Journal / Conference

[ISSTA '12] THeME: A System for Testing by Hardware Monitoring Events

Kristen Walcott-Justice, Jason Mars, Mary Lou Soffa
Proceedings of the 21st Inter- national Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2012
Acceptance Rate: 28%

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@inproceedings{mars12isca,
 author = {Walcott-Justice, Kristen and Mars, Jason and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {THeME: A System for Testing by Hardware Monitoring Events},
 booktitle = {ISSTA '12: Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2012},
 year = {2012},
 series = {ISSTA},
 publisher = {ACM},
 }

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[ISCA '12] BlockChop: Dynamic Squash Elimination for Hybrid Processor Architecture

Jason Mars, Naveen Kumar
Proceedings of the 39th annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2012
Acceptance Rate: 17%

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@inproceedings{mars12isca,
 author = {Mars, Jason and Kumar, Naveen},
 title = {BlockChop: Dynamic Squash Elimination for Hybrid Processor Architecture},
 booktitle = {ISCA '12: Proceeding of the 39th annual international symposium on Computer architecture},
 year = {2012},
 series = {ISCA},
 publisher = {ACM},
 }


[IEEE Micro '12] Increasing Utilization in Warehouse Scale Computers Using Bubble-Up!

Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang, Robert Hundt, Kevin Skadron, Mary Lou Soffa
Special Issue: IEEE Micro’s Top Picks from 2011 Computer Architecture Conferences (MICRO TOP PICKS) 2012

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@article{mars12ieeemicro,
 author = {Mars, Jason and Tang, Lingjia and Hundt, Robert and Skadron, Kevin and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {Increasing Utilization in Warehouse Scale Computers Using BubbleUp!},
 journal = {IEEE Micro},
 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
 address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}

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[ISPASS '12] Performance Analysis of Thread Mappings with a Holistic View of the Hardware Resources

Wei Wang, Tanima Dey, Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang, Jack Davidson, Mary Lou Soffa
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software

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@inproceedings{wang12ispass,
 author = {Wang, Wei and Dey, Tanima and Mars, Jason and Tang, Lingjia and Davidson, Jack and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {Performance Analysis of Thread Mappings with a Holistic View of the Hardware Resources},
 booktitle = {ISPASS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software},
 year = {2012},
 series = {ISPASS},
 publisher = {IEEE},
 }


[CGO '12] Compiling For Niceness: Mitigating Contention for QoS in Warehouse Scale Computers

Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars, Mary Lou Soffa
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2012
Acceptance Rate: 28%
Best Paper Award!

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@inproceedings{tang12cgo,
 author = {Tang, Lingjia and Mars, Jason and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {Compiling For Niceness: Mitigating Contention for QoS in Warehouse Scale Computers},
 booktitle = {CGO '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization},
 year = {2012},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }


[MICRO '11] Bubble-Up: Increasing Utilization in Modern Warehouse Scale Computers via Sensible Co-locations

Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang, Robert Hundt, Kevin Skadron, Mary Lou Soffa
Proceedings of The 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2011
Acceptance Rate: 21%

Selected as IEEE MICRO Top Picks 2012! [15% Acceptance]

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@inproceedings{mars11micro,
 author = {Mars, Jason and Tang, Lingjia and Hundt, Robert and Skadron, Kevin and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {Bubble-Up: Increasing Utilization in Modern Warehouse Scale Computers via Sensible Co-locations},
 booktitle = {MICRO '11: Proceedings of The 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture},
 year = {2011},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }

[CAL '11] Heterogeneity in “Homogeneous” Warehouse-Scale Computers: A Performance Opportunity

Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang, Robert Hundt
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2011
Acceptance Rate: 24%
Selected as the spotlight feature by the editorial board!
Selected as HPCA 2012 “Best Papers from Computer Architecture Letters!”

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@article{mars11cal,
author = {Mars, Jason and Tang, Lingjia and Hundt, Robert},
title = {Heterogeneity in “Homogeneous” Warehouse-Scale Computers: A Performance Opportunity},
journal ={IEEE Computer Architecture Letters},
year = {2011},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}

[ISCA '11] The Impact of Memory Subsystem Resource Sharing on Datacenter Applications

Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars, Neil Vachharajani, Robert Hundt, Mary Lou Soffa
Proceedings of the 38th annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2011
Acceptance Rate: 19%

Recognized as one of the Excellent Papers from 2011 by Google

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@inproceedings{tang11isca,
 author = {Tang, Lingjia and Mars, Jason and Vachharajani, Neil and Hundt, Robert and Soffa, Mary Lou},
 title = {The impact of memory subsystem resource sharing on datacenter applications},
 booktitle = {ISCA '11: Proceeding of the 38th annual international symposium on Computer architecture},
 series = {ISCA '11},
 year = {2011},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-0472-6},
 location = {San Jose, California, USA},
 pages = {283--294},
 numpages = {12},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2000064.2000099},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2000064.2000099},
 acmid = {2000099},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {contention, datacenter, multicore, thread scheduling, thread-to-core mapping, workload characterization},
}


[TACO '11] Evaluating Indirect Branch Handling Mechanisms in Software Dynamic Translation Systems

Jason D. Hiser, Daniel W. Williams, Wei Hu, Jack W. Davidson, Jason Mars, Bruce R. Childers
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization (TACO) 2011

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@article{hiser11taco,
 author = {Hiser, Jason D. and Williams, Daniel W. and Hu, Wei and Davidson, Jack W. and Mars, Jason and Childers, Bruce R.},
 title = {Evaluating Indirect Branch Handling Mechanisms in Software Dynamic Translation Systems},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim.},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
}


[ICSE '11] Exploiting Hardware Advances for Software Testing and Debugging

Mary Lou Soffa, Kristen Walcott, Jason Mars
Proceedings of the 33nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2011
NIER Track (Acceptance Rate: 23%)

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@inproceedings{soffa11icse,
 author = {Soffa, Mary Lou and Walcott, Kristen and Mars, Jason},
 title = {Exploiting Hardware Advances for Software Testing and Debugging (NIER Track)},
 booktitle = {ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering},
 year = {2011},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }