John W. Sias


Graduated: June, 2005

Concordia Theological Seminary
Box 109
6600 North Clinton Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46825

Tel: (260) 452-3307
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Email: john.w.sias@gmail.com

Publications

Beating in-order stalls with "flea-flicker" two-pass pipelining
Ronald D. Barnes, Erik M. Nystrom, John W. Sias, Sanjay J. Patel, Nacho Navarro and Wen-mei W. Hwu
to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Embedded Systems, Microarchitecture, and Compilation Techniques in Memory of Bob Rau, Vol. 55, No. 2, February 2006.

A Systematic Approach to Delivering Instruction-Level Parallelism in EPIC Systems(PDF version talk PDF version)
John W.Sias
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
abstract

Field-testing IMPACT EPIC Research Results in Itanium 2(PS version PDF version)
John W. Sias, Sain-zee Ueng, Geoff A. Kent, Ian M. Steiner, Erik M. Nystrom and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 26-37, July 2004.
Abstract

Beating in-order stalls with "flea-flicker" two-pass pipelining (available online at IEEE and ACM)
Ronald D. Barnes, Erik M. Nystrom, John W. Sias, Sanjay J. Patel, Nacho Navarro and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, pp. 387-398, December 2003.

Enhancing loop buffering of media and telecommunications applications using low-overhead predication (PS version PDF version)
John W. Sias, Hillery C. Hunter and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, pp. 262-273, December 2001.

Program decision logic optimization using predication and control speculation (available online at IEEE)
David I. August, John W. Sias and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the IEEE, November 2001, pp. 1660-1675.

Itanium performance insights (PDF version PS handouts PDF handouts)
Wen-mei W. Hwu, John W. Sias, Matthew C. Merten, Erik M. Nystrom, Ronald D. Barnes, Christopher J. Shannon, Shane Ryoo and Jeff V. Olivier
Presentation at Microprocessor Forum, October 2001.

Itanium performance insights from the IMPACT Compiler (PDF version PS handouts PDF handouts)
John W. Sias, Matthew C. Merten, Erik M. Nystrom, Ronald D. Barnes, Christopher J. Shannon, Joe D. Matarazzo, Shane Ryoo, Jeff V. Olivier and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Presentation at Hot Chips 13, August 2001.

Accurate and efficient predicate analysis with binary decision diagrams (PS version PDF version PDF Slides)
John W. Sias, David I. August and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, pp. 112-123, December 2000

Condition Awareness Support for Predicate Analysis and Optimization (PS version PDF version)
John W. Sias
M.S. thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.

The program decision logic approach to predicated execution (PS version PDF version)
David I. August, John W. Sias, Jean-Michel Puiatti, Scott A. Mahlke, Daniel A. Connors, Kevin M. Crozier and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 208-219, May 1999.

Integrated predicated and speculative execution in the IMPACT EPIC Architecture (PS version PDF version)
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, Scott A. Mahlke, John W. Sias, Kevin M. Crozier, Ben-Chung Cheng, Patrick R. Eaton, Qudus B. Olaniran, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 227-237, July 1998.