Rajeev Balasubramonian
Contact info:
Email: my first name @ cs.utah.edu
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Rm. 3414,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Ph: 801-581-4553; Fax: 801-581-5843
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Research
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My research focuses on many aspects of computer architecture. I am
especially interested in studying how future technology trends
influence the design of microprocessors and memory systems. In recent
years, we have focused on designing memory systems that can cater to
the bandwidth, latency, power, cost, security, and reliability demands of
datacenter and big-data workloads. We are also exploring neuromorphic
architectures.
Current projects include:
- Neuromorphic Architectures : designing accelerators and biology-inspired architectures for cognitive or machine-learning applications.
- Memory Systems : optimizing DRAM/NVM chips, memory controllers, data placement, and security for big-data and datacenter workloads.
Past projects include:
- Reliability : efficient mechanisms to support chipkill reliability in the memory system.
- Large cache design : methodologies to model large NUCA cache hierarchies, policies to organize data, and organizations in 3D.
- Interconnect design : leveraging different wires in a heterogeneous network for architectural innovation.
- Transactional memory : innovations for scalable hardware transactional memory.
Book
Multi-Core Cache Hierarchies , Rajeev Balasubramonian, Norman P. Jouppi, Naveen Muralimanohar, Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture , Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2011.
Software Release
CACTI 7
USIMM
CACTI 6.0
( CACTI mirror site )
Teaching
In Fall 2017, I am teaching a special topics class on Neuromorphic Architectures (CS 7960).
I typically teach CS 7810 Advanced Computer Architecture,
CS 6810 Computer Architecture,
CS 3810 Computer Organization,
and the Architecture/VLSI Seminar (CS 7937).
Courses taught in the past are listed here.
Students
Graduated:
- Naveen Muralimanohar , Ph.D. September 2008, Wire-Aware Cache Architectures , First employment: HP Labs, Current employment: Amazon.
- Niti Madan , Ph.D. January 2009, Leveraging Mixed-process 3D Die Stacking Technology for Cache Hierarchies and Reliability , First employment: Computing Innovation Fellow at IBM T.J. Watson, Current employment: AMD Research.
- Manu Awasthi , Ph.D. September 2011, Managing Data Locality in Future Memory Hierarchies Using a Hardware Software Co-Design Approach , First employment: Micron, Current employment: IIT Gandhinagar.
- Aniruddha Udipi , Ph.D. March 2012, Designing Efficient Memory for Future Computing Systems , First employment: ARM, Current employment: Google.
- Kshitij Sudan , Ph.D. October 2012, Data Placement for Efficient Main Memory Access , First employment: Samsung, Current employment: ARM.
- Niladrish Chatterjee , Ph.D. September 2013, Designing Efficient Memory Schedulers for Future Systems , First employment: NVidia.
- Seth Pugsley , Ph.D. May 2014, Opportunities for Near Data Computing in MapReduce Workloads , First employment: Intel.
- Manju Shevgoor , Ph.D. October 2015, Enabling Big Memory with Emerging Technologies, First employment: Intel.
- Ali Shafiee , Ph.D. August 2017, Hardware Accelerators for Deep Learning, First employment: Samsung.
- Vivek Venkatesan , M.S. December 2007, Criticality of On-Chip Wires , First employment: Sun (currently, Oracle).
- Byong Wu Chong, M.S. December 2012, Transactional Memory , First employment: Broadcom.
- Gita Sreekumar, M.S. December 2014, First employment: Qualtrics.
- Sahil Koladiya, M.S. May 2015, First employment: Cisco, Current employment: Amazon.
- Akhila Gundu, M.S. May 2015, First employment: Micron.
- Arjun Deb, M.S. May 2016, First employment: Xilinx.
- Chandru Nagarajan, M.S. May 2017, First employment: Micron.
Current:
- Meysam Taassori, Ph.D. student, DRAM Variation
- Karl Taht, Ph.D. student, Prefetching
- Anirban Nag, Ph.D. student, Machine Learning Accelerators
- Surya Narayanan, Ph.D. student, Neuromorphic Architectures
- Shirley Hon, M.S. student, Memory Compression
Life outside work
My blood pressure as an Assistant Professor was 30 points lower than what
it was as a grad student. Must have something to do with a
wonderful wife
and a wonderful sport.