Prof. Lieven Eeckhout
Tel:+32-9-264.34.58, Fax: +32-9-264.35.94
Email: Lieven.Eeckhout @ UGent.be
My Research group: PerformanceLab
Software
We released Sniper, a fast, accurate and parallel x86 multi-core simulator.
Projects
ERC Advanced Grant 2018-2022: LSC – Load Slice Core
ERC Starting Grant 2011-2017: DPMP – Dependable Performance
ERC Proof-of-Concept 2012 (DaMon) & 2015 (Sniper-ARM)
Postdocs:Shoaib Akram Almutaz Adileh Jennifer B. Sartor |
PhD students:Kartik Lakshminarasimhan Wenjie Liu Ajeya Naithani Lu Wang |
PerformanceLab Alumni
Xia Zhao (PhD 2019)
Shoaib Akram (PhD 2019) – ANU (assistant professor)
Sander De Pestel (PhD 2019) – Intel
Almutaz Adileh (PhD 2018)
Sam Van den Steen (PhD 2018) – Intel
Josue Feliu Perez (visiting postdoc) – UPV
Cecilia Gonzalez-Alvarez (PhD 2015) – Nokia
Jennifer B. Sartor (postdoc) – VUB (assistant professor)
Stijn Eyerman (PhD 2008, postdoc FWO) – Intel
Wim Heirman (postdoc) – Intel
Zhibin Yu (postdoc) – SIAT
Maximilien Breughe (PhD 2014) – Nvidia (Austin, TX)
Trevor E. Carlson (PhD 2014) – Uppsala University (postdoc) – National University of Singapore (assistant professor)
Kristof Du Bois (PhD 2014) – Intel
Frederick Ryckbosch (PhD 2013) – Co-Scale startup (co-founder), New Relic
Stijn Polfliet (PhD 2013) – Co-Scale startup (co-founder), New Relic
Kenzo Van Craeynest (PhD 2013) – Flemish government
Luk Van Ertvelde (PhD 2010) – Itineris
Kenneth Hoste (PhD 2010) – HPC UGent
Davy Genbrugge (PhD 2010) – Agilent
Frederik Vandeputte (PhD 2008) – Nokia
Andy Georges (PhD 2008) – HPC UGent
Dries Buytaert (PhD 2008) – Acquia (CTO & co-founder)
Kris Venstermans (PhD 2007) – LMS
Professional activities
Editor-in-Chief (2015-2018):
Associate editor:
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 2010-2017
- IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2012-2016
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) 2016-2018
General chair:
- ISPASS 2010
Program chair:
- ISCA 2020
- HPCA 2015
- CGO 2013 (co-chair w/ Kathryn S. McKinley)
- ISPASS 2009
Program committees:
- ISCA: 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
- HPCA: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 (chair), 2018, 2019
- MICRO: 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018
- IEEE Micro Top Picks: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018
- PLDI: 2007, 2009, 2015
- ASPLOS: 2017, 2020
- PACT: 2009, 2010, 2012
- CGO: 2010, 2011, 2013 (co-chair)
- ISPASS: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 (chair), 2012, 2016, 2017
- IISWC: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015
Others:
- IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), Chair 2017-2018
Awards
- IEEE Fellow for contributions in computer architecture performance analysis and modeling (class of 2018)
- OOPSLA Most Influential Paper Award for Statistically Rigorous Java Performance Evaluation (published at OOPSLA 2007)
- 2017 Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to computer architecture performance analysis and modeling
- ISPASS 2013 Best Paper Award
- Laureaat van de Academie in de Klasse van de Technische Wetenschappen, 2010
- Selection of Per-Thread Cycle Accounting for SMT Processors as an IEEE Micro Top Pick 2010 for most significant research paper in computer architecture based on novelty and long-term impact
- Selection of A Top-Down Approach to Architecting CPI Component Performance Counters as an IEEE Micro Top Pick 2007 for being most relevant to industry and significant in contribution to the field of computer architecture
- IBM Belgium Prize for Informatics for PhD thesis in 2003
Selected publications (Please respect the copyright policies of the publishers)
2019
Directed Statistical Warming through Time Traveling [Best Paper Nominee]
N. Nikoleris, L. Eeckhout, E. Hagersten, and T. E. Carlson
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct 2019
Adaptive Memory-Side Last-Level GPU Caching
X. Zhao, A. Adileh, Z. Yu, Z. Wang, A. Jaleel, and L. Eeckhout
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019
