Publications

Revisiting Computation for Research: Practices and Trends [abstract]
Jeremiah Giordani*, Ziyang Xu*, Ella Colby, August Ning, Bhargav Reddy Godala, Ishita Chaturvedi, Shaowei Zhu, Yebin Chon, Greg Chan, Zujun Tan, Galen Collier, Jonathan D. Halverson, Enrico Armenio Deiana, Jasper Liang, Federico Sossai, Yian Su, Atmn Patel, Bangyen Pham, Nathan Greiner, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2024.
(*Co-first authors)

PROMPT: A Fast and Extensible Memory Profiling Framework [abstract] (arXiv)
Ziyang Xu, Yebin Chon, Yian Su, Zujun Tan, Sotiris Apostolakis, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Volume 8, Issue OOPSLA (OOPSLA), October 2024.

GhOST: a GPU Out-of-Order Scheduling Technique for Stall Reduction [abstract] (PDF)
Ishita Chaturvedi, Bhargav Reddy Godala, Yucan Wu, Ziyang Xu, Konstantinos Iliakis, Panagiotis-Eleftherios Eleftherakis, Sotirios Xydis, Dimitrios Soudris, Tyler Sorensen, Simone Campanoni, Tor M. Aamodt, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 51st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024.
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

PDIP: Priority Directed Instruction Prefetching [abstract] (PDF)
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Sankara Prasad Ramesh, Gilles A. Pokam, Jared Stark, Andre Seznec, Dean Tullsen, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (ASPLOS), April 2024.
Awarded Best Paper (one of six) out of 922 submissions. Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

PROMPT: A Fast and Extensible Memory Profiling Framework
Ziyang Xu, Yebin Chon, Yian Su, Zujun Tan, Sotiris Apostolakis, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Available at https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/PROMPT/, January 2024.

Transpilation Utilizing Language-Agnostic IR and Interactivity for Parallelization [abstract] (PDF)
Zujun Tan
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2024.

Criticality-Aware Front-end [abstract] (PDF)
Bhargav Reddy Godala
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2024.

QPoints: QEMU to gem5 ARM Full System Checkpointing [abstract]
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Ishita Chaturvedi, Yucan Wu, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
ISCA 2023: The gem5 Workshop, June 2023.

Modern Front-end Support in gem5 [abstract]
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Nayana Prasad Nagendra, Ishita Chaturvedi, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
ISCA 2023: The gem5 Workshop, June 2023.

EMISSARY: Enhanced Miss Awareness Replacement Policy For L2 Instruction Caching [abstract] (PDF)
Nayana Prasad Nagendra*, Bhargav Reddy Godala*, Ishita Chaturvedi, Atmn Patel, Svilen Kanev, Tipp Moseley, Jared Stark, Gilles A. Pokam, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023.
(*Co-first authors)

SPLENDID: Supporting Parallel LLVM-IR Enhanced Natural Decompilation for Interactive Development [abstract] (PDF)
Zujun Tan, Yebin Chon, Michael Kruse, Johannes Doerfert, Ziyang Xu, Brian Homerding, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2023.
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

LAMP: A Practical Loop-Aware Memory Dependence Profiler [abstract]
Yebin Chon, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, and David I. August
The Fourth Young Architect Workshop (YArch), March 2022.

NOELLE Offers Empowering LLVM Extensions [abstract] (PDF)
Angelo Matni, Enrico Armenio Deiana, Yian Su, Lukas Gross, Souradip Ghosh, Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Ishita Chaturvedi, Brian Homerding, Tommy McMichen, David I. August, and Simone Campanoni
Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, February 2022.
Awarded ACM Artifact Available, Artifact Functional, and Result Reproduced Badges.

Safer at Any Speed: Automatic Context-Aware Safety Enhancement for Rust [abstract] (PDF)
Natalie Popescu*, Ziyang Xu*, Sotiris Apostolakis, David I. August, and Amit Levy
Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Volume 5, Issue OOPSLA (OOPSLA), October 2021.
(*Co-first authors) Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Improving Instruction Cache Performance For Modern Processors With Growing Workloads [abstract] (PDF)
Nayana Prasad Nagendra
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2021.

