Sudhanva Gurumurthi

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia

Research Interest: Computer Architecture 		personal photo
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Curriculum Vitae: PDF  (Last Updated: January 2012)

Current Research Projects (Click On the Links Below for More Details about Each Project)

  • Non-Volatile Memory
  • Microprocessor Reliability
  • Energy-Efficient Storage

    My research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Intel, HP, and Google.

    Students (Click Here for Full List of Current and Previous Students)

    Current Graduate Advisees

  • Taniya Siddiqua
    MS Thesis: Balancing Soft Error Coverage with Lifetime Reliability in Redundantly Multithreaded Processors (September 2009)

  • Vidyabhushan Mohan
    MS Thesis: Modeling the Physical Characteristics of NAND Flash Memory (May 2010)

  • Sriram Sankar
    MS Thesis:Intra-Disk Parallelism (August 2008)

  • Luyao Jiang

    PhD Graduates

  • Clinton Wills Smullen, IV (December 2011)
    Dissertation:Designing Giga-Scale Memory Systems with STT-RAM
    First Employment: Google, Mountain View, CA

    Selected Awards/Honors (See CV for Full List of Awards and Honors)

  • ACM Senior Member, 2011
  • IEEE Senior Member, 2010
  • Google Focused Research Award - 2010
  • Google Faculty Research Award - 2007, 2009
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2007

    Press Coverage (Click Here for Full List of Press Articles)

    MIT Technology Review, June 13, 2011
    C-Ville Weekly, April 20, 2010
    Dr. Dobb's Journal, February 4, 2010
    NSF Highlight to the United States Congress, May 7, 2009
    Google Research Blog, January 28, 2009

    Selected Publications (Click Here for Full List of Publications)
    Google Scholar Citation Profile: Click Here

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  • Phase Change Memory: From Devices to Systems, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture 2011 (Book) (Amazon Site)
  • The STeTSiMS STT-RAM Simulation and Modeling System, ICCAD 2011
  • Delivering on the Promise of Universal Memory for Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM), ISLPED 2011
  • Enhancing NBTI Recovery in SRAM Arrays through Recovery Boosting, IEEE Transactions on VLSI 2011
  • Modeling and Analyzing NBTI in the Presence of Process Variation, ISQED 2011
  • Relaxing Non-Volatility for Fast and Energy-Efficient STT-RAM Caches, HPCA 2011
  • Accelerating Enterprise Solid-State Disks with Non-Volatile Merge Caching, IGCC 2010
  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flash Endurance, HotStorage 2010
  • A Multi-Level Approach to Reduce the Impact of NBTI on Processor Functional Units, GLSVLSI 2010
  • FlashPower: A Detailed Power Model for NAND Flash Memory, DATE 2010
  • Architecting Storage for the Cloud Computing Era, IEEE Micro 2009 (Invited Paper)
  • Using Intradisk Parallelism to Build Energy-Efficient Storage Systems, IEEE Micro Top Picks 2009
  • Intra-Disk Parallelism: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, ISCA 2008
  • Dynamic Prediction of Architectural Vulnerability from Microarchitectural State, ISCA 2007
  • SODA: Sensitivity Based Optimization of Disk Architecture, DAC 2007 (Detailed IEEE Transactions Version)
  • SlicK: Slice-Based Locality Exploitation for Efficient Redundant Multithreading, ASPLOS 2006
  • Understanding the Performance-Temperature Interactions in Disk I/O of Server Workloads, HPCA 2006
  • Disk Drive Roadmap from the Thermal Perspective: A Case for Dynamic Thermal Management, ISCA 2005
  • A Complexity-Effective Approach to ALU Bandwidth Enhancement for Instruction-Level Temporal Redundancy, ISCA 2004
  • DRPM: Dynamic Speed Control for Power Management in Server Class Disks, ISCA 2003
  • ICR: In-Cache Replication for Enhancing Data Cache Reliability, DSN 2003
  • Using Complete Machine Simulation for Software Power Estimation: The SoftWatt Approach, HPCA 2002
  • Analyzing Energy Behavior of Spatial Access Methods for Memory-Resident Data, VLDB 2001

    Selected Talks (See CV for Full List of Talks)

  • The Storage Stack of Future Data Centers, Panel slides from the ACLD Workshop (held in conjunction with ISCA), Saint-Malo, France, June 2010.
  • Efficient Soft Error Protection for Microprocessors, HP R&D Research Seminar - Computer Architecture Technologist Series, March 2010.
  • The Role of Storage Class Memory in Future Hardware Platforms: Challenges and Opportunities, HPCA WEST Workshop - Keynote Talk, Bangalore, India, January 2010.
  • Intra-Disk Parallelism: A Green Storage Solution for Data Centers, Storage Developer Conference - Academic Innovation Spotlight Talk, Santa Clara, CA, September 2008.

    Selected Professional Activities (Click Here for Full List of Activities)

  • HPCA 2011, Program Committee Member + Submissions Co-Chair
  • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Associate Editor. Associate Editor-in-Chief (January 2010 - March 2011)
  • Phase Change Memory Tutorial, Co-Organizer. (Presented HPCA 2010, MICRO 2010, NVMW 2011).
  • FAST 2010, Program Committee Member
  • WISH 2009, Co-Organizer
  • IEEE Micro Top Picks 2009, Program Committee Member
  • ISCA 2009, Program Committee Member
  • ASPLOS 2009, Web/Publications Chair
  • SIGMETRICS 2008, Program Committee Member
  • ASPLOS 2008, Program Committee Member
  • IISWC 2007 Panel - Benchmarking in the Web 2.0 Era, Organizer and Moderator

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