: A Microarchitectural Model to Capture the Increased Sensitivity of Manycores to Process Variations at Near-Threshold Voltages
    by Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Krishna B. Kolluru, Nam Sung Kim and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2012. [Presentation slides]
  5. Comparing the Power and Performance of Intel's SCC to State-of-the-Art CPUs and GPUs
    by Ehsan Totoni, Babak Behzad, Swapnil Ghike and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), April 2012. [Presentation slides]
  6. BulkSMT: Designing SMT Processors for Atomic-Block Execution
    by Xuehai Qian, Benjamin Sahelices and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Perfomance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2012. [Presentation slides]
  7. Pacman: Tolerating Asymmetric Data Races with Unintrusive Hardware
    by Shanxiang Qi, Norimasa Otsuki, Lois Orosa, Abdullah Muzahid, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Perfomance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2012. [Presentation slides]
  8. BulkCompactor: Optimized Deterministic Execution via Conflict-Aware Commit of Atomic Blocks
    by Yuelu Duan, Xing Zhou, Wonsun Ahn, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on High Perfomance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2012. [Presentation slides]

2011:

  1. FlexBulk: Intelligently Forming Atomic Blocks in Blocked-Execution Multiprocessors to Minimize Squashes
    by Rishi Agarwal and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2011. [Presentation slides]
  2. Rebound: Scalable Checkpointing for Coherent Shared Memory
    by Rishi Agarwal, Pranav Garg, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2011. [Presentation slides]
  3. Thread-Level Speculation
    by Josep Torrellas,
    Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer Science+Business Media LLC, May 2011.
  4. Cache-Only Memory Architecture
    by Josep Torrellas,
    Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer Science+Business Media LLC, May 2011.

2010:

  1. Failure is not an Option: Popular Parallel Programming
    by J.Torrellas, M.Oskin, S.Adve, G.Almasi, L.Ceze, A.Chtchelkanova, C.Das, B.Feiereisen, W.Harrod, M.Hill, J.Hiller, S.Kannan, K.Kant, C.Kozyrakis, J.Larus, R.Murphy, O.Mutlu, S.Narayanasamy, K.Olukotun, Y.Patt, A.Sivasubramaniam, K.Skadron, K.Strauss, S.Swanson, and D.Tullsen,
    Report from the CCC-Sponsored First Workshop on Advancing Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-1),
    released October 2010. [Summary slides]
  2. Laying a New Foundation for IT: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond
    by M.Oskin, J.Torrellas, C.Das, J.Davis, S.Dwarkadas, L.Eeckhout, B.Feiereisen, D.Jimenez, M.Hill, M.Kim, J.Larus, M.Martonosi, O.Mutlu, K.Olukotun, A.Putnam, T.Sherwood, J.Smith, D.Wood, and C.Zilles,
    Report from the CCC-Sponsored Second Workshop on Advancing Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-2),
    released December 2010. [Summary slides]
  3. ScalableBulk: Scalable Cache Coherence for Atomic Blocks in a Lazy Environment
    by Xuehai Qian, Wonsun Ahn, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2010. [Presentation slides]
  4. AtomTracker: A Comprehensive Approach to Atomic Region Inference and Violation Detection
    by Abdullah Muzahid, Norimasa Otsuki, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2010. [Presentation slides]
  5. InstantCheck: Checking the Determinism of Parallel Programs Using On-the-fly Incremental Hashing
    by Adrian Nistor, Darko Marinov, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2010. [Presentation slides]
  6. LeadOut: Composing Low-Overhead Frequency-Enhancing Techniques for Single-Thread Performance in Configurable Multicores
    by Brian Greskamp, Ulya R. Karpuzcu, and Josep Torrellas,
    16th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 2010. [Presentation slides]

2009:

  1. The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Improved Programmability
    by Josep Torrellas, Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos, Wonsun Ahn, and Milos Prvulovic,
    Communications of the ACM (CACM), December 2009. [Presentation slides]
  2. Architectures for Extreme-Scale Computing
    by Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer, November 2009. [Presentation slides]
  3. BulkCompiler: High-Performance Sequential Consistency through Cooperative Compiler and Hardware Support
    by Wonsun Ahn, Shanxiang Qi, Jae-Woo Lee, Marios Nicolaides, Xing Fang, Josep Torrellas, David Wong, and Samuel Midkiff,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2009. [Presentation slides]
  4. The BubbleWrap Many-Core: Popping Cores for Sequential Acceleration
    by Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Brian Greskamp and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2009. Best Paper Award. [Presentation slides]
  5. Light64: Lightweight Hardware Support for Data Race Detection during Systematic Testing of Parallel Programs
    by Adrian Nistor, Darko Marinov, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2009. [Presentation slides]
  6. Hardware and Software Approaches for Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay of Concurrent Programs
    by Gilles Pokam, Cristiano Pereira, Klaus Danne, Lynda Yang, Samuel King, and Josep Torrellas,
    Intel Technology Journal, Issue on Addressing the Challenges of Tera-Scale Computing, Vol. 13, Issue 4, December 2009.
  7. SigRace: Signature-Based Data Race Detection
    by Abdullah Muzahid, Dario Suarez, Shanxiang Qi, and Josep Torrellas,
    36th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2009. [Presentation slides]
  8. Two Hardware-based Approaches for Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay
    by Derek R. Hower, Pablo Montesinos, Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, and Josep Torrellas,
    Research Highlight, Communications of the ACM (CACM), June 2009.
  9. Lessons Learned During the Development of the CapoOne Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay System
    by Pablo Montesinos, Matthew Hicks, Wonsun Ahn, Samuel T. King, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), June 2009. [Presentation slides]
  10. SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization
    by James Tuck, Wonsun Ahn, Luis Ceze, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2009.
  11. Capo: A Software-Hardware Interface for Practical Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay
    by Pablo Montesinos, Matthew Hicks, Samuel T. King, and Josep Torrellas,
    14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2009. [Presentation slides]
  12. BubbleWrap: Popping CMP Cores for Sequential Acceleration
    by Brian Greskamp, R. Ulya Karpuzcu, and Josep Torrellas,
    Wild and Crazy Ideas Session, at 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2009. Best Idea Award. [Presentation slides]
  13. BlueShift: Designing Processors for Timing Speculation from the Ground Up
    by Brian Greskamp, Lu Wan, Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Jeffrey J. Cook, Josep Torrellas, Deming Chen, and Craig Zilles,
    15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2009. [Presentation slides]
  14. Programming and Debugging Shared Memory Programs with Data Coloring
    by Luis Ceze, Christoph von Praun, Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computing (CPC), January 2009.

2008:

  1. Techniques to Mitigate the Effects of Congenital Faults in Processors
    by Smruti R. Sarangi and Josep Torrellas
    160 pages, ISBN: 978-3-639-04637-3, VDM Verlag, 2008.
  2. Facelift: Hiding and Slowing Down Aging in Multicores
    by Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2008. [Presentation slides]
  3. EVAL: Utilizing Processors with Variation-Induced Timing Errors
    by Smruti Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Abhishek Tiwari, and Josep Torrellas,
    41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2008. [Presentation slides]
  4. DeLorean: Recording and Deterministically Replaying Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Execution Efficiently
    by Pablo Montesinos, Luis Ceze, and Josep Torrellas,
    35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2008. [Presentation slides]
  5. Variation-Aware Application Scheduling and Power Management for Chip Multiprocessors
    by Radu Teodorescu and Josep Torrellas,
    35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2008. [Presentation slides]
  6. An Updated Evaluation of ReCycle
    by Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    7th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD), June 2008. [Presentation slides]
  7. Using Register Lifetime Predictions to Protect Register Files Against Soft Errors
    by Pablo Montesinos, Wei Liu, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), To Appear, 2008.
  8. SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization
    by James Tuck, Wonsun Ahn, Luis Ceze, and Josep Torrellas,
    13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2008. [Presentation slides]
  9. Concurrency Control with Data Coloring
    by Luis Ceze, Christoph von Praun, Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC), March 2008.
  10. OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation
    by Ishwar Parulkar, Alan Wood, James C. Hoe, Babak Falsafi, Sarita Adve, Josep Torrellas, and Subhasish Mitra,
    Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects (SELSE), March 2008. [Presentation slides]
  11. VARIUS: A Model of Process Variation and Resulting Timing Errors for Microarchitects
    by Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (IEEE TSM), February 2008. [Presentation slides]

2007:

  1. Unconstrained Snoop Request Delivery in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors
    by Karin Strauss, Xiaowei Shen, and Josep Torrellas,
    40th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2007. [Presentation slides]
  2. Mitigating Parameter Variation with Dynamic Fine-Grain Body Biasing
    by Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    40th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2007. [Presentation slides]
  3. CAP: Criticality Analysis for Power-Efficient Speculative Multithreading
    by James Tuck, Wei Liu, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 2007. [Presentation slides]
  4. Estimating Design Time for System Circuits
    by Cyrus Bazeghi, Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Brian Greskamp, Josep Torrellas, and Jose Renau,
    International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), October 2007.
  5. Paceline: Improving Single-Thread Performance in Nanoscale CMPs through Core Overclocking
    by Brian Greskamp and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2007. [Presentation slides]
  6. BulkSC: Bulk Enforcement of Sequential Consistency
    by Luis Ceze, James M. Tuck, Pablo Montesinos, and Josep Torrellas,
    34th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2007. [Presentation slides]
  7. ReCycle: Pipeline Adaptation to Tolerate Process Variation
    by Abhishek Tiwari, Smruti Sarangi, and Josep Torrellas,
    34th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2007. [Presentation slides]
    An updated version with a more realistic pipeline model appears in An Updated Evaluation of ReCycle
    by Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    7th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD), June 2008. [Presentation slides]
  8. VARIUS: A Model of Parameter Variation and Resulting Timing Errors for Microarchitects
    by Radu Teodorescu, Brian Greskamp, Jun Nakano, Smruti R. Sarangi, Abhishek Tiwari and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Architectural Support for Gigascale Integration (ASGI), June 2007.
  9. Using Register Lifetime Predictions to Protect Register Files Against Soft Errors
    by Pablo Montesinos, Wei Liu, and Josep Torrellas,
    37th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2007. [Presentation slides]
    This is an extension of Shield: Cost-Effective Soft-Error Protection for Register Files
    Third IBM TJ Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits and Compilers (PAC2), October 2006. [Presentation slides]
  10. Threshold Voltage Variation Effects on Aging-Related Hard Failure Rates
    by Brian Greskamp, Smruti Sarangi, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
    Special Session: Circuit Design in the Presence of Device Variability, May 2007. [Presentation slides]
  11. A Model for Timing Errors in Processors with Parameter Variation
    by Smruti Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, and Josep Torrellas,
    8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), March 2007.
  12. Patching Processor Design Errors with Programmable Hardware
    by Smruti Sarangi, Satish Narayanasamy, Bruce Carneal, Abhishek Tiwari, Brad Calder, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2007.
  13. Colorama: Architectural Support for Data-Centric Synchronization
    by Luis Ceze, Pablo Montesinos, Christoph von Praun, and Josep Torrellas,
    13th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2007. [Presentation slides]

2006:

  1. Phoenix: Detecting and Recovering from Permanent Processor Design Bugs with Programmable Hardware
    by Smruti R. Sarangi, Abhishek Tiwari, and Josep Torrellas,
    39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO06), December 2006. Best Paper Award. [Presentation slides]
  2. Scalable Cache Miss Handling for High Memory-Level Parallelism
    by James Tuck, Luis Ceze, and Josep Torrellas,
    39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO06), December 2006. [Presentation slides]
  3. PathExpander: Architectural Support for Increasing the Path Coverage of Dynamic Bug Detection
    by Shan Lu, Pin Zhou, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Josep Torrellas,
    39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO06), December 2006.
  4. Shield: Cost-Effective Soft-Error Protection for Register Files
    by Pablo Montesinos, Wei Liu, and Josep Torrellas,
    Third IBM TJ Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits and Compilers (PAC206), October 2006. [Presentation slides]
  5. Accurate and Efficient Filtering for the Intel Thread Checker Race Detector
    by Paul Sack, Brian E Bliss, Zhiqiang Ma, Paul Petersen, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability (ASID), October 2006. [Presentation slides]
  6. Bulk Disambiguation of Speculative Threads in Multiprocessors
    by Luis Ceze, James M. Tuck, Calin Cascaval, and Josep Torrellas,
    33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2006. [Presentation slides]
  7. Flexible Snooping: Adaptive Forwarding and Filtering of Snoops in Embedded-Ring Multiprocessors
    by Karin Strauss, Xiaowei Shen, and Josep Torrellas,
    33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2006. [Presentation slides]
  8. Designing Hardware that Supports Cycle-Accurate Deterministic Replay
    by Brian Greskamp, Smruti R. Sarangi, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED), June 2006.
  9. Rapid Prototyping in Architecture Research Using Hardware Hooks in COTS Systems
    by Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP), June 2006.
  10. CADRE: Cycle-Accurate Deterministic Replay for Hardware Debugging
    by Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2006. [Presentation slides]
  11. CAVA: Using Checkpoint-Assisted Value Prediction to Hide L2 Misses
    by Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, James Tuck, Jose Renau, and Josep Torrellas,
    ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), June 2006.

