Selected publications and talks of Augustus K. Uht


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PATENT'2013:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Not-taken path instruction for selectively generating a forwarded result from a previous instruction based on branch outcome ," USA Patent No. 8,601,245. Issued: December 3, 2013.
PATENT'2011:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Concurrent execution of instructions in a processing system," USA Patent No. 7,991,980. Issued: August 2, 2011.
PATENT'2010-2:
A. K. Uht, "System und verfahren zur leistungsverbesserung digitaler systeme," Germany Patent No. 60334837. Issued: December 16, 2010.
PATENT'2010:
R. Sendag, A. Yilmazer, and A. K. Uht, "System and method for cache replacement," USA Patent No. 7,721,048. Issued: May 18, 2010.
PATENT'2009:
A. K. Uht, "System and Method of Digital System Performance Enhancement," USA Patent No. 7,555,084. Issued: June 30, 2009.
GLSVLSI'2009:
M. Kadin, S. Reda, and A. K. Uht, "Central vs. distributed dynamic thermal management for multi-core processors: which one is better?," in Proceedings of the 19th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. Boston, MA, USA: ACM, May 10-12, 2009, pp. 137-140.
PATENT'2008-2:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Automatic and Transparent Hardware Conversion of Traditional Control Flow to Predicates," USA Patent No. 7,409,534. Issued: August 5, 2008.
PATENT'2008-1:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Automatic and transparent hardware conversion of traditional control flow to predicates," USA Patent No. 7,380,108. Issued: May 27, 2008.
JPDC'2007:
R. Sendag, A. Yilmazer, J. Yi, and A. K. Uht, "The Impact of Wrong-Path Memory References in Cache-Coherent Multiprocessor Systems," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67 (2007), pp. 1256--1269, March 24 2007. Special Issue on Best Papers in 2006 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.
PATENT'2007:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Automatic and Transparent Hardware Conversion of Traditional Control Flow to Predicates," USA Patent No. 7,210,025. Issued: April 24, 2007.
IPDPS'2006:
R. Sendag, A. Yilmazer, J. Yi, and A. K. Uht, "Quantifying and Reducing the Effects of Wrong-Path Memory References in Cache-Coherent Multiprocessor Systems," in Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006). Rhodes Island, Greece: IEEE, April 25-29, 2006. One of four Best Papers out of 531 submissions.
(WARFP'2006):
A. K. Uht, "TEAtime Adaptive-Computing Case-Study, Demonstration and Updated Results," 2nd Workshop on Architecture Research using FPGA Platforms (WARFP-2006), held in conjunction with the 12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-12). Austin, Texas, USA, February 12, 2006. Accepted, was to appear; withdrawn due to illness.
BARC'2006-1:
A. K. Uht, "ILP is Dead, Long Live IPC!," in Proceedings of the Fourth Boston-Area Architecture Workshop (BARC 2006). Kingston, RI, USA, February 3, 2006. - Talk
BARC'2006-2:
A. Yilmazer, R. Sendag, J. Yi, and A. K. Uht, "Investigating the Effects of Wrong-Path Memory References in Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems," in Proceedings of the Fourth Boston-Area Architecture Workshop (BARC 2006). Kingston, RI, USA, February 3, 2006.
PATENT'2006:
A. K. Uht, "System and Method of Digital System Performance Enhancement," USA Patent No. 6,985,547. Issued: January 10, 2006.
PATENT'2005:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, and D. Kaeli, "Resource Flow Computing Device," USA Patent No. 6,976,150. Issued: December 13, 2005.
TACS'2005:
A. K. Uht and R. J. Vaccaro, "TEAPC: Temperature Adaptive Computing in a Real PC," in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Temperature-Aware Computer Systems (TACS-2), ISCA. Madison, WI, USA: IEEE and ACM, June 5, 2005. - Talk (14 MB) -
CRCPress'2005-2:
D. A. Morano, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Resource Flow Microarchitectures," in Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures, D. Kaeli and P.-C. Yew, Eds. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, May 2005, pp. 393-419.
CRCPress'2005:
A. K. Uht, "Multipath Execution," in Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures, D. Kaeli and P.-C. Yew, Eds. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, May 2005, pp. 135-160.
IEEETC'2005:
A. K. Uht, "Uniprocessor Performance Enhancement through Adaptive Clock Frequency Control," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 132-140, February 2005.
BARC'2005:
A. K. Uht and R. J. Vaccaro, "Adaptive Computing," in Proceedings of the Third Annual Boston Architecture Conference (BARC-2005). Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, January 21 2005. - Published Talk - Actual Talk - Extended abstract -
PATDOC'2004:
A. K. Uht, "System and Method of Digital System Performance Enhancement," World (non-USA) patent source document, October 28, 2004.
IBM-PAC2'2004:
A. K. Uht and R. J. Vaccaro, "TEAPC: Adaptive Computing and Underclocking in a Real PC," in Proceedings of the First IBM P=ac2 Conference. Yorktown Heights, NY, USA: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, October 6-8, 2004, pp. 45-54. - Talk - Extended paper (TR) -
Computer'2004:
A. K. Uht, "Going Beyond Worst-Case Specs with TEAtime," Computer, March 2004, special issue on 'Better Than Worst-Case Design.' - Related Talk -
SSCCII'2004:
A. K. Uht, "Teradactyl: an Easy-to-Use Supercomputer," in Proceedings of the International Symposium of Santa Caterina on Challenges in the Internet and Interdisciplinary Research (SSCCII-2004). Amalfi, Italy: IPSI, January-February 2004. - Talk -
