Publications in Architectural Support for System Software

• Overview
• QoS/Fairness in Shared Memory Systems/Controllers
• QoS/Fairness in On-Chip Networks

Overview

• Sangyeun Cho, Tao Li, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Interaction of Many-core Computer Architecture and Operating Systems: Guest Editors' Introduction"
  IEEE Micro Special Issue (IEEE MICRO), Vol. 28, No. 3, pages 2-5, May/June 2008.

QoS/Fairness in Shared Memory Systems/Controllers

• Sai Prashanth Muralidhara, Lavanya Subramanian, Onur Mutlu, Mahmut Kandemir, and Thomas Moscibroda,
  "Reducing Memory Interference in Multicore Systems via Application-Aware Memory Channel Partitioning"
  Proceedings of the 44th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.
  

• Eiman Ebrahimi, Rustam Miftakhutdinov, Chris Fallin, Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt,
  "Parallel Application Memory Scheduling"
  Proceedings of the 44th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Porto Alegre, Brazil, December 2011.
  

• Eiman Ebrahimi, Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt,
  "Prefetch-Aware Shared Resource Management for Multi-Core Systems"
  Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), San Jose, CA, June 2011. Slides (pptx)
  
• Yoongu Kim, Michael Papamichael, Onur Mutlu, and Mor Harchol-Balter,
  "Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2010 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 31, No. 1, January/February 2011.
• Yoongu Kim, Michael Papamichael, Onur Mutlu, and Mor Harchol-Balter,
  "Thread Cluster Memory Scheduling: Exploiting Differences in Memory Access Behavior"
  Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Atlanta, GA, December 2010. Slides (pptx) (pdf)
  One of the computer architecture papers of 2010 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
• Eiman Ebrahimi, Chang Joo Lee, Onur Mutlu, and Yale N. Patt,
  "Fairness via Source Throttling: A Configurable and High-Performance Fairness Substrate for Multi-Core Memory Systems"
  Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pages 335-346, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2010. Slides (pdf)
  Best paper award.
• Yoongu Kim, Dongsu Han, Onur Mutlu, and Mor Harchol-Balter,
  "ATLAS: A Scalable and High-Performance Scheduling Algorithm for Multiple Memory Controllers"
  Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Bangalore, India, January 2010. Slides (pptx)
  Best paper session. One of the four papers nominated for the Best Paper Award by the Program Committee.
• Onur Mutlu and Thomas Moscibroda,
  "Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enabling High-Performance and Fair Memory Controllers"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2008 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 29, No. 1, pages 22-32, January/February 2009.
• Onur Mutlu and Thomas Moscibroda,
  "Parallelism-Aware Batch Scheduling: Enhancing both Performance and Fairness of Shared DRAM Systems"
  Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pages 63-74, Beijing, China, June 2008. Slides (ppt)
  One of the 12 computer architecture papers of 2008 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
• Onur Mutlu and Thomas Moscibroda,
  "Stall-Time Fair Memory Access Scheduling for Chip Multiprocessors"
  Proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pages 146-158, Chicago, IL, December 2007. Slides (ppt)
• Thomas Moscibroda and Onur Mutlu,
  "Memory Performance Attacks: Denial of Memory Service in Multi-Core Systems"
  Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SECURITY), pages 257-274, Boston, MA, August 2007. Slides (ppt)

QoS/Fairness in On-Chip Networks

• Boris Grot, Joel Hestness, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Kilo-NOC: A Network-on-Chip Architecture for Scalability and Service Guarantees in Highly-Integrated CMPs"
  Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), San Jose, CA, June 2011.
  
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Akhilesh Kumar, and Mani Azimi,
  "Application-to-Core Mapping Policies to Reduce Interference in On-Chip Networks"
  SAFARI Technical Report, TR-SAFARI-2011-001, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2011.
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Aergia: A Network-on-Chip Exploiting Packet Latency Slack"
  IEEE Micro, Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from 2010 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS), Vol. 31, No. 1, January/February 2011.
• George Nychis, Chris Fallin, Thomas Moscibroda, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Next Generation On-Chip Networks: What Kind of Congestion Control Do We Need?"
  Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Monterey, CA, October 2010. Slides (ppt) (key)
  
• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Aergia: Exploiting Packet Latency Slack in On-Chip Networks"
  Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. Slides (pptx)
  One of the computer architecture papers of 2010 selected as Top Picks by IEEE Micro.
• Boris Grot, Stephen W. Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Topology-aware Quality-of-Service Support in Highly Integrated Chip Multiprocessors"
  Proceedings of the 6th Annual Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture (WIOSCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. Slides (pptx)

• Reetuparna Das, Onur Mutlu, Thomas Moscibroda, and Chita R. Das,
  "Application-Aware Prioritization Mechanisms for On-Chip Networks"
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, NY, December 2009. Slides (pptx)
  
• Boris Grot, Steve Keckler, and Onur Mutlu,
  "Preemptive Virtual Clock: A Flexible, Efficient, and Cost-effective QOS Scheme for Networks-on-Chip"
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), New York, NY, December 2009. Slides (pdf)