Mark D. Hill Gene M. Amdahl & John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences

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2023

• In Computer Architecture, We Don't Change the Questions, We Change the Answers,
  Mark D. Hill
  Keynote at Database Community Five-Year Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA October 2023.
  Slides: pdf
  University of Texas-Austin, March 2022.
  Slides: pdf
  Semiconductor Big Ideas Conference - New Street Research, September 2021.
  Slides: pptx and pdf
  Recording: mp4 (20 minutes)
  ISCA Panel (Short Version) Research Methodology in the New Era of Computer Architecture, June 2021.
  Slides: pptx and pdf
  Stanford SystemX Workshop, June 2021.
  Slides: pptx and pdf

• Design Tradeoffs in CXL-Based Memory Pools for Public Cloud Platforms
  Daniel S. Berger, Daniel Ernst, Huaicheng Li, Pantea Zardoshti, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Lisa Hsu, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Ricardo Bianchinii,
  IEEE Micro,
  DOI: 10.1109/MM.2023.3241586, March/April 2023.
  Local copy: PDF

• A Retrospective on: A “Flight Data Recorder” for Enabling Full-system Multiprocessor Deterministic Replay,
  Min Xu, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill,
  In ISCA@50 Retrospective: 1996-2020. Edited by José F. Martínez and Lizy K. John,
  June 2023

• Driving Innovation in Academia and Industry,
  Mark D. Hill
  Keynote at Computing Research Association-Industry (CRA-I) Workshop on Computing Research in Industry at ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), June 2023.
  Slides: pdf

• Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms,
  Huaicheng Li, Daniel S. Berger, Stanko Novakovic, Lisa Hsu, Dan Ernst, Pantea Zardoshti, Monish Shah, Samir Rajadnya, Scott Lee, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Marcus Fontoura, and Ricardo Bianchini,
  28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Selected Distinguished Paper among less than 10% of papers.
  Talk: pptx and pdf
  arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00241 (near final version),
  March 2023.

2022

• First-generation Memory Disaggregation for Cloud Platforms
  Huaicheng Li, Daniel S. Berger, Stanko Novakovic, Lisa Hsu, Dan Ernst, Pantea Zardoshti, Monish Shah, Ishwar Agarwal, Mark D. Hill, Marcus Fontoura, and Ricardo Bianchini
  arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00241,
  March 2022.

2021

• Accelerator-Level Parallelism
  Mark D. Hill and Vijay Janapa Reddi
  Communications of ACM (CACM),
  December 2021.

• A Vision to Computer Like Nature: Thermodynamically
  Todd Hylton, Thomas M. Conte, and Mark D. Hill,
  Communications of ACM (CACM),
  June 2021.

• A National Discovery Cloud: Preparing the US for Global Competitiveness in the New Era of 21st Century Digital Transformation,
  Ian Foster, Daniel Lopresti, Bill Gropp, Mark D. Hill, and Katie Schuman,
  Computing Community Consortium (CCC) White Paper, April 14, 2021
  URL: https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/CCC-Whitepaper-National-Discovery-Cloud-2021.pdf
  

2020

• Advancing Computing's Foundation of US Industry & Society,
  Thomas M. Conte, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, and Mark D. Hill,
  Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Quadrennial Paper, October 29, 2020
  URL: https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Advancing-Computings-Foundation-of-US-Industry-Society-Moores-Law-2.pdf
  All CRA/CCC 2020 Quadrennial Papers,
  

• How Computing May Change Our World
  (A Talk for Non-Computer Scientists),
  Mark D. Hill
  (More Polished) Virtually @ Participatory Learning And Teaching Organization (PLATO), September 2020.
  Talk Slides: pptx and pdf
  Video Recording (50 minutes + Q&A): YouTube
  (First Offering ) Virtually @ Computing Research Association (CRA), September 2020.
  Talk Slides: pptx and pdf
  Recording (40 minutes): YouTube

• Academic-Industrial Synergy: Stories, Pitfalls, & Advice,
  Mark D. Hill
  Keynote @ Google Computer Architecture & Deep Learning Workshop, August 2020.
  Talk Slides: pptx and pdf

• Accelerator-level Parallelism
  Mark D. Hill and Vijay Janapa Reddi,
  Most-recent Talk Slides (6/2020): PPTX and PDF
  Technion Talk 41-Minute Video (6/2020): Youtube or Panoptotech
  First Talk Slides (3/2019): PPTX & PDF
  CACM Viewpoint (12/2021): Accelerator-Level Parallelism
  SIGARCH Blog (9/2019): Accelerator-Level Parallelism (ALP)
  ArXiv (8/2020): html/pdf
  Supplementary Material: Gables Home Page

• Why 'Correct' Computers Can Leak Your Information
  Mark D. Hill,
  Communications of ACM (CACM),
  DOI:10.1145/3399740, July 2020.
  Local copy: PDF
  A one-page Technical Perspective introduction to a Research Highlights article by the original Spectre authors.

• CRA Industry/Academia Committee Report,
  Vivek Sarkar, Nancy Amato, Susan Davidson, Eric de Sturler, David Ebert, Mark D. Hill, Charles Isbell, Shwetak Patel, Chris Ramming, Divesh Srivastava, Marvin Theimer, Benjamin Zorn,
  Computing Research Association, May 29, 2020
  URL: https://cra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CRA-Industry_Academia-Committee-Report.pdf
  Blog Post & Talk (8/2020): html

• Adaptive computer cache architecture,
  Jason Lowe-Power, David A. Wood, and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 10,713,165, issued July 14, 2020

• MOD: Minimally Ordered Durable Datastructures for Persistent Memory
  Swapnil Haria, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  25th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2020).
  Local copy: pdf
  Full Talk: pptx, pdf

• Ph.D. Student Advice from a 1980s Ph.D. Student,
  Mark D. Hill
  The Young Architect Workshop (YArch) (for new grad students), delivered virtually in March 2020.
  Talk Slides: pptx
  Talk Video: YouTube

• Mentoring and Managing Graduate Students,
  Mark D. Hill
  CRA Mentoring Workshop (for new faculty), February 2020.
  Talk Slides: pptx

• A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, 2nd Edition,
  Vijay Nagarajan, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, February 2020.
  Open-access: DOI (FREE to you!)
  Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture Home Page: html

2019

• Gene Myron Amdahl, 1922-2015,
  Mark D. Hill
  National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Memorial Tributes, vol. 22, 2019, pp 9-12 .
  Online Chapter pdf
  

• Reflections and Research Advice Upon Receiving the 2019 Eckert-Mauchly Award,
  Mark D. Hill
  IEEE Micro, September/October 2019.
  Paper: pdf
  Abridged SIGARCH Blog: html
  Abridged Communication of the China Computer Federation in Chinese: html
  

• Eckert-Mauchly Award 2019,
  Mark D. Hill
  Talk at ISCA Award Luncheon, June 2019.
  Award: html
  Slides: pptx and pdf (27MB each)
  Audio: m4a (16MB)
  Video for most of 30-minute talk: YouTube (recommended) or mp4 (backup)
  Video after gap for 2-minutes thank yous: YouTube (recommended) or mp4 (backup)
  Word Clouds of coauthors png and title keywords png
  See also IEEE Micro paper: PDF

• Don't Persist All : Efficient Persistent Data Structures,
  Pratyush Mahapatra, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift,
  May 2019.
  ArXiv: html/pdf

• On the Spectre and Meltdown Processor Security Vulnerabilities
  Mark D. Hill, Jon Masters, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Paul Turner, and John Hennessy,
  IEEE Micro Special Issue on Hot Chips 2018,
  DOI 10.1109/MM.2019.2897677, March/April 2019.
  Local copy: PDF
  See 2018 for slides and video of Hot Chips Keynote/Panel.

