Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 2002
  • M.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1998
  • B.S., Duke University 1996
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2018
  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2009 - 2015
  • Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2015
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2002 - 2009
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JAN 9, 2020

    A Crystal Ball for the Decade Ahead
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  Awards & Honors

  • Program Chair of HiPEAC 2017. HiPEAC. 2017
  • Co-chair of selection committee for IEEE Micro's Top Picks 2016. IEEE Micro. 2016
  • Associate Editor in Chief. Computer Architecture Letters. 2015
  • IEEE Micro Top Pick. IEEE Micro. 2015
  • Best Paper Award. 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture. 2014
  • IEEE Micro Top Pick. IEEE Micro. 2011
  • Lois and John L. Imhoff Distinguished Teaching Award. Pratt School of Engineering. 2011
  • ACM Senior Member. Association for Computing Machinery. 2009
  • Eta Kappa Nu. Unknown. July 2008
  • Intel Graduate Fellowship. Unknown. July 2008
  • NSF Early CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. July 2008
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Award. University of Wisconsin. July 2008
  • Phi Beta Kappa. Unknown. July 2008
  • Tau Beta Pi. Unknown. July 2008
  • Top of 2004 - Nanocomputing Research. Technology Research News. July 2008
  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2005
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • SHF:Small:Automatic Generation of Cache Coherent Memory Systems for Multicore Processors awarded by  National Science Foundation 2020 - 2023
  • CIF:Small:High Performance Memories that Integrate Coding and Computer Architecture awarded by  National Science Foundation 2017 - 2020
  • SHF:Small:Designing Architectures to be Formally Verifiable awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2018
  • SHF:Small:Using Coding Theory to Optimize the Representation of Information in Computer Architecture awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2018
  • SHF:Small:Shared Memory Architectures and Microarchitectures for Heterogeneous General-Purpose Chips awarded by  National Science Foundation 2012 - 2016
  • SHF:Small:Commodity Processors with Mainframe Reliability awarded by  National Science Foundation 2011 - 2015
  • CCF: EAGER: FIESTA: A Sound Multi-Program Workload Methodology awarded by  National Science Foundation 2012 - 2013
  • CPA-CSA: Verification-Aware Microarchitecture awarded by  National Science Foundation 2008 - 2012
  • CAREER: Improving Multiprocessor Availability with Dynamic Verification and Autonomic Operation awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2011
  • Autonomic Computing via Dynamic Self-Repair of Hardware Faults awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2005 - 2008
  • ITR: Nanoarchitecture: Balancing Regularity, Complexity, and Defect Tolerance using DNA for Nanoeletronic Integration awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2007
  • Architectural Support for Service Level Agreements awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2007
  • FaultFinder: Improving the Availabiltiy of Multiprocessor Servers awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2006
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  External Relationships

  • Morgan & Claypool Publishers
  • Realtime Robotics
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Sorin, D. J. “Computer Architecture for Orbital Edge Computing.” Computer 53, no. 4 (April 1, 2020): 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2020.2969673.
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    • Mappouras, G., A. Vahid, R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “Extending flash lifetime in embedded processors by expanding analog choice.” Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 37, no. 11 (November 1, 2018): 2462–73. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2018.2857059.
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    • Sorin, D. J. “Low-Power Content Addressable Memory.” Computer 51, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 8–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.1731073.
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    • Sorin, D. J. “Persistent Memory.” Computer 50, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 12. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2017.67.
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    • Martin, M., and D. Sorin. “Top Picks from the 2015 Computer Architecture Conferences.” Ieee Micro 36, no. 3 (May 1, 2016): 6–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2016.47.
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    • Zhang, M., J. D. Bingham, J. Erickson, and D. J. Sorin. “PVCoherence: Designing Flat Coherence Protocols for Scalable Verification.” Ieee Micro 35, no. 3 (May 1, 2015): 84–91. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2015.48.
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    • Nathan, R., and D. J. Sorin. “Argus-G: Comprehensive, low-cost error detection for GPGPU cores.” Ieee Computer Architecture Letters 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 13–16. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCA.2014.2298391.
