CHE, SHUAI                                        

Ph. D. Advisor: Kevin Skadron

Computer Engineering, University of Virginia

sc5nf at virginia.edu

I graduated from UVA with a Ph.D. in Aug 2012 and currently work for AMD Research. I am involved in:

· U.S. Department of Energy’s Fastforward Exascale computing project at AMD Research

· Development of the Rodinia Benchmark Suite for heterogeneous computing

· Development of SPEC's Accelerator Benchmark Suite

Research Interest

Computer architecture, parallel and heterogeneous computing, GPGPU, parallel algorithms, graph algorithms

Publications (Google Scholar)

· S. Che and K. Skadron. BenchFriend: Correlating the Performance of GPU Benchmarks. To appear in International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA).

· S. Che, B. M. Beckmann, S. K. Reinhardt and K. Skadron. Pannotia: Understanding Irregular GPGPU Graph Applications. To appear in Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Sept 2013.

· M. Boyer, K. Skadron, S. Che, and N. Jayasena. Load Balancing in a Changing World: Dealing with Heterogeneity and Performance Variability. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF), May 2013.

· W. Heirman, T. E. Carlson, S. Che, K. Skadron, and L. Eeckhout. Using Cycle Stacks to Understand Scaling Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Workloads. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Nov. 2011.

· S. Che, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron.  Dymaxion: Optimizing Memory Access Patterns for Heterogeneous Systems.  In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (Supercomputing), Nov. 2011.

· S. Che, J. W. Sheaffer, M. Boyer, L. G. Szafaryn, L. Wang, and K. Skadron.  A Characterization of the Rodinia Benchmark Suite with Comparison to Contemporary CMP Workloads.  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Dec. 2010.

· S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, S. Lee, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. Rodinia: A Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Computing. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Oct 2009.

· S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. A Performance Study of General Purpose Applications on Graphics Processors using CUDA. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 68(10):1370-1380, Jun 2008.

· S. Che, J. Li, J. W. Sheaffer, K. Skadron, and J. Lach. Accelerating Compute Intensive Applications with GPUs and FPGAs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP), Jun 2008.

· S. Che, J. Meng, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. A Performance Study of General Purpose Applications on Graphics Processors. First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, Oct 2007.

Last updated: Aug 27th, 2013