Che   Shuai                                          

    Ph. D. student, advisor: Kevin Skadron

     Computer Engineering, University of Virginia

 Research interest

     Computer architecture, heterogeneous computing, GPGPU and simulation methodology

 Education

• Computer Engineering program, University of Virginia (2006.9 - present)

• Bachelor in Instrumentation Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2000.9 - 2004.7)

• Second major in Business Administration, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2000.9 - 2004.7)

 Research project

• Developing the Rodinia benchmark suite of applications with both optimized GPU and multicore-CPU implementations

• Exploring how to most effectively utilize GPU architecture for a diverse set of applications

• Evaluating various offloading issues, including comparing GPU and FPGA efficiency for diverse application characteristics

 Professional experience

• IBM Global Business Services, Shanghai China and Chiba Japan. CRM deployment Asia Pacific (2004.8 - 2006.7)

 Publication

• 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, Oct 2009.(pdf)

• 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, 68(10):1370-1380, Jun 2008. (pdf)

• 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, Jun 2008.(pdf)

• 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.

• S. Che. Why does US lead ahead of Japan in Information Technology, Software Engineer (In Chinese), No. 1, 2002.

Technical reports and posters

• S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, S. Lee, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. Rodinia: A Benchmark Suite for Heterogeneous Computing. Poster session at ASPLOS, Mar 2009

• S. Che, M. Boyer, J. Meng, D. Tarjan, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. Experience Porting General-Purpose Applications to GPUs using CUDA. NVISION, Aug 2008.

• J. Meng, S. Che, J. W. Sheaffer, J. Li, J. Huang and K. Skadron. Hierarchical Domain Partitioning For Hierarchical Architectures. Tech. Report CS-2008-08, Univ. of Virginia Dept. of Computer Science, Jun 2008.

• J. Meng, S. R. Tarapore, S. Che, J. Huang, J. W. Sheaffer, and K. Skadron. Programming with Relaxed Streams. Tech. Report CS-2007-17, Univ. of Virginia Dept. of Computer Science, Dec 2007.

MS thesis

• S. Che. Benchmarking GPUs for General Purpose Applications. MS thesis, Univ. of Virginia, Dec. 2009

Last updated: November 11th 2009