NOELLE Offers Empowering LLVM Extensions [abstract] (arXiv, PDF)
Angelo Matni, Enrico Armenio Deiana, Yian Su, Lukas Gross, Souradip Ghosh, Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Ishita Chaturvedi, David I. August, and Simone Campanoni
arXiv:2102.05081 [cs.PL], February 2021.

A Sensible Approach to Speculative Automatic Parallelization [abstract] (PDF)
Sotiris Apostolakis
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, January 2021.

SCAF: A Speculation-Aware Collaborative Dependence Analysis Framework (ACM DL)
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Greg Chan, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Available at https://liberty.princeton.edu/Projects/AutoPar/SCAF/, December 2020.

NOELLE Offers Empowering LLVM Extensions
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, David I. August, and Simone Campanoni
Available at https://liberty.princeton.edu/Projects/NOELLE/, December 2020.

Perspective: A Sensible Approach to Speculative Automatic Parallelization
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Greg Chan, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Available at https://liberty.princeton.edu/Projects/AutoPar/Perspective/, December 2020.

SCAF: A Speculation-Aware Collaborative Dependence Analysis Framework [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Zujun Tan, Greg Chan, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2020.
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Automatic and Speculative Parallel-Stage Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract]
Zujun Tan, Greg Chan, Ziyang Xu, Sotiris Apostolakis, and David I. August
The Second Young Architect Workshop (YArch), March 2020.

Perspective: A Sensible Approach to Speculative Automatic Parallelization [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Sotiris Apostolakis, Ziyang Xu, Greg Chan, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2020.
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Hardware MultiThreaded Transactions: Enabling Speculative MultiThreaded Pipeline Parallelization For Complex Programs [abstract] (PDF)
Jordan Fix
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2020.

AsmDB: Understanding and Mitigating Front-End Stalls in Warehouse-Scale Computers [abstract] (PDF, Top Picks Version)
Grant Ayers, Nayana P. Nagendra, David I. August, Hyoun K. Cho, Svilen Kanev, Christos Kozyrakis, Trivikram Krishnamurthy, Heiner Litz, Tipp Moseley, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Proceedings of the 46th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019.
Selected for IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue "based on novelty and potential for long-term impact in the field of computer architecture" in 2019.

Architectural Support for Containment-based Security [abstract] (PDF)
Hansen Zhang, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Jordan Fix, Sotiris Apostolakis, Stephen R. Beard, Nayana P. Nagendra, Taewook Oh, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2019.

Collaborative Parallelization Framework [abstract]
Ziyang Xu, Greg Chan, Sotiris Apostolakis, and David I. August
The First Young Architect Workshop (YArch), February 2019.

TrustGuard: A Model for Practical Trust in Real Systems [abstract] (PDF)
Stephen R. Beard
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2019.

MemoDyn: Exploiting Weakly Consistent Data Structures for Dynamic Parallel Memoization [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Prakash Prabhu, Stephen R. Beard, Sotiris Apostolakis, Ayal Zaks, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), November 2018.

Hardware MultiThreaded Transactions [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Jordan Fix, Nayana P. Nagendra, Sotiris Apostolakis, Hansen Zhang, Sophie Qiu, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2018.

Static and Dynamic Instruction Mapping for Spatial Architectures [abstract] (PDF)
Feng Liu
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2018.

A Generalized Framework for Automatic Scripting Language Parallelization [abstract] (PDF)
Taewook Oh, Stephen R. Beard, Nick P. Johnson, Sergiy Popovych, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2017.

A Collaborative Dependence Analysis Framework [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Nick P. Johnson, Jordan Fix, Taewook Oh, Stephen R. Beard, Thomas B. Jablin, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2017 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), February 2017.
Highest ranked paper in double-blind review process.

TrustGuard: A Containment Architecture with Verified Output [abstract] (PDF)
Soumyadeep Ghosh
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2017.

Speculatively Exploiting Cross-Invocation Parallelism [abstract] (PDF)
Jialu Huang, Prakash Prabhu, Thomas B. Jablin, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Sotiris Apostolakis, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2016.

Static Dependence Analysis in an Infrastructure for Automatic Parallelization [abstract] (PDF)
Nick P. Johnson
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2015.

Automatic Exploitation of Input Parallelism [abstract] (PDF)
Taewook Oh
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2015.

