David E. Culler

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

783 Soda Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
e-mail: culler -AT- cs.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) Eight47-5093 (google voice)
Office Hours: Tu/Th 2-3 - online @ https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/534646401

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CS262b - Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, Spring 2020

Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh

Research Projects

Buildings, Energy and Transportation Systems
Software Defined Buildings
LoCal: A Network Architecture for Localized Electrical Energy Reduction, Generation, and Sharing
PlanetLab - an open infrastructure for exploring planetary-scale services
Wireless Embedded Sestems (WEbS) for Networked Embedded Systems Technology
Tiny OS: Design Principles for Deeply Embedded Networked Systems
The Endeavour Expedition: Charting the Fluid Information Utility
Ninja - Platform architecture for Scalable Internet Services
Post-PC Era (IBM Pervasive Computing Meetings)
Millennium Clusters of Clusters on a Campus-wide Scale
TITAN A Next-Generation Infrastructure for Integrating Computing and Communication.
NOW: Network of Workstations as a High Performance Integrated System
The Castle Project: Integrated software support for parallel computing.
Split-C: A performance programming language for parallel machines.

Course Materials

CS262b - Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, Spring 2009, Spring 2020
CS294-49 Creating the Grid OS: A Computing Systems Approach to Energy Problems
CS61CL - Machine Structures, Fall 2009
CS61Cl - Machine Structures, Fall 2008
EECS194 - Internet of Everyday Things, Spring 2008
CS252 - Graduate Computer Architecture, Fall 2005.
EECS150 - Digital Design Techniques, Fall 2004, Fall 2007
CS294-1 Deeply Embedded Network Systems, Fall 2003
CS252
CS194-5/CS294-100 : Internet of Everyday Things, Spring 2015
CS194-27 : IT for Sustainability - Transportation, Spring 2015
CS252 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2002
CS298-1 System Seminar, Spring 2000
CS294-8 Design of Deeply Networked Systems, Spring 2000
CS258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1999
CS294-11 Topics in System Design for the Post-PC Era, Spring 1999
CS294-8 Advanced Topics in the Design of Systems of Systems Fall 1997.
CS 61C Computer Structures
CS267 Spring 1997
CS 152 Computer Design and Engineering, Spring 1996
CS 298-1 System Seminar, Spring 1996
CS 258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1995

UCB Sensor Net Day Citris

Intel Research Lab @ Berkeley

References

Talks

Papers

Current Graduate Students

Gabriel Fierro, Building Operating Systems
Jack Kolb, Distributed Execution Containers
Sam Kumar, Embedded Networks, Security

Former students

Kalyanaraman Shankari, PhD (#33) e-mission: an open source, extensible platform for human mobility systems
Michael Andersen, PhD (#32) Decentralized Authorization with Private Delegation
Kaifei Chen, PhD (#31) Vision-based Appliance Identification and Control with Smartphone Sensors in Commercial Buildings 2018
Virginia Smith, PhD (#30) System-Aware Optimization for Machine Learning at Scale 2017
Arka Bhattacharya PhD (#29) 2016
Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, PhD (#28) 2014
Jay Taneja PhD (#27) 2013, IBM, UMass
Jorge Ortiz, PhD (#26) 2013, IBM.
Prashanth Mohan PhD (#25) 2013, Ensighta, FireEye, Google.
Fred Jiang PhD (#24) 2010, MSR Asia, Columbia University A High-Fidelity Energy Monitoring and Feedback Architecture for Reducing Electrical Consumption in Buildings
Prabal Dutta PhD (#23) 2009, University of Michigan, A Low-Power Mobile Sensing Architecture
Jaein Jeong PhD (#22) 2009, CISCO, A Practical Theory of Micro-Solar Power Sensor Networks
William Kramer PhD (#21) 2008, Production Performance Analysis of Massive Machines
Jonathan Hui PhD (#20) 2008, ArchRock => CISCO, An Extended Internet Architecture for Low-Power Wireless Networks - Design and Implementation
Sukun Kim PhD (#19) 2007, Structures Monitoring, Samsung Research,
Kamin Whitehouse, PhD (#18) 2006, Sensor Network Localization and Deployment Analysis, UVA
Robert Szewczyk, PhD (#17) 2006, Sensor Network Design for Long-Lived Applications, MoteIV
Phil Levis, PhD (#16) 2005, Programming Models for Sensor Networks, Stanford University
Joe Polastre, PhD (#15) 2005, Habitat Monitoring, Wireless Networks, Moteiv Corp.
Alec Woo, PhD (#14) 2004, Wireless Embedded Networking, Microsoft, Arch Rock => CISCO
Frederick Wong, PhD (#13) 2004 Message Passing on Configurable Hardware
Jason Hill PhD (#12) 2003, Infrastructure Enabled Tiny Devices, JHL Labs, Toro
Matt Welsh, PhD (#11) 8/02, Staged Event-Driven Architecture for Robust Internet Services, Harvard, Google
Philip Buonadonna, PhD (#10) 2002 QP/IP, Intel Research, Arch Rock => CISCO
Brent Chun, PhD (#9) 12/01, System Support for Computational Economies, CIT, Intel, Arch Rock Corp., ...
Alan Mainwaring, PhD (#8) 11/99, Virtual Networks, Intel Research
Richard Martin, PhD (#7) 8/99 Performance Sensitivity, Rutgers
Andrea Dusseau, Phd (#6) 11/98, Implicit Co-Scheduling, Wisconsin
Steven Lumetta, PhD (#5) 11/98, Multi-Protocol Communication, Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign
Seth Goldstein, PhD (#4), Lazy Threads, CMU
Thorsten von Eicken, PhD (#3) Active Messages, Cornell, ExpertCity => Citrix online, RightScale
Klaus Schauser PhD (#2), Compilation of Non-strict Languages, UCSB, ExpertCity => Citrix on-line, Appfolio
Bruce Holmer PhD (#1), Automated Prolog Instruction Set Design, Northwestern

Vinitra Swamy
Gunkan Baid
Aishwarya Parasuram, MS 2016, Analysis of RPL Routing Standard for Low Power and Lossy Networks
Andrew Krioukov MS 2013
Gilman Tolle MS, 2005, Sensor Network Managment, Microclimate Modeling, Arch Rock
Andrew Geweke, MS, Economic-Based Resource Mgmt
Chad Yoshikawa, MS, Active Messages on Meiko CS-2
Anurag Sah
Steve Luna
Lok Tin Liu
Cedric Krumbein
Martin Bell

Abdelbaky, Moustafa (postdoc)

Kim, Hyung-Sin (postdoc)

Ardakanian, Omid (postdoc)

Ancient Press Stuff

Sun World, Dec 1996, "Can a `network of workstations' provide cheap, scalable supercomputing power?"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 1999: Visionaries have a plan for life beyond the dull PC
800-node live ad hoc sensor network demo at Intel Developers Forum

Arched Rock Create for Change ACM ACM SenSys 2009