NC State University ECE Dept.

Architecture Research for PErformance, Reliability, and Security

Computer Architecture

 

2008

· Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Seongbeom Kim, Abdulaziz Eker and Yan Solihin. Characterizing and Modeling the Behavior of Context Switch Misses, to appear in Proc. of  the 17th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Oct 2008. (pdf)

· Guru Venkataramani, Ioannis Doudalis, Yan Solihin and Milos Prvulovic. FlexiTaint: A Programmable Accelerator for Dynamic Taint Propagation, Proc. of  the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2008. (pdf)

· Brian Rogers, Chenyu Yan, Siddhartha Chhabra, Milos Prvulovic and Yan Solihin. Single-Level Integrity and Confidentiality Protection for Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors, Proc. of  the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2008. (pdf)

2007

· Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao and Ravishankar Iyer. A Framework for Providing Quality of Service in Chip Multi-Processors, Proc. of  the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec 2007. (pdf)

 

· Brian Rogers, Siddhartha Chhabra, Yan Solihin and Milos Prvulovic. Using Address Independent Seed Encryption and Bonsai Merkle Trees to Make Secure Processors OS– and Performance– Friendly, Proc. of  the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Dec 2007. (pdf)

 

· Ravishankar Iyer, Li Zhao, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Srihari Markineni, Don Newell, Rameshi Illikkal, Lisa Hsu and Steven Reinhardt. QoS Policy and Architecture for Cache/Memory in CMP Platforms, Proc. of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), June 2007. (pdf)

 

· Seongbeom Kim, Fang Liu, Yan Solihin, Ravi Iyer, Li Zhao and Will Cohen, Accelerating Full-System Simulation through Characterizing and Predicting Operating System Performance, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of System and Software (ISPASS), Apr 2007. (pdf)

 

· Guru Venkataramani, Brandyn Roemer, Milos Prvulovic and Yan Solihin,  MemTracker: Efficient and Programmable Support for Memory Access Monitoring and Debugging , Proc. of the 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2007. (pdf)

 

2006

 

· Hari Kannan, Fei Guo, Li Zhao, Ramesh illikkal, Ravi Iyer, Don Newell, Yan Solihin and Christos Kozyrakis. From Chaos to QoS: Case Studies in CMP Resource Management. In Workshop on Design, Architecture and Simulation of Chip Multi-Processors, Orlando, Dec 2006.

 

· Mazen Kharbutli, Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Guru Venkataramani and Milos Prvulovic, Comprehensively and Efficiently Protecting the Heap, Proc. of International Symposium for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), San Jose, Oct 2006. (pdf)

 

· Brian Rogers, Milos Prvulovic and Yan Solihin, Effective Data Protection for Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessors, Proc. of International Conference of Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Seattle, Sep 2006. (pdf)

 

· Chenyu Yan, Brian Rogers, Daniel Englender, Yan Solihin and Milos Prvulovic, Improving Cost, Performance, and Security of Memory Encryption and Authentication, Proc. of International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Boston, June 2006. (pdf)

 

· Fei Guo and Yan Solihin, An Analytical Model for Cache Replacement Policy Performance, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006 Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer System (SIGMETRICS), Saint-Malo, France, June 2006. (pdf)

 

· Changhee Jung, Daeseob Lim, Jaejin Lee, and Yan Solihin, Helper Thread Prefetching for Loosely-Coupled Multiprocessor Systems, Proc. of International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Isle of Rhodes, Greece, Apr 2006. (pdf)

 

· Rithin Shetty, Mazen Kharbutli, Yan Solihin, and Milos Prvulovic, A Helper-Thread Approach to Programmable, Automatic, and Low-Overhead Memory Bug Detection, IBM Journal of Research and Development: Special Issue on Exploratory Systems, to appear in April 2006. (URL)

 

2005

 

· Fei Guo and Yan Solihin, A Prediction Model for Alternative Cache Replacement Policies, Proc. of IBM Watson Conference on  Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers(P=ac2),Yorktown Height, Sep 2005. (pdf)

 

· Mazen Kharbutli and Yan Solihin, Counter-Based Cache Replacement Algorithms,  Proc. of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD),  San Jose, Oct 2005. (pdf)

