15-740/18-740 Fall '12
Class Projects

Here are the class projects for 2012 (in no particular order):

Architectural Support for Security:

• A Type-Safe, TPM Backed TLS Infrastructure. Kun Li, Michael Maass, and Mike Ralph.
• Vulnerability-Specific Execution Filtering with Log-Based Architecture Lifeguards. Peter Chapman, Deby Katz, and Stefan Muller.

Optimizing the Cache Hierarchy:

• Improving Cache Utility by Intelligently Predicting Re-reference Interval. Ross Daly and Yixin Luo.
• Handling DRAM Contention Between Multiple Threads.. David Jia and Dennis Liang.
• Using Dynamically Resizable Cache to Increase Cache Performance and Decrease Leakage Power. Rika Nakahara and Ameya Aambarde.

Parallel Processing:

• A Cluster-Friendly Parallelization of Belief Propagation. Alex Beutel, John P. Dickerson, and Vagelis Papalexakis.
• Large-Scale Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication. Dong Zhou and Mu Li.
• GPU-based Networking. Matthew Mukerjee, David Naylor, and Bruno Vavala.

Singular Topics:

• Dynamic Co-Location of Virtual Machines on Cloud Platform to Minimize Contention. Chan sik Kim, Kiryong Ha, and Parag Dixit.
• Implementation and Energy Evaluation of Base-Delta-Immediate Compression. Lei Fan and Martyn Romanko.

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