UPCRC News

Tele-Immersive Lightsaber Duels at SC09

Cheri Helregel, Parallel@Illinois — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST

LLVM Helps Bring Flash to iPhone

Illinois College of Engineering — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST

ReLooper offers an interactive refactoring tool for loop parallelism in Java

Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Illinois — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Report from OOPSLA '09: Workshop on Refactoring Tools (WRT)

Nicholas Chen, UPCRC Illinois — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Nicholas reports on his experience with the OOPSLA '09 Workshop on Refactoring Tools (WRT).

UPCRC Illinois at OOPSLA 2009

Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Illinois — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Highlights include a demonstration of ReLooper - to coincide with the official release of this refactoring tool for loop parallelism in Java. Illinois is also presenting in the Research Program on Concurrency, and is participating in the Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades and the Workshop on Refactoring Tools. See you there!

UPCRC Illinois Paper/Imagery Featured on Proceedings Cover: HPG 2009

Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Illinois — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Imagery from Stream Compaction for Deferred Shading featured on proceedings cover for the Conference on High Performance Graphics (HPG 2009).

Alumnus Named Microsoft New Faculty Fellow

Tom Hord, Illinois College of Engineering and Cheri Helregel (contributing) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:00:00 CDT

University of Illinois computer science alumnus Luis Ceze has been selected to receive the 2009 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Award. Ceze conducted research under the advisement of UPCRC Illinois faculty, Josep Torrellas. Their collective work contributed to foundational research for current UPCRC Illinois projects as well as the current Bulk Multicore Architecture Project. Their paper, "The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Improved Programmability," will be featured in the December 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM.

Luis Ceze is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. His research focuses on improving programmability and reliability of multicore systems. His research spans computer architecture, compilers, operating systems, and programming languages. One of his group's key projects is to completely remove nondeterminism from multiprocessor systems, potentially changing the way we debug, test, and deploy multithreaded code. In addition, his group is designing systems that automatically avoid software bugs in the field, and is rethinking the role of memory in modern computer systems to better match programmability and scalability challenges.

Josep Torrellas is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Illinois department of computer science. His research focuses on parallel and sequential computer architecture, processor-memory integration, thread-level speculation, low power design, and reliability. Torrellas leads the i-acoma architecture group whose main focus is designing The Bulk Multicore Architecture - a UPCRC Illinois research project.

UPCRC Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.

Sam King and Secure Web Browsing featured in IEEE Spectrum

Elise Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:00 CDT

IDF 2009 to Showcase Parallel@Illinois Research

Cheri Helregel, Parallel@Illinois — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Several Illinois projects will be highlighted at the IDF Academic Showcase to be held in San Francisco later this month, including a light saber teleimmersive demo that was a crowd favorite at a recent Research@Intel Day event.

UPCRC Illinois Faculty Ranked Excellent by their Students

Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Illinois — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:00 CDT

Five UPCRC Illinois faculty ranked as "Excellent" by their students for the Spring 2009 semester.

Department of Computer Science: Ralph Johnson, Madhu Parthasarathy, Craig Zilles

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Thomas S. Huang, Wen-mei Hwu