DynaSpAM: Dynamic Spatial Architecture Mapping using Out of Order Instruction Schedules [abstract] (PDF)
Feng Liu, Heejin Ahn, Stephen R. Beard, Taewook Oh, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2015.

CGPA:Coarse-Grained Pipelined Accelerators [abstract] (PDF)
Feng Liu, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Nick P. Johnson, and David I. August
The Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2014.

Automatically Exploiting Cross-Invocation Parallelism Using Runtime Information [abstract] (PDF)
Jialuh Huang
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2013.

Semantic Language Extensions for Implicit Parallel Programming [abstract] (PDF)
Prakash Prabhu
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2013.

ASAP: Automatic Speculative Acyclic Parallelization for Clusters [abstract] (PDF)
Hanjun Kim
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2013.

Fast Condensation of the Program Dependence Graph [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Nick P. Johnson, Taewook Oh, Ayal Zaks, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2013.

Automatic Parallelization for GPUs [abstract] (PDF)
Thomas B. Jablin
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, April 2013.

Practical Automatic Loop Specialization [abstract] (PDF)
Taewook Oh, Hanjun Kim, Nick P. Johnson, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2013.

Automatically Exploiting Cross-Invocation Parallelism Using Runtime Information [abstract] (PDF)
Jialu Huang, Thomas B. Jablin, Stephen R. Beard, Nick P. Johnson, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), February 2013.

From Sequential Programming to Flexible Parallel Execution [abstract] (PDF)
Arun Raman, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the International Conference on Compilers and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), October 2012. Invited.

PASSERT: A Tool for Debugging Parallel Programs [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, Feng Liu, David I. August, and Sharad Malik
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV), June 2012.

Parcae: A System for Flexible Parallel Execution [abstract] (PDF)
Arun Raman, Ayal Zaks, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2012.

Speculative Separation for Privatization and Reductions [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Nick P. Johnson, Hanjun Kim, Prakash Prabhu, Ayal Zaks, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2012.

Runtime Asynchronous Fault Tolerance via Speculation [abstract] (PDF)
Yun Zhang, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Jialu Huang, Jae W. Lee, Scott A. Mahlke, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), April 2012.

Dynamically Managed Data for CPU-GPU Architectures [abstract] (PDF)
Thomas B. Jablin, James A. Jablin, Prakash Prabhu, Feng Liu, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2012.

Automatic Speculative DOALL for Clusters [abstract] (PDF)
Hanjun Kim, Nick P. Johnson, Jae W. Lee, Scott A. Mahlke, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2012.

DAFT: Decoupled Acyclic Fault Tolerance [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
Yun Zhang, Jae W. Lee, Nick P. Johnson, and David I. August
The International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), February 2012. Invited.
Special issue composed of "top papers" selected by the Program Committee of the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.

A General Approach for Efficiently Accelerating Software-based Dynamic Data Flow Tracking on Commodity Hardware [abstract] (PDF)
Kangkook Jee, Georgios Portokalidis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Soumyadeep Ghosh, David I. August, and Angelos D. Keromytis
Proceedings of the 19th Internet Society (ISOC) Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS), February 2012.

A System for Flexible Parallel Execution [abstract] (PDF)
Arun Raman
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, December 2011.

Automatic Extraction of Parallelism from Sequential Code
David I. August, Jialu Huang, Thomas B. Jablin, Hanjun Kim, Thomas R. Mason, Prakash Prabhu, Arun Raman, and Yun Zhang
Fundamentals of Multicore Software Development (ISBN: 978-1439812730)
Edited by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Victor Pankratius, and Walter Tichy. Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, December 2011.

EPIC Processors
Arun Raman and David I. August
Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing (ISBN: 978-0387098449)
Edited by David Padua. Springer, November 2011.

A Survey of the Practice of Computational Science [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Prakash Prabhu, Thomas B. Jablin, Arun Raman, Yun Zhang, Jialu Huang, Hanjun Kim, Nick P. Johnson, Feng Liu, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Stephen Beard, Taewook Oh, Matthew Zoufaly, David Walker, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2011.

The SPARCHS Project: Hardware Support for Software Security [abstract] (PDF)
Simha Sethumadhavan, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis, Junfeng Yang, and David I. August
Proceedings of the First SysSec Workshop (SYSSEC), July 2011.