 

· Dhruba Chandra, Fei Guo, Seongbeom Kim, and Yan Solihin, Predicting Inter-Thread Cache Contention on a Chip Multi-Processor Architecture,  Proc. of the11th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA),  San Francisco, Feb 2005. Nominated for Best Paper Award. (pdf) (ppt) 

 

· Yan Solihin, Fei Guo, and Seongbeom Kim, Predicting Cache Contention in Utility Computing Servers, NSF Workshop on Next Generation Software, Boulder, CO, April 2005. (pdf)

 

· Mazen Kharbutli, Yan Solihin, and Jaejin Lee, Eliminating Conflict Misses Using Prime Number-Based Cache Indexing, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), May 2005. (pdf)

 

2004

 

· Rithin Shetty, Mazen Kharbutli, Yan Solihin, and Milos Prvulovic, HeapMon: a Low Overhead, Automatic, and Programmable Memory Bug Detector, Proc. of IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=ac2), Yorktown Heights, Oct 2004. (pdf) 

 

· Seongbeom Kim, Dhruba Chandra, and Yan Solihin, Fair Caching on a Chip Multiprocessor Architecture, Proc. of IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=ac2), Yorktown Heights, Oct 2004. (pdf) 

 

· Dhruba Chandra, Fei Guo, Seongbeom Kim, and Yan Solihin, Predicting Inter-Thread Cache Contention on a Chip Multi-Processor Architecture. Proc. of IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (P=ac2), Yorktown Heights, Oct 2004. (pdf)

 

· Seongbeom Kim, Dhruba Chandra, and Yan Solihin, Fair Cache Sharing and Partitioning in a Chip Multiprocessor Architecture, Proc. of the13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Juan-les-Pins, France, Sep-Oct 2004. (pdf) (ppt)

 

· Mazen Kharbutli, Keith Irwin, Yan Solihin, and Jaejin Lee, Using Prime Numbers for Cache Indexing to Eliminate Conflict Misses, Proc. of the 10th Intl. Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2004. (pdf)

 

· Brian Rogers, Yan Solihin, and Milos Prvulovic, Predecryption: Hiding the Latency Overhead of Memory Encryption, Workshop on Architecture Support for Security and Anti-virus Software (WASSA), in conjunction with ASPLOS 2004. Boston, MA, Oct, 2004. (pdf)

 

2003 and before

 

· Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, Josep Torrellas, Correlation Prefetching with a User-Level Memory Thread, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed System (TPDS), June 2003. (pdf)

 

·  Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, Josep Torrellas, Using a User-Level Memory Thread for Correlation Prefetching. Proc. of the 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 2002. ( ps) ( pdf)

 

· Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas, Automatic Code Mapping on an Intelligent Memory Architecture. IEEE Transactions on Computers: special issue on Advances in High Performance Memory Systems, Nov 2001. (pdf )

 

· Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, Mutable Functional Units and Their Applications on Microprocessors. International Conference on Computer Design 2001 (ICCD), Austin, Texas, Sep 23-26, 2001. (pdf)

 

· Jaejin Lee, Yan Solihin, and Josep Torrellas, Automatically Mapping Code in an Intelligent Memory Architecture. 7th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Monterrey, Mexico, January 2001.(ps) (pdf)

 

· Dominique Lavenier, Kirk W. Cameron, Yan Solihin, Integer/Floating Point Reconfigurable ALU.  6th Symposium on New Machine Architectures (SympA'6), Besancon, France, Julne 19-22, 2000. (ps)

 

· Yan Solihin, Vinh Lam, and Josep Torrellas, Scal-Tool: Pinpointing and Quantifying Scalability Bottlenecks in DSM Multiprocessors, International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (SC'99), Portland, Oregon, Nov 1999. (ps)

 

· Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, Josep Torrellas, Prefetching in an Intelligent Memory Architecture Using a Helper Thread. BEST PAPER AWARD, 5th Workshop on Multi-threaded Execution, Architecture, and Compilation (MTEAC-5), in conjunction with MICRO-34. Austin, Texas, Dec 1-5, 2001. ( pdf)

 

· Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas, Adaptively Mapping Code in an Intelligent Memory Architecture. 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Memory Systems (WIMS), in conjunction with ASPLOS-IX, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2000. (ps) (pdf). Proceedings published as Lecutre Notes in Computer Science, No. 2107, Springer Verlag, September 2001.