Crystal Gazer: Profile-Driven Write-Rationing Garbage Collection for Hybrid Memories
S. Akram, J. B. Sartor, K. S. McKinley, and L. Eeckhout,
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS), June 2019
Emulating and Evaluating Hybrid Memory for Managed Languages on NUMA Hardware
S. Akram, J. B. Sartor, K. S. McKinley, and L. Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), March 2019
Racing to Hardware-Validated Simulation
Adileh, C. Gonzalez-Alvarez, J. M. de Haro Ruiz, and L. Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), March 2019
RPPM: Rapid Performance Prediction of Multithreaded Workloads on Multicore Hardware
S. De Pestel, S. Van den Steen, S. Akram, and L. Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), March 2019
Modeling Emerging Memory-Divergent GPU Applications
L. Wang, M. Jahre, A. Adileh, Z. Wang, and L. Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 18, No 2, pp. 95-98, July-Dec 2019
Naithani, J. Feliu, A. Adileh, and L. Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 18, No 1, pp. 71-74, Jan-June 2019
CD-Xbar: A Converge-Diverge Crossbar Network for High-Performance GPUs [Feature of the Month]
Xia Zhao, Sheng Ma, Zhiying Wang, Natalie Enright Jerger, Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol 68, No 9, pp. 1283-1296, Sept 2019
HeteroCore GPU to Exploit TLP-Resource Diversity
Xia Zhao, Zhiying Wang, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 30, No 1, pp. 93-106, Jan 2019
2018
Architectural Support for Probabilistic Branches
Almutaz Adileh, David J. Lilja, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct 2018
Write-Rationing Garbage Collection for Hybrid Memories [NVMW 2019 Memorable Paper Award]
Shoaib Akram, Jennifer B. Sartor, Kathryn S. McKinley, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2018
Get Out of the Valley: Power-Efficient Address Mapping for GPUs
Yuxi Liu, Xia Zhao, Magnus Jahre, Zhenlin Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2018
Classification-Driven Search for Effective SM Partitioning in Multitasking GPUs
Xia Zhao, Zhiying Wang, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2018
Intra-Cluster Coalescing and CTA Scheduling to Reduce GPU NoC Pressure – extended version in IEEE Transactions on Computers, see here
Lu Wang, Xia Zhao, David Kaeli, Zhiying Wang, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp. 990-999, May 2018
GDP: Using Dataflow Properties to Accurately Estimate Interference-Free Performance at Runtime
Magnus Jahre, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), pp. 296-309, Feb 2018
Modeling Superscalar Processor Memory-Level Parallelism
Sam Van den Steen, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 1, pp. 9-12, Jan-June 2018
RPPM: Rapid Performance Prediction of Multithreaded Applications on Multicore Hardware
Sander De Pestel, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 2, pp. 183-186, Sept 2018
MIA: Metric Importance Analysis for Big Data Workload Characterization
Zhibin Yu, Wen Xiong, Lieven Eeckhout, Zhendong Bei, Avi Mendelson, and Chengzhong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), VOl 29, No 6, pp. 1371-1384, June 2018
QIG: Quantifying the Importance and Interaction of GPGPU Architecture Parameters
Zhibin Yu, Jing Wang, Lieven Eeckhout, and Chengzhong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol 37, No 6, pp. 1211-1224, June 2018
2017
BACM: Barrier-Aware Cache Management for Irregular Memory-Intensive GPGPU Workloads
Yuxi Liu, Xia Zhao, Zhibin Yu, Zhenlin Wang, Xiaolin Wang, Yingwei Luo, Lieven Eeckhout
International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Nov 2017
Application Clustering Policies to Address System Fairness with Intel�s Cache Allocation Technology
Vicent Selfa, Julio Sahuquillo, Lieven Eeckhout, Salvador Petit and Maria E. Gomez
International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Sept 2017
Analyzing the Scalability of Managed Language Applications with Speedup Stacks
Jennifer B. Sartor, Kristof Du Bois, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), April 2017
