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Alvin R. Lebeck

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
308 Research Dr., Dept. of Computer Science, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


My interests span atoms to applications, with a foundation centered in computer architecture and systems. I enjoy a combination of interdisciplinary and conventional research.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor Emeritus of Computer Science · 2024 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship · 2019 - Present Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

In the News


Published December 31, 2020
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Programmable Dye Platform Pioneer Phitonex
Published April 14, 2020
Phitonex Pushes the Envelope of Immunology Research with 40 Color Flow Cytometry Experiment
Published October 10, 2019
Phitonex Announces $2M Seed Funding

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Recent Publications


Dense Server Design for Immersion Cooling

Journal Article ACM Transactions on Graphics · December 19, 2024 The growing demands for computational power in cloud computing have led to a significant increase in the deployment of high-performance servers. The growing power consumption of servers and the heat they produce is on track to outpace the capacity of conve ... Full text Cite

RDMA Congestion Control: It Is Only for the Compliant

Journal Article IEEE Micro · January 1, 2023 Remote direct memory access (RDMA) networks enable low latency and low central processing unit utilization, and their widespread adoption in datacenters enables improved application performance. However, there are performance isolation concerns for RDMA de ... Full text Cite

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation

Conference Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2023 · January 1, 2023 Recent years have witnessed the wide adoption of RDMA in the cloud to accelerate first-party workloads and achieve cost savings by freeing up CPU cycles. Now cloud providers are working towards supporting RDMA in general-purpose guest VMs to benefit third- ... Cite
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Recent Grants


CSR: Small: Improving Cloud Services by Exploiting Synchronized Clocks and Software Defined Flash

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2021

Accelerating Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intel Corporation · 2018 - 2021

XPS: CLCCA: Collaborative Research: Harnessing Highly Threaded Hardware for Server Workloads

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2019

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1995 Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1991 M.S.
University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1989 B.S.

External Links


Website