Computer Architecture

I worked with Nathan Beckmann on hardware-software co-design projects developing polymorphic memory hierarchies.

We introduced Memory Services, a flexible programming model that enables data-centric computing throughout the memory hierarchy. A high-level API allows applications express functionality as graphs of simple tasks, each task indicating the data it operates on.

Livia was out first system architecture for Memory Services; it dynamically schedules tasks and data at the location in the memory hierarchy that minimizes overall data movement.