Reliability-Aware Scheduling on Heterogeneous Multicores – extended version in IEEE Transactions on Computers: here
Ajeya Naithani, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2017
Improving IBM POWER8 Performance Through Symbiotic Job Scheduling
Josue Feliu, Stijn Eyerman, Julio Sahuquillo, Member, IEEE, Salvador Petit, Member, IEEE, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 28, No 10, pp. 2838-2851, Oct 2017
Mind The Power Holes: Sifting Operating Points in Power-Limited Heterogeneous Multicores
Almutaz Adileh, Stijn Eyerman, Aamer Jaleel, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Jan-June 2017
LA-LLC: Inter-Core Locality-Aware Last-Level Cache to Exploit Many-to-Many Traffic in GPGPUs
Xia Zhao, Yuxi Liu, Almutaz Adileh, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Jan-June 2017
2016
Steve Blackburn, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, Peter F. Sweeney, et al.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Vol 38, No 4, Article 15, Oct 2016
Maximizing Heterogeneous Processor Performance under Power Constraints
Almutaz Adileh, Stijn Eyerman, Aamer Jaleel, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 13, No 3, Article 29, Sept 2016
MiNGLE: An Efficient Framework for Domain Acceleration using Low-Power Specialized Functional Units
Cecilia Gonzalez-Alvarez, Jennifer B. Sartor, Carlos Alvarez, Daniel Jimenez-Gonzalez, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 13, No 2, Article 17, June 2016
Barrier-Aware Warp Scheduling for Throughput Processors
Yuxi Liu, Zhibin Yu, Lieven Eeckhout, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, Chengzhong Xu,
ACM International Symposium on Supercomputing (ICS), June 2016
DVFS Performance Prediction for Managed Multithreaded Applications – extension in IEEE Transactions on Computers, see here
Shoaib Akram, Jennifer B. Sartor, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), April 2016 [Best paper nominee]
Boosting the Priority of Garbage: Scheduling Collection on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors
Shoaib Akram, Jennifer B. Sartor, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 13, No 1, Article 4, April 2016
Two-Level Hybrid Sampled Simulation of Multithreaded Applications
Chuntao Jiang, Zhibin Yu, Lieven Eeckhout, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Cheng-Zhong Xu
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, Vol 12, No 4, Article 39, Jan 2016
2015
Automatic Design of Domain-Specific Instructions for Low-Power Processors
Cecilia Gonzalez-Alvarez, Jennifer B. Sartor, Carlos Alvarez, Daniel Jimenez-Gonzalez, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), pp. 1-8, July 2015 [Best Student Paper Award]
The Load Slice Core Microarchitecture
Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman, Osman Allam, Stefanos Kaxiras, and Lieven Eeckhout
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 272-284, June 2015
Chrysso: An Integrated Power Manager for Constrained Many-Core Processors
Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha, Wim Heirman, Ayose Falcon, Trevor E. Carlson, Kenzo Van Craeynest, Jordi Tubella, Antonio Gonzalez, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF), May 2015
Micro-Architecture Independent Analytical Performance and Power Modeling – extension in IEEE Transactions on Computers, see here [Feature of the Month]
Sam Van den Steen, Sander De Pestel, Stijn Eyerman, Trevor E. Carlson, David Black-Schaffer, Erik Hagersten, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 32 -41, March 2015 [Best paper nominee]
Micro-Architecture Independent Branch Behavior Characterization – extension in IEEE Transactions on Computers, see here [Feature of the Month]
Sander De Pestel, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 135-144, March 2015
Mechanistic Modeling of Architectural Vulnerability Factor
Arun A. Nair, Stijn Eyerman, Lizy K. John, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 32, Issue 4, No. 11, Jan 2015
