Derek Hower Graduate Student, Computer Architecture

Publications By Year

2009

• Two Hardware-based Approaches for Deterministic Multiprocessor Replay,
  Derek R. Hower, Pablo Montesinos, Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, and Josep Torrellas
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), June 2009.
  (Summarizes "Rerun" and "DeLorean" proposals from ISCA '08 for wider CACM audience.)
  Paper: pdf
  Technical Introduction by Jouppi: pdf
  

2008

• Rerun: Exploiting Episodes for Lightweight Memory Race Recording,
  Derek R. Hower and Mark D. Hill
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2008.
  Paper: pdf
  Talk: pptx ppt
  Recommended to CACM for wider audience: pdf
  

2007

• A Case for Deconstructing Hardware Transactional Memory Systems,
  Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael M. Swift, Haris Volos and David A. Wood
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2007-1594, June 2007.
  Technical Report: pdf
  Also appears as Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 07361, editors Albert Cohen, Maria J. Garzaran, Christian Lengauer, and Samuel P. Midkiff, 2008.
  Report: pdf

2006

• Self-Detecting and Self-Diagnosing 32-bit Microprocessor Multiplier
  Mahmut Yilmaz, Derek R. Hower, Sule Ozev, and Daniel J. Sorin.
  International Test Conference (ITC), October 2006.
• Applying Architectural Vulnerability Analysis to Hard Faults in the Microprocessor
  Fred A. Bower, Derek R. Hower, Mahmut Yilmaz, Daniel J. Sorin, Sule Ozev.
  ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2006.

Other Work

• Ordered Chaos: Imposing Logical Structure in Nanotechnology Substrates
  Derek R. Hower
  Duke University, April 2006.