John-David Wellman

Graduated: 6/96
Advisor: Edward S. Davidson

Current Location (6/96):

John-David Wellman

IBM Research, T.J. Watson Research Center

PO Box 218, Department KU8F, Office 36-157

Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Phone:

(914) 945-2523

FAX:

(914) 945-4469

Email:

wellman@watson.ibm.com

Research Publications:

• My thesis, Processor Modeling and Evaluation Techniques for Early Design Stage Performance Comparison (which is approximately 330 pages, and 2.3 Mbytes to transfer).
  If you prefer, preview the two-page abstract.
• J-D Wellman and E. S. Davidson, "The Resource Conflict methodology for Early-Stage Design Space Exploration of Superscalar RISC Processors," Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Computer Design , Oct 2-4, 1995, pp. 110-115.
• E. L. Boyd, J-D Wellman, S. Abraham, E. S. Davidson, "Evaluating the Communication Performance of MPPs Using Synthetic Sparse Matrix Multiplication Workloads," Proceedings of the International Conference on Supercomputing.

Research Interests:

• Computer Systems Modeling and Performance Estimation
  • Uniprocessor Modeling
  • Uniprocessor Systems Modeling
  • Parallel Processor Modeling
• Computer Architecture
  • Comparing Architectural Features
  • Optimizing Architectures for Worklaod Performance
• Workload Analysis
  • Analyze Workload Hardware Requirements
  • Consider Workload Restructuring
  • Exposing Exploitable Parallelism in Workloads
• Memory Systems Performance
• Performance Analysis Tools
  • Simulation of Architectures
  • Trace Generation Methodologies
  • Applicability of Traces for Comparative Resarch
  • Migration (i.e. Rescheduling/Mapping) of Traces
  • Alternative Strategies to Tracing
• Compiler Optimization

University of Michigan Research Group Affiliations

• Parallel Performance Project ( PPP )
• Center for Parallel Computing ( CPC )
• Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory ( ACAL )
• Division of Computer Science and Engineering ( CSE )
• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ( EECS )
• College of Engineering ( CAEN )
• University of Michigan ( UM )