James Larus

New address:  Microsoft Research  One Microsoft Way  Redmond, WA 98052  425-936-2981  larus@microsoft.com http://www.research.microsoft.com/~larus

Education:

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
• M.S. University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
• A.B. Harvard College, 1980.

Research Interests:

• Programming languages and compilers, in particular languages and compilers for parallel machines.
• Design and programming of shared-memory parallel computers.
• Compiling symbolic languages.
• Program profiling and tracing.

Software:

• SPIM
• QPT
• EEL
• WARTS

Recent Papers

• Improving Data-flow Analysis with Path Profiles Glenn Ammons and James Larus (PDF)

PLDI '98 (June 1998).
• Improving Pointer-Based Codes Through Cache-Conscious Data Placement Trishul Chilimbi, James Larus, and Mark Hill,

Submitted for publication.
• Optimizing Communication in HPF Programs for Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory, Satish Chandra and James Larus,

PPoPP '97, June 1997.
• Exploiting Hardware Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James Larus,

PLDI '97, June 1997.
• Efficient Path Profiling, Thomas Ball and James Larus,

MICRO-29, December 1996.

Talks

• Hardware Performance Counters

• Efficient Path Profiling

• Why Write Real Software (in a University)?

Ph.D. Graduates

• Satish Chandra, Ph.D. September 1997, Software Techniques for Customizable Distributed Shared Memory First employment: Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technology).
• Brad Richards, Ph.D. August 1996, Memory Systems for Parallel Programming, First employment: Vassar College.
• Guhan Viswanathan, Ph.D. September 1996, New Techniques for Compiling Data Parallel Languages First employment: Oracle.
• Lorenz Huelsbergen, Ph.D. August 1993, Dynamic Language Parallelization, First employment: AT&T Bell Labs (lorenz@research.bell-labs.com).
• Thomas Ball, Ph.D. August 1993, The Use of Control-Flow and Control Dependence in Software Tools, First employment: Bell Labs @ Lucent Technologies (tball@research.bell-labs.com).

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