 

· Yan Solihin, Vinh Lam, and Josep Torrellas, An Inexpensive Tool to Understand the Scalability of Applications on Scalable Shared Memory Machines. 8th Workshop on Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors (WSSMM), in conjunction with ISCA, June 1999.

 

Book Chapters:

· Yan Solihin and Donald Yeung, Data Cache Prefetching, Speculative Execution in High-Performance Computer Architectures, Edited by: David Kaeli and Pen-Chung Yew, Chapman & Hall/CRC, ISBN 1-58488-447-9, 2005.

 

· Yan Solihin, Jaejin Lee, and Josep Torrellas, Adaptively Mapping Code in an Intelligent Memory Architecture, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 2107, Springer Verlag, September 2001.

 

Posters and Technical Reports:

· Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, Mutable Functional Units: Initial Results. Poster at IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Rohnert Park, California, April 30 - May 2, 2001. (ps) (pdf)

 

· Yan Solihin, Yong Luo, and Kirk W. Cameron, "Memory Hierarchy Model Validation". Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, LA-UR-99-5539, 1999. (ps)

 

· Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, "Reservation Station Architecture of Mutable Functional Unit Usage in Superscalar Processors". Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, LA-UR-99-6234, 1999. (ps)

 

· Yan Solihin, Kirk W. Cameron, Yong Luo, Dominique Lavenier, and Maya Gokhale, "Boosting the Speedup of Future Processor Architectures by Using Mutable Functional Units". Los Alamos National Laboratory unclassified technical report, LA-UR-99-6768, 1999. (ps)

 

· Yan Solihin, "An Application Scalability Model for Distributed Shared Memory Machines", Master's Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1999.

 

· Yan Solihin and Josep Torrellas, "Scalability of Parallel Applications on NCSA's Origin2000 Cluster", Poster at the National Computational Science Alliance, All Hands Meeting (Alliance'98), April 1998.

 

 

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Image Processing

 

Journals:

· Yan Solihin and C.G. Leedham, Integral Ratio: a New Class of Thresholding Techniques for Handwriting Images, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), August 1999. (pdf)

 

Conferences:

· Yan Solihin and C.G. Leedham, Mathematical Properties of the Native Integral Ratio Handwriting and Text Extraction Technique, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Ulm, Germany, August 1997.(pdf )

 

· Yan Solihin and C.G. Leedham, Removing Background and Noise from Handwriting Images, International Conference on Intelligent Information Systems (ICIIS), Grand Bahama Islands, December 1997.

 

· Yan Solihin and C.G. Leedham, Preparing Handwriting Images for Forensic Examination, 8th Biennial Conference of International Graphonomics Society (IGS), 1997.

 

· Yan Solihin, C.G. Leedham, V.K. Sagar, A Comparison of Thresholding Techniques for Handwriting and Text Extraction, 4th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICCARV), pp. 1408-1412, Singapore, December 1996.

 

· S.W. Chong, C.G. Leedham, V.K. Sagar, Yan Solihin, Automatic Global Feature Extraction for Forensic Document Examination, 4th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICCARV), Singapore, December 1996.

 

· Yan Solihin, C.G. Leedham, V.K. Sagar, A Fuzzy Based Handwriting Extraction Technique for Handwritten Document Preprocessing, IEEE Region Ten Conference: Digital Signal Processing (TENCON), pp. 927-932, Perth, November1996.

 

· S.W. Chong, C.G. Leedham, V.K. Sagar, Yan Solihin, Slant Manipulation and Character Segmentation for Forensic Document Examination, IEEE Region Ten Conference: Digital Signal ProcessingTENCON), pp. 933-938, Perth, November 1996.

 

Submitted for Publication:

Yan Solihin and C.G. Leedham, "Multistage Approach to Grey-scale Image Thresholding", submitted for journal publication, 2001. (ps)(pdf)

Publications