Nathan Beckmann

Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

I lead the CORGi group and am involved in all its ongoing projects. You can find my bio, up-to-date CV, and recent teaching and service on my personal website.

CORGi Projects

Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Programming the Memory Hierarchy via Memory Services

Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

CORGi Publications

Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash [pdf]

Sara McAllister, Benjamin Berg, Julian Tutuncu-Macias, Juncheng Yang, Sathya Gunasekar, Jimmy Lu, Daniel Berger, Nathan Beckmann, Gregory R. Ganger. SOSP 2021.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Brief Announcement: Block-Granularity-Aware Caching [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Phillip Gibbons, Charles McGuffey. SPAA 2021.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

SNAFU: An Ultra-Low-Power, Energy-Minimal CGRA-Generation Framework and Architecture [pdf]

Graham Gobieski, Oguz Atli, Ken Mai, Brandon Lucia, Nathan Beckmann. ISCA 2021.
Project: Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

The Role of Edge Offload for Hardware-Accelerated Mobile Devices [pdf]

Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Nathan Beckmann, Grace A. Lewis, Brandon Lucia. HotMobile 2021.
Project: Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

The CacheLib Caching Engine: Design and Experiences at Scale [pdf]

Benjamin Berg, Daniel Berger, Sara McAllister, Isaac Grosof, Sathya Gunasekar, Jimmy Lu, Michael Uhlar, Jim Carrig, Nathan Beckmann, Mor Harchol-Balter, Gregory R. Ganger. OSDI 2020.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Writeback-Aware Caching [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Phillip Gibbons, Bernhard Haeupler, Charles McGuffey. APoCS 2020. (Best Paper.)
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

MANIC: An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Ultra-Low-Power Embedded Systems [pdf]

Graham Gobieski, Amolak Nagi, Nathan Serafin, Mehmet Meric Isgenc, Nathan Beckmann, Brandon Lucia. MICRO 2019.
Project: Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

PHI: Architectural Support for Synchronization- and Bandwidth-Efficient Commutative Scatter Updates [pdf]

Anurag Mukkara, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. MICRO 2019.
Project: Programming the Memory Hierarchy via Memory Services

Brief Announcement: Writeback-Aware Caching [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Phillip Gibbons, Bernhard Haeupler, Charles McGuffey. SPAA 2019.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Intelligence Beyond the Edge: Inference on Intermittent Embedded Systems [pdf]

Graham Gobieski, Brandon Lucia, Nathan Beckmann. ASPLOS 2019.
Project: Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

Improving the Locality of Graph Processing through Hardware-Accelerated Traversal Scheduling [pdf]

Anurