Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1995
Professor
McKee joined the Department in 1998.
Her research interests lie in the intersection of computer architecture,
operating systems, compilers, and performance evaluation. Her current
work focuses on memory system design and analysis.
Dr. McKee is a member of the Impulse Adaptable Memory Systems project,
where she is helping to build a computer system that gives applications
more control over how their data is accessed.
Another project investigates how to give the memory hierarchy knowledge of
future access patterns, and then how best to exploit that knowledge
to improve system performance. A third project seeks to develop an
analytical method for designing and evaluating better complex cache hierarchies.
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L. Zhang, J.B. Carter, W.C. Hsieh, and S.A. McKee.
Memory System Support for Image Processing.
In the Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, October 1999.
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S.I. Hong, S.A. McKee, M.H. Salinas, R.H. Klenke, J.H. Aylor, and Wm.A. Wulf.
Access Order and Effective Bandwidth for Streams on a Direct Rambus Memory.
In the Proceedings of the Fifth Internationl Symposium on High
Performance Computer Architecture, pp. 80-89, January 1999.
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S.A. McKee, et al.
Smarter Memory: Improving Bandwidth for Streamed References.
IEEE Computer, pp. 54-63, July 1998.
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D.A.B. Weikle, S.A. McKee, and Wm.A. Wulf.
Caches As Filters: A New Approach to Cache Analysis.
In the Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, July 1998.
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Wm.A. Wulf and S.A. McKee.
Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious.
Computer Architecture News, 23(1):20-24, March 1995.