Mechanistic Analytical Modeling of Superscalar In-Order Processors
Maximilien Breughe, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 11, Issue 11, No. 50, Jan 2015
GPGPU-MiniBench: Accelerating GPGPU Micro-Architecture Simulation
Zhibin Yu, Lieven Eeckhout, N. Goswani, Tao Li, Lizy K. John, Hai Jin, Cheng-Zhong Xu
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 64, No 11, pp. 3153-3166, Nov 2015
Practical Iterative Optimization for the Data Center
Shuangde Fang, Wenwen Xu, Yang Chen, Lieven Eeckhout, Olivier Temam, Yunji Chen, Chengyong Wu, and Xiaobing Feng
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 12, No 2, Article 15, May 2015
2014
An Evaluation of High-Level Mechanistic Core Models
Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman, Stijn Eyerman, Ibrahim Hur, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 11, Issue 3, No. 28, Oct 2014
Jennifer B. Sartor, Wim Heirman, Steve M. Blackburn, Lieven Eeckhout, Kathryn S. McKinley
Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pp. 15-26, Sept 2014 [Best paper nominee]
Restating the Case for Weighted-IPC Metrics to Evaluate Multiprogram Workload Performance
Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 93-96, July-Dec 2014
Performance Portability Across Heterogeneous SoCs using a Generalized Library-Based Approach
Shuangde Fang, Zidong Du, Yuntan Fang, Yuanjie Huang, Yang Chen, Lieven Eeckhout, Olivier Temam, Huawei Li, Yunji Chen, Chengyong Wu
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 11, Issue 2, No. 21, June 2014
BarrierPoint: Sampled Simulation of Multi-Threaded Applications
Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman, Kenzo Van Craeynest, and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), March 2014 [Best paper nominee]
The Benefit of SMT in the Multi-Core Era: Flexibility towards Degrees of Thread-Level Parallelism
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 591-606, March 2014
Undersubscribed Threading on Clustered Cache Architectures
Wim Heirman, Trevor E. Carlson, Kenzo Van Craeynest, Ibrahim Hur, Aamer Jaleel, and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2014
2013
Selecting Representative Benchmark Inputs for Exploring Microprocessor Design Spaces
Maximilien Breughe, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 10, No 4, Paper 37, Dec 2013
Accelerating an Application Domain with Specialized Functional Units
Cecilia Gonzalez-Alvarez, Jennifer B. Sartor, Carlos Alvarez, Daniel Jimenez-Alvarez, and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 10, No 4, Paper 47, Dec 2013
PCantorSim: Accelerating Parallel Architecture Simulation through Fractal-Based Sampling
Chuntao Jiang, Zhibin Yu, Hai Jin, Chengzhong Xu, Lieven Eeckhout, Wim Heirman, Trevor E. Carlson, Xiaofei Liao
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 10, No 4, Paper 49, Dec 2013
Bottle Graphs: Visualizing Scalability Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Applications
Kristof Du Bois, Jennifer B. Sartor, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), pp. 335-372, Oct 2013
Fairness-Aware Scheduling on Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Cores
Kenzo Van Craeynest, Shoaib Akram, Wim Heirman, Aamer Jaleel, and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pp. 177-187, Sept 2013
Criticality Stacks: Identifying Critical Threads in Parallel Programs using Synchronization Behavior
Kristof Du Bois, Stijn Eyerman, Jennifer B. Sartor and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 511-522, June 2013
Sampled Simulation of Multi-Threaded Applications
Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 2-12, April 2013 [Best paper award]
Restating the Case for Weighted-IPC Metrics to Evaluate Multiprogram Workload Performance
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, Accepted
Per-Thread Cycle Accounting in Multicore Processors
Kristof Du Bois, Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 9, No 4, Jan 2013
Understanding Fundamental Design Choices in Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures
Kenzo Van Craeynest and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 9, No 4, Jan 2013
2012
SWAP: Parallelization through Algorithm Substitution
Hengjie Li, Wenting He, Yang Chen, Lieven Eeckhout, Olivier Temam and Chengyong Wu
IEEE Micro, Vol 32, No 2, pp. 54-67, July/August 2012
Exploring Multi-Threaded Java Application Performance on Multi-Core Hardware
Jennifer B. Sartor and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), pp. 281-296, Oct 2012
Power-Aware Multi-Core Simulation for Early Design Stage Hardware/Software Co-Optimization
Wim Heirman, Souradip Sarkar, Trevor E. Carlson, Ibrahim Hur and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), pp. 3-12, Sept 2012
Scheduling Heterogeneous Multi-Cores through Performance Impact Estimation (PIE)
Kenzo Van Craeynest, Aamer Jaleel, Lieven Eeckhout, Paolo Narvaez, and Joel S. Emer
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 213-244, June 2012
A First-Order Mechanistic Model for Architectural Vulnerability Factor
Arun A. Nair, Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout and Lizy K. John
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), pp. 273-284, June 2012
Studying Hardware and Software Trade-Offs for a Real-Life Web 2.0 Workload
Stijn Polfliet, Frederick Ryckbosch and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), pp. 181-192, April 2012
Speedup Stacks: Identifying Scaling Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Applications
Stijn Eyerman, Kristof Du Bois and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 145-155, April 2012
A Mechanistic Performance Model for In-Order Processors
Maximilien Breughe, Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 14-24, April 2012 [Best paper nominee]
Iterative Optimization for the Data Center
Yang Chen, Shuangde Fang, Lieven Eeckhout, Olivier Temam, Chengyong Wu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Architecture Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), pp. 49-60, March 2012
Deconstructing Iterative Optimization
Yang Chen, Shuangde Fang, Yuanjie Huang, Lieven Eeckhout, Grigori Fursin, Olivier Temam and Chengyong Wu
ACM Transaction on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 9, No 3, Sept 2012
Probabilistic Modeling for Job Symbiosis Scheduling on SMT Processors
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations (TACO), Vol 9, No 2, June 2012
VSim: Simulating Multi-Server Setups at Near Native Hardware Speed
Frederick Ryckbosch, Stijn Polfliet and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations (TACO), Vol. 8, Issue 4, Article No. 52, Jan 2012
Exploiting Media Stream Similarity for Energy-Efficient Decoding and Resource Prediction
Juan Hamers and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Vol 11, Issue 1, Article No 2, March 2012
2011
Using Cycle Stacks to Understand Scaling Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Workloads
Wim Heirman, Trevor E. Carlson, Shuai Che, Kevin Skadron and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), pp. 38-50, Nov 2011
Ranking Commercial Machines through Data Transposition
Beau Piccart, Andy Georges, Hendrik Blockeel and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), pp. 3-14, Nov 2011
The Multi-Program Performance Model: Debunking Current Practice in Multi-Core Simulation
Kenzo Van Craeynest and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), pp. 26-37, Nov 2011
Sniper: Exploring the Level of Abstraction for Scalable and Accurate Parallel Multi-Core Simulation
Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman and Lieven Eeckhout
Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2011
Trends in Server Energy Proportionality
Frederick Ryckbosch, Stijn Polfliet and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer, Vol 44, No 9, pp. 69-72, Sept 2011
Optimizing the Data Center for Data-Centric Workloads
Stijn Polfliet, Frederick Ryckbosch and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), pp. 182-191, June 2011
How Sensitive is Processor Customization to the Workload�s Input Datasets?