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    • Nathan, R., and D. J. Sorin. “Nostradamus: Low-cost hardware-only error detection for processor cores.” Proceedings  Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Date, 2014.
    • Sorin, D. J., O. Matthews, and M. Zhang. “Architecting dynamic power management to be formally verifiable.” Proceedings  Design Automation Conference, January 1, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2593069.2596669.
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    • Hechtman, B. A., and D. J. Sorin. “Exploring memory consistency for massively-threaded throughput-oriented processors.” Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, August 12, 2013, 201–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2485922.2485940.
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    • Jacobvitz, A. N., R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “Coset coding to extend the lifetime of memory.” Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, July 23, 2013, 222–33. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2013.6522321.
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    • Hechtman, BA, and Sorin, DJ. "Evaluating cache coherent shared virtual memory for heterogeneous multicore chips." 2013 Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (Ispass) (April 2013).  Full Text
    • Seetharam, K., L. C. T. Keh, R. Nathan, and D. J. Sorin. “Applying reduced precision arithmetic to detect errors in floating point multiplication.” Proceedings of Ieee Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, Prdc, January 1, 2013, 232–35. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRDC.2013.44.
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    • Jacobvitz, A. N., R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “Writing cosets of a convolutional code to increase the Lifetime of Flash memory.” 2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012, December 1, 2012, 308–18. https://doi.org/10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483234.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., M. D. Hill, and D. J. Sorin. “Why on-chip cache coherence is here to stay.” Communications of the Acm 55, no. 7 (July 1, 2012): 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1145/2209249.2209269.
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    • Eibl, P. J., A. Meixner, and D. J. Sorin. “An FPGA-based experimental evaluation of microprocessor core error detection with Argus-2.” Performance Evaluation Review 39, no. 1 SPEC. ISSUE (July 15, 2011): 121–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/2007116.2007131.
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    • Gizopoulos, D., M. Psarakis, S. V. Adve, P. Ramachandran, S. K. S. Hari, D. Sorin, A. Meixner, A. Biswas, and X. Vera. “Architectures for online error detection and recovery in multicore processors.” Proceedings  Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Date, May 31, 2011, 533–38.
    • Romanescu, B., A. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Address translation aware memory consistency.” Ieee Micro 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 109–18. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2010.99.
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    • Sorin, D. J., M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “A primer on memory consistency and cache coherence.” Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture 16 (January 1, 2011): 1–212. https://doi.org/10.2200/S00346ED1V01Y201104CAC016.
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    • Zhang, M., A. Lebeck, and D. Sorin. “Fractal consistency: Architecting the memory system to facilitate verification.” Ieee Computer Architecture Letters 9, no. 2 (July 1, 2010): 61–64. https://doi.org/10.1109/L-CA.2010.18.
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    • Eibl, P. J., A. D. Cook, and D. J. Sorin. “Reduced precision checking for a floating point adder.” Proceedings  Ieee International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in Vlsi Systems, December 1, 2009, 145–52. https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT.2009.22.
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    • Zhang, M., A. Lungu, and D. J. Sorin. “Analyzing formal verification and testing efforts of different fault tolerance mechanisms.” Proceedings  Ieee International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in Vlsi Systems, December 1, 2009, 277–85. https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT.2009.23.
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    • Lungu, A., P. Bose, A. Buyuktosunoglu, and D. J. Sorin. “Dynamic power gating with quality guarantees.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, November 24, 2009, 377–82. https://doi.org/10.1145/1594233.1594331.
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    • Lungu, A., P. Bose, D. J. Sorin, S. German, and G. Janssen. “Multicore power management: Ensuring robustness via early-stage formal verification.” 2009 7th Ieee Acm International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Co Design, Memocode ’09, November 19, 2009, 78–87. https://doi.org/10.1109/MEMCOD.2009.5185383.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Dynamic verification of memory consistency in cache-coherent multithreaded computer architectures.” Ieee Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 18–31. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2007.70243.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., M. E. Bauer, S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Reducing the impact of intra-core process variability with criticality-based resource allocation and prefetching.” Conference on Computing Frontiers  Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Computing Frontiers, Cf’08, December 1, 2008, 129–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/1366230.1366257.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., and D. J. Sorin. “Core cannibalization architecture: Improving lifetime chip performance for multicore processors in the presence of hard faults.” Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques  Conference Proceedings, Pact, December 1, 2008, 43–51. https://doi.org/10.1145/1454115.1454124.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Detouring: Translating software to circumvent hard faults in simple cores.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, October 13, 2008, 80–89. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2008.4630073.
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    • Bower, F. A., D. J. Sorin, and L. P. Cox. “The impact of dynamically heterogeneous multicore processors on thread scheduling.” Ieee Micro 28, no. 3 (May 1, 2008): 17–25. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2008.46.
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    • Meixner, A., M. E. Bauer, and D. J. Sorin. “Argus: Low-cost, comprehensive error detection in simple cores.” Ieee Micro 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 52–59. https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2008.3.
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    • Lungu, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Verification-aware microprocessor design.” Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques  Conference Proceedings, Pact, December 1, 2007, 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.2007.17.
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    • Meixner, A., M. E. Bauer, and D. J. Sorin. “Argus: Low-cost, comprehensive error detection in simple cores.” Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, December 1, 2007, 210–22. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2007.18.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Error detection using dynamic dataflow verification.” Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques  Conference Proceedings, Pact, December 1, 2007, 104–15. https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.2007.26.
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    • Ozev, S., D. J. Sorin, and M. Yilmaz. “Low-cost run-time diagnosis of hard delay faults in the functional units of a microprocessor.” 2007 Ieee International Conference on Computer Design, Iccd 2007, December 1, 2007, 317–24. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2007.4601919.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., M. E. Bauer, D. J. Sorin, and S. Ozev. “Reducing the impact of process variability with prefetching and criticality-based resource allocation.” Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques  Conference Proceedings, Pact, December 1, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/PACT.2007.16.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Unified microprocessor core storage.” 2007 Computing Frontiers, Conference Proceedings, October 22, 2007, 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1145/1242531.1242538.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Error detection via online checking of cache coherence with token coherence signatures.” Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, August 10, 2007, 145–56. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2007.346193.
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    • Bower, F. A., D. J. Sorin, and S. Ozev. “Online Diagnosis of Hard Faults in Microprocessors.” Acm Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 4, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 8. https://doi.org/10.1145/1250727.1250728.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Dynamic verification of memory consistency in cache-coherent multithreaded computer architectures.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks 2006 (December 22, 2006): 73–82. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2006.29.
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    • Sadler, N. N., and D. J. Sorin. “Choosing an error protection scheme for a microprocessor's L1 data cache.” Ieee International Conference on Computer Design, Iccd 2006, December 1, 2006, 499–505. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2006.4380862.
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    • Bower, F. A., D. Hower, M. Yilmaz, D. J. Sorin, and S. Ozev. “Applying architectural vulnerability analysis to hard faults in the microprocessor.” Performance Evaluation Review 34, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 375–76. https://doi.org/10.1145/1140103.1140327.
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    • Li, T., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Spin detection hardware for improved management of multithreaded systems.” Ieee Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 17, no. 6 (June 1, 2006): 508–21. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2006.78.
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    • Patwardhan, J. P., C. Dwyer, A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “NANA: A nano-scale active network architecture.” Acm Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/1126257.1126258.
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    • Yilmaz, M., D. R. Hower, S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Self-checking and self-diagnosing 32-bit microprocessor multiplier.” Proceedings  International Test Conference, January 1, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEST.2006.297634.
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    • Bower, F. A., D. J. Sorin, and S. Ozev. “A mechanism for online diagnosis of hard faults in microprocessors.” Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, December 1, 2005, 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2005.8.
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    • Carter, J. R., S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Circuit-level modeling for concurrent testing of operational defects due to gate oxide breakdown.” Proceedings  Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Date ’05 I (December 1, 2005): 300–305. https://doi.org/10.1109/DATE.2005.94.
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    • Meixner, A., and D. J. Sorin. “Dynamic verification of sequential consistency.” Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, November 10, 2005, 482–93. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2005.25.
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    • Bower, F. A., S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Autonomic microprocessor execution via self-repairing arrays.” Ieee Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2, no. 4 (January 1, 2005): 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2005.44.
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    • Dwyer, C., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Self-assembled architectures and the temporal aspects of computing.” Computer 38, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2005.34.
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    • Dwyer, C., M. Cheung, and D. J. Sorin. “Semi-empirical SPICE models for carbon nanotube FET logic.” 2004 4th Ieee Conference on Nanotechnology, December 1, 2004, 386–88.
    • Sorin, D. J., M. M. K. Martin, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Using speculation to simplify multiprocessor design.” Proceedings  International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Ipdps 2004 (Abstracts and Cd Rom) 18 (December 1, 2004): 1057–66.
    • Dwyer, C., V. Johri, M. Cheung, J. Patwardhan, A. Lebeck, and D. Sorin. “Design tools for a DNA-guided self-assembling carbon nanotube technology.” Nanotechnology 15, no. 9 (September 1, 2004): 1240–45. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/15/9/022.
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    • Bower, F. A., P. G. Shealy, S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Tolerating hard faults in microprocessor array structures.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, January 1, 2004, 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1109/dsn.2004.1311876.
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    • Sorin, D. J., M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Dynamic Verification of End-to-End Multiprocessor Invariants.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, December 1, 2003, 281–90. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2003.1209938.
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    • Alameldeen, A. R., M. M. K. Martin, C. J. Mauer, K. E. Moore, M. Xu, M. D. Hill, D. A. Wood, and D. J. Sorin. “Simulating a $2M commercial server on a $2K PC.” Computer 36, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): 50-57+4. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2003.1178046.
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    • Sorin, D. J., J. L. Lemon, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon. “Analytic evaluation of shared-memory architectures.” Ieee Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 14, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): 166–80. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2003.1178880.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., P. J. Harper, D. J. Sorin, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Using destination-set prediction to improve the latency/bandwidth tradeoff in shared-memory multiprocessors.” Conference Proceedings  Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Isca, January 1, 2003, 206–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/859639.859642.
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    • Sorin, D. J., M. Plakal, A. E. Condon, M. D. Hill, M. M. K. Martin, and D. A. Wood. “Specifying and verifying a broadcast and a multicast snooping cache coherence protocol.” Ieee Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 13, no. 6 (June 1, 2002): 556–78. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2002.1011412.
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    • Sorin, D. J., M. M. K. Martin, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “SafetyNet: Improving the availability of shared memory multiprocessors with global checkpoint/recovery.” Conference Proceedings  Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Isca, January 1, 2002, 123–34.
    • Martin, M. M. K., D. J. Sorin, H. W. Cain, M. D. Hill, and M. H. Lipasti. “Correctly implementing value prediction in microprocessors that support multithreading or multiprocessing.” Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, December 1, 2001, 328–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2001.991130.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., D. J. Sorin, A. Ailamaki, A. R. Alameldeen, R. M. Dickson, C. J. Mauer, K. E. Moore, M. Plakal, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Timestamp snooping: An approach for extending SMPs.” International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems  Asplos, December 1, 2000, 25–36.
    • Eager, D. L., D. J. Sorin, and M. K. Vernon. “AMVA techniques for high service time variability.” Performance Evaluation Review 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 217–28. https://doi.org/10.1145/345063.339418.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., D. J. Sorin, A. Ailamaki, A. R. Alameldeen, R. M. Dickson, C. J. Mauer, K. E. Moore, M. Plakal, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Timestamp snooping: An approach for extending SMPs.” Sigplan Notices (Acm Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) 35, no. 11 (January 1, 2000): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1145/356989.356992.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., D. J. Sorin, A. Ailamaki, A. R. Alameldeen, R. M. Dickson, C. J. Mauer, K. E. Moore, M. Plakal, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Timestamp snooping: An approach for extending SMPs.” Operating Systems Review (Acm) 34, no. 5 (January 1, 2000): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1145/384264.378998.
