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Ram's Publications

Lightweight Predication Support for Out of Order Processors [abstract] (PDF)
Mark Stephenson, Lixin Zhang, and Ram Rangan
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2009.

Performance Scalability of Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (PDF)
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Guilherme Ottoni, and David I. August
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 5, Number 2, August 2008.

Spice: Speculative Parallel Iteration Chunk Execution [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Easwaran Raman, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), April 2008.

Speculative Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, Easwaran Raman, Matthew J. Bridges, Guilherme Ottoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2007.

Pipelined Multithreading Transformations and Support Mechanisms [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Ram Rangan
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, June 2007.

Support for High-Frequency Streaming in CMPs [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Adam Stoler, Guilherme Ottoni, David I. August, and George Z. N. Cai
Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2006.

Amortizing Software Queue Overhead for Pipelined Inter-Thread Communication [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Ram Rangan and David I. August
Proceedings of the Workshop on Programming Models for Ubiquitous Parallelism (PMUP), September 2006.

Software-Controlled Fault Tolerance [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, David I. August, and Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), December 2005.

Hardware-Modulated Parallelism in Chip Multiprocessors [abstract] (PDF)
Julia Chen, Philo Juang, Kevin Ko, Gilberto Contreras, David Penry, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, Li-Shiuan Peh, and Margaret Martonosi
2005 Workshop on Design, Architecture and Simulation of Chip Multi-Processors (dasCMP), November 2005.

Automatic Thread Extraction with Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2005.
One of five papers nominated for the Best Paper Award by the Program Committee.

A New Approach to Thread Extraction for General-Purpose Programs [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2nd Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (PAC2), September 2005.

Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Fault-Detection Systems [abstract] (PDF)
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, David I. August, and Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2005.

From Sequential Programs to Concurrent Threads [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Adam Stoler, Matthew J. Bridges, and David I. August
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), June 2005.

Computing Architectural Vulnerability Factors for Address-Based Structures [abstract] (PDF)
Arijit Biswas, Paul B. Racunas, Razvan Cheveresan, Joel Emer, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, and Ram Rangan
Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture, June 2005.

SWIFT: Software Implemented Fault Tolerance [abstract] (PDF)
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2005.
Winner Best Paper Award.

Decoupled Software Pipelining: A Promising Technique to Exploit Thread-Level Parallelism [abstract]
Guilherme Ottoni, Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computer Architectures and Compiler Technology (EPIC), March 2005.

RIFLE: An Architectural Framework for User-Centric Information-Flow Security [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Neil Vachharajani, Matthew J. Bridges, Jonathan Chang, Ram Rangan, Guilherme Ottoni, Jason A. Blome, George A. Reis, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2004.

Decoupled Software Pipelining with the Synchronization Array [abstract] (PDF, PostScript)
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2004.
Highest ranked paper by the anonymous reviewers.