Publications

If you use Microprobe in your research and development, we would appreciate a citation to the following paper in any publications you produce.

  • Ramon Bertran, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Meeta S. Gupta, Marc Gonzalez, and Pradip Bose. 2012. Systematic Energy Characterization of CMP/SMT Processor Systems via Automated Micro-Benchmarks. In Proceedings of the 2012 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ‘12). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 199-211. DOI=10.1109/MICRO.2012.27

A list of publications using the Microprobe generator framework or microbenchmarks generated by Microprobe is provided below. Please let us know if you publish a paper using Microprobe and we’ll update the list accordingly.

  1. Ramon Bertran, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Meeta S. Gupta, Marc Gonzalez, and Pradip Bose. 2012. Systematic Energy Characterization of CMP/SMT Processor Systems via Automated Micro-Benchmarks. In Proceedings of the 2012 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ‘12). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 199-211. DOI=10.1109/MICRO.2012.27

  2. Ramon Bertran, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Pradip Bose, Timothy Slegel, Gerard Salem, Sean Carey, Rick Rizzolo, Thomas Strach. 2014. Voltage Noise in Multi-core Processors: Empirical Characterization and Optimization Opportunities. In Proceedings of the 2014 47th Annual IEEE/ACM I nternational Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO ‘14). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 368-380. DOI=10.1109/MICRO.2014.12

  3. T. Webel et al., Robust power management in the IBM z13, in IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 59, no. 4/5, pp. 16:1-16:12, July-Sept. 2015. doi: 10.1147/JRD.2015.2446872

  4. P. R. Parida, A. Vega, A. Buyuktosunoglu, P. Bose and T. Chainer, Embedded two phase liquid cooling for increasing computational efficiency, 2016 15th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Las Vegas, NV, 2016, pp. 326-336. doi: 10.1109/ITHERM.2016.7517567

  5. N. Chandramoorthy, Design and Exploration of Accelerator-rich Multi-core Systems, Thesis dissertation, Oct 2016.

  6. P. R. Parida et al., Thermal model for embedded two-phase liquid cooled microprocessor, 2017 16th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, 2017, pp. 441-449. doi: 10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7992508

  7. P. I. J. Chuang et al., 26.2 Power supply noise in a 22nm z13™ microprocessor, 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2017, pp. 438-439. doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2017.7870449

  8. K. Swaminathan, N. Chandramoorthy, C. Y. Cher, R. Bertran, A. Buyuktosunoglu and P. Bose, BRAVO: Balanced Reliability-Aware Voltage Optimization, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Austin, TX, 2017, pp. 97-108. doi: 10.1109/HPCA.2017.56

  9. M. M. Ziegler, R. Bertran, A. Buyuktosunoglu and P. Bose, Machine learning techniques for taming the complexity of modern hardware design, in IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 61, no. 4/5, pp. 13:1-13:14, July-Sept. 1 2017. doi: 10.1147/JRD.2017.2721699

  10. R. Bertran et al., Very Low Voltage (VLV) Design, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Boston, MA, 2017, pp. 601-604. doi: 10.1109/ICCD.2017.105

  11. Bulla, C.; Moreto Planas, M., A case for code-representative microbenchmarks, BSC Severo Ochoa International Doctoral Symposium (4th: 2017: Barcelona). “Book of abstracts”. Barcelona: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2017, p. 76-78.

  12. Eldridge, Schuyler and Bertran, Ramon and Buyuktosunoglu, Alper and Bose, MicroProbe: An Open Source Microbenchmark Generator Ported to the RISC-V ISA, 7th RISC-V Workshop, 2017. Presentation video

  13. C. Vezyrtzis et al., Droop mitigation using critical-path sensors and an on-chip distributed power supply estimation engine in the z14™ enterprise processor, 2018 IEEE International Solid - State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, 2018, pp. 300-302. doi: 10.1109/ISSCC.2018.8310303

  14. Calvin Bulla et al., ChopStiX: Systematic Extraction of Code-Representative Microbenchmarks, IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC 2018, Raleigh, NC, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2018, p. 80-81.

  15. C. Berry et al., IBM z14: Processor Characterization and Power Management for High-Reliability Mainframe Systems, in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 121-132, Jan. 2019. doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2018.2873582

  16. K. Swaminathan, R. Bertran, H. Jacobson, P. Kudva and P. Bose, Generation of Stressmarks for Early Stage Soft-Error Modeling, 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks – Supplemental Volume (DSN-S), Portland, OR, USA, 2019, pp. 42-48. doi: 10.1109/DSN-S.2019.00022