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.
Accept Rate: 26% (72/270).
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Pluggable Trust Architecture [abstract]
David I. August, Stephen Beard, and Soumyadeep Ghosh
United States Patent Number 11,314,865, April 2022.

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.
Accept Rate: 27% (27/99).
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.
Accept Rate: 34% (71/205).
(*Co-first authors) Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

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.

SCAF: A Speculation-Aware Collaborative Dependence Analysis Framework
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.
Accept Rate: 22% (77/341).
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.
Accept Rate: 18% (86/476).
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Trust Architecture and Related Methods [abstract]
David I. August, Soumyadeep Ghosh, and Jordan Fix
United States Patent Number 10,599,853, March 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.
Accept Rate: 16% (62/365).
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.
Accept Rate: 21% (74/350).

Collaborative Parallelization Framework [abstract]
Ziyang Xu, Greg Chan, Sotiris Apostolakis, and David I. August
The First Young Architect Workshop (YArch), February 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.
Accept Rate: 28% (36/126).

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.
Accept Rate: 17% (56/319).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (25/108).

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.
Accept Rate: 22% (26/114).
Highest ranked paper in double-blind review process.

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.
Accept Rate: 26% (31/119).

Cooperative Program Code Transformation [abstract]
David I. August, Kevin C. Fan, Jae Wook Lee, Scott A. Mahlke, and Mojtaba Mehrara
United States Patent Number 9,329,846, May 2016.

System and Method for Supporting Multi-Threaded Transactions [abstract]
David I. August, Neil Vachharajani, and Matthew J. Bridges
United States Patent Number 9,128,750, 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.
Accept Rate: 19% (58/305).

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.
Accept Rate: 22% (174/787).

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.
Accept Rate: 17% (46/267).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (44/191).

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.
Accept Rate: 28% (33/117).

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.
Accept Rate: 25% (20/80).

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (48/255).

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (48/255).

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.
Accept Rate: 28% (26/90).

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.
Accept Rate: 28% (26/90).

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.
Accept Rate: 28% (26/90).

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.
Accept Rate: 17% (46/258).

Low-cost, Fine-grained Transient Fault Recovery for Low-end Commodity Systems [abstract]
Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Amin Ansari, Scott A. Mahlke, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2011.
Accept Rate: 21% (44/209).

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.

Bundled Execution of Recurring Traces for Energy-Efficient General Purpose Processing [abstract]
Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Amin Ansari, Scott A. Mahlke, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2011.
Accept Rate: 21% (44/209).
One of six papers nominated for the Best Paper Award by the Program Committee.

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.
Accept Rate: 35% (16/45).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (55/236).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (55/236).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (55/236).

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (45/248).
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.
Accept Rate: 17% (46/266).
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.
Accept Rate: 41% (29/70).

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.
Accept Rate: 17% (32/181).

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.

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.

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.

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.
Accept Rate: 31% (21/66).

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.
Accept Rate: 31% (21/66).

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.
Accept Rate: 24% (31/127).

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.
Accept Rate: 14% (10/70).
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.
Accept Rate: 21% (35/166).
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.
Accept Rate: 21% (35/166).

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.
Accept Rate: 19% (34/175).

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.
Accept Rate: 25% (45/178).
Winner Best Paper Award.

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.
Accept Rate: 25% (45/178).

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.
Accept Rate: 24% (42/174).

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.

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.
Accept Rate: 31% (24/76).

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.
Accept Rate: 41% (10/24).

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.
Accept Rate: 16%

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.
Accept Rate: 21% (36/169).

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.
Accept Rate: 21% (36/169).

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (34/187).
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)
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.
Accept Rate: 23% (17/72).

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.
Accept Rate: 15% (26/172).

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (27/143).
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.
Accept Rate: 44% (21/47).

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.
Accept Rate: 33% (8/24).

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.
Accept Rate: 20%

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.
Accept Rate: 45% (10/22).

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.
Accept Rate: 23% (45/194).

Branch Predication
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.
Accept Rate: 33% (25/75).
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.
Accept Rate: 33% (25/75).

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.
Accept Rate: 15%

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (29/158).

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.

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.
Accept Rate: 18% (23/122).
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.
Accept Rate: 24% (39/159).

