Collin McCurdy

Collin McCurdy
5385 Computer Sciences
1210 W Dayton
Madison WI 53706

Phone: (608) 262-1079
Fax: (608) 262-9777
Email: cmccurdy@cs.wisc.edu

Research

I'm interested in high performance parallel computing, particularly the interfaces between programmer, compiler and hardware. My thesis topic raises the possibility that exposing some of the mechanisms of a cache-coherence protocol to users could allow for more scalable shared address-space machines.

Publications

Conference Papers

User-Controllable Coherence for High Performance Shared Memory Multiprocessors,
Collin McCurdy and Charles Fischer,
Proc. of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2003.
An Evaluation of Computing Paradigms for N-body Simulations on Distributed Memory Architectures,
Collin McCurdy and John Mellor-Crummey,
Proc. of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 1999.

Workshop

A Localizing Directory Coherence Protocol,
Collin McCurdy and Charles Fischer,
3rd Workshop on Memory Performance Issues (WMPI), 2004.
Characterizing a Java Implementation of TPC-W,
Todd Bezenek, Trey Cain, Ross Dickson, Timothy Heil, Milo Martin, Collin McCurdy, Ravi Rajwar, Eric Weglarz, Craig Zilles, and Mikko Lipasti,
Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), January 2000.