Technical Memos

-001	Roll Your Own Divide/Square Root Unit (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-002	An Implementation of Guarded Pointers with Tight Bounds on Segment Size (PDF) J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight.
-003	Multistriped Addressing (PDF) J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight.
-004	Using SQUIDs to Address Forwarding Pointer Aliasing (PDF) (AI lab only) J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight.
-005	A Capability Representation with Embedded Address and Nearly-Exact Object Bounds (abstract) (PDF) (postscript) Jeremy Brown, J.P. Grossman, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight. April 2000. Submitted to (and rejected by) ASPLOS 2000..
-006	Cheap Out-of-Order Execution using Delayed Issue (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-007	Proposed Model for Multithreading and Event Handling in the Aries Architecture (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-008	A Hardware Mechanism to Reduce the Cost of Forwarding Pointer Aliasing (PDF) (AI lab only) J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight.
-009	A High Performance Coffee Maker (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-010	The Hamal Processor-Memory Node (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-011	Hamal ISA (PDF) (AI lab only) J.P. Grossman.
-012	Hamal Design Rationale (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-013	Spatially Aware Decentralized Computing (PDF) Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Ben Vandiver, Jeremy Brown, J.P. Grossman, Tom Knight.
-014	An Idempotent Message Protocol (PDF) (postscript) Jeremy Brown.
-015	A Minimal Trusted Computing Base for Dynamically Ensuring Secure Information Flow (PDF) (postscript) (MIT-only) Jeremy Brown and Thomas F. Knight, Jr..
-017	An Efficient C++ Framework for Cycle-Based Simulation (PDF) J.P. Grossman.
-018	A Systolic Array for Implementing LRU Replacement (PDF) J.P. Grossman.

Lab Abstracts

• A Simple, Scalable Processor-in-Memory Microprocessor for HPC Systems (PDF)
  Michael P. Phillips. 2000.
• Data and Process Migration in the Aries Decentralized Abstract Machine (ADAM) (postscript)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang. 2001.
• Hardware-Supported Optimistic Transacitons (postscript)
  Jeremy Brown and Josie Ammer. 1999.
• Massively Parallel Garbage Collection (PDF) (postscript)
  Jeremy H. Brown. 2001.
• Memory Integration: Implementing the Memory Model in Hardware (PDF)
  J.P. Grossman. 2000.
• Novel Parallel-Programming Idioms (postscript)
  Jeremy Brown. 1999.
• Performance Modeling and Simulation of Communications-Intensive Processing HPC Systems (postscript)
  bunnie. 1999.
• Processor-In-Memory System Simulator (PDF)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang. 2000.
• Secure Computing Through Hardware-Enforced Ownership (postscript)
  Jeremy Brown. 1999.
• The Ansible Machine Prototype Substrate (postscript)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang. 2001.
• The Aries Decentralized Abstract Machine (ADAM) (postscript)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang. 2001.

Area Exam Papers

• Compiler and Architectural Techniques for Improving the Effectiveness of VLIW Compilation (PDF)
  J.P. Grossman.
  An opinionated treatise of Trace Scheduling, Software Pipelining and Speculative Execution.

M. Eng. Theses

• A High-Speed Fault-Tolerant Interconnect Fabric for Large-Scale Multiprocessing (abstract) (PDF) (postscript)
  Bobby Woods-Corwin. May 2001.
• Prototyping a Scalable Massively-Parallel Supercomputer Architecture with FPGAs (abstract) (PDF) (postscript)
  Michael P. Phillips. May 2001.

Other

• ADAM Architecture Specification (PDF)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang.
  A rough draft of the Aries Decentralized Abstract Machine specification.
• ADAM System Simulator
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang.
  System simulator code and documentation.

PhD Theses

• Design and Evaluation of the Hamal Parallel Computer (abstract) (PDF)
  J.P. Grossman. December 2002.
• Sparsely Faceted Arrays: A Mechanism Supporting Parallel Allocation, Communication, and Garbage Collection (abstract) (PDF) (postscript)
  Jeremy Hanford Brown. June 2002.

Presentations

• Presentation: The Aries Decentralized Abstract Machine Architecture and Streams (postscript)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Ben Vandiver.
• Thesis Defense: Design and Evaluation of the Hamal Parallel Computer (PDF)
  J.P. Grossman.

Thesis Proposals

• Design and Evaluation of the Hamal Parallel Computer (PDF)
  J.P. Grossman.
• Memory Management on a Massively Parallel Capability Architecture (PDF)
  Jeremy Brown. December, 1999.
• Q-Machine: A Spatially-Aware Decentralized Computer Architecture (PDF)
  Andrew "bunnie" Huang.