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    • Bilir, E. E., R. M. Dickson, Y. Hu, M. Plakal, D. J. Sorin, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Multicast snooping: A new coherence method using a multicast address network.” Conference Proceedings  Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Isca, January 1, 1999, 294–304.
    • Condon, A. E., M. D. Hill, M. Plakal, and D. J. Sorin. “Using Lamport clocks to reason about relaxed memory models.” Ieee High Performance Computer Architecture Symposium Proceedings, January 1, 1999, 270–78. https://doi.org/10.1109/hpca.1999.744379.
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    • Hill, M. D., A. E. Condon, M. Plakal, and D. J. Sorin. “System-level specification framework for I/O architectures.” Annual Acm Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, January 1, 1999, 138–47.
    • Plakal, M., D. J. Sorin, A. E. Condon, and M. D. Hill. “Lamport clocks: verifying a directory cache-coherence protocol.” Annual Acm Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, January 1, 1998, 67–76.
    • Sorin, D. J., V. S. Pai, S. V. Adve, M. K. Vernon, and D. A. Wood. “Analytic evaluation of shared-memory systems with ILP processors.” Conference Proceedings  Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Isca, January 1, 1998, 380–91.

  • Conference Papers

    • Archer, S., G. Mappouras, R. Calderbank, and D. Sorin. “Foosball Coding: Correcting Shift Errors and Bit Flip Errors in 3D Racetrack Memory.” In Proceedings  50th Annual Ieee/Ifip International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Dsn 2020, 331–42, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN48063.2020.00049.
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    • Oswald, N., V. Nagarajan, and D. J. Sorin. “HieraGen: Automated Generation of Concurrent, Hierarchical Cache Coherence Protocols.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2020-May:888–99, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA45697.2020.00077.
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    • Mehrabi, A., A. Manocha, B. C. Lee, and D. J. Sorin. “Prospector: Synthesizing Efficient Accelerators via Statistical Learning.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Date 2020, 151–56, 2020. https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE48585.2020.9116473.
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    • Murray, S., W. Floyd-Jones, G. Konidaris, and D. J. Sorin. “A programmable architecture for robot motion planning acceleration.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Application Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 2019-July:185–88, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASAP.2019.000-4.
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    • Mappouras, G., A. Vahid, R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “GreenFlag: Protecting 3D-Racetrack Memory from Shift Errors.” In Proceedings  49th Annual Ieee/Ifip International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Dsn 2019, 1–12, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2019.00016.
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    • Oswald, N., V. Nagarajan, and D. J. Sorin. “ProtoGen: Automatically generating directory cache coherence protocols from atomic specifications.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 247–60, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2018.00030.
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    • Mappouras, G., A. Vahid, R. Calderbank, D. R. Hower, and D. J. Sorin. “Jenga: Efficient fault tolerance for stacked DRAM.” In Proceedings  35th Ieee International Conference on Computer Design, Iccd 2017, 361–68, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2017.62.
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    • Matthews, O., and D. J. Sorin. “Architecting hierarchical coherence protocols for push-button parametric verification.” In Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, Part F131207:477–89, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3123939.3123971.
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    • Matthews, O., J. Bingham, and D. J. Sorin. “Verifiable hierarchical protocols with network invariants on parametric systems.” In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design, Fmcad 2016, 101–8, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/FMCAD.2016.7886667.
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    • Murray, S., W. Floyd-Jones, Y. Qi, G. Konidaris, and D. J. Sorin. “The microarchitecture of a real-Time robot motion planning accelerator.” In Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, Vol. 2016-December, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2016.7783748.
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    • Mappouras, G., A. Vahid, R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “Methuselah flash: Rewriting codes for extra long storage lifetime.” In Proceedings  46th Annual Ieee/Ifip International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Dsn 2016, 180–91, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2016.25.
