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Thorsten von Eicken; Thorsten von Eicken;Assistant Professor;4108 Upson Hall;Phone: 607-255-9188;Fax : 607-255-4428;Email: tve@cs.cornell.edu;Projects;The U-Net architecture;provides a user-level network interface;for clusters of workstations. It offers low-latency;and high-bandwidth communication over high-speed LANs. The current;implementation uses Sun Workstations interconnected by ATM.;Active Messages.;Several projects are porting Active Messages to new platforms (including;the U-Net ATM cluster and the IBM SP-2 and extending the model to;non-SPMD programs.;Split-C is a simple extension;to C for parallel computing. Split-C has been ported to several new;platforms, including U-Net, shared memory multprocessors running SVR4, and;the IBM SP-2.;Courses;CS314 Introduction to Digital Systems and Computer;Organization, Fall 1995;CS516 High-Performance Computer Architecture, Spring 1995;CS617 Frontiers of Parallel Systems, Fall 1994;CS614 U-Net User Level Network Architecture Guest Lecture, May;2nd 1995;Departmental Talks & Reports;1993-1994;Departemental Annual Report entry.;Fall Forum 1994 talk slides.;1992-1993;Departemental Annual Report entry.;Fall Forum 1993 talk slides.;Personal Web pages;TvE's pond (with real water, fish, and plants).;Tired of the firewall? Try my MacPPP;which generates the one-time password automatically without you ever;having to think about it (well, after a few months your passwords;suddenly run out and you have to run to 4119...);and installation;instructions.;Selected Publications;U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed;Computing,;Thorsten von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet Buch, Werner Vogels,;CS-TR to appear, June 1995.;Low-Latency Communication over ATM;Networks using Active Messages.;von Eicken, T., V. Avula, A. Basu, V. Buch,;Presented at Hot Interconnects II,;Aug 1994, Palo Alto, CA.;An abridged version of this paper appears in IEEE Micro Magazine, Feb. 1995.;Active Messages: a Mechanism for Integrated Communication and;Computation. von Eicken, T., D. E. Culler, S. C. Goldstein,;and K. E. Schauser,;Proceedings of the 19th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture,;May 1992, Gold Coast, Australia.;Active Messages: an Efficient Communication;Architecture for Multiprocessors. von Eicken, T., Ph.D. Thesis,;November 1993, University of California at Berkeley.;Papers published at UC Berkeley;(The links lead to postscript versions of the papers.);Parallel Programming in Split-C,;D. Culler, A. Dusseau, S. C. Goldstein, A. Krishnamurthy, S. Lumetta,; T. von Eicken, K. Yelick,;Proceedings of Supercomputing '93,;November 1993,;TAM --- A Compiler Controlled;Threaded Abstract Machine ,;D. Culler, S. C. Goldstein, K. Schauser, T. von Eicken,;Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing,; Special Issue on Dataflow, June 1993.;Evaluation of Mechanisms for Fine-Grained Parallel Programs; in the J-Machine and the CM-5;,;E. Spertus, S. C. Goldstein, K. Schauser, T. von Eicken, D. Culler,; and W. Dally,;Proc of the 20th Int'l Symp. on Computer Architecture,;San Diego, CA, May 1993.;LogP: Towards a Realistic Model;of Parallel Computation ,;D. Culler, R. Karp, D. Patterson, A. Sahay, K. Schauser, E. Santos,; R. Subramonian, T. von Eicken,;Proc. of Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Symp. on Principles and Practice; of Parallel Programming,;San Diego, CA, May 1993.;Two Fundamental Limits on Dataflow;Multiprocessing ,;D. Culler, K. Schauser, T. von Eicken,;Proceedings of the IFIP WG 10.3 Working Conf. on Architectures; and Compilation Techniques for Fine and Medium Grain Parallelism,;Orlando, FL, Jan 1993.;Active Messages: a Mechanism for;Integrated Communication and Computation,;T. von Eicken, D. Culler, S. C. Goldstein,and K. Schauser,;Proc. of the 19th Int'l Symposium on Computer Architecture,;Gold Coast, Australia, May 1992.;Compiler-controlled Multithreading for;Lenient Parallel Languages,;K. Schauser, D. Culler, and T. von Eicken,;Proceedings of the 1991 Conference on; Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture,;Cambridge, MA, August 1991.;Fine-grain Parallelism with Minimal;Hardware Support: A Compiler-Controlled Threaded Abstract Machine,;D. Culler, A. Sah, K. Schauser, T. von Eicken, and J. Wawrzynek,;Proc. of 4th Int. Conf. on Architectural Support for; Programming Languages and Operating Systems,;Santa-Clara, CA, April, 1991.;Analysis of Multithreaded Architectures;for Parallel Computing,;R. Saavedra-Barrera, D. Culler, and T. von Eicken,;Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symp. on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures,;Crete, Greece, July 1990.;That's it...;