Finding Dominators in Practice [abstract] (PDF)
Loukas Georgiadis, Renato F. Werneck, Robert E. Tarjan, Spyridon Triantafyllis, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 12th European Symposium on Algorithms, 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.
Accept Rate: 19% (25/128).

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.
Accept Rate: 31% (25/79).

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.

Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Instruction Level Parallelism [abstract]
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Daniel A. Connors, David I. August, and John W. Sias
United States Patent Number 6,640,315, October 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.

Challenges in Computer Architecture Evaluation [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, David I. August, Mark D. Hill, David J. Lilja, and Vijay S. Pai
IEEE Computer, August 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.
Accept Rate: 24% (152/628).

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.
Accept Rate: 35% (29/82).
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.
Accept Rate: 24% (36/150).
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.

Program Decision Logic Optimization using Predication and Control Speculation [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
Wen-mei W. Hwu, David I. August, and John W. Sias
Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 89, Number 11, November 2001.

Retargetable Static Timing Analysis for Embedded Software [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
Kaiyu Chen, Sharad Malik, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS), October 2001.
Accept Rate: 35% (24/67).

A Disciplined Approach to the Development of Platform Architectures [abstract] (PDF)
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.

Accurate and Efficient Predicate Analysis with Binary Decision Diagrams [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF, PostScript)
John W. Sias, Wen-mei W. Hwu, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2000.
Accept Rate: 28% (31/110).

Programmable ASICs to Reduce Costs
David I. August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, and Richard Newton
EE Times, November 2000.

Systematic Compilation for Predicated Execution
David I. August
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2000.

The Partial Reverse If-Conversion Framework for Balancing Control Flow and Predication [abstract]
David I. August, Wen-mei W. Hwu, and Scott A. Mahlke
International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Volume 27, Number 5, October 1999. Invited.
Special issue composed of "outstanding papers" selected by the Program Committee of the 30th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

An Architecture Framework for Introducing Predicated Execution into Embedded Microprocessors [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF, PostScript)
Daniel A. Connors, Jean-Michel Puiatti, David I. August, Kevin M. Crozier, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Parallel Processing (EUROPAR), September 1999.
Accept Rate: 32% (111/343).

The Program Decision Logic Approach to Predicated Execution [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF, PostScript)
David I. August, John W. Sias, Jean-Michel Puiatti, Scott A. Mahlke, Daniel A. Connors, Kevin M. Crozier, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 1999.
Accept Rate: 19% (26/135).

Integrated Predicated and Speculative Execution in the IMPACT EPIC Archtecture [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF, PostScript)
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, Scott A. Mahlke, John W. Sias, Kevin M. Crozier, Ben-Chung Cheng, Patrick R. Eaton, Qudus B. Olaniran, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), July 1998.
Accept Rate: 21% (33/156).

The IMPACT EPIC 1.0 Architecture and Instruction Set Reference Manual
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John W. Sias, Kevin M. Crozier, Patrick R. Eaton, Qudus B. Olaniran, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing Technical Report CRHC-98-04, February 1998.

A Framework for Balancing Control Flow and Predication [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
David I. August, Wen-mei W. Hwu, and Scott A. Mahlke
Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 1997.
Accept Rate: 33% (35/103).
Selected as an "outstanding paper" for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) by the Program Committee.

Architectural Support Compiler-Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction Strategies: Rationale and Initial Results [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John C. Gyllenhaal, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 1997.
Accept Rate: 19% (30/152).

Compiler Technology for Future Microprocessors [abstract] (IEEE Xplore, PDF, PostScript)
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Richard E. Hank, David M. Gallagher, Scott A. Mahlke, Daniel M. Lavery, Grant E. Haab, John C. Gyllenhaal, and David I. August
Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 83, Number 12, December 1995.

A Comparison of Full and Partial Predicated Execution Support for ILP Processors [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF, PostScript)
Scott A. Mahlke, Rick E. Hank, James E. McCormick, David I. August, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1995.
Accept Rate: 20% (37/180).

Sentinel Scheduling with Recovery Blocks
David I. August, Brian L. Deitrich, and Scott A. Mahlke
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing Technical Report CRHC-95-05, February 1995.