• Gables: A Roofline Model for Mobile SoCs
  Mark D. Hill and Vijay Janapa Reddi
  The 25th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2019)
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx & pdf
  Expanded ISPASS FASTPATH Talk: pptx & pdf
  Supplementary Material: Gables Home Page

2018

• Three Other Models of Computer System Performance,
  Mark D. Hill,
  December 2018.
  ArXiv: html/pdf
  Two blog posts: html and html

• Spectre/Meltdown,
  John Hennessy, Paul Turner, Jon Masters, and Mark D. Hill,
  Keynote/Panel at the Hot Chips, August 2018
  June 2018.
  Hill Slides: pptx
  All Panel Slides: pdf
  Panel Video: Youtube
  Follow-on IEEE Micro paper: PDF

• On the Implications of the Meltdown & Spectre Design Flaws,
  Mark D. Hill, Paul Kocher, Ruby B. Lee, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Timothy Sherwood,
  Panel at the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'16).
  June 2018.
  Panel Slides: pptx
  Panel Info: html

• Devirtualizing Memory for Heterogeneous Systems
  Swapnil Haria, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  23nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2018).
  Local copy: pdf
  Lightning Talk: pdf
  Full Talk: pptx
  

• On the Meltdown & Spectre Design Flaws
  Mark D. Hill
  Technical Talk, Google, February 2018.
  Talk: pptx
  Talk: pdf
  CCC Blog: html
  Revised Technical Talk, Uppsala University, November 2018.
  Talk: pptx
  Talk: pdf
  

2017

• DRAM cache with tags and data jointly stored in physical rows,
  Gabriel H. Loh and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 9,753,858, issued September 5, 2017

• Democratizing Design for Future Computing Platforms,
  Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Thomas F. Wenisch,
  Computing Community Consortium, Jun 26, 2017.
  arVix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08597
  Local copy: pdf

• Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,
  Vasant G. Honavar, Katherine Yelick, Klara Nahrstedt, Holly Rushmeier, Jennifer Rexford, Mark D. Hill, Elizabeth Bradley, and Elizabeth Mynatt,
  Computing Community Consortium, Jun 30, 2017.
  arVix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00599
  Local copy: pdf

• Retrospective on Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era,
  Mark D. Hill and Michael R. Marty,
  IEEE Computer, July 2017.
  Local copy: pdf
  Original 2008 paper: pdf
  Selected as one of seven influential papers from the first 50 years of Computer.
  See others: https://www.computer.org/computer-magazine/from-the-archives-computers-legacy/

• Nanotechnology-inspired Information Processing Systems of the Future,
  Randy Bryant, Mark Hill, Tom Kazior, Daniel Lee, Jie Liu, Klara Nahrstedt, Vijay Narayanan, Jan Rabaey, Hava Siegelmann, Naresh Shanbhag, Naveen Verma, H.-S. Philip Wong,
  Computing Community Consortium, released Feb 13, 2017.
  

• Agile Paging for Efficient Memory Virtualization,
  Jayneel Gandhi, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Architecture Conferences, May/June 2017.
  Paper: pdf
  (Shorter, award version of ISCA 2016 Paper)

• Crossing Guard: Mediating Host-Accelerator Coherence Interactions
  Lena E. Olson, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood
  22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2017).
  Local copy: pdf
  Lightning Talk: pdf
  Full Talk: pptx pdf
  Supplemental material: Transition Tables and Code

• An Analysis of Persistent Memory Use with WHISPER
  Sanketh Nalli, Swapnil Haria, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, Haris Volos, Kimberly Keeton
  22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2017).
  Selected for one of nine IEEE Micro Top Picks 2018 Honorable Mentions
  Local copy: pdf
  Website: WHISPER Benchmark Suite
  NVM Workshop 2017 talk on WHISPER: pptx
  NVM Workshop 2017 talk on HOPS: pptx
  ASPLOS Main Presentation: pptx
  ASPLOS Lightning Talk: pdf

• Efficient memory management system for computers supporting virtual machines,
  Jayneel Gandhi, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift,
  United States Patent 9,619,401 issued Apr 11, 2017

• I/O memory management unit providing self invalidated mapping,
  Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift,
  United States Patent 9,954,603, issued Jan 17, 2017

2016

• Arch2030: A Vision of Computer Architecture Research over the Next 15 Years,
  Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Thomas F. Wenisch,
  Computing Community Consortium, Dec 9, 2016.
  arVIX: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03182
  Local copy: pdf
  Also appears in Communications of the China Computer Federation (CCCF), Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2017, translated into Chinese by State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture: pdf
  Outbrief (3/2017): pptx

• Computer Architecture 1975-2025,
  Mark D. Hill
  Distinguished Lecture at Johns Hopkins University.
  Combines a review of 20th century computer architecture and 21st Century Computer Architecture [CCC 2012]
  November 2016
  Talk: pptx

• Proprietary versus Open Instruction Sets,
  Mark D. Hill, Dave Christie, David Patterson, Joshua J. Yi, Derek Chiou, Resit Sendag
  IEEE Micro, July/August 2016.
  Local copy: pdf

• Range Translations for Fast Virtual Memory,
  Jayneel Gandhi, Vasileios Karakostas, Furkan Ayar, Adrian Cristal, Mark D. Hill, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario Nemirovsky, Michael M. Swift, Osman Unsal
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Architecture Conferences, May/June 2016.
  Local Copy: pdf
  (Shorter, award version of ISCA 2015 Paper)

• Agile Paging: Exceeding the Best of Nested and Shadow Paging
  Jayneel Gandhi, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  The 43rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'16), 2016.
  Local copy: pdf
  Presentation: pptx
  Lightning Talk: pdf

• Programming Heterogeneous Computers and Improving Inter-Node Communication Across Xeon Phis
  Chris Feilbach, Adam Sperling, Eftychios Sifakis, Mark D. Hill
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2016-1834, May 2016.
  Local copy: pdf