  12. SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback
    by Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, IEEE, Inc., vol. 26, September-October, 2006.
  13. Are We Ready for High Memory-Level Parallelism?
    by Luis Ceze, James Tuck, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI), February 2006. [Presentation slides]
  14. Guest Editor's Introduction
    by Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2006.
  15. POSH: A TLS Compiler that Exploits Program Structure
    by Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Wonsun Ahn, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau and Josep Torrellas,
    ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), March 2006. [Presentation slides]
  16. Energy-Efficient Thread-Level Speculation on a CMP
    by Jose Renau, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Wei Liu, Smruti Sarangi, James Tuck, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Magazine, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, January-February 2006.
  17. ReViveI/O: Efficient Handling of I/O in Highly-Available Rollback-Recovery Servers
    by Jun Nakano, Pablo Montesinos, Kourosh Gharachorloo, and Josep Torrellas,
    12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006. [Presentation slides]

2005:

  1. uComplexity: Estimating Processor Design Effort
    by Cyrus Bazeghi, Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Brian Greskamp, Josep Torrellas, and Jose Renau,
    Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2005-2644, August 2005.

  2. ReSlice: Selective Re-Execution of Long-Retired Misspeculated Instructions Using Forward Slicing
    by Smruti R. Sarangi, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas, and Yuanyuan Zhou,
    38th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2005. [Presentation slides]

  3. POSH: A Profiler-Enhanced TLS Compiler that Leverages Program Structure
    by Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau, and Josep Torrellas,
    Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=AC2), September 2005. [Presentation slides]

  4. A Near-Memory Processor for Vector, Streaming and Bit Manipulation Workloads
    by Mingliang Wei, Marc Snir, Josep Torrellas, and R. Brett Tremaine
    Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=AC2), September 2005. [Presentation slides]
    Additional details of the Processor can be found in:
    A Brief Description of the NMP ISA and Benchmarks
    by Mingliang Wei, Marc Snir, Josep Torrellas, and R. Brett Tremaine
    Technical Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2005-2633, February 2005.

  5. Tradeoffs in Buffering Speculative Memory State for Thread-Level Speculation in Multiprocessors
    by Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Jose Maria Llaberia, Victor Vinals, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), September 2005.

  6. Thread-Level Speculation on a CMP Can Be Energy Efficient
    by Jose Renau, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Wei Liu, Smruti Sarangi, James Tuck, and Josep Torrellas,
    2005 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2005. [Presentation slides]

  7. Tasking with Out-of-Order Spawn in TLS Chip Multiprocessors: Microarchitecture and Compilation
    Jose Renau, James Tuck, Wei Liu, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, and Josep Torrellas,
    2005 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2005. [Presentation slides]

  8. The Design Complexity of Program Undo Support in a General-Purpose Processor
    by Radu Teodorescu and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design (WCED), in conjunction with ISCA, June 2005. [Presentation slides]

  9. Empowering Software Debugging Through Architectural Support for Program Rollback
    by Radu Teodorescu and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on the Evaluation of Software Defect Detection Tools (BUGS), in conjunction with PLDI, June 2005. [Presentation slides]

  10. Deploying Architectural Support for Software Defect Detection in Future Processors
    by Yuanyuan Zhou and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on the Evaluation of Software Defect Detection Tools (BUGS), in conjunction with PLDI, June 2005.

  11. Prototyping Architectural Support for Program Rollback Using FPGAs
    by Radu Teodorescu and J. Torrellas,
    2005 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), April 2005. [Presentation slides]
    A one-page summary can be found as
    Prototyping Architectural Support for Program Rollback: An Application to Software Debugging
    Workshop on Architecture Research using FPGA Platforms, in conjunction with HPCA-11, February 2005. [Presentation slides]

2004:

  1. CAVA: Hiding L2 Misses with Checkpoint-Assisted Value Prediction
    by Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, James Tuck, Jose Renau and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), IEEE, Inc., December 2004.
  2. Efficient and Flexible Architectural Support for Dynamic Monitoring
    by Yuanyuan Zhou, Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, and Josep Torrellas,
    ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), December 2004.
  3. iWatcher: Simple and General Architectural Support for Software Debugging
    by Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, November-December 2004.
  4. AccMon: Automatically Detecting Memory-Related Bugs via Program Counter-Based Invariants
    by Pin Zhou, Wei Liu, Fei Long, Shan Lu, Feng Qin, Yuanyuan Zhou, Sam Midkiff and Josep Torrellas,
    37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2004.

