David E. Culler

Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 389 Soda Hall (Chair Office), or 415 Soda Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 e-mail: culler -AT- cs.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 643-7572 Office Hours: Th 8:30-10, Fr 1:30-3:00 (Fall 2012)

Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh

Research Projects

• LoCal: A Network Architecture for Localized Electrical Energy Reduction, Generation, and Sharing
  
• PlanetLab - an open infrastructure for exploring planetary-scale services
• Wireless Embedded Sestems (WEbS) for Networked Embedded Systems Technology
• Tiny OS: Design Principles for Deeply Embedded Networked Systems
• The Endeavour Expedition: Charting the Fluid Information Utility
• Ninja - Platform architecture for Scalable Internet Services
• Post-PC Era (IBM Pervasive Computing Meetings)
• Millennium Clusters of Clusters on a Campus-wide Scale
• TITAN A Next-Generation Infrastructure for Integrating Computing and Communication.
• NOW: Network of Workstations as a High Performance Integrated System
• The Castle Project: Integrated software support for parallel computing.
• Split-C: A performance programming language for parallel machines.

Course Materials

• CS294-49 Creating the Grid OS: A Computing Systems Approach to Energy Problems
  
• CS61CL - Machine Structures, Fall 2009
  
• CS262b - Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, Spring 2009
• CS61Cl - Machine Structures, Fall 2008
  
• EECS194 - Internet of Everyday Things, Spring 2008
  
• CS252 - Graduate Computer Architecture, Fall 2005.
  
• EECS150 - Digital Design Techniques, Fall 2004, Fall 2007
  
• CS294-1 Deeply Embedded Network Systems, Fall 2003
  
• CS252 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2003
• CS252 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2002
• CS298-1 System Seminar, Spring 2000
• CS294-8 Design of Deeply Networked Systems, Spring 2000
• CS258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1999
• CS294-11 Topics in System Design for the Post-PC Era, Spring 1999
• CS294-8 Advanced Topics in the Design of Systems of Systems Fall 1997.
• CS 61C Computer Structures
• CS267 Spring 1997
• CS 152 Computer Design and Engineering, Spring 1996
• CS 298-1 System Seminar, Spring 1996
• CS 258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1995

UCB Sensor Net Day

Intel Research Lab @ Berkeley

References

Current Graduate Students

• Jay Taneja PhD Candidate
• Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, PhD Candidate
• Jorge Ortiz PhD Candidate
  
• Andrew Krioukov
• Prashanth Mohan
• Arka Bhattacharya

Former Students

• Fred Jiang PhD (#24) 2010, MSR Asia, A High-Fidelity Energy Monitoring and Feedback Architecture for Reducing Electrical Consumption in Buildings
• Prabal Dutta PhD (#23) 2009, University of Michigan, A Low-Power Mobile Sensing Architecture
• Jaein Jeong PhD (#22) 2009, CISCO, A Practical Theory of Micro-Solar Power Sensor Networks
• William Kramer PhD (#21) 2008, Production Performance Analysis of Massive Machines
  
• Jonathan Hui PhD (#20) 2008, ArchRock => CISCO, An Extended Internet Architecture for Low-Power Wireless Networks - Design and Implementation
  
• Sukun Kim PhD (#19) 2007, Structures Monitoring, Samsung Research,
• Kamin Whitehouse, PhD (#18) 2006, Sensor Network Localization and Deployment Analysis, UVA
  
• Robert Szewczyk, PhD (#17) 2006, Sensor Network Design for Long-Lived Applications, MoteIV
• Phil Levis, PhD (#16) 2005, Programming Models for Sensor Networks, Stanford University
  
• Joe Polastre, PhD (#15) 2005, Habitat Monitoring, Wireless Networks, Moteiv Corp.
  
• Alec Woo, PhD (#14) 2004, Wireless Embedded Networking, Microsoft, Arch Rock => CISCO
• Frederick Wong, PhD (#13) 2004 Message Passing on Configurable Hardware
• Jason Hill PhD (#12) 2003, Infrastructure Enabled Tiny Devices, JHL Labs, Toro
• Matt Welsh, PhD (#11) 8/02, Staged Event-Driven Architecture for Robust Internet Services, Harvard, Google
• Philip Buonadonna, PhD (#10) 2002 QP/IP, Intel Research, Arch Rock => CISCO
• Brent Chun, PhD (#9) 12/01, System Support for Computational Economies, CIT, Intel, Arch Rock Corp., ...
• Alan Mainwaring, PhD (#8) 11/99, Virtual Networks, Intel Research
• Richard Martin, PhD (#7) 8/99 Performance Sensitivity, Rutgers
  
• Andrea Dusseau, Phd (#6) 11/98, Implicit Co-Scheduling, Wisconsin
• Steven Lumetta, PhD (#5) 11/98, Multi-Protocol Communication, Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign
• Seth Goldstein, PhD (#4), Lazy Threads, CMU
• Thorsten von Eicken, PhD (#3) Active Messages, Cornell, ExpertCity => Citrix online, RightScale
• Klaus Schauser PhD (#2), Compilation of Non-strict Languages, UCSB, ExpertCity => Citrix on-line, Appfolio
• Bruce Holmer PhD (#1), Automated Prolog Instruction Set Design, Northwestern
• Gilman Tolle MS, 2005, Sensor Network Managment, Microclimate Modeling, Arch Rock
• Andrew Geweke, MS, Economic-Based Resource Mgmt
• Chad Yoshikawa, MS, Active Messages on Meiko CS-2
• Anurag Sah
• Steve Luna
• Lok Tin Liu
• Cedric Krumbein
• Martin Bell

Press Stuff

• Sun World, Dec 1996, "Can a `network of workstations' provide cheap, scalable supercomputing power?"
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 1999: Visionaries have a plan for life beyond the dull PC
• 800-node live ad hoc sensor network demo at Intel Developers Forum
Create for Change ACM SenSys 2009

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Stuff for friends, relatives, and guinea pigs

• Susanne Culler Memorial
• Glen Culler Memorial
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