• Remember Memory?,
  Mark D. Hill
  Talk: 40 Years of Patterson Symposium, May 2016.
  Talk: pptx
  Video: YouTube (at 2:39 in 9-hour video)

• Method for memory consistency among heterogeneous computer components,
  Derek R. Hower, Mark D. Hill, David Wood, Steven K. Reinhardt, Benedict R. Gaster, Blake A. Hechtman, Bradford M. Beckmann,
  United States Patent 9,361,118, issued May 12, 2016

• Methods and apparatus for soft-partitioning of a data cache for stack data,
  Lena E. Olson, Yasuko Eckert, Vikas K. Sridharan, James M. O'Connor, Mark D. Hill, Srilatha Manne,
  United States Patent 9,298,615, issued March 29, 2016

• When to use 3D Die-Stacked Memory for Bandwidth-Constrained Big-Data Workloads
  Jason Lowe-Power, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  The Seventh Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE 7) at ASPLOS, April 2016
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf Google Drive
  Data: link

• Probabilistic Directed Writebacks for Exclusive Caches
  Lena E. Olson, Mark D. Hill
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2016-1831, February 2016.
  Local copy: pdf

• Accelerating Science: A Computing Research Agenda,
  Vasant G. Honavar, Mark D. Hill, and Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, Feb 19, 2016.
  URL: http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Accelerating-Science-Whitepaper-CCC-Final2.pdf
  Local copy: pdf
  

• Energy-Efficient Address Translation
  Vasileios Karakostas, Jayneel Gandhi, Adrian Cristal, Mark D. Hill, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario Nemirovsky, Michael M. Swift, Osman Unsal
  The 22nd IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2016)
  Local copy: pdf
  Presentation: pptx
  

2015

• Border Control: Sandboxing Accelerators
  Lena E. Olson, Jason Power, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood
  The 48th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-48), 2015.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx, pdf

• Whither Acoherent Shared Memory?,
  Mark D. Hill
  Workshop on Negative Outcomes Post-mortems, and Experiences (NOPE), held in conjunction with MICRO, December 2015.
  Talk: pptx

• Opportunities and Challenges for Next Generation Computing,
  Gregory D. Hager, Mark D. Hill, and Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, October 19, 2015.
  URL: http://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/10/NextGenComputingChallenges.pdf
  Local copy: pdf
  

• Virtual memory management system with reduced latency,
  Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, and Michael M. Swift
  United States Patent 9,158,704, issued October 13, 2015.

• Security Implications of Third-Party Accelerators
  Lena E. Olson, Simha Sethumadhavan, Mark D. Hill
  Computer Architecture Letters, 15 June 2015
  Local copy: pdf

• Redundant Memory Mappings for Fast Access to Large Memories

  Vasileios Karakostas, Jayneel Gandhi, Furkan Ayar, Adrián Cristal, Mark D. Hill, Kathryn S. McKinley, Mario Nemirovsky, Michael M. Swift, Osman Ünsal
  ISCA '15 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2015
  Local copy: pdf
  Presentation: pptx
  Lightning Talk: pdf

• Toward GPUs being mainstream in analytic processing: An initial argument using simple scan-aggregate queries
  Jason Power, Yinan Li, Mark D. Hill, Jignesh M. Patel, David A. Wood
  Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN '15)
  Talk: pdf pptx
  Local copy: pdf
  

• Implications of Emerging 3D GPU Architecture on the Scan Primitive
  Jason Power, Yinan Li, Mark D. Hill, Jignesh M. Patel, David A. Wood
  SIGMOD Rec. Volume 44, Issue 1 (April 2015)
  Local copy: pdf
  

• Synchronization Using Remote-Scope Promotion
  Marc S. Orr, Shuai Che, Ayse Yilmazer, Bradford M. Beckmann, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  The 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-20), 2015
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• System and method for cache organization in row-based memories,
  Gabriel H. Loh and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 8,954,672, issued February 10, 2015.

2014

• Efficient Memory Virtualization: Reducing Dimensionality of Nested Page Walks
  Jayneel Gandhi, Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  The 47th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-47), 2014.
  IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention.
  Local copy (slightly updated): pdf
  Poster: pdf
  Presentation: pptx
  Lightning Talk: pdf

• Revisiting Stack Caches for Energy Efficiency
  Lena E. Olson, Yasuko Eckert, Srilatha Manne, Mark D. Hill
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2014-1813, December 2014.
  Local copy: pdf

• Hardware filter for tracking block presence in large caches,
  Gabriel H. Loh and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 8,868,843 issued October 21, 2014.

• BadgerTrap: a tool to instrument x86-64 TLB misses

  Jayneel Gandhi, Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 2014
  Local copy: pdf

• Heterogeneous-race-free Memory Models
  Derek R. Hower, Blake A. Hechtman, Bradford M. Beckmann, Benedict R. Gaster, Mark D. Hill, Steven K. Reinhardt, David A. Wood
  The 19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-19), 2014
  Local copy (slightly updated): pdf
  Talk (slightly updated): pptx

• 21st Century Computer Architecture,
  Mark D. Hill
  Opening Keynote for IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), and International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO).
  February 2014
  Talk: pptx
  This talk extends and expands work from 21st Century Computer Architecture [CCC 2012] and Efficient Virtual Memory for Big Memory Servers [ISCA 2013].

• Preparing for the next 50 years,
  UW-Madison Computer Sciences, 2014

• gem5-gpu: A Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Simulator
  Jason Power, Joel Hestness, Marc S. Orr, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  Computer Architecture Letters. vol 13, no. 1. Jan-June 2014.
  Local copy: pdf
  Web Site: html

• Supporting x86-64 Address Translation for 100s of GPU Lanes
  Jason Power, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014)
  Local copy with appendix: pdf
  Talk: pptx
  Data: link

• QuickRelease: A Throughput-oriented Approach to Release Consistency on GPUs
  Blake A. Hechtman, Shuai Che, Derek R. Hower, Yingying Tian, Bradford M. Beckmann, Mark D. Hill, Steven K. Reinhardt, and David A. Wood
  The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014)
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

2013

• Heterogeneous System Coherence for Integrated CPU-GPU Systems
  Jason Power, Arkaprava Basu, Junli Gu, Sooraj Puthoor, Bradford M. Beckmann, Mark D. Hill, Steven K. Reinhardt, David A. Wood
  The 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-46), 2013.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx
  Poster: pdf

• FreshCache: Statically and Dynamically Exploiting Dataless Ways
  Arkaprava Basu, Derek R. Hower, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  ICCD'13: To Appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design, 2013.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• Sequential Consistency for Heterogeneous-Race-Free: Programmer-centric Memory Models for Heterogeneous Platforms,
  Derek R. Hower, Bradford M. Beckmann, Benedict R. Gaster, Blake A. Hechtman, Mark D. Hill, Steven K. Reinhardt, and David A. Wood,
  Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC)
  June 2013
  Talk: pdf
  See expanded and extended version in ASPLOS 2014.