JILP'2003:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, A. Khalafi, and D. R. Kaeli, "Levo - A Scalable Processor With High IPC," The Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, vol. 5, August 2003 (http://www.jilp.org/vol5). - Related Talk -
SSGRRw'2003:
A. K. Uht, "Uniprocessor Performance Enhancement Through Adaptive Clock Frequency Control," in Proceedings of the SSGRR-2003w International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, e-Medicine, and Mobile Technologies on the Internet. L'Aquila, Italy: Telecom Italia, January 6-12, 2003. Invited paper.
NEU-TR'2002:
D. Morano, A. Khalafi, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Implications of Register and Memory Temporal Locality for Distributed Microarchitectures," Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, Technical Report, October 2002.
MEDEA2002:
D. Morano, A. Khalafi, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Realizing High IPC Through a Scalable Memory-Latency Tolerant Multipath Microarchitecture," in Proceedings of the Workshop On Chip Multiprocessors: Processor Architecture and Memory Hierarchy Related Issues (MEDEA2002), at PACT 2002. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, September 22, 2002. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Newsletter, March 2003.
URI-ELE-TR'2002-5:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, A. Khalafi, and D. Kaeli, "Levo - A Scalable Billion Transistor CPU With High IPC," Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0805, Technical Report 082002-1000, August 2002.
Euro-Par2002:
A. Uht, A. Khalafi, D. Morano, M. d. Alba, and D. Kaeli, "Realizing High IPC Using Time-Tagged Resource Flow Computing," in Proceedings of the Euro-Par 2002 Conference, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Paderborn, Germany: ACM, IFIP, August 28, 2002, pp. 490-499. - Talk -
URI-ELE-TR'2002-4:
A. Khalafi, D. A. Morano, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Multipath Execution on a Large-Scale Distributed Microarchitecture," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0805, Technical Report 032002-0103, February 15, 2002.
URI-ELE-TR'2002-3:
A. Khalafi, D. A. Morano, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Realizing High IPC Through a Scalable Memory-Latency Tolerant Multipath Microarchitecture," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0805, Technical Report 032002-0101, April 2, 2002.
SIGARCH-CAN'2002:
A. K. Uht, "Disjoint Eager Execution: What It Is / What It Is Not," ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, vol. 30, no. 1, March 2002.
URI-ELE-TR'2002-2:
D. Morano, "Execution-Time Instruction Predication," Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, Technical Report 032002-0100, March 2002.
SSGRRw'2002:
A. K. Uht, S. Langford, and D. Morano, "Interactive High-Performance Processor Understanding via the Web," in Proceedings of the SSGRR 2002w International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet. L'Aquila, Italy, January 21-27, 2002. LevoVis paper. - Talk -
URI-ELE-TR'2002:
D. Morano, D. R. Kaeli, and A. K. Uht, "Preserving Dependencies in a Large-Scale Distributed Microarchitecture," Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02864, Technical 022002-001, December 21, 2001.
PACT-WIP'2001:
A. K. Uht, A. Khalafi, D. Morano, T. Wenisch, M. de Alba, and D. Kaeli, "Levo: IPC in the 10's via Resource Flow Computing," IEEE TCCA Newsletter, Special Issue, December 2001. Presented at PACT 2001 Work-In-Progress (WIP) Session, September 2001. - PDF (213 KB) -
URI-ELE-TR'2001-2:
A. K. Uht, D. Morano, A. Khalafi, M. de Alba, T. Wenisch, M. Ashouei, and D. Kaeli, "IPC in the 10's via Resource Flow Computing with Levo," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Technical 092001-001, September 18, 2001. - PDF (328 KB) -
URI-ELE-TR'2001:
T. Wenisch and A. K. Uht, "HDLevo - VHDL Modeling of Levo Processor Components," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, Technical Report 072001-100, July 20, 2001. - PDF (332 KB) -
ISIT2001:
T. Wenisch, P. F. Swaszek and A. K. Uht. "Combined Error Correcting and Compressing Codes".
2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, to appear June, 2001.
- PDF (100 KB) / No Abstract / PDF Extended Summary - not published (131 KB) -
IEEEMicro2000:
A. K. Uht, J.-C. Lo, J. C. Daly, Y. Sun and J. Kowalski. "Building Real Computer Systems".
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Computer Architecture Education, Vol. 20, No. 3, May/June, 2000. pp. 48-56.
- PDF (657 KB) / No Abstract -
ASEE2000:
A. K. Uht. "The URI Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum: Progress Report".
2000 ASEE Conference & Exposition, June, 2000. 7 pages.
- PDF (353 KB) / No Abstract -
URI-ELE-TR'2000:
A. K. Uht. "Acheiving Typical Delays in Synchronous Systems via Timing Error Toleration." Technical Report No. 032000-0100. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, March 10, 2000. - Abstract -
TCCA'99:
A. K. Uht. "The Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum".
IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture Newsletter, Special Issue on Computer Architecture Education.
IEEE, February, 1999. 3 pages.
- Compressed Postscript (33 KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (83 KB) -
FIE'98:
A. K. Uht and Y. Sun. "The Laboratory Environment of the URI Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum".
1998 Frontiers in Education Conference, ASEE and IEEE, November, 1998. 6 pages.
- PDF (995 KB) / Compressed Postscript (782 KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (1.95 MB) -

 
WCAE'98 (ISCA):
A. K. Uht. "The Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum".
Proceedings of the 1998 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education.
Held at the 25th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Barcelona, June 1998. 6 pages.
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WCAE'98 (HPCA):
A. K. Uht. "The Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum".
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computer Architecture Education.
Held at the 4th High Performance Computer Architecture Conference, Las Vegas, January 1998. 9 pages.
- Compressed Postscript (39 KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (99 KB) -

 
MUG'97:
A. K. Uht. "Use of CAD Tools in the Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) Curriculum".
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Mentor Graphics Users' Group.
International Mentor Graphics Users' Group, October, 1997. 6 pages.
- Compressed Postscript (58 KB) / Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (138 KB) -

 
URI-ELE-TR'97-4:
A. K. Uht. "High Performance Memory System for High ILP Microarchitectures".
Technical Report No. 0797-0002. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Rhode Island, August 26, 1997.
- Compressed Postscript (81 KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (208 KB) -

 
URI-ELE-TR'97-2-A:
A. K. Uht. "Verification of ILP Speedups in the 10's for Disjoint Eager Execution".
Technical Report No. 0697-0001, Rev. A. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Rhode Island, July 11, 1997.
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COMPUTER'97:
A. K. Uht, V. Sindagi and S. Somanathan. "Branch Effect Reduction Techniques".
COMPUTER, IEEE, 30(5):71-81, May, 1997. Originally entitled: "Reducing the Ill Effects of Branches".
- PDF (375 KB) / Abstract / No Postscript -

 
URI-ELE-TR'97:
A. K. Uht, V. Sindagi and S. Somanathan. "Data References for: `Branch Effect Reduction Techniques'".
Technical Report No. 0497-0002. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Rhode Island, April 25, 1997.
- Compressed Postscript (57 KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (139 KB) -

 
MICRO'95:
A. K. Uht and V. Sindagi. "Disjoint Eager Execution: An Optimal Form of Speculative Execution".
In Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-28).
ACM-IEEE, November/December 1995, pages 313-325.
- Abstract / Talk -
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PATENT'93:
A. K. Uht, "System for Extracting Low-Level Concurrency from Serial Instruction Streams," USA Patent No. 5,201,057. Issued: April 6, 1993.

SIGARCH CAN'93:
A. K. Uht. "Extraction of Massive Instruction Level Parallelism".
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 21(2 and 3), March and June 1993.
- Compressed Postscript (55KB) / Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (192KB) -


MICRO'92:
A. K. Uht and D. B. Johnson. "Data Path Issues in a Highly Concurrent Machine."
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-25),
pages 115-118. ACM-IEEE, December 1992.
- No Compressed Postscript / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (79KB) -


IEEETPDS'92:
A. K. Uht. "Requirements for Optimal Execution of Loops with Tests".
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 3(5):573-581, September 1992.

UCSD-CSE-TR'92:
A. K. Uht and D. B. Johnson. "Data Path Issues in a Highly Concurrent Machine". Technical Report CS92-262,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, September 1992.

IEEETC'92:
A. K. Uht. "Concurrency Extraction via Hardware Methods Executing the Static Instruction Stream".
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 41(7):826-841, July 1992.

ISCA'92:
A. K. Uht and D. B. Johnson. "Data Path Issues in a Highly Concurrent Machine".
In Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, page 431.
ACM-IEEE, May 1992. Abstract. Poster presented at conference.
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IEEETC'91:
A. K. Uht. "A Theory of Reduced and Minimal Procedural Dependencies".
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 40(6):681-692, June 1991.
- Also appears in the tutorial Instruction-Level Parallel Processors, Torng, H.C. and Vassiliadis, S., Eds.,
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995, pages 171-182.

UCSD-CSE-TR'90:
A. K. Uht. "Notes on: 'A Theory of Reduced and Minimal Procedural Dependencies'".
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, 1990.
- No Compressed Postscript / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (69KB) -

UCSD-CSE-TR'90-2:
A. K. Uht and S. Wang. "Understanding Eager Evaluation of Imperative Instruction Streams, Part 1"
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, June, 1990.
- No Compressed Postscript / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (95KB) -

WPLCPC'89:
A. K. Uht. "Desirable Code Transformations for a Concurrent Machine".
In Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing.
The MIT Press, 1990.
- PDF (144KB) / No Abstract / Talk (162KB) -

ICS'88
A. K. Uht. "Requirement for Optimal Execution of Loops with Tests". In Proceedings of the the 1988 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, St. Malo, France, June 1988.
- No paper / No Abstract / Talk (74KB) -
 
MICRO'87
A. K. Uht, C. Polychronopoulos and J. F. Kolen. "On the Combination of Hardware and Software Concurrency Extraction Methods". In Proceedings of the the 1987 Workshop on Microprogramming, ACM, Colorado, 1987.
- PDF (1,248KB)-
 

Archived - Superseded Documents

URI-ELE-TR'97-3:
A. K. Uht. "Overview of the Levo High-ILP Computer". Technical Report No. 0797-0001.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, August 26, 1997.
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URI-ELE-TR'97-2:
A. K. Uht. "Verification of ILP Speedups in the 10's for Disjoint Eager Execution". Technical Report No. 0697-0001.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, June 24, 1997.
- Compressed Postscript (382 KB) / Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (1168 KB) -

 
COMPUTER'96:
A. K. Uht, V. Sindagi and S. Somanathan. "Reducing the Ill Effects of Branches".
IEEE COMPUTER, to appear, 1996.
- Compressed Postscript (91KB) / Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (258KB) -

 
URI-ELE-TR'96:
A. K. Uht, V. Sindagi and S. Somanathan. "Data References for: `Reducing the Ill Effects of Branches'".
Technical Report No. 0496-0001. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rhode Island, April 3, 1996.
- Compressed Postscript (50KB) / No Abstract / Uncompressed Postscript (119KB) -

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