David E. Culler

Chair of Computer Science Associate Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Associate CIO, College of Engineering 389 Soda Hall (Chair Office), or 465 Soda Hall (Rad Lab) University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 e-mail: culler -AT- cs.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 643-7572 Office Hours: Tu 3-5, W 8-9, F 2-3 in 389 Soda (fall 2010)

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

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Stuff for friends, relatives, and guinea pigs

• Susanne Culler Memorial
• Glen Culler Memorial
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