• Efficient virtual memory for big memory servers

  Arkaprava Basu, Jayneel Gandhi, Jichuan Chang, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  ISCA '13 Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2013
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• CMP Directory Coherence: One Granularity Does Not Fit All,
  Arkaprava Basu, Bradford M. Beckmann, Steven K. Reinhardt, Mark D. Hill
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2013-1798, June 2013.
  Local copy: pdf

• Research Directions for 21st Century Computer Systems,
  Panelists: Mark Hill (Moderator), Sarita Adve, Kathyrn McKinley, Josep Torrellas, and Emmett Witchel
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2013.
  Panel Statement: pdf
  Panel Slides: pptx

2012

• Non-broadcast Signature-based Transactional Memory,
  David A. Wood, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, Michael R. Marty, Luke Yen, Kevin E. Moore, Jayaram Bobba, and Haris Volos
  United States Patent 8,239,633 B2 issued August 7, 2012.

• Why on-chip cache coherence is here to stay

  Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, Daniel J. Sorin
  Communications of the ACM, 2012
  Local copy: pdf
  Duke University Department of ECE Technical Report TR-2011-1: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• 21st Century Computer Architecture,
  Mark D. Hill, Sarita Adve, Luis Ceze, Mary Jane Irwin, David Kaeli, Margaret Martonosi, Josep Torrellas, Thomas F. Wenisch, David Wood, Katherine Yelick,
  Computing Community Consortium, May 25, 2012.
  Local copy: pdf
  Outbriefs : pptx and pptx
  Cited by and contributed to NSF XPS program at roughly $16M annually.
  Chinese translation by State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture (SKL-Carch) and republication: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 21st Century Computer Architecture, Communication of the China Computer Federation (CCF), 2012, Volume 8, Issue 12, p70-81.
  Local copy of translation: pdf

• Advancing Computer Systems without Technology Progress ,
  Mark D. Hill and Christos Kozyrakis,
  ISAT Outbrief, April 17-18, 2012, of DARPA/ISAT Workshop, March 26-27, 2012.
  Cited by and contributed to DARPA Electronics Resurgence Initiative, $75M in 2017 and projected to grow to $1.5B.
  Talk: pdf

• Reducing memory reference energy with opportunistic virtual caching

  Arkaprava Basu, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift
  ISCA '12 Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2012
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• Supporting Very Large DRAM Caches with Compound Access Scheduling and MissMap,
  Gabriel H. Loh and Mark D. Hill
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Architecture Conferences, May/June 2012.
  44th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Local copy: pdf
  Addendum: pdf
  (Shorter, award version of Micro 2011 Paper)

2011

• Efficiently enabling conventional block sizes for very large die-stacked DRAM caches

  Gabriel H. Loh, Mark D. Hill
  MICRO-44 '11 Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2011
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx or pdf
  Addendum: pdf
  (Shorter, award version appears in Micro Top Picks May/June 2012)

• The gem5 simulator

  Nathan Binkert, Bradford Beckmann, Gabriel Black, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ali Saidi, Arkaprava Basu, Joel Hestness, Derek R. Hower, Tushar Krishna, Somayeh Sardashti, Rathijit Sen, Korey Sewell, Muhammad Shoaib, Nilay Vaish, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 2011
  Local copy: pdf
  Web Site: http://gem5.org/

• A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence ,
  Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, May 2011.
  This lecture is FREE to all -- no paywall.
  Draft copy of front matter and introductory chapter: pdf
  Synthesis Lectures in Computer Architecture Home Page: html

• Karma: scalable deterministic record-replay

  Arkaprava Basu, Jayaram Bobba, Mark D. Hill
  ICS '11 Proceedings of the international conference on Supercomputing, 2011
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?, The National Academy Press, 2011
  Online Copy: pdf
  Talk at Wisconsin (May 2011): pptx (many hidden slides)

• Calvin: Deterministic or Not? Free Will to Choose,
  Derek R. Hower, Polina Dudnik, David A. Wood, and Mark D. Hill
  17th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Februrary 2011.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• Safe and Efficient Supervised Memory Systems,
  Jayaram Bobba, Marc Lupon, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood
  17th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Februrary 2011.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx

• Laying a New Foundation for IT: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond,
  Mark Oskin, Josep Torrellas, et al.,
  Report from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) 2nd Workshop on Advancing Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-2), released 2011.
  

2010

• Failure is not an Option: Popular Parallel Programming,
  Josep Torrellas, Mark Oskin, et al.,
  Report from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Workshop on Advancing Computer Architecture Research (ACAR-1), released October 2010.
  Local Copy: pdf

• Karma: Scalable Deterministic Record-Replay,
  Arkaprava Basu, Jayaram Bobba, Mark D. Hill
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2010-1680, October 2010.
  Local copy: pdf

2009

• StealthTest: Low Overhead Online Software Testing using Transactional Memory,
  Jayaram Bobba, Weiwei Xiong, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood
  Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), Sep 2009.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Two hardware-based approaches for deterministic multiprocessor replay

  Derek R. Hower, Pablo Montesinos, Luis Ceze, Mark D. Hill, Josep Torrellas
  Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality, 2009
  Local copy: pdf
  (Summarizes "Rerun" and "DeLorean" proposals from ISCA '08 for wider CACM audience.)
  Technical Introduction by Jouppi

• Opportunities beyond single-core microprocessors

  Mark D. Hill
  PPoPP '09 Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming, 2009
  Local copy: pdf

2008

• Notary: Hardware Techniques to Enhance Signatures,
  Luke Yen, Stark C. Draper, and Mark D. Hill
  41st International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), November 2008.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Is Transactional Memory an Oxymoron?,
  Mark D. Hill
  Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) August 2008.
  Keynote Talk: ppt

• Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era,
  Mark D. Hill and Michael R. Marty,
  IEEE Computer, July 2008.
  Local copy: pdf
  Supplementary Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/amdahl/
  Related Talk Video: Google TechTalk 02/2009 (52 minutes)
  Related Talk Slides: pptx 01/2010
  Selected as an influential paper from the first 50 years of Computer.
  See others: https://www.computer.org/computer-magazine/from-the-archives-computers-legacy/
  2017 Retrospective: pdf
  

• Rerun: Exploiting Episodes for Lightweight Memory Race Recording

  Derek R. Hower, Mark D. Hill
  ISCA '08 Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2008
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pptx ppt
  Recommended to CACM for wider audience: pdf

• TokenTM: Efficient Execution of Large Transactions with Hardware Transactional Memory

  Jayaram Bobba, Neelam Goyal, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, David A. Wood
  ISCA '08 Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2008
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Computer system implementing synchronized broadcast using timestamps,
  Robert E. Cypher, David Wood A., Mark D. Hill, and Thomas M. Wicki,
  United States Patent 7,366,843, issued April 29, 2008.