Parallel Assertions for Debugging Parallel Programs [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, Feng Liu, Tarun Pondicherry, David I. August, and Sharad Malik
2011 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE), July 2011.

Commutative Set: A Language Extension for Implicit Parallel Programming [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Prakash Prabhu, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Yun Zhang, Nick P. Johnson, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2011.

Automatic CPU-GPU Communication Management and Optimization [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Thomas B. Jablin, Prakash Prabhu, James A. Jablin, Nick P. Johnson, Stephen R. Beard, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2011.

Parallelism Orchestration using DoPE: the Degree of Parallelism Executive [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Taewook Oh, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2011.

Scalable Speculative Parallelization on Commodity Clusters [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Hanjun Kim, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, Jae W. Lee, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2010.
Highest ranked paper in double-blind review process.

DAFT: Decoupled Acyclic Fault Tolerance [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Yun Zhang, Jae W. Lee, Nick P. Johnson, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), September 2010.
Selected by the Program Committee as a "top paper" for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP).

Structural Simulation for Architecture Exploration
David I. August, Veerle Desmet, Silvain Girbal, Daniel Gracia Pérez, and Olivier Temam
Processor and System-on-Chip Simulation (ISBN: 978-1441961747)
Edited by Rainer Leupers and Olivier Temam. Springer, September 2010.

Programming Multicores: Do Applications Programmers Need to Write Explicitly Parallel Programs? [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Arvind, David I. August, Keshav Pingali, Derek Chiou, Resit Sendag, and Joshua J. Yi
IEEE Micro, Volume 30, Number 3, May 2010.

Decoupled Software Pipelining Creates Parallelization Opportunities [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Jialu Huang, Arun Raman, Yun Zhang, Thomas B. Jablin, Tzu-Han Hung, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), April 2010.

Liberty Queues for EPIC Architectures [abstract] (PDF)
Thomas B. Jablin, Yun Zhang, James A. Jablin, Jialu Huang, Hanjun Kim, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computer Architectures and Compiler Technology (EPIC), April 2010.

Speculative Parallelization Using Software Multi-threaded Transactions [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Thomas R. Mason, Thomas B. Jablin, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2010.

Compilation Strategies and Challenges for Multicore Signal Processing [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Mojtaba Mehrara, Thomas B. Jablin, Dan Upton, David I. August, Kim Hazelwood, and Scott Mahlke
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2009.

LAMPVIEW: A Loop-Aware Toolset for Facilitating Parallelization [abstract] (PDF)
Thomas Rorie Mason
Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, August 2009.

Parallelization Techniques with Improved Dependence Handling [abstract] (PDF)
Easwaran Raman
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, June 2009.

Speculation
Neil Vachharajani and David I. August
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (ISBN: 978-0471383932)
Edited by Benjamin W. Wah. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., January 2009.

Intelligent Speculation for Pipelined Multithreading [abstract] (PDF)
Neil Amar Vachharajani
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, November 2008.

The VELOCITY Compiler: Extracting Efficient Multicore Execution from Legacy Sequential Programs [abstract] (PDF)
Matthew John Bridges
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, November 2008.

Global Instruction Scheduling for Multi-Threaded Architectures [abstract] (PDF)
Guilherme de Lima Ottoni
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2008.

Performance Scalability of Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (ACM DL, 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.

Shape Analysis with Inductive Recursion Synthesis [abstract] (PDF)
Bolei Guo
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, June 2008.

Software Modulated Fault Tolerance [abstract] (PDF)
George A. Reis
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, June 2008.

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

Parallel-Stage Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Easwaran Raman, Guilherme Ottoni, Arun Raman, Matthew Bridges, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), April 2008.

Communication Optimizations for Global Multi-Threaded Instruction Scheduling [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Guilherme Ottoni and David I. August
Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2008.

Revisiting the Sequential Programming Model for the Multicore Era [abstract] (Original Full Paper, IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Matthew J. Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Yun Zhang, Thomas B. Jablin, and David I. August
IEEE Micro, Volume 28, Number 1, January 2008.
IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue for papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2007.

Optimizations for the Memory Hierarchy
Easwaran Raman and David I. August
Compiler Design Handbook (ISBN: 978-1420043822)
Edited by Y. N. Srikant and Priti Shankar. CRC Press, December 2007.