Maximilien Breughe, Zheng Li, Yang Chen, Stijn Eyerman, Olivier Temam, Chengyong Wu and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Application-Specific Processors (SASP), June 2011
Automated Full-System Power Characterization
Stijn Polfliet, Frederick Ryckbosch and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Vol 31, No 3, pp. 46-59, May/June 2011
Fine-Grained DVFS Using On-Chip Regulators
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 8, No 1, April 2011
Mechanistic-Empirical Processor Performance Modeling for Constructing CPI Stacks on Real Hardware
Stijn Eyerman, Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), pp. 216-226, April 2011
SWEEP: Evaluating Computer System Energy Efficiency using Synthetic Workloads
Kristof Du Bois, Tim Schaeps, Stijn Polfliet, Frederick Ryckbosch and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC), pp. 159-166, Jan 2011
2010
Benchmark Synthesis for Architecture and Compiler Exploration
Luk Van Ertvelde and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), pp 106-116, Dec 2010
Arun A. Nair, Lizy K. John and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pp 125-136, Dec 2010
Scenario-Based Resource Prediction for QoS-Aware Media Processing
Juan Hamers and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer, Vol 43, No 10, pp. 56-63, Oct 2010
Workload Reduction and Generation Techniques
Luk Van Ertvelde and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Vol 30, No 6, pp. 57-65, Nov/Dec 2010
Fast, Accurate, and Validated Full-System Software Simulation of x86 Hardware
Frederick Ryckbosch, Stijn Polfliet and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Vol 30, No 6, pp. 46-56, Nov/Dec 2010
A Counter Architecture for Online DVFS Profitability Estimation
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 59, No 11, pp. 1576-1583, Nov 2011
Computer Architecture Performance Evaluation Methods
Lieven Eeckhout
Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, Editor Mark Hill, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, June 2010
Modeling Critical Sections in Amdahl�s Law and its Implications for Multicore Design
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of ISCA, pp. 362-370, June 2010
Evaluating Iterative Optimization Across 1000 Data Sets
Yang Chen, Yuanjie Huang, Lieven Eeckhout, Grigori Fursin, Liang Peng, Olivier Temam and Chenyong Wu
Proceedings of PLDI, pp. 448-459, June 2010
Automated Just-In-Time Compiler Tuning
Kenneth Hoste, Andy Georges and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of CGO, pp. 62-72, April 2010
Performance Metrics for Consolidated Servers
Andy Georges and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of HPCvirt, April 2010
Probabilistic Job Symbiosis Modeling for SMT Processor Scheduling
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of ASPLOS, pp. 91-102, March 2010
Interval Simulation: Raising the Level of Abstraction in Architectural Simulation
Davy Genbrugge, Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of HPCA, pp. 307-318, Feb 2010
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Top Picks from 2009 Microarchitecture Conferences, Vol 30, No 1, pp. 71-80, Jan/Feb 2010
2009
Chip-Multiprocessor Design Space Exploration through Statistical Simulation
Davy Genbrugge and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 58, No 12, pp. 1668-1681, Dec 2009
A Methodology for Analyzing Commercial Processor Performance
Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Computer, Vol 42, No 10, pp. 70-76, Oct 2009
A Mechanistic Performance Model for Superscalar Out-of-Order Processors
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis and James E. Smith
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Vol 27, Issue 2, Article No 3, May 2009
Per-Thread Cycle Accounting in SMT Processors
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of ASPLOS 2009, pp 133-144, March 2009
Finding Stress Patterns in Microprocessor Workloads
Frederik Vandeputte and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of HiPEAC 2009, pp. 153-167, Jan 2009
MLP-Aware Runahead Threads in a Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