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    • Murray, S., W. Floyd-Jones, Y. Qi, D. Sorin, G. Konidaris, and D. Robotics. “Robot motion planning on a chip.” In Robotics: Science and Systems, Vol. 12, 2016.
    • Eslami, A., A. Velasco, A. Vahid, G. Mappouras, R. Calderbank, and D. J. Sorin. “Writing without disturb on phase change memories by integrating coding and layout design.” In Acm International Conference Proceeding Series, 05-08-October-2015:71–77, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818950.2818962.
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    • Jacobvitz, A. N., A. D. Hilton, and D. J. Sorin. “Multi-program benchmark definition.” In Ispass 2015  Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 72–82, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPASS.2015.7095786.
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    • Nathan, R., B. Anthonio, S. L. Lu, H. Naeimi, D. J. Sorin, and X. Sun. “Recycled Error Bits: Energy-Efficient Architectural Support for Floating Point Accuracy.” In International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Sc, 2015-January:117–27, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2014.15.
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    • Matthews, O., M. Zhang, and D. J. Sorin. “Scalably verifiable dynamic power management.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 579–90, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2014.6835967.
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    • Nathan, R., and D. J. Sorin. “Nostradamus: Low-cost hardware-only error detection for processor cores.” In Proceedings  Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Date, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7873/DATE2014.173.
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    • Zhang, M., J. D. Bingham, J. Erickson, and D. J. Sorin. “PVCoherence: Designing flat coherence protocols for scalable verification.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 392–403. IEEE Computer Society, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2014.6835949.
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    • Badea, C., L. Iures, and D. Sorin. “The recycling of fly ash to obtain building materials.” In International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, Sgem, 473–78, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5593/SGEM2013/BD4/S18.025.
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    • Catalin, B., I. Liana, B. Ionel, and D. Sorin. “Building materials realised with fly ash.” In 12th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference and Expo  Modern Management of Mine Producing, Geology and Environmental Protection, Sgem 2012, 4:661–65, 2012.
    • Lefebvre, C., P. Lemouzy, D. Sorin, G. Roy, and S. Serbutoviez. “Building a roadmap for enhanced oil recovery prefeasibility study.” In Society of Petroleum Engineers  Spe Russian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition 2012, 1:160–90, 2012. https://doi.org/10.2118/159264-ms.
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    • Zhang, M., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Fractal Coherence: Scalably verifiable cache coherence.” In Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Micro, 471–82, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2010.11.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Specifying and dynamically verifying address translation-aware memory consistency.” In International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems  Asplos, 323–34, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1736020.1736057.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., A. R. Lebeck, D. J. Sorin, and A. Bracy. “Unified Instruction/Translation/Data (UNITD) coherence: One protocol to rule them all.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/hpca.2010.5416643.
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    • Romanescu, B. F., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Specifying and dynamically verifying address translation-aware memory consistency.” In Acm Sigplan Notices, 45:323–34, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/1735971.1736057.
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    • Yilmaz, M., A. Meixner, S. Ozev, and D. J. Sorin. “Lazy error detection for microprocessor functional units.” In Proceedings  Ieee International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in Vlsi Systems, 361–69, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT.2007.16.
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    • Li, T., C. S. Ellis, A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Pulse: A dynamic deadlock detection mechanism using speculative execution.” In Usenix 2005 Annual Technical Conference, 31–44, 2005.
    • Patwardhan, J. P., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Communication breakdown: Analyzing CPU usage in commercial web workloads.” In 2004 Ieee International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, 12–19, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPASS.2004.1291351.
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    • Li, T., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Quantifying instruction criticality for shared memory multiprocessors.” In Annual Acm Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, 47–72, 2003.
    • Li, T., A. R. Lebeck, and D. J. Sorin. “Quantifying instruction criticality for shared memory multiprocessors.” In Annual Acm Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, 128–37, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1145/777412.777434.
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    • Martin, M. M. K., D. J. Sorin, M. D. Hill, and D. A. Wood. “Bandwidth adaptive snooping.” In Proceedings  International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2002-January:251–62, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2002.995715.
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