• OS Support for Virtualizing Transactional Memory,
  Michael M. Swift, Haris Volos, Neelam Goyal, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill and David A Wood
  Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Memory (TRANSACT), February 2008.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt
  Also appears as Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2008-1630, February 2008.

• Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory,
  Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, and David A. Wood
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences, January-February 2008.
  (Shorter, award version of ISCA 2007 Paper)

• Virtual Hierarchies,
  Michael R. Marty and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences, January-February 2008.
  Local copy: pdf
  (Shorter, award version of ISCA 2007 Paper)

2007

• Single-Threaded vs. Multithreaded: Where Should We Focus?,
  Joel Emer, Mark D. Hill, Yale N. Patt, Joshua J, Yi, Derek Chiou, and Resit Sedag
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Computer Architecture Debates, November-December 2007.
  Local copy: pdf

• Implementing Signatures for Transactional Memory,
  Daniel Sanchez, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, and Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
  40th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2007.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Performance pathologies in hardware transactional memory

  Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, David A. Wood
  ISCA '07 Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 2007
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt
  Extended Talk: ppt

• Virtual hierarchies to support server consolidation

  Michael R. Marty, Mark D. Hill
  ISCA '07 Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 2007
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• 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.
  Local copy: pdf
  Also appears as Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 07361, editors Albert Cohen, Maria J. Garzaran, Christian Lengauer, and Samuel P. Midkiff, 2008.

• System and method for enhancing communication between devices in a computer system,
  David Wood, Robert C. Zak, Jr., Monica Wong-Chan, Christopher J. Jackson, Thomas P. Webber, and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 7,225,383, issued May 29, 2007.

• Log-based Transactional Memory,
  Overview Talk, April 2007.

• LogTM-SE: Decoupling Hardware Transactional Memory from Caches,
  Luke Yen, Jayaram Bobba, Michael R. Marty, Kevin E. Moore, Haris Volos, Mark D. Hill, Michael M. Swift, and David A. Wood
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2007.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt, pdf

• A Hardware Memory Race Recorder for Deterministic Replay,
  Min Xu, Rastislav Bodik, and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences, January-February 2007.
  (Summarizes ``Flight Data Recorder'' work from ISCA 2003 and ASPLOS 2006 papers).
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt (based on Xu's 2006 Ph.D. Defense)

2006

• Coherence Ordering for Ring-based Chip Multiprocessors,
  Michael R. Marty and Mark D. Hill,
  39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2006.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• A regulated transitive reduction (RTR) for longer memory race recording

  Min Xu, Mark D. Hill, Rastislav Bodik
  ASPLOS XII Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, 2006
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt
  Top Picks 2007 follow-on

• Supporting nested transactional memory in logTM

  Michelle J. Moravan, Jayaram Bobba, Kevin E. Moore, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Ben Liblit, Michael M. Swift, David A. Wood
  ASPLOS XII Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, 2006
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt

• A Wiki for Discussing and Promoting Best Practices in Research,
  Mark D. Hill, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Mary Hall, Joe Marks, Paolo Prinetto, and Donna Baglio,
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), September 2006.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  Wiki: http://wiki.acm.org/healthcc/

• LogTM: Log-based Transactional Memory,
  Kevin E. Moore, Jayaram Bobba, Michelle J. Moravan, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2006.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt, pdf

• Computer system implementing synchronized broadcast using skew control and queuing,
  Robert E. Cypher, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  United States Patent 7,136,980 issued November 14, 2006.

2005

• Multifacet's general execution-driven multiprocessor simulator (GEMS) toolset

  Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Bradford M. Beckmann, Michael R. Marty, Min Xu, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Kevin E. Moore, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special issue: dasCMP'05, 2005
  Local copy: pdf
  Web Site: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/gems
  ISCA Tutorial Slides: ppt

• A serializability violation detector for shared-memory server programs

  Min Xu, Rastislav Bodík, Mark D. Hill
  ACM SIGPLAN Notices - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation, 2005
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt

• Thread-Level Transactional Memory,
  Kevin E. Moore, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2005-1524, March 2005.
  Local copy: pdf

• Improving Multiple-CMP Systems Using Token Coherence,
  Michael R. Marty, Jesse D. Bingham, Mark D. Hill, Alan J. Hu, Milo M.K. Martin and David A. Wood,
  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2005.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt
  Extended Talk: ppt

• Token based cache-coherence protocol,
  Milo M. Martin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,,
  United States Patent 6,981,097 issued December 27, 2005.

• Bandwidth-adaptive, hybrid, cache-coherence protocol,
  Milo M. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,,
  United States Patent 6,883,070 issued April 19, 2005.

2004

• Interaction Cost: For When Event Counts Just Don't Add Up,
  Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill, and Chris J. Newburn,
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences, November-December 2004.
  Local copy: pdf
  Expanded TACO 2004 Journal Version

• Future Computer Advances are Between a Rock (Slow Memory) and a Hard Place (Multithreading)
  (Talk to CSTB and US government agencies),
  Mark D. Hill,
  The National Academies's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) Meeting, October 2004.
  Talk: ppt

• Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field,
  Mary Shaw, et al.,
  The National Academy Press, 2011
  Online Book: html
  Chapter 2a: Harnessing Moore's Law,
  Mark D. Hill
  Online Chapter: html

• Interaction cost and shotgun profiling

  Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill, Chris J. Newburn
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2004
  Local copy: pdf
  Original Micro 2003 Conference Version: pdf

• A Future of Parallel Computer Architectures
  (Keynote talk to parallel software researchers),
  Mark D. Hill,
  International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 2004.
  Talk: ppt

• Using Speculation to Simplify Multiprocessor Design,
  Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2004.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Evaluating a $2M Commercial Server on a $2K PC and Related Challenges (Invited Talk),
  Mark D. Hill,
  Workshop On Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), February 2004.
  Talk Abstract: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Hierarchical SMP computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,826,660 issued November 30, 2004.

• Method and device for a context-based memory management system,
  Borus Ostrovsky, Daniel R. Cassiday, John R. Feehrer, David A. Wood, Pazhani Pillai, Christopher J. Jackson, Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,826,671 issued November 30, 2004.