  5. iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging
    by Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou and Josep Torrellas,
    31th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2004. [Presentation slides]

2003:

  1. Speculative Synchronization
    by Jose Martinez and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences, November-December 2003.

  2. High Performance Memory Systems
    by Haldun Hadimioglu, David Kaeli, Jeff Kuskin, Ashwini Nanda and Josep Torrellas, editors
    290 pages, ISBN: 0-387-00310-X, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.

  3. Managing Multiple Low-Power Adaptation Techniques: The Positional Approach
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau and Josep Torrellas,
    Sidebar, Special Issue on Power-Aware Computing, IEEE Computer, December 2003.

  4. Design Trade-offs in High-Throughput Coherence Controllers
    by Anthony Nguyen and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2003. [Presentation slides]

  5. Using Software Logging to Support Multi-Version Buffering in Thread-Level Speculation
    by Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Jose Maria Llaberia, Victor Vinals, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2003. [Presentation slides]

  6. ReEnact: Using Thread-Level Speculation to Debug Data Races in Multithreaded Codes
    by Milos Prvulovic and Josep Torrellas,
    30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003. [Presentation slides]

  7. Positional Adaptation of Processors: Application to Energy Reduction
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, and Josep Torrellas,
    30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003. [Presentation slides]

  8. Programming the FlexRAM Parallel Intelligent Memory System
    by Basilio Fraguela, Paul Feautrier, Jose Renau, David Padua, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), June 2003. [Presentation slides]

  9. Correlation Prefetching with a User-Level Memory Thread
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing (TPDS), June 2003.

  10. Tradeoffs in Buffering Memory State for Thread-Level Speculation in Multiprocessors
    by Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Jose Maria Llaberia, Victor Vinals, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2003. [Presentation slides]

2002:

  1. Cherry: Checkpointed Early Resource Recycling in Out-of-order Microprocessors
    by José F. Martínez, Jose Renau, Michael Huang, Milos Prvulovic, and Josep Torrellas,
    35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2002. [Presentation slides]

  2. Speculative Synchronization: Applying Thread-Level Speculation to Explicitly Parallel Applications
    by José F. Martínez and Josep Torrellas,
    10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 2002. [Presentation slides]

  3. Software Trace Cache for Commercial Applications
    by Alex Ramirez, Josep-L. Larriba-Pey, Carlos Navarro, Josep Torrellas, and Mateo Valero,
    International Journal of Parallel Processing (IJPP), Vol. 30, Number 5, pp. 373-395, October 2002.

  4. Energy-Efficient Hybrid Wakeup Logic
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2002. [Presentation slides]

  5. CFlex: A Programming Language for the FlexRAM Intelligent Memory Architecture
    by Basilio Fraguela, Jose Renau, Paul Feautrier, David Padua, and Josep Torrellas,
    Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2002-2287, Dept. of Computer Science, UIUC, July 2002.

  6. Using a User-Level Memory Thread for Correlation Prefetching
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    29th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 2002. [Presentation slides]

  7. ReVive: Cost-Effective Architectural Support for Rollback Recovery in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Milos Prvulovic, Zheng Zhang, and Josep Torrellas
    29th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 2002. [Presentation slides]
    In the paper, there is a typo in the Y-Axes of Figs 9 and 10. The corrected plots are here.

  8. Eliminating Squashes Through Learning Cross-Thread Violations in Speculative Parallelization for Multiprocessors
    by Marcelo Cintra and Josep Torrellas,
    Eigth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2002. [Presentation slides]

  9. Compiler-Assisted Software and Hardware Support for Reduction Operations
    by F. Dang, M. Garzaran, M. Prvulovic, Y. Zhang, A. Jula, H. Yu, N. Amato, L. Rauchwerger, and J. Torrellas,
    NSF Workshop on Next Generation Systems, April 2002.

2001:

  1. Energy/Performance Design of Memory Hierarchies for Processor-in-Memory Chips
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, and Josep Torrellas,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 2107) by Springer-Verlag, 2001.

  2. Adaptively Mapping Code in an Intelligent Memory Architecture
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 2107) by Springer-Verlag, 2001.

  3. Automatic Code Mapping on an Intelligent Memory Architecture
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on High Performance Memory Systems, November 2001.

  4. Prefetching in an Intelligent Memory Architecture Using a Helper Thread
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    Fifth Workshop on Multithreaded Execution, Architecture, and Compilation, December 2001 (Best Paper Award).

