David E. Culler

Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley Computer Science Division #1776   465 Soda Hall (Rad Lab) Associate CIO, College of Engineering 209 McLaughlin Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

e-mail: culler -AT- cs.berkeley.edu Phone: (510) 643-7572 Office Hours: M10-11, W9-10 413 Soda

 

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

Research Projects

• 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

• CS294-49 Creating the Grid OS: A Computing Systems Approach to Energy Problems
  
• CS61CL - Machine Structures, Fall 2009
  
• CS262b - Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, Spring 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 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2003
• 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  

Intel Research Lab @ Berkeley

References

Current Graduate Students

• Prabal Dutta           PhD Candidate
• Fred Jiang              PhD Candidate
• Jaein Jeong             PhD Candidate
• Jay Taneja              PhD Candidate
• Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, PhD Candidate
• Jorge Ortiz             PhD Candidate
  

Former Students

• William Kramer      PhD 2008, Production Performance Analysis of Massive Machines
  
• Jonathan Hui          PhD 2008, IPv6 on LoWPAN, ArchRock
  
• Sukun Kim             PhD 2007, Structures Monitoring
• Kamin Whitehouse, PhD 2006, Sensor Network Localization and Deployment Analysis, UVA
  
• Robert Szewczyk,  PhD 2006,  Sensor Network Design for Long-Lived Applications, MoteIV
• Phil Levis,               PhD 2005, Programming Models for Sensor Networks, Stanford University
  
• Joe Polastre,           PhD 2005, Habitat Monitoring, Wireless Networks, Moteiv Corp.
  
• Alec Woo,             PhD 2004, Wireless Embedded Networkin, Arched Rock
  
• Frederick Wong,   PhD 2004  Message Passing on Configurable Hardware
• Jason Hill               PhD 2003, Infrastructure Enabled Tiny Devices, JHL Labs
  
• Matt Welsh,           PhD 8/02, Staged Event-Driven Architecture for Robust Internet Services, Harvard
• Philip Buonadonna, PhD 2002 QP/IP, Intel Research
  
• Brent Chun,           PhD 12/01, System Support for Computational Economies, CIT, Intel, Arched Rock Corp.
  
• Alan Mainwaring,  PhD 11/99, Virtual Networks, Intel Research
• Richard Martin,     PhD 8/99  Performance Sensitivity, Asst. Prof. at Rutgers
  
• Andrea Dusseau,   Phd 11/98, Implicit Co-Scheduling, Asst. Prof at Wisconsin
• Steven Lumetta,    PhD 11/98, Multi-Protocol Communication,  Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign
• Seth Goldstein,      PhD, Lazy Threads,  CMU
• Thorsten von Eicken, PhD Active Messages, Cornell, , ExpertCity
• Klaus Schauser      PhD, Compilation of Non-strict Languages, Assoc. Prof. UCSB, ExpertCity
• Bruce Holmer         PhD, Automated Prolog Instruction Set Design, Northwestern

• 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

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

Stuff for friends, relatives, and guinea pigs

• Susanne Culler Memorial
• Glen Culler Memorial
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