Brad Calder

(Kaden taking on the snow ... in Seattle)

Adjunct Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA 92093-0404 USA

Google 2015-present

Microsoft 2006-2014

Worked on Microsoft Azure Storage . Papers on Azure Storage:

SOSP Paper - Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
USENIX Best Paper Award: Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage

UCSD 1996-2007

We've provided infrastructure to allow you to quickly and accurately determine where you should be spending your program simulation and analysis time.
This is called the: Simulation Point Toolkit (SimPoint)

I co-directed the High Performance Processor Architecture and Compilation lab with Professors Dean Tullsen , Steve Swanson , and Michael Taylor .

My research interests included:

Transactional Memory [ASPLOS-06(a)]
Hardware and Software Support for Debugging [ ISCA-05 , ASPLOS-06(b) ]
Virtual Machines and Binary Instrumentation [ GSPx-04 , VEE-05 ]
Dynamic Compilation/Optimization [ HPCA-04 , PACT-05(a) , CGO-06(a), PLDI-06]
SimPoint Simulation Methodology [ ASPLOS-02 , PACT-03 , ISPASS-04(b) , HiPEAC-05 , Sigmetrics-06]
Network Processors [ ISCA-03(a), INFOCOM-04 , HiPEAC-05 ]
Scalable Architectures [ MICRO-04(a), IPDPS-05 ]
Hardware and Software Support for Security [ MICRO-04(b)]
New Profiling Techniques [ PACT-05(b) ]
Phase Analysis [ ISCA-03(b) , ISPASS-04(a) , HPCA-05 , ISPASS-05(a), ISPASS-05(b), CODES+ISSS-05, CGO-06(b)]

PC Meeting Process Used for ISCA 2007
ISCA 2007
SimPoint
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
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Ph.D. Students Graduated and their first jobs

Chandra Krintz Ph.D., Reducing Load Delay to Improve Performance of Internet-Computing Programs, May 2001.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Glenn Reinman Ph.D., Hardware Optimizations Enabled by a Decoupled Fetch Architecture, June 2001.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles.
Beth Simon Ph.D., Turning Predicate Information to Advantage to Improve Compiler Scheduling and Branch Prediction , December 2001.
Lecturer at University of California, San Diego.
Lori Carter , Ph.D., Compiler and Hardware Predicated Dependency Analysis and Scheduling, February 2002.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego.
Timothy Sherwood , Ph.D., Application-Tuned Processor Architectures , June 2003.
Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Suleyman Sair , Ph.D., Predictor-Directed Data Prefetching for Pointer-based Applications, June 2003.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Eric Tune , Ph.D., Critical-Path Aware Processor Architectures , December 2004
Researcher at Google Labs.
Weifeng Zhang , Ph.D., Event-Driven Multithreaded Dynamic Optimization , June 2006
Microsoft Phoenix Compiler Group
Weihaw Chuang , Ph.D., Maintaining Safe Memory for Security, Debugging, and Multi-threading , September 2006
Distributed Computing Startup in the Bay Area
Jeremy Lau , Ph.D., Predicting Performance Across Compilations , June 2007
Google Labs
Erez Perelman , Ph.D., Characterizing Time Varying Program Behavior for Efficient Simulation , June 2007
Consulting and Guitar building
Michael Van Biesbrouck , Ph.D., Sampled Simulation for Multithreaded Processors , September 2007
Google
Cristiano Pereira , Ph.D., Reproducible User-Level Simulation of Multi-Threaded Workloads , September 2007
Intel
Satish Narayanasamy , Ph.D., Deterministic Replay using Processor Support and Its Applications , September 2007
Assistant Professor, in EECS at University of Michigan

M.S. Thesis Students Graduated

Peter Feller M.S., Value Profiling for Instructions and Memory Locations , April 1998

Undergraduate Students Graduated

Stefan Schoenmackers - Echo Instructions and Phase Prediction - now getting a PhD at UW (UDub).
Ryan McAdams
Anthony Choi

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