2003

• Token Coherence: A New Framework for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,
  Milo M.K. Martin, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood,
  IEEE Micro Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences, November-December 2003.
  Local copy: pdf
  Original ISCA 2003 Paper: pdf
  Token Coherence Bibliography: html

• Using Interaction Costs for Microarchitectural Bottleneck Analysis,
  Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill, and Chris J. Newburn,
  36th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2003.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt
  Expanded TACO 2004 Journal Version: pdf

• Challenges in Computer Architecture Evaluation,
  Kevin Skadron, Margaret Martonosi, David I. August, Mark D. Hill, David J. Lilja, and Vijay S. Pai.
  IEEE Computer, August 2003.
  Local copy: pdf

• Revisiting "Multiprocessors Should Support Simple Memory Consistency Models"
  (Talk to software memory consistency model researchers),
  Mark D. Hill,
  Dagstuhl Seminar 03431 on Hardware and Software Consistency Models: Programmability and Performance, October 2003.
  Abstract: txt
  Talk: ppt
  Original 1998 Paper: pdf

• Token coherence: decoupling performance and correctness

  Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ISCA '03 Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 2003
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt
  Shorter IEEE Micro Top Picks Paper: pdf
  Token Coherence Bibliography: html

• Using destination-set prediction to improve the latency/bandwidth tradeoff in shared-memory multiprocessors

  Milo M. K. Martin, Pacia J. Harper, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ISCA '03 Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 2003
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt

• A "flight data recorder" for enabling full-system multiprocessor deterministic replay

  Min Xu, Rastislav Bodik, Mark D. Hill
  ISCA '03 Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 2003
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf, ppt
  Top Picks 2007 follow-on: pdf

• Dynamic Verification of End-to-End Multiprocessor Invariants,
  Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN, formerly FTCC), June 2003.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Simulating a $2M Commercial Server on a $2K PC,
  Alaa R. Alameldeen, Milo M.K. Martin, Carl J. Mauer, Kevin E. Moore, Min Xu, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood,
  IEEE Computer, February 2003.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Skewed finite hashing function,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,654,866 issued November 25, 2003.

• Repeater for use in a shared memory computing system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,578,071 issued June 10, 2003.

• Methods and apparatus for a directory-less memory access protocol in a distributed shared memory computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,574,659 issued June 3, 2003.

2002

• Data Page Layouts for Relational Databases on Deep Memory Hierarchies,
  Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, and Mark D. Hill,
  The VLDB Journal, 11(3), 2002.
  Local copy: pdf

• Full-system timing-first simulation

  Carl J. Mauer, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 2002
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ppt

• Harnessing Moore's Law
  (Talk to computer science undergraduates),
  Mark D. Hill,
  Several venues, 2002-03.
  Abstract: txt
  Talk: ppt

• SafetyNet: improving the availability of shared memory multiprocessors with global checkpoint/recovery

  Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special Issue: Proceedings of the 29th annual international symposium on Computer architecture (ISCA '02), 2002
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Slack: maximizing performance under technological constraints

  Brian Fields, Rastislav Bodík, Mark D. Hill
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special Issue: Proceedings of the 29th annual international symposium on Computer architecture (ISCA '02), 2002
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Specifying and Verifying a Broadcast and a Multicast Snooping Cache Coherence Protocol,
  Daniel J. Sorin, Manoj Plakal, Anne E. Condon, Mark D. Hill, Milo M. K. Martin and David A. Wood,
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 2002 (vol 13, number 6).
  (Previously available as Dept. of Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2000-1412, March 2000.)
  Local copy: pdf
  Online protocol examples in html

• Bandwidth Adaptive Snooping,
  Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), February 2002.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ppt

• Evaluating Non-deterministic Multi-threaded Commercial Workloads,
  Alaa R. Alameldeen, Carl J. Mauer, Min Xu, Pacia J. Harper, Milo M.K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood,
  Workshop On Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), February 2002.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ppt

• Hybrid memory access protocol in a distributed shared memory computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,496,854 issued December 17, 2002.

• Methods and apparatus for a directory-less memory access protocol in a distributed shared memory computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,377,980 issued April 23, 2002.

2001

• Correctly Implementing Value Prediction in Microprocessors that Support Multithreading or Multiprocessing,
  Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Harold W. Cain, Mark D. Hill, and Mikko H. Lipasti,
  34th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2001.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ppt

• Weaving Relations for Cache Performance,
  Anastassia G. Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill, and Marios Skounakis,
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2001.
  Received VLDB 2001 Best Paper Award
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Facile: a language and compiler for high-performance processor simulators

  Eric C. Schnarr, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus
  PLDI '01 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2001 conference on Programming language design and implementation, 2001
  Local copy: pdf

• Cache performance for selected SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks

  Jason F. Cantin, Mark D. Hill
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 2001
  Local copy: pdf

• Skewed finite hashing function,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,308,246 issued October 23, 2001.

• Hybrid memory access protocol in a distributed shared memory computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,243,742 issued June 5, 2001. Also European Union Patent 0818732 and Japanese Patent 10177518.

• Shared memory system for symmetric multiprocessor systems,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 6,226,671 issued May 1, 2001.

2000

• Readings in Computer Architecture,
  Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (now Elsevier), ISBN 1-55860-539-8, 2000. Near-final versions of:
  Preface: pdf and ps
  Table of Contents: pdf and ps
  Web Component: html or html mirror

• Making Pointer-Based Data Structures Cache Conscious,
  Trishul M. Chilimbi, Mark D. Hill, and James R. Larus,
  IEEE Computer, December 2000.
  Local copy: pdf

• How computer architecture trends may affect future distributed systems: from infiniBand clusters to inter-processor speculation (abstract)

  Mark D. Hill
  PODC '00 Proceedings of the nineteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing, 2000
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Fast and Portable Parallel Architecture Simulators: Wisconsin Wind Tunnel II,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Steven K. Reinhardt, Babak Falsafi, Mike Litzkow, Steven Huss-Lederman, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, and David A. Wood,
  IEEE Concurrency, October-December 2000.
  Local copy: pdf

• Timestamp snooping: an approach for extending SMPs

  Milo M. K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Anatassia Ailamaki, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Ross M. Dickson, Carl J. Mauer, Kevin E. Moore, Manoj Plakal, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, 2000
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf

• Fast Checkpoint/Recovery to Support Kilo-Instruction Speculation and Hardware Fault Tolerance,
  Daniel J. Sorin, Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  Dept. of Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-2000-1420, October 2000.
  Local copy: pdf and ps

• Exploiting Market Realities To Address National Security's High-Performance Computing Needs,
  Mark D. Hill,
  In Defense Science Study Group 1998-1999, Volume 1: Papers 1-13, Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) Paper P-3531, 2000.
  Technical Report: pdf
  Talk: ppt

• Formation of a National Entity for Information Infrastructure Protection,
  Geoffrey C. Orsak, Mark D. Hill, and Robin R. Murphy,
  In Defense Science Study Group 1998-1999, Volume 1: Papers 1-13, Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) Paper P-3531, 2000.
  Technical Report: pdf

1999

• DBMSs on a modern processor: Where does time go?,
  Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 1999.
  Local copy: pdf and ps
  Talk: ppt

• A system-level specification framework for I/O architectures

  Mark D. Hill, Anne E. Condon, Manoj Plakal, Daniel J. Sorin
  SPAA '99 Proceedings of the eleventh annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures, 1999
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ps
  Technical report: Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Technical Report CS-TR-1999-1398, 1999.
  Technical report local copy: pdf and ps

• Multicast snooping: a new coherence method using a multicast address network

  E. Ender Bilir, Ross M. Dickson, Ying Hu, Manoj Plakal, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood
  ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 1999
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ps

• Cache-conscious structure layout

  Trishul M. Chilimbi, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus
  PLDI '99 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation, 1999
  Local copy: pdf

• Using Lamport Clocks to Reason About Relaxed Memory Models,
  Anne E. Condon, Mark D. Hill, Manoj Plakal and Daniel J. Sorin,
  International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), January 1999.
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ps

• Cachable interface control registers for high speed data transfer,
  David A. Wood, Steven K. Reinhardt, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, and Robert W. Pfile,
  United States Patent 5,951,657 issued September 14, 1999.

• Methods and apparatus for substantially memory-less coherence transformer for connecting computer node coherence domains,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,940,860 issued August 17, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817068 and Japanese Patent 11003277.

• Split-SMP computer system configured to operate in a protected mode having repeater which inhibits transaction to local address partition,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,923,847 issued July 13, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817094 and Japanese Patent 10187646.

• Skip-level write-through in a multi-level memory of a computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,903,907 issued May 11, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817079 and Japanese Patent 11003280.

• Efficient allocation of cache memory space in a computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,893,150 issued April 6, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817078 and Japanese Patent 10214229.

• Multiprocessor system configured to detect and efficiently provide for migratory data access patterns,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,734,922 issued March 31, 1999.

• Method and apparatus for a directory-less memory access protocol in a distributed shared memory computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,873,117 issued February 16, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817067 and Japanese Patent 10134009.

• Hybrid memory access protocol for servicing memory access request by ascertaining whether the memory block is currently cached in determining which protocols to be used,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,864,671 issued January 26, 1999.

• Hierarchical SMP computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,862,357 issued January 19, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817060 and Japanese Patent 10187630.

• Methods and apparatus for a coherence transformer for connecting computer system coherence domains,
  Erik E. Hagersten, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  United States Patent 5,860,109 issued January 12, 1999. Also European Union Patent 0817065 and Japanese Patent 10214222.

1998

• Guest Editor's Introduction: Design Challenges for High-Performance Network Interfaces
  Andrew A. Chien, Mark D. Hill, and Shubhendu S. Mukherjee,
  IEEE Computer, November 1998.
  Paper: pdf.

• Making Network Interfaces Less Peripheral,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Computer, October 1998.
  Paper: pdf.

• Sirocco: Cost-Effective Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory,
  Ioannis Schoinas, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, and David A. Wood,
  International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 98), October 1998.
  Paper: pdf

• A Retrospective on "Weak Ordering -- A New Definition,"
  Sarita V. Adve and Mark D. Hill,
  Selected Papers from the First 25 International Symposia on Computer Architecture (Gurindar S. Sohi, editor, ACM Press), 1998.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Multiprocessors Should Support Simple Memory Consistency Models,
  Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Computer, August 1998.
  Local copy: pdf
  2003 Dagstuhl Retrospective Talk: ppt

• Lamport clocks: verifying a directory cache-coherence protocol

  Manoj Plakal, Daniel J. Sorin, Anne E. Condon, Mark D. Hill
  SPAA '98 Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures, 1998
  Local copy: pdf
  Talk: pdf and ps

• Using Prediction to Accelerate Coherence Protocols,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and Mark D. Hill,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1998.
  Paper: pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

• The Impact of Data Transfer and Buffering Alternatives on Network Interface Design,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and Mark D. Hill,
  International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 1998.
  Paper: pdf

• Address Translation Mechanisms in Network Interfaces,
  Ioannis Schoinas and Mark D. Hill,
  International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 1998.
  Paper: pdf

• Methods and apparatus for sharing stored data objects in a computer system,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,835,906 issued November 10, 1998. Also European Union Patent 0817040 and Japanese Patent 10187527.

• Methods and apparatus for a coherence transformer with limited memory for connecting computer system coherence domains,
  Erik E. Hagersten, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  United States Patent 5,829,034 issued October 27, 1998. Also European Union Patent 0817069 and Japanese Patent 10187633.

• Efficient storage of data in computer systmes with multiple cache levels,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,802,563 issued September 1, 1998. Also European Union Patent 0817080 and Japanese Patent 10214224.

• Extended symmetrical multiprocessor address mapping,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,796,605 issued August 18, 1998. (Hill was officially added as a co-inventor on June 27, 1998, correcting a filing error.)

• Extended symmetrical multiprocessor architecture,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,754,877 issued May 19, 1998. Also European Union Patent 0817092 and Japanese Patent 10097513.

• Multiprocessing system configured to detect and efficiently provide for migratory data access patterns,
  Erik E. Hagersten and Mark D. Hill,
  United States Patent 5,734,922 issued March 31, 1998. Also European Union Patent 0817071 and Japanese Patent 10143483.

1997

• Relaxed Consistency and Coherence Granularity in DSM Systems: A Performance Evaluation,
  Yuanyuan Zhou, Liviu Iftode, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Kai Li, Brian R. Toonen, Ioannis Schoinas, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), June 1997.
  Paper: pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

1996

• Parallel Computer Research in the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel Project,
  Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, and David A. Wood,
  NSF Conference on Experimental Research in Computer Systems, June 1996.
  Paper: pdf

• Bidirectional Technology Transfer: Sabbaticals in Industry,
  Mark D. Hill,
  NSF Conference on Experimental Research in Computer Systems, June 1996. Reprinted in Computing Research News, November 1997.
  Paper: pdf

• Coherent Network Interfaces for Fine-Grain Communication,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1996.
  Paper: pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

• Optimistic Simulation of Parallel Architectures Using Program Executables,
  Sashikanth Chandrasekaran and Mark D. Hill,
  Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS), May 1996.
  Paper: pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

1995

• A New Page Table for 64-bit Address Spaces,
  Madhusudhan Talluri, Mark D. Hill, and Yousef A. Khalidi,
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principals (SOSP), December 1995.
  Paper: pdf

• Presidential Young Investigator Award Final Report,
  Mark D. Hill,
  July 1995.
  Paper: pdf

• Efficient Support for Irregular Applications on Distributed-Memory Machines,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Shamik D. Sharma, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Anne Rogers, and Joel Saltz,
  SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), July 1995.
  Paper: pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

• Cost-Effective Parallel Computing,
  David A. Wood and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Computer, February 1995.
  Paper: final scanned pdf and near-final latex pdf.

