Scott Beamer

Read this tech report to learn about the algorithm I used to get mirasol (single-node) to 19th place on Graph500.

I am a fifth year graduate student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley advised by Krste Asanović and David Patterson. I recieved my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and my M.S. in Computer Science, both from UC Berkeley. My interests include: parallel architectures, low power, datacenters, and networking.

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• 587E Soda Hall (in the ParLab)

I am currently investigating how to best use silicon photonics to create memory interconnects. I have also done course projects on: memory power management, manycore TLBs, and low power CAM design.

• Scott Beamer, Chen Sun, Yong-jin Kwon, Ajay Joshi, Christopher Batten, Vladimir Stojanović, Krste Asanović, "Re-Architecting DRAM Memory Systems with Monolithically Integrated Silicon Photonics", International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-2010), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010. ACM
• Vladimir Stojanović, Ajay Joshi, Christopher Batten, Yong-Jin Kwon, Scott Beamer, Chen Sun, Krste Asanović, "A Design-Space Exploration for CMOS Photonic Processor Networks", Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), (invited paper), San Diego, CA, March 2010. OFC
• Ajay Joshi, Christopher Batten, Yong-Jin Kwon, Scott Beamer, Imran Shamim, Krste Asanović, and Vladimir Stojanović, "Limits and Opportunities for Designing Manycore Processor-to-Memory Networks using Monolithic Silicon Photonics", Workshop on Photonic Interconnects & Computer Architecture (PICA), at the 42nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-42), New York, NY, December 2009. PICA
• Scott Beamer, "Designing Multisocket Systems with Silicon Photonics", M.S. Thesis, University of California Berkeley, December 2009. TR
• Scott Beamer, Krste Asanović, Christopher Batten, Ajay Joshi, and Vladimir Stojanović, "Designing Multi-socket Systems Using Silicon Photonics", 23rd International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS-09), Yorktown Heights, NY, June 2009. ACM
• Ajay Joshi, Christopher Batten, Yong-Jin Kwon, Scott Beamer, Imran Shamim, Krste Asanović and Vladimir Stojanović, "Silicon-Photonic Clos Networks for Global On-Chip Communication", 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCS), San Diego, CA, May 2009. ACM

Fall 2007

• CS 252 - Graduate Computer Architecture
• CS 294-14 - Architecture of Internet Datacenters
• CS 294-17 - Classics of Computer Science

Spring 2008

• CS 258 - Parallel Computer Architecture
• CS 267 - Applications of Parallel Computers

Fall 2008

• EE 141 - Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits
• CS 270 - Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures

Spring 2009

• EE 241 - Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
• EE 290N - Contemporary Energy Issues (audit)

Fall 2009

• CS 250 - VLSI System Design
• CS 294-48 - Hardware Design Patterns

Spring 2010

• CS 294-35 - Cell Phones as a Computing Platform
• CS 302 - Designing Computer Science Education

Fall 2010

• CS 281A - Statistical Learning Theory

Fall 2011

• CS 294-77 - Vectorization

Spring 2012

• SCMATHE 220C - Designing Educational Technologies

CS 61C - Machine Structures

• Lab Assistant - Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
• TA - Spring 2012
• Head TA - Fall 2006, Spring 2010
• Instructor - Summer 2007

CS 152 - Computer Architecture and Engineering

• TA - Spring 2009

Cisco Systems, Inc.

• Freshman Intern - Summer 2004
• Test Engineering Intern - Summer 2005

Google Inc.

• Intern - Summer 2008

Nokia Corporation

• Research Intern - Summer 2010