Here are the Year 1999/00 research projects at the Austin Center for Advanced Studies. If you are interested in starting a collaborative project we invite you to contact us.

Scalable Linux Scheduling
Steve Molloy and Dr. Peter Honeyman,
Center for Information Technology Integration,
University of Michigan
In collaboration with Ray Bryant, IBM Linux Technology Center

Compilation Techniques for Customizing Large Java Libraries
Teck Tok and Dr. Calvin Lin,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Weiming Gu and Peter Wong, IBM e-boss System Performance

Issues in Improving Web Server Performance
Ravindranath Kokku, Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi and Dr. Harrick Vin,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Ram Rajamony, IBM Austin Research Laboratory

On-the-fly Compression of Logic Circuits
Malay Ganai,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Andreas Kuehlmann, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Architectural Support for Thread-Level Speculation
Dr. Todd C. Mowry, Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
In collaboration with Charles Moore,
IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Future Performance Monitors
Mary D. Brown,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Characterization of Web Workloads for Three Generations of IBM PowerPC Microarchitectures
Pattabi Sheshadri and Dr. Lizy Kurian John,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Effectiveness of Aggressive Out of Order Scheduling in the IBM PowerPC Processors
Dr. Lizy Kurian John and Juan Rubio
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Compiler Transformations for Improving the Utilization of Hardware Prefetching Units
Ibrahim Hur and Dr. Calvin Lin
Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Brian O'Krafka,
IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Design Challenges for Single-Chip Servers
Vikas Agarwal, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam,
Dr. Doug Burger and Dr. Steve Keckler
Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin
In collaboration with Charles Moore and Alex Mericas,
IBM Enterprise Systems Group

Projects 2002/2003

Projects 2001/2002

Projects 2000/2001

Projects 1999/2000

For More Information
Dr. Ann Marie Maynard
Program Director, Austin CAS
512-838-7937
amg@us.ibm.com
www.research.ibm.com/acas

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