• Solving Microstructure Electrostatics on a Proposed Parallel Computer,
  Frank Traenkle, Mark D. Hill, and Sangtae Kim,
  Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1995.
  Paper: pdf

1994

• Application-Specific Protocols for User-Level Shared Memory,
  Babak Falsafi, Alvin R. Lebeck, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ioannis Schoinas, Mark D. Hill James R. Larus, Anne Rogers, and David A. Wood,
  Supercomputing '94, Nov. 1994.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Surpassing the TLB Performance of Superpages with Less Operating System Support,
  Madhusudhan Talluri and Mark D. Hill,
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1994.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• An Evaluation of Directory Protocols for Medium-Scale Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,
  Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and Mark D. Hill,
  International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), July 1994.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• A Comparison of Trace-Sampling Techniques for Multi-Megabyte Caches,
  R. E. Kessler, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, June 1994.
  Paper: pdf

1993

• Cooperative Shared Memory: Software and Hardware for Scalable Multiprocessors,
  Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Steven K. Reinhardt, and David A. Wood,
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), November 1993.
  Updated version of ASPLOS 1992 paper.
  Paper: final scanned pdf and near-final latex pdf.
  Reference: ACM
  

• Wisconsin Architectural Research Tool Set (WARTS),
  Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Alvin R. Lebeck, Madhusudhan Talluri, and David A. Wood,
  Computer Architecture News (CAN), August 1993.
  Web Site: pdf
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Cache Performance of the SPEC92 Benchmark Suite,
  Jeffrey D. Gee, Mark D. Hill, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, and Alan Jay Smith,
  IEEE Micro, August 1993.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• A Unified Formalization of Four Shared-Memory Models,
  Sarita V. Adve and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), June 1993.
  Paper: final scanned pdf and near-final troff pdf

• Performance Implications of Tolerating Cache Faults,
  Andreas Farid Pour and Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TOC), March 1993.
  Paper: final scanned pdf and near-final troff pdf

• Mechanisms for Cooperative Shared Memory,
  David A. Wood, Satish Chandra, Babak Falsafi, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Alvin R. Lebeck, James C. Lewis, Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Subbarao Palacharla, and Steven K. Reinhardt,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 1993.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: Virtual Prototyping of Parallel Computers,
  Steven K. Reinhardt, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Alvin R. Lebeck, James C. Lewis, and David A. Wood,
  ACM SIGMETRICS, May 1993.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

1992

• Page Placement Algorithms for Large Real-Index Caches,
  R. E. Kessler and Mark D. Hill,
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, November 1992.
  Paper: final scanned pdf and near-final troff pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Cooperative Shared Memory: Software and Hardware for Scalable Multiprocessors,
  Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Steven K. Reinhardt, and David A. Wood,
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1992.
  Recommended for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), November 1993.
  Paper: pdf and updated scanned pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Programming for Different Memory Consistency Models,
  Kourosh Gharachorloo, Sarita V. Adve, Anoop Gupta, John L. Hennessy, and Mark D. Hill,
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, August 1992.
  Paper: pdf

• Tradeoffs in Supporting Two Page Sizes,
  Madhusudhan Talluri, Shing Kong, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Patterson,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 1992.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

1991

• Detecting Data Races on Weak Memory Systems,
  Sarita V. Adve, Mark D. Hill, Barton P. Miller, and Robert H. B. Netzer,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1991.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Comparison of Hardware and Software Cache Coherence Schemes,
  Sarita V. Adve, Vikram S. Adve, Mark D. Hill, and Mary K. Vernon,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1991.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• A Model for Estimating Trace-Sample Miss Ratios,
  David A. Wood, Mark D. Hill, and R. E. Kessler
  ACM SIGMETRICS, May 1991.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Implementing Stack Simulation for Highly-Associative Memories (extended abstract)
  Yul H. Kim, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
  ACM SIGMETRICS, May 1991.
  Paper: pdf

1990

• Implementing Sequential Consistency In Cache-Based Systems,
  Sarita V. Adve and Mark D. Hill,
  International Conference on Parallel Processing, August 1990.
  Paper: pdf

• Weak Ordering - A New Definition,
  Sarita V. Adve and Mark D. Hill,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1990.
  Paper: pdf.

• Cache Considerations for Multiprocessor Programmers,
  Mark D. Hill and James R. Larus,
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), August 1990.
  Paper: scanned pdf (3.2 MB for a scan of 6 pages!).
  Reference: ACM
  

• What is Scalability?,
  Mark D. Hill
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, December 1990.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

• Cache performance of the integer SPEC benchmarks on a RISC,
  Mark D. Hill and Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos
  ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, June 1990.
  Paper: pdf
  Reference: ACM
  

1989

• Evaluating Associativity in CPU Caches,
  Mark D. Hill and Alan Jay Smith,
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TOC), December 1989.
  Paper: scanned pdf.

• A VLSI Chip Set for a Multiprocessor Workstation - Part I: A RISC Microprocessor with Coprocessor Interface and Support for Symbolic Processing,
  David D. Lee, Shing I. Kong, Mark D. Hill, George S. Taylor, David A. Hodges, Randy H. Katz, and David A. Patterson,
  IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), December 1989.
  Paper: scanned pdf.

• Inexpensive Implementations of Set-Associativity,
  R. E. Kessler, Richard Jooss, Alvin Lebeck, and Mark D. Hill,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1989.
  Paper: pdf

• Test Driving Your Next Cache,
  Mark D. Hill,
  Magazine of Intellignet Personal Systems (MIPS), August 1989.
  Paper: scanned pdf

1988

• A Case for Direct-Mapped Caches,
  Mark D. Hill,
  IEEE Computer, December 1988.
  Paper: scanned pdf (2 MB)

1987

• Aspects of Cache Memory and Instruction Buffer Performance,
  Mark D. Hill,
  Ph.D. Thesis,
  University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Computer Sciences Technical Report CSD-87-381, November 1987.
  Thesis: scanned pdf (175 MB!), winzip archive with pdf (20 MB), gzipped pdf (20 MB), and html pointer to Berkeley TR.

1986

• Design Decisions in SPUR,
  M. D. Hill, S. J. Eggers, J. R. Larus, G. S. Taylor, G. Adams, B. K. Bose, G. A. Gibson, P. M. Hansen, J. Keller, S. I. Kong, C. G. Lee, D. Lee, J. M. Pendleton, S. A. Ritchie, D. A. Wood, B. G. Zorn, P. N. Hilfinger, D. Hodges, R. H. Katz, J. Ousterhout, and D. A. Patterson,
  IEEE Computer, November 1986.
  Paper: scanned pdf

• An In-Cache Address Translation Mechanism,
  David A. Wood, Susan J. Eggers, Garth Gibson, Mark D. Hill, Joan Pendleton, Scott A. Ritchie, Randy H. Katz, and David A. Patterson,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1986.
  Paper: scanned pdf

1985

• No papers.

1984

• Experimental Evaluation of On-Chip Microprocessor Cache Memories,
  Mark D. Hill and Alan J. Smith,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1984.
  Paper: scanned pdf.

1983

• Evaluation of On-Chip Cache Memories,
  Mark D. Hill,
  Masters Report,
  University of California, Berkeley, December 8, 1983.
  Thesis: scanned pdf (5 MB)

• Architecture of a VLSI Instruction Cache,
  David A. Patterson, Phil Garrison, Mark D. Hill, Dimitris Lioupis, Chris Nyberg, Tim N. Sippel, and Korbin S. Van Dyke,
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 1983.
  Paper: scanned pdf.