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

Top-Ten Most-Cited Publications

See also All Publications & Talks and Google Scholar Page.

Per Google Scholar, updated May 2022, with citations from 6000 down to 500 each.

• 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/

• 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

• 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
  

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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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