Revisiting the Sequential Programming Model for Multi-Core [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, Top Picks Version)
Matthew J. Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Yun Zhang, Thomas B. Jablin, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2007.
Selected for IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue for papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2007.

Global Multi-Threaded Instruction Scheduling [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Guilherme Ottoni and David I. August
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2007.

UNISIM: An Open Simulation Environment and Library for Complex Architecture Design and Collaborative Development [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
David I. August, Jonathan Chang, Sylvain Girbal, Daniel Gracia-Perez, Gilles Mouchard, David Penry, Olivier Temam, and Neil Vachharajani
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), September 2007.

Speculative Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (IEEE CS, PDF)
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.

Fault-tolerant Typed Assembly Language [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Frances Perry, Lester Mackey, George A. Reis, Jay Ligatti, David I. August, and David Walker
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2007.
Winner Best Paper Award.

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

Shape Analysis with Inductive Recursion Synthesis [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Bolei Guo, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2007 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2007.

Global Multi-Threaded Instruction Scheduling: Technique and Initial Results [abstract] (CiteSeerX, PDF)
Guilherme Ottoni and David I. August
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computer Architectures and Compiler Technology (EPIC), March 2007.

Automatic Instruction-Level Software-Only Recovery Methods [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, Original Full Paper, PDF)
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, and David I. August
IEEE Micro, Volume 27, Number 1, January 2007.
IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue for papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2006.

Non-Uniform Fault Tolerance [abstract] (PDF)
Jonathan Chang, George A. Reis, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Architectural Reliability (WAR), December 2006.

Support for High-Frequency Streaming in CMPs [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
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.

Configurable Transient Fault Detection via Dynamic Binary Translation [abstract] (PDF)
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, David I. August, Robert Cohn, and Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Architectural Reliability (WAR), December 2006.

The Acceleration of Structural Microarchitectural Simulation via Scheduling [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, November 2006.

Static Typing for a Faulty Lambda Calculus [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
David Walker, Lester Mackey, Jay Ligatti, George A. Reis, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), September 2006.

Eliminating Scope and Selection Restrictions in Compiler Optimizations [abstract] (PDF)
Spyridon Triantafyllis
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2006.

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

The Liberty Simulation Environment: A Deliberate Approach to High-Level System Modeling [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Volume 24, Number 3, August 2006.

Automatic Instruction Scheduler Retargeting by Reverse-Engineering [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Matthew J. Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Guilherme Ottoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2006.

A Framework for Unrestricted Whole-Program Optimization [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Spyridon Triantafyllis, Matthew J. Bridges, Easwaran Raman, Guilherme Ottoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2006.

Automatic Instruction-Level Software-Only Recovery [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, Top Picks Version)
Jonathan Chang, George A. Reis, and David I. August
Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2006.
Winner of the William C. Carter Award.
Selected for IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue for papers "most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture" in 2006.

Selective Runtime Memory Disambiguation in a Dynamic Binary Translator [abstract] (PDF, ACM DL)
Bolei Guo, Youfeng Wu, Cheng Wang, Matthew J. Bridges, Guilherme Ottoni, Neil Vachharajani, Jonathan Chang, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), March 2006.

Exploiting Parallelism and Structure to Accelerate the Simulation of Chip Multi-processors [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
David A. Penry, Daniel Fay, David Hodgdon, Ryan Wells, Graham Schelle, David I. August, and Daniel A. Connors
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006.

Software Fault Detection Using Dynamic Instrumentation [abstract] (CiteSeerX, PDF)
George A. Reis, David I. August, Robert Cohn, and Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Boston Area Architecture Workshop (BARC), February 2006.

Software-Controlled Fault Tolerance [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
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.

Chip Multi-Processor Scalability for Single-Threaded Applications [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Neil Vachharajani, Matthew Iyer, Chinmay Ashok, Manish Vachharajani, David I. August, and Daniel A. Connors
Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Design, Architecture and Simulation of Chip Multi-Processors (dasCMP), November 2005.

Automatic Thread Extraction with Decoupled Software Pipelining [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
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)
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.

Recursive Data Structure Profiling [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Easwaran Raman and David I. August
Proceedings of the Third Annual ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance (MSP), June 2005.

Achieving Structural and Composable Modeling of Complex Systems [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
David I. August, Sharad Malik, Li-Shiuan Peh, Vijay Pai, Manish Vachharajani, and Paul Willmann
The International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 33, June 2005. Invited.

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

Rapid Development of Flexible Validated Processor Models [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation (MoBS), June 2005.

Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Fault-Detection Systems [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, 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.

Branch Predication (ACM DL)
David I. August
Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (ISBN: 978-1584884477)
Edited by D. Kaeli and P.-C. Yew. CRC Press, May 2005.

SWIFT: Software Implemented Fault Tolerance [abstract] (ACM DL, 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.
Winner of the 2015 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization Test of Time Award.

Practical and Accurate Low-Level Pointer Analysis [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Bolei Guo, Matthew J. Bridges, Spyridon Triantafyllis, Guilherme Ottoni, Easwaran Raman, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2005.

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.

Compiler Optimization-Space Exploration [abstract] (PDF)
Spyridon Triantafyllis, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
The Journal of Instruction-level Parallelism (JILP), February 2005.

RIFLE: An Architectural Framework for User-Centric Information-Flow Security [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
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.

Rapid Development of Flexible Validated Processor Models [abstract] (PDF)
David A. Penry, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-03, November 2004.

Microarchitecture Modeling for Design-space Exploration [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, November 2004.

Decoupled Software Pipelining with the Synchronization Array [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
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 in double-blind review process.

Facilitating Reuse in Hardware Models with Enhanced Type Inference [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
The IEEE/ACM/IFIP Second International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (ISSS), September 2004.

The Liberty Structural Specification Language: A High-Level Modeling Language for Component Reuse [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2004.

Exposing Memory Access Regularities Using Object-Relative Memory Profiling [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Qiang Wu, Artem Pyatakov, Alexey N. Spiridonov, Easwaran Raman, Douglas W. Clark, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2004.

The Liberty Simulation Environment, Version 1.0 [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason Blome, and David I. August
Performance Evaluation Review: Special Issue on Tools for Architecture Research (PER), Volume 31, Number 4, March 2004. Invited.

The Liberty Simulation Environment: A Deliberate Approach to High-Level System Modeling [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-02, March 2004.

A Study of the Clarity of Functionally and Structurally Composed High-level Simulation Models (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 04-01, January 2004.

Liberty Simulation Environment, Version 1.0
Manish Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Neil Vachharajani, Jason A. Blome, and David I. August
Available at http://liberty.princeton.edu/Software/LSE, December 2003.

A Comparison of Reuse in Object-oriented Programming and Structural Modeling Systems [abstract] (PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Liberty Research Group Technical Report 03-01, October 2003.

The Liberty Simulation Environment as a Pedagogical Tool [abstract] (PDF)
Jason Blome, Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE), June 2003.

Optimizations for a Simulator Construction System Supporting Reusable Components [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
David A. Penry and David I. August
Proceedings of the 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2003.

Compiler Optimization-Space Exploration [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Spyridon Triantafyllis, Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March 2003.
Winner Best Paper Award.

Microarchitectural Exploration with Liberty [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF)
Manish Vachharajani, Neil Vachharajani, David A. Penry, Jason A. Blome, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2002.
Winner Best Student Paper Award.

A Disciplined Approach to the Development of Platform Architectures [abstract] (CiteSeerX, PDF)
David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and A. Richard Newton
Microelectronics Journal, Volume 33, Number 11, November 2002. Invited.

Procedure Boundary Elimination for EPIC Compilers [abstract] (CiteSeerX, PDF)
Spyridon Triantafyllis, Manish Vachharajani, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computer Architectures and Compiler Technology (EPIC), November 2002.

Design Tools for Application Specific Embedded Processors [abstract] (SpringerLink, PDF)
Wei Qin, Subramanian Rajagopalan, Manish Vachharajani, Hangsheng Wang, Xinping Zhu, David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and Li-Shiuan Peh
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Embedded Software, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EMSOFT), Volume 2491, October 2002. Invited.

A Disciplined Approach to the Development of Platform Architectures [abstract] (PDF, Elsevier)
David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and A. Richard Newton
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Technologies (SASIMI), April 2001. Invited.