David Brooks

Computer Science

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

John L. Loeb Associate Professor

of the Natural Sciences and

Associate Professor of

Computer Science

Maxwell Dworkin 141
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-3989
Fax: 617-495-2489

E-mail:

dbrooks {at} eecs.harvard.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Research

Courses

My research focuses on the interaction between the architecture and software of computer systems and underlying hardware implementation challenges.  These challenges include power, reliability, and variability issues across embedded and high-performance computing systems.  A basic tenet of my research is that architecture design must be cognizant of these implementation issues, and that multi-layer solutions spanning circuits, architecture, and software can provide significant advantages. Addressing technology-scaling issues in a multi-layer fashion requires an understanding of the impact at the silicon level, and we have completed several prototype chip designs to meet these goals.

I have written a short summary of my research activities, and a longer research narrative.  My CV, as of May 2009, is available here.

 

CS 141:

Computing Hardware

[Fall '08]

 

CS 246:

Computer Architecture
[Spring '09]

 

Projects

Office Hours

TBD

Recent Publications

Opportunities

  • Vijay Janapa Reddi, Simone Campanoni, Meeta S. Gupta, Michael D. Smith, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks.  “Software-Assisted Hardware Reliability: Abstracting Circuit-level Challenges to the Software Stack,” 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA,  July 2009.

  • Krishna Rangan, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks.  “Thread Motion: Fine-Grained Power Management for Multi-Core Systems,” 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-36), Austin, TX, June 2009. (pdf)

  • Vijay Janapa Reddi, Meeta S. Gupta, Glenn Holloway, Michael D. Smith, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. “Voltage Emergency Prediction: A Signature-Based Approach To Reducing Voltage Emergencies,” 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15), Raleigh, NC, February, 2009. Received Best Paper Award. (pdf)

  • Xiaoyao Liang, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. “ReVIVaL: Variation Tolerant Architecture Using Voltage Interpolation and Variable Latency,” IEEE Micro’s Top Picks in Computer Architecture Conferences, January/February, 2009.

  • Benjamin Lee, Jamison Collins, Hong Wang, and David Brooks. “CPR: Composable Performance Regression for Scalable Multiprocessor Models,”  41st Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro-41), Lake Como, Italy, Nov. 2008. (pdf)

  • Full Publication List

Postdoctoral Position

PhD Students

Former Student

  • Benjamin Lee : PhD 2008, Microsoft Research, Computer Architecture Group. On the academic job market in Spring 2009.

  • Xiaoyao Liang: PhD 2008, Nvidia.  On the academic job market in Spring 2009.

Tutorials

 

  • Keith Bowman, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei, Chris Wilkerson. “Design Variability: Trends, Models, and Design Solutions,” 41st Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro-41), Lake Como, Italy, Dec. 2008 [Tutorial Website]

  • David Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Benjamin Lee, Sally A. McKee, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh. “Learning and Inference Tutorial (LIT) for Large Design and Parameter Spaces,” International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'08), Seattle, WA, March 2008. [Tutorial Website]

  • David Brooks, Bronis de Supinski, Benjamin Lee, Sally A. McKee, Martin Schulz, Karan Singh. “Inference and learning for large scale microarchitectural analysis,” 34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-34), San Diego, CA, June 2007. [Tutorial Website]

  • Zhigang Hu, David Brooks, Victor Zyuban, “Microarchitecture-Level Power-Performance Simulators: Modeling, Validation, and Impact on Design,” 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro-36), San Diego, CA 2003. [Tutorial Website]