HPCAT NEWS

Dr. Louri receives new patent
December 4, 2018
On December 4, 2018 the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Professor Ahmed Louri, David and Marylin Karlgaard Endowed Chair of ECE US Patent 10,148,593 Title: “Directional allocation of communication links based on data traffic loads”. This patent introduces interconnection links that have four functions: these links can dynamically function as (1) forward repeaters, (2) backward repeaters, (3) forward buffers, and (4) backward buffers. This enables significant power reduction while enabling circuits to both improve performance and reliability.

Patent Abstract: A first example provides a circuit configured to operate in four modes. A first mode includes propagating data from a first terminal of the circuit to a second terminal of the circuit. A second mode includes propagating data from the second terminal of the circuit to the first terminal of the circuit. A third mode includes storing data received by the first terminal. A fourth mode includes storing data received by the second terminal. A second example provides a circuit configured to cause one or more communication links to operate in one of two modes based on data traffic detected on the one or more communication links. The first mode includes propagating data from a first router to a second router. The second mode includes propagating data to the first router from the second router.

Congrats to Ke Wang on his accepted DATE 2019 paper!
November 20, 2018
Congrats to our PhD student Ke Wang on his accepted DATE 2019 paper titled: “High-performance, Energy-efficient, Fault-tolerant Network-On-Chip Design Using Reinforcement Learning”. The work introduces a proactive fault-tolerant mechanism to optimize energy efficiency and performance with reinforcement learning (RL), and it will be published in the 22nd Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition  (DATE'19), March 25-29, Florence, Italy. DATE is the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of both technology and systems, covering ICs/SoCs, reconfigurable hardware and embedded systems, and embedded software. This work is funded by a grant from NSF.

Dr. Louri appointed chair of Computer Society committee
November 19, 2018
The IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors has appointed Dr. Ahmed Louri chair of the Computer Society’s 2019 Fellow Evaluating Committee. The IEEE Fellow Evaluating Committee must determine whether the work of each candidate is recognized and considered outstanding in the Computer Society's field of interest. Based on the recommendation of the Fellow Committee, the IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected for the grade of Fellow in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.

Congrats to Yuechen Chen and Dr. Md Farhadur Reza on their accepted ICCD 2018 paper!
August 6, 2018
Congrats to our Ph.D. student Yuechen Chen and Dr. Md Farhadur Reza on their accepted ICCD 2018 paper titled: “DEC-NoC: An Approximate Framework based on Dynamic Error Control with Applications to Energy-efficient NoCs”. The work introduces a dynamic error control scheme, which reduces the amount of error checking and correction in packet transmission based on application's error tolerance to enhance energy efficiency and performance, and it has been published in the 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD' 2019), Oct. 7-10, Orlando, Florida, USA. ICCD encompasses a wide range of topics in the research, design, and implementation of computer systems and their components. This work is funded by a grant from NSF.

Dr. Ahmed Louri and his research team has published a seminal conference paper titled: “LEAD: Learning-enabled Energy-Aware Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling in NoC”
July 24, 2018
Professor Ahmed Louri and his research team has published a seminal conference paper titled: “LEAD: Learning-enabled Energy-Aware Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling in NoC”. The work introduces machine learning techniques to manage power management in network on chips for future computing systems, and is published in the 55th International Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 24 – 28, San Francisco. DAC is the premier conference devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems, embedded systems, and software. This work is funded by a grant from NSF.

Dr. Ahmed Louri and his research team published a seminal paper for scaling future computing chips to thousands of processors (or cores) on a single chip at a flagship conference on parallel computing
July 6, 2018
Dr. Ahmed Louri and his research team published a seminal paper for scaling future computing chips to thousands of processors (or cores) on a single chip at a flagship conference on parallel computing. The paper is titled “Power-Efficient Kilo-Core Photonic-Wireless Hybrid Network on Chips,” was presented at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS), Vancouver, BC, May 21-25, 2018. This work is sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Ahmed Louri has been appointed the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers
July 6, 2018
Prof. Ahmed Louri has been appointed the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). His appointment will start January 2019 for an initial period of 3 years and is renewable for a second two-year term. The IEEE TC is the leading refereed journal in the field of computing and the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE TC has been serving the computing community for over 66 years. Excellence in scholarship and the highest publication standard has made TC the most respected and lead publication in computing.

The EIC selection process is very competitive and rigorous taking many months of deliberation by the IEEE Board of Publications, the IEEE Board of Governors, and the IEEE Computer Society President. This is a strong testimony to Prof. Louri’ contributions and reputation in the field. Prof. Louri’ duties include ensuring a flow of important, interesting, and timely research material; ensuring that established peer review standards are applied to all technical material considered for publication; seeking and appointing qualified editorial board members and area editors (AEs); conducting an ongoing assessment of the goals, quality, and utility of the publication; among many others. This EIC appointment represents a milestone in our continued achievements and a great honor for the department as a whole.