Kenzo Van Craeynest, Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
Proceedings of HiPEAC 2009, pp. 110-124, Jan 2009
Memory-Level Parallelism Aware Fetch Policies for Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 6, Issue 1, Article No 3, March 2009
2008
Distilling the Essence of Proprietary Workloads into Miniature Benchmarks
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Robert Bell, Jr. And Lizy K. John
ACM Transactions of Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 5, No. 2, Article No. 10
Java Performance Evaluation through Rigorous Replay Compilation
Andy Georges, Lieven Eeckhout and Dries Buytaert
OOPSLA 2008, pp. 367-384
System-Level Performance Metrics for Multi-Program Workloads
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Interaction of Many-Core Computer Architecture and Operating Systems, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 42-53
Automated Hardware-Independent Scenario Identification
Juan Hamers and Lieven Eeckhout
DAC 2008, pp. 954-959
COLE: Compiler Optimization Level Exploration
Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout
CGO 2008, pp. 165-174
Dispersing Proprietary Applications as Benchmarks through Code Mutation
Luk Van Ertvelde and Lieven Eeckhout
ASPLOS 2008, pp. 201-210
Automated Microprocessor Stressmark Generation
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Lizy K. John and C. Isen
HPCA 2008, pp. 229-239
Studying Compiler Optimizations on Superscalar Processors through Interval Analysis
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, and James E. Smith
HiPEAC 2008, pp. 114-129
Phase Complexity Surfaces: Characterizing Time-Varying Program Behavior
Frederik Vandeputte and Lieven Eeckhout
HiPEAC 2008, pp. 320-334
Davy Genbrugge and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 57, No 10, pp. 41-54
2007
Java Object Header Elimination for Reduced Memory Consumption in 64-Bit Virtual Machines
Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 4, No 3, 30 pages
Microarchitecture-Independent Workload Characterization
Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Hot Tutorials, Vol 27, No 3, pp. 63-72
A Top-Down Approach to Architecting CPI Component Performance Counters
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis, and James E. Smith
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Top Picks from 2006 Microarchitecture Conferences, Vol 27, No 1, pp. 84-93
Using HPM-Sampling to Drive Dynamic Compilation
Dries Buytaert, Andy Georges, Michael Hind, Matthew Arnold, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
OOPSLA 2007, pp. 553-568
Statistically Rigorous Java Performance Evaluation
Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, and Lieven Eeckhout
OOPSLA 2007, pp. 57-76
Statistical Simulation of Chip Multiprocessors Running Multi-Program Workloads
Davy Genbrugge and Lieven Eeckhout
ICCD 2007, pp. 464-471
Representative Multi-Program Workloads for Representative Architecture Simulation
Michael Van Biesbrouck, Lieven Eeckhout, and Brad Calder
IISWC 2007, pp. 193-203
Object-Relative Addressing: Compressed Pointers in 64-bit Java Virtual Machines
Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
ECOOP 2007, pp. 79-100
Resource Prediction for Media Stream Decoding
Juan Hamers and Lieven Eeckhout
DATE 2007, pp. 594-599
A Memory-Level Parallelism Aware Fetch Policy for SMT Processors
Stijn Eyerman and Lieven Eeckhout
HPCA 2007, pp. 240-249
Branch History Matching: Branch Predictor Warmup for Sampled Simulation
Simon Kluyskens and Lieven Eeckhout
HiPEAC 2007, pp. 153-167
2006
Efficient Sampling Startup for SimPoint
Michael Van Biesbrouck, Brad Calder and Lieven Eeckhout
IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Computer Architecture Simulation and Modeling, Vol 26, No 4, pp. 32-42
Measuring Benchmark Similarity Using Inherent Program Characteristics
Ajay M. Joshi, Aashish Phansalkar, Lieven Eeckhout, and Lizy K. John
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol 55, No 6, pp. 769-782
64-bit versus 32-bit Virtual Machines for Java
Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
Software Practice and Experience, Vol 36, No 1, pp. 1-26
A Performance Counter Architecture for Computing Accurate CPI Components