  5. Profile-Based Energy Reduction for High-Performance Processors
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, and Josep Torrellas,
    Fourth Workshop on Feedback Directed and Dynamic Optimization (FDDO), December 2001.

  6. The Design of DEETM: A Framework for Dynamic Energy Efficiency and Temperature Management
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, and Josep Torrellas,
    Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism (JILP), Vol. 3, October 2001.

  7. Architectural Support for Parallel Reductions in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Alin Jula, Hao Yu, Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2001. [Presentation slides]

  8. L1 Data Cache Decomposition for Energy Efficiency
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, and Josep Torrellas,
    International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2001.

  9. Removing Architectural Bottlenecks to the Scalability of Speculative Parallelization
    by Milos Prvulovic, Maria Jesus Garzaran, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    28th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2001. [Presentation slides]

  10. Speculative Locks for Concurrent Execution of Critical Sections in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by José F. Martínez and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, June 2001. [Presentation slides]

  11. Software Logging under Speculative Parallelization
    by Maria Jesus Garzaran, Milos Prvulovic, Jose Maria Llaberia, Victor Vinals, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, June 2001. [Presentation slides]

  12. Exploiting Intelligent Memory for Database Workloads
    by Pedro Trancoso and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, June 2001.

  13. The Need for Fast Communication in Hardware-Based Speculative Chip Multiprocessors
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Journal of Parallel Processing (IJPP), Vol. 29, Number 1, pp. 3-33, February 2001.

  14. Automatically Mapping Code on an Intelligent Memory Architecture
    by Jaejin Lee, Yan Solihin, and Josep Torrellas,
    Seventh International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 2001. [Presentation slides]
    An extended version of it appears in
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on High Performance Memory Systems, November 2001.

2000:

  1. A Framework for Dynamic Energy Efficiency and Temperature Management
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, and Josep Torrellas,
    33rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2000. [Presentation slides]
    The power model used is discussed in CSRD Technical Report 1584, October 2000.

  2. Energy/Performance Design of Memory Hierarchies for Processor-in-Memory Chips
    by Michael Huang, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, and Josep Torrellas,
    2nd Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems, November 2000.
    It also appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 2107) by Springer-Verlag, 2001.

  3. Adaptively Mapping Code in an Intelligent Memory Architecture
    by Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas,
    2nd Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems, November 2000.
    It also appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 2107) by Springer-Verlag, 2001.

  4. FlexRAM Architecture Design Parameters
    by Seung-Moon Yoo, Jose Renau, Michael Huang, and Josep Torrellas,
    Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD) Technical Report 1584, October 2000.

  5. Unified Fine-Granularity Buffering of Index and Data: Approach and Implementation
    by Qiang Cao, Josep Torrellas, and H. V. Jagadish
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), September 2000.

  6. SmartApps: An Application-Centric Approach to High Performance Computing
    by Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy Amato, and Josep Torrellas,
    Thirteen International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), August 2000.

  7. Architectural Support for Scalable Speculative Parallelization in Shared-Memory Systems
    by Marcelo Cintra, José F. Martínez and Josep Torrellas,
    27th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2000. [Presentation slides]

  8. Toward a Cost-Effective DSM Organization that Exploits Processor-Memory Integration
    by Josep Torrellas, Liuxi Yang and Anthony-Trung Nguyen,
    Sixth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 2000.

1999:

  1. Comprehensive Hardware and Software Support for Operating Systems to Exploit MP Memory Hierarchies
    by Chun Xia and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 1999.

  2. A Chip Multiprocessor Architecture with Speculative Multithreading
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Multithreaded Architecture, September 1999.

  3. Excel-NUMA: Toward Programmability, Simplicity, and High Performance
    by Zheng Zhang, Marcelo Cintra, and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Cache Memory, February 1999.
    A longer version is CSRD Technical Report 1544, November 1996.

  4. FlexRAM: Toward an Advanced Intelligent Memory System
    by Yi Kang, Michael Huang, Seung-Moon Yoo, Zhenzho Ge, Diana Keen, Vinh Lam, Prattap Pattnaik and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 1999. [Presentation slides]

  5. Scal-Tool: Pinpointing and Quantifying Scalability Bottlenecks in DSM Multiprocessors
    by Yan Solihin, Vinh Lam, and Josep Torrellas,
    SC 99, November 1999. [Presentation slides]

  6. The Need for Fast Communication in Hardware-Based Speculative Chip Multiprocessors
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), October 1999.

