Here are the Year 2001/02 research projects currently underway at the Austin Center for Advanced Studies. If you are interested in starting a collaborative project we invite you to contact us.

A Current Ratio Model for Defect Diagnosis using Quiescent Signal Analysis
Chintan Patel, Ernesto Starosweicki, Dhurva Acharyya,
Smita Pawar, and James F. Plusquellic
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
IBM Technical Contact - Anne Gattiker, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

Dynamic-Threshold Logic for Low-Power VLSI Design
Alan J. Drake and Richard B. Brown
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Jeff Burns, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

Half-Pipe Anchoring: An Efficient Mechanism for TCP Connection Handoff
Ravi Kokku, Ram Rajamony, Lorenzo Alvisi, Harrick Vin
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Ram Rajamony, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

Modeling the Effect of Technology Trends on Soft Error Rate of Combinational Logic
Premkishore Shivakumar, Michael Kistler, Stephen Keckler, Doug Burger, and Lorenzo Alvisi
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
and the IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contacts - John Keaty, Senior Technical
Staff Member, STI Global Integration Lead,
Rob Bell, Jr., Power4 Processor Design, Server Group, and
Ram Rajamony, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Director,
Global Microprocessor Design, Server Group

Workload Characterization of Java Server Applications on Two PowerPC Processors
Pattabi Seshadri, Lizy John, and Alex Mericas
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Alex Mericas, eServer HW Performance, Server Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Director,
Global Microprocessor Design, Server Group

An Adaptive Cache Structure for Future High-Performance Systems
Changkyu Kim, Doug Burger, and Stephen Keckler
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts - John Keaty, Senior Technical
Staff Member, STI Global Integration Lead,
Rob Bell, Jr., Power4 Processor Design, Server Group, and
Ram Rajamony, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Director,
Global Microprocessor Design, Server Group

Improving Value Communication for Thread-Level Speculation
J. Gregory Steffan, Christopher B. Colohan, Antonia Zhai,
and Todd C. Mowry
Computer Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Rick Eickemeyer,
eServer HW Performance, Server Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, Director,
Global Microprocessor Design, Server Group

Hop Integrity and the Security of Routing Protocols
C.T. Huang, E.N. Elnozahy, M. G. Gouda
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - E. N. Elnozahy, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

Bottleneck Characterization of Dynamic Web Site Benchmarks
Cristiana Amza, Emmanuel Cecchet, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Sameh Elnikety, E.N. Elnozahy, Romer Gil, Julie Marguerite, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel,
Department of Computer Science, Rice University
IBM Technical Contact - E. N. Elnozahy, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

"Regatta" and "Power 4" World-Class Innovation and Limits of Organizational Complexity
David V. Gibson - IC2 Institute, Larry D. Browning - College of Communication, Gina Cottone - College of Communication, Darius Mahdjoubi - Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Vivek Ramabhadran - College of Engineering,
Carmen Romo de Vivar - Graduate School of Business,
Judy C. Shetler - College of Communication
All at the University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Program Manager,
UNIX HW - Regatta H+
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director,
UNIX Hardware Development

Managing Complexity in Technology Development: Planning as an Act of Improvisation
Senem Guney, Larry Browning
College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Program Manager,
UNIX HW - Regatta H+
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director,
UNIX Hardware Development

Analytical Optimization Of Signal Delays in VLSI Placement
Andrew B. Kahng, Igor L. Markov,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Paul Villarrubia,
Electronic Design Automation, Microelectronics Division
IBM Sponsors - Glenn Holmes and Michael Wayne, Managers, Electronic Design Automation

Transparent Mobility with Minimal Infrastructure
Praveen Yalagandula, Amit Garg, Mike Dahlin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Harrick Vin
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Ray Young, Linux Technology Group
IBM Sponsor - Ralph Christ, Program Manager,
Linux Technology Center

Scheduling with Dynamic Voltage/Speed Adjustment Using Slack Reclamation in Multi-Processor Real-Time Systems
Dakai Zhu, Rami Melhem, and Bruce R. Childers
Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
IBM Technical Contact - Pat Bohrer, Austin Research Lab
IBM Sponsor - David Cohn, Director, Austin Research Lab

Enabling Autonomic Computing by Building Cognitive Maps of Complex Computing Systems
Dr. Ben Kuipers
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - C. J. Paul, Senior Technical Staff Member, Tivoli Technical Strategy, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - John Sweitzer, Distinguished Engineer,
Tivoli Technical Strategy, Software Group

Novel Techniques for Quantifying Confidence During Multi-Processor Verification, Validation, Debug, and Diagnosis
Ray Mercer
Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University
IBM Technical Contact - Matthew Mehalic, PowerPC Engineering Manager, High Performance Processor Development, IBM Microelectronics Division
IBM Sponsor - Chekib Akrout, Director,
High Speed and Broadband Processor Development

Background Transfers with Minimal Interference
Mike Dahlin
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Jeff Achtermann, Configuration and Operations Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Jeff S. Smith - Vice President, Configuration and Operations Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group

Competitive Profiling and Analysis
Eric Hirst and Rajendra Srivastava
McCombs School of Business,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Lauren Katz, Strategy Opportunity Analyst, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Donald Outland, Director,
Corporate Strategy, Tivoli Software, Software Group

Relating Web Analytics to System Performance and Availability Metrics
Joydeep Ghosh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Binh Q. Nguyen, Senior Architect WebSphere Site Analyzer, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Christopher O'Connor, Director,
Market Management, Performance & Availability Solutions,
Corporate Strategy, Tivoli Software, Software 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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