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis and James E. Smith
ASPLOS 2006, pp. 175-184
Javana: A System for Building Customized Java Program Analysis Tools
Jonas Maebe, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
OOPSLA 2006, pp. 153-168
Performance Cloning: A Technique for Disseminating Proprietary Applications as Benchmarks
Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Robert H. Bell, Jr., and Lizy K. John
IISWC 2006, pp. 105-115
Evaluating Benchmark Subsetting Approaches
Joshua J. Yi, Resit Sendag, Lieven Eeckhout, Ajay. M. Joshi, David J. Lilja, and Lizy K. John
IISWC 2006, pp. 93-104
Comparing Benchmarks Using Key Microarchitecture-Independent Characteristics
Kenneth Hoste and Lieven Eeckhout
IISWC 2006, pp. 83-92
Performance Prediction based on Inherent Program Similarity
Kenneth Hoste, Aashish Phansalkar, Lieven Eeckhout, Andy Georges, Lizy K. John, and Koen De Bosschere
PACT 2006, pp. 114-122
The Exigency of Benchmark and Compiler Drift: Designing Tomorrow�s Processors with Yesterday�s Tools
Joshua J. Yi, Hans Vandierendonck, Lieven Eeckhout, and David J. Lilja
ICS 2006, pp. 87-96
Space-Efficient 64-bit Java Objects through Selective Typed Virtual Addressing
Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
CGO 2006, pp. 76-86
Considering All Starting Points for Simultaneous Multithreading Simulation
Michael Van Biesbrouck, Lieven Eeckhout, and Brad Calder
ISPASS 2006, pp. 143-153
Characterizing the Branch Misprediction Penalty
Stijn Eyerman, James E. Smith, and Lieven Eeckhout
ISPASS 2006, pp. 48-58
Efficient Design Space Exploration of High Performance Embedded Out-of-Order Processors
Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
DATE 2006, pp. 351-356
2005
Dries Buytaert, Kris Venstermans, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
HiPEAC 2005, pp. 233-248
Efficient Sampling Startup for Sampled Processor Simulation
Michael Van Biesbrouck, Lieven Eeckhout, and Brad Calder
HiPEAC 2005, pp. 47-67
Lieven Eeckhout, John Sampson, and Brad Calder
IISWC 2005, pp. 2-12
A Detailed Study on Phase Predictors
Frederik Vandeputte, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
Euro-Par 2005, pp. 571-581
Measuring Program Similarity: Experiments with SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Aashish Phansalkar, Ajay M. Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, and Lizy K. John
ISPASS 2005, pp. 10-20
BLRL: Accurate and Efficient Warmup for Sampled Processor Simulation
Lieven Eeckhout, Yue Luo, Koen De Bosschere, and Lizy K. John
The Computer Journal, 2005, Vol 48, No 4, pp. 451-459
2004
Method-Level Phase Behavior in Java Workloads
Andy Georges, Dries Buytaert, Lieven Eeckhout, and Koen De Bosschere
OOPSLA 2004, pp. 270-287
Control Flow Modeling in Statistical Simulation for Accurate and Efficient Processor Design Studies
Lieven Eeckhout, Robert H. Bell, Jr., Bastiaan Stougie, Koen De Bosschere, and Lizy K. John
ISCA 2004, pp. 350-361
2003
Statistical Simulation: Adding Efficiency to the Computer Designer�s Toolbox
Lieven Eeckhout, Sebastian Nussbaum, James E. Smith, and Koen De Bosschere
IEEE Micro, Vol 23, No 5, pp. 26-38
Designing Computer Architecture Research Workloads
Lieven Eeckhout, Hans Vandierendonck, and Koen De Bosschere
IEEE Computer, Vol 36, No 2, pp. 65-71
Quantifying the Impact of Input Data Sets on Program Behavior and its Applications
Lieven Eeckhout, Hans Vandierendonck, and Koen De Bosschere
Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, Vol 5, pp. 1-33
How Java Programs Interact with Virtual Machines at the Microarchitectural Level
Lieven Eeckhout, Andy Georges, and Koen De Bosschere
OOPSLA 2003, pp. 169-186
2002
Workload Design: Selecting Representative Program-Input Pairs
Lieven Eeckhout, Hans Vandierendonck, and Koen De Bosschere
PACT 2002, pp. 83-94
2001
Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere
PACT 2001, pp. 25-34
Early Design Phase Power/Performance Modeling through Statistical Simulation
Lieven Eeckhout and Koen De Bosschere
ISPASS 2001, pp. 10-17
2000
Performance Analysis through Synthetic Trace Generation
Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Bosschere, and Henk Neefs
ISPASS 2000, pp. 1-6