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93
Citations
35761
World Ranking
514
National Ranking
273

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award For contributions to the design and evaluation of memory systems and parallel computers.
  • 2004 - ACM Fellow For contributions to memory consistency models and memory system design.

Overview

Mark D. Hill is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with particular emphasis on computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, and information systems.

The scientist has contributed significantly to subfields such as computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, information systems, electrical and electronic engineering, and statistical and nonlinear physics. Their main topics of research include parallel computing and optimization techniques, distributed systems and fault tolerance, interconnection networks and systems, advanced data storage technologies, embedded systems design techniques, distributed and parallel computing systems, and cloud computing and resource management.

Mark D. Hill has multiple publications in well-known venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • IEEE Micro
  • Synthesis lectures on computer architecture
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark D. Hill are:

  • "Design Tradeoffs in CXL-Based Memory Pools for Public Cloud Platforms," 2023, IEEE Micro
  • "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, Second Edition," 2020, Synthesis lectures on computer architecture
  • "A vision to compute like nature," 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • "Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Accelerator-level parallelism," 2021, Communications of the ACM

In addition to journal articles, their book publications include a work with Morgan & Claypool Publishers titled A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, published in 2020.

Frequent co-authors of Mark D. Hill include:

  • Daniel J. Sorin (13 collaborations)
  • Vijay Nagarajan (12 collaborations)
  • David A. Wood (11 collaborations)
  • Ian Foster (3 collaborations)
  • William Gropp (3 collaborations)

Mark D. Hill has been recognized with awards such as the ACM - IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2019 for contributions to the design and evaluation of memory systems and parallel computers. They were also named an ACM Fellow in 2004 for contributions to memory consistency models and memory system design.

Best Publications

  • The gem5 simulator

    Nathan Binkert;Bradford Beckmann;Gabriel Black;Steven K. Reinhardt

  • Multifacet's general execution-driven multiprocessor simulator (GEMS) toolset

    Milo M. K. Martin;Daniel J. Sorin;Bradford M. Beckmann;Michael R. Marty

  • Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era

    M.D. Hill;M.R. Marty

  • LogTM: log-based transactional memory

    K.E. Moore;J. Bobba;M.J. Moravan;M.D. Hill

  • Weak ordering-a new definition

    Sarita V. Adve;Mark D. Hill

  • Evaluating associativity in CPU caches

    M.D. Hill;A.J. Smith

  • DBMSs on a Modern Processor: Where Does Time Go?

    Anastassia Ailamaki;David J. DeWitt;Mark D. Hill;David A. Wood

  • Weak ordering—a new definition

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  • The Wisconsin Wind Tunnel: virtual prototyping of parallel computers

    Steven K. Reinhardt;Mark D. Hill;James R. Larus;Alvin R. Lebeck

  • Weaving Relations for Cache Performance

    Anastassia Ailamaki;David J. DeWitt;Mark D. Hill;Marios Skounakis

  • A "flight data recorder" for enabling full-system multiprocessor deterministic replay

    Min Xu;Rastislav Bodik;Mark D. Hill

  • Cache-conscious structure layout

    Trishul M. Chilimbi;Mark D. Hill;James R. Larus

  • A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence

    Daniel J. Sorin;Mark D. Hill;David A. Wood

  • LogTM-SE: Decoupling Hardware Transactional Memory from Caches

    L. Yen;J. Bobba;M.R. Marty;K.E. Moore

  • SafetyNet: improving the availability of shared memory multiprocessors with global checkpoint/recovery

    Daniel J. Sorin;Milo M. K. Martin;Mark D. Hill;David A. Wood

  • A case for direct-mapped caches

    M.D. Hill

  • Token Coherence: decoupling performance and correctness

    Milo M. K. Martin;Mark D. Hill;David A. Wood

  • Efficient virtual memory for big memory servers

    Arkaprava Basu;Jayneel Gandhi;Jichuan Chang;Mark D. Hill

  • Page placement algorithms for large real-indexed caches

    R. E. Kessler;Mark D. Hill

  • Aspects of cache memory and instruction buffer performance

    Mark Donald Hill;Alan Jay Smith

  • Amdahl’s Law in the multicore era

    M.D. Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Hagersten
Erik Hagersten Uppsala University
James R. Larus
James R. Larus École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael M. Swift
Michael M. Swift University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel J. Sorin
Daniel J. Sorin Duke University
Milo M. K. Martin
Milo M. K. Martin Google (United States)
Steven K. Reinhardt
Steven K. Reinhardt Advanced Micro Devices (United States)
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee Cavium (United States)
Rastislav Bodik
Rastislav Bodik University of Washington
Sarita V. Adve
Sarita V. Adve University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Babak Falsafi
Babak Falsafi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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