Computer Sciences Dept.

Marc Orr

morr [at] cs.wisc.edu
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I've graduated. I'm now a software engineer at Google in Seattle.

Overview

I earned my PhD, with a focus in computer architecture, in December of 2016. My advisor was David Wood. My work explored ways to make general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) easier to program. To test many of my ideas, I used gem5, which is a cycle-level simulator that models a computer. I helped bring up the first version of gem5-gpu, which integrates gpgpu-sim into gem5; this makes it possible to model CPUs and GPUs in the same system. I also spent a lot of time at AMD Research, where I made large contributions to a similar tool that adds a proprietary GPU model to gem5—an open source version is now available.

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