  7. Cache Optimization for Memory-Resident Decision Support Commercial Workloads
    by Pedro Trancoso and Josep Torrellas
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 1999.

  8. Detailed Characterization of a Quad Pentium Pro Server Running TPC-D
    by Qiang Cao, Pedro Trancoso, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Josep Torrellas, Robert Knighten and Youjip Won
    International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 1999.

  9. Cache-Only Memory Architectures
    by Fredrik Dahlgren and Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer Magazine, June 1999.

  10. Optimization of Instruction Fetch for Decision Support Workloads
    by Alex Ramirez, Josep-L. Larriba-Pey, Carlos Navarro, Xavi Serrano, Josep Torrellas, and Mateo Valero,
    1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), September 1999.

  11. Compiler Support for Data Forwarding in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by David Koufaty and Josep Torrellas,
    1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), September 1999.

  12. Improving the Performance of Bristled CC-NUMA Systems Using Virtual Channels and Adaptivity
    by José F. Martínez, Josep Torrellas, and Jose Duato,
    1999 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 1999.

  13. Software Trace Cache
    by Alex Ramirez, Josep-L. Larriba-Pey, Carlos Navarro, Josep Torrellas, and Mateo Valero,
    1999 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 1999.

  14. Hardware for Speculative Parallelization of Partially-Parallel Loops in DSM Multiprocessors
    by Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    Fifth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1999.

  15. Hardware for Speculative Reduction Parallelization and Optimization in DSM Multiprocessors
    by Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    First Workshop on Parallel Computing for Irregular Applications, held in conjunction with HPCA-5, January 1999.

  16. Upcoming Architectural Advances in DSM Machines and Their Impact on Programmability
    by Josep Torrellas,
    9th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 1999.

  17. Hardware for Speculative Parallelization in High-End Multiprocessors
    by Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    The Third PetaFlop Workshop (TPF-3), February 1999.

  18. Computer Architecture Education at the University of Illinois
    by Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer Architecture Technical Committee Newsletter, February 1999.

1998:

  1. Optimizing the Instruction Cache Performance of the Operating System
    by Josep Torrellas, Chun Xia and Russell Daigle,
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, December 1998.
    A shorter version appeared as
    Optimizing Instruction Cache Performance for Operating System Intensive Workloads
    1st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1995.

  2. A Direct-Execution Framework for Fast and Accurate Simulation of Superscalar Processors
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), October 1998.

  3. Hardware and Software Support for Speculative Execution of Sequential Binaries on a Chip-Multiprocessor
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), July 1998.

  4. Comparing Data Forwarding and Prefetching for Communication-Induced Misses in Shared-Memory MPs
    by David Koufaty and Josep Torrellas,
    International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), July 1998.

  5. An IRAM Architecture for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition
    by Yi Kang, Josep Torrellas and Tom Huang,
    14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998.

  6. Executing Sequential Binaries on a Multithreaded Architecture with Speculation Support
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Multi-Threaded Execution, Architecture and Compilation (MTEAC'98), January 1998.

  7. A Clustered Approach to Multithreaded Processors
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS), March 1998.

  8. Hardware for Speculative Run-Time Parallelization in Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Ye Zhang, Lawrence Rauchwerger, and Josep Torrellas,
    Fourth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 1998.

  9. Enhancing Memory Use in Simple Coma: Multiplexed Simple Coma
    by Sujoy Basu and Josep Torrellas,
    Fourth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 1998.

1997:

  1. The Performance of the Cedar Multistage Switching Network
    by Josep Torrellas and Zheng Zhang,
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), April 1997.
    A shorter version appeared as
    The Performance of the Cedar Multistage Switching Network
    Supercomputing'94, November 1994.

  2. How Processor-Memory Integration Affects the Design of DSMs
    by Liuxi Yang, Anthony-Trung Nguyen, and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Mixing Logic and DRAM: Chips that Compute and Remember, June 1997.

  3. Efficient Use of Processing Transistors for Larger On-Chip Storage: Multithreading
    by Venkata Krishnan and Josep Torrellas,
    Workshop on Mixing Logic and DRAM: Chips that Compute and Remember, June 1997.

  4. The Memory Performance of DSS Commercial Workloads in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Pedro Trancoso, Josep-L. Larriba-Pey, Zheng Zhang, and Josep Torrellas,
    Third International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1997.

  5. Reducing Remote Conflict Misses: NUMA with Remote Cache versus COMA
    by Zheng Zhang and Josep Torrellas,
    Third International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1997.

  6. Speeding up the Memory Hierarchy in Flat COMA Multiprocessors
    by Liuxi Yang and Josep Torrellas,
    Third International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1997.

1996:

  1. Data Forwarding in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by D. A. Koufaty, X. Chen, D. K. Poulsen, and J. Torrellas,
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), December 1996.
    A shorter version appeared as
    Data Forwarding in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    1995 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), July 1995.

  2. The Illinois Aggressive Coma Multiprocessor Project (i-acoma)
    by Josep Torrellas and David Padua,
    6th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computing, October 1996.

  3. An Efficient Implementation of Tree-Based Multicast Routing for Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Manuel Perez Malumbres(*), Jose Duato(*), and Josep Torrellas,
    (* Universidad Politecnica de Valencia). 1996 Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP), October 1996.

  4. The Augmint Multiprocessor Simulation Toolkit for Intel x86 Architectures,
    by Anthony-Trung Nguyen, Maged Michael, Arun Sharma, and Josep Torrellas,
    1996 International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 1996.

  5. The Impact of Speeding up Critical Sections with Data Prefetching and Forwarding
    by Pedro Trancoso and Josep Torrellas,
    1996 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 1996.

  6. Computer Architecture Education at the University of Illinois: Current Status and Some Thoughts,
    by Josep Torrellas,
    IEEE Computer Architecture Technical Committee Newsletter, June 1996.

  7. Instruction Prefetching of Systems Codes With Layout Optimized for Reduced Cache Misses
    by Chun Xia and Josep Torrellas,
    23rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1996.

  8. Optimizing the Primary Cache for Parallel Scientific Applications: The Pool Buffer Approach
    by Liuxi Yang and Josep Torrellas,
    1996 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), June 1996.

  9. Distance-Adaptive Update Protocols for Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by Alain Raynaud, Zheng Zhang, and Josep Torrellas,
    Second International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1996.

  10. Improving the Data Cache Performance of Multiprocessor Operating Systems
    by Chun Xia and Josep Torrellas,
    2nd International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1996.

1995:

  1. Evaluating the Performance of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,
    by Josep Torrellas, Andrew Tucker and Anoop Gupta,
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), February 1995.

  2. Data Forwarding in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
    by D. A. Koufaty, X. Chen, D. K. Poulsen, and J. Torrellas,
    1995 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), July 1995.

  3. Speeding up Irregular Applications in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: Memory Binding and Group Prefetching,
    by Zheng Zhang and Josep Torrellas,
    22nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1995.

  4. Optimizing Instruction Cache Performance for Operating System Intensive Workloads
    by Josep Torrellas, Chun Xia and Russell Daigle,
    1st International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1995.

  5. Scalable Shared-Memory Architectures: Introduction to MiniTrack,
    by Josep Torrellas,
    28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 1995.

1994 and Earlier:

  1. False Sharing and Spatial Locality in Multiprocessor Caches,
    by Josep Torrellas, Monica S. Lam and John L. Hennessy,
    Transactions on Computers, June 1994.

  2. The Performance of the Cedar Multistage Switching Network
    by Josep Torrellas and Zheng Zhang,
    Supercomputing'94, November 1994.

  3. An Efficient Algorithm for the Run-time Parallelization of DOACROSS Loops
    by Ding-Kai Chen, Josep Torrellas and Pen-Chung Yew,
    Supercomputing'94, November 1994.

  4. Comparing the Performance and Programmibility of the DASH and Cedar Multiprocessors for Scientific Loads
    by Josep Torrellas and David Koufaty, and David Padua,
    1994 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 1994.

  5. Benefits of Cache-Affinity Scheduling in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: A Summary
    by Josep Torrellas, Andrew Tucker, and Anoop Gupta,
    1993 ACM Sigmetrics Conference, May 1993.

  6. Characterizing the Caching and Synchronization Performance of a Multiprocessor Operating System
    by Josep Torrellas, Anoop Gupta, and John Hennessy,
    Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1992.

  7. Estimating the Performance Advantages of Relaxing Consistency in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
    by Josep Torrellas and John Hennessy,
    1990 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 1990.

  8. Shared Data Placement Optimizations to Reduce Multiprocessor Cache Miss Rates
    by Josep Torrellas, Monica Lam, and John Hennessy,
    1990 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 1990.

  9. Analysis of Critical Architectural and Program Parameters in a Hierarchical Shared-Memory Multiprocessor
    by Josep Torrellas, John Hennessy, and Thierry Weil,
    1990 ACM Sigmetrics Conference, May 1990.