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Last updated January, MMXIX by Ulya Karpuzcu.

Synopsis

ALTAI lab explores how to improve the energy-efficiency of computing via

  1. •pushing traditional (CMOS-based) computing to its limits

  2. •computing with post-CMOS devices and paradigms


News 

  1. •July MMXVII: Karpuzcu, Sapatnekar, Wang received an NSF SPX grant on scalable in-memory processing using spintronics.

  2. •January MMXVI: Karpuzcu received the NSF CAREER Award on “Trading Communication and Storage for Computation to Enhance Energy Efficiency”.

  3. •June MMXV: We released ACCURAX, a compilation of safe accuracy metrics for approximate computing, along with an output randomization tool.

  4. •September MMXIV: Karpuzcu received an NSF CCF grant on soft (approximate) near-threshold voltage computing.

  5. •August MMXIV: Lilja, Sartori, and Karpuzcu received an NSF XPS grant on approximate communication to enhance energy efficiency.

  6. •January MMXIV: The second Workshop on Near-threshold Voltage Computing will be held w/ ISCA. Call for Papers

  7. •Spring MMXIV: New Course Announcement: EE8950 Physics of Computation Syllabus

  8. Inspired by Richard Feynman’s lectures, “Physics of Computation” explores how physical principles/limits shape paradigms of computing.

  9. Goal: To understand how (and to what extent) a paradigm shift in computing can help with emerging energy problems.   

  10. Scope: Physical limits of computing, coding and information theoretical foundations, computing with beyond-CMOS devices, reversible computing,

  11. quantum computing, stochastic computing. For each computing paradigm, we cover (i) how information is represented, processed, stored, and communicated;

  12. (ii) to what extent shortcomings can be addressed; (iii) how the application domain looks like.

  13. •September MMXII: We are organizing the first Workshop on Near-threshold Voltage Computing w/ MICRO. Call for Papers


Recent Publications    Full List

  1. •POWERT Channels: A Novel Class of Covert Communication Exploiting Power Management Vulnerabilities, HPCA 2019.

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  1. •Trading Computation for Communication: A Taxonomy of Data Recomputation Techniques, IEEE TETC 2018.

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  1. •Toward Dynamic Precision Scaling, IEEE Micro Magazine Special Issue on Approximate Computing, 2018.

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  1. •StochMem: Towards Seamless Stochastic Computing Systems with Analog Memories, CAL 2018.

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  1. •Efficient In-Memory Processing Using Spintronics, CAL 2017.

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  1. •ThermoGater: Thermally-Aware On-Chip Voltage Regulation, ISCA 2017.

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  1. •AMNESIAC: Trading Computation for Communication for Energy Efficiency, ASPLOS 2017.

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Tools

We released:

  1. •QuantumOps, an R package for quantum computing.

  2. •VARIUS(TC,NTV), a (micro)architectural model of parametric variation.

  3. •ACCURAX, a compilation of safe accuracy metrics for approximate computing, along with an output randomization tool.


Information for Prospective Students

  1. •Our lab’s doors are wide open to motivated Ph.D. students and undergraduate researchers.

  2. •For M.S. students, the thesis option is a necessary but not sufficient condition.


Funding

Our research has been funded by

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ALTAI Lab.

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering