Assistant Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2003
Professor Balasubramonian joins the faculty in Fall 2003.
His research interests include high-performance and low-power computer
architecture. Broadly, he is interested in employing large transistor
budgets in a complexity-effective manner to solve a diverse set of problems.
The primary focus of his research has been the evaluation of technology
trends and their impact on the design of next-generation microprocessors. He
is especially concerned with problems involving long on-chip wire delays and
memory latencies, which represent two of the most important bottlenecks in
the future. Among other things, his dissertation studied scalability issues
in clustered processors, which are designs that incorporate many processing
units on a single die at low complexity. His future research goals include
evaluations of multi-threaded workloads, heterogeneity within a clustered
system, on-chip interconnect networks, power, and thermal issues.