Prof. Ahmed Louri received a National Science Foundation award for the project “Integrated Framework for System-level Approximate Computing” 
May 18, 2018
The project is a three-year collaborative effort with Dr. Fabrizio Lombardi (Northeastern University). The total amount of funding is $487,000, and GW’s portion is $262,000. In this research, Dr. Louri and his team seek to investigate and improve the advances and unique advantages of approximate computing to develop systems in both hardware and software (algorithms) that are low-power, high performance, and error-configurable. The overarching goal of this proposal is to develop computing systems that are capable of adjusting performance by exploiting relationships between hardware and software for different applications such as cognitive processing, digital signal/image processing, big data, and scientific processing. The proposed research is timely and vital for the continued growth of advanced and emerging computer systems.

Prof. Ahmed Louri is serving as the general chair of the 25th international symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA - 2019)
May 10, 2018
Prof. Ahmed Louri is serving as general chair for HPCA 2019 which will be held in Washington D.C.(http://hpca2019.seas.gwu.edu). Preparations are under way for the 25th anniversary of this premier conference on computer architecture.

Congratulations to Hao Zheng for winning the second place in engineering categorize at the GW research days
May 2, 2018
Congratulations to Hao Zheng, PhD student at HPCAT lab, for winning the second place in the Engineering categorize at the GW Research Days. His contribution was on designing an energy-efficient scalable multicore architecture.

Congratulations to Ke Wang for winning the AccelerateGW I-Crops site grant
May 2, 2018
Congratulations to Ke Wang, PhD student at HPCAT lab, for winning the AccelerateGW I-Crops site grant award. With this award, Ke will be able to travel to conferences to present his research.

Recent accepted papers at DAC-2018 and IPDPS-2018
March 4, 2018
The following papers have been accepted at DAC-2018 and IPDPS-2018.

Mark Clark, Avinash Kodi, Razvan Bunescu, and Ahmed Louri LEAD: Learning-enabled Energy-Aware Dynamic Voltage/Frequency Scaling in NoCs Accepted to appear in 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC-2018), San Fransisco, CA, June 24-28, 2018.

Avinash Kodi, Kyle Shifflet, Savas Kaya, Ahmed Louri and Soumyasanta Laha Scalable Power-Efficient Kilo-Core Photonic-Wireless NoC Architectures Accepted to appear in 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2018), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 21-25, 2018.

Dr. Louri and his research team have published an IEEE international symposium conference paper titled: “Extending the power-efficiency and performance of Photonic interconnects for heterogeneous Multicores with machine learning”
March 12, 2018
Professor Ahmed Louri and his research team (S. V. Winkle, A. Kodi, R. Bunescu and A. Louri) have published a conference paper that explores machine learning to extend the power-efficieny and performance of photonic interconnects for heterogeneous multicores. The paper titled “Extending the Power-Efficiency and Performance of Photonic Interconnects for Heterogeneous Multicores with Machine Learning,” will appear in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Feb. 24-28, 2018, Vienna. HPCA provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapindly-changing field. This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Louri and his research team have published a USNC_USRI national radio science meeting conference paper titled: “Reconfigurable Intra-chip antenna for future wireless communications”
March 11, 2018
Professor Ahmed Louri and his research team (Y. Sharma, J. Wu, A. Kantemur, J. Tak, A. Kodi, S. Kaya and H. Xin) have published a conference paper that explores future wireless communications via reconfigurable intra-chip antenna. The paper titled “Reconfigurable Intra-Chip Antenna for Future Wireless Communications,” will appear in Proceedings of the 2018 USNC-USRI National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM), Jan. 4-7, 2018, Boulder, CO. NRSM is an open scientific meeting sponsored by the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science. This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Louri and his research team have published an IEEE transactions article titled: “Sustainability in network-on-chips by exploring heterogeneity in emerging technologies”
March 9, 2018
Professor Ahmed Louri and his research team (A. Sikder, A. Kodi, S. Kaya, D. Carbaugh, S. Laha, A. Louri, H. Xin and J. Wu) have published a journal article that explores heterogeneity in emerging technologies in order to enhance sustainability of Network-on-Chips. The paper titled “Sustainability in Network-on-Chips by Exploring Heterogeneity in Emerging Technologies” will appear in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing in 2018. This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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David and Marilyn Karlgaard Endowed Chair Professor of ECE
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