Brian A. Fields

I am currently a fourth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC-Berkeley.  My two advisors are Rastislav Bodik (Berkeley) and Mark Hill (Madison). I plan to graduate sometime in the years 2004-2005. (I keep pushing back the graduation year, so don’t trust it too much.)

I’m working on the Bottleneck Analysis of Fine-grain Parallelism (abbreviated BAFL, pronounced “baffle”) project. My advisor came up with the acronym, but it conveniently contains my initials, so I’m happy with it. I maintain the project web page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bfields/bafl

My publications

Using Interaction Cost for Microarchitectural Bottleneck Analysis,
Brian Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark Hill, Chris J. Newburn
The 36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ‘03),
    San Diego, California, December 2003. (talk slides)

Slack: Maximizing Performance under Technological Constraints,
    Brian Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill,
The 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '02),
Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002. (talk slides)

Focusing Processor Policies via Critical-Path Prediction,
    Brian Fields, Shai Rubin, Rastislav Bodik,
The 28th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '01),
Goteborg, Sweden, July 2001. (talk slides)

Contact information

517 Soda Hall, U.C. Berkeley
email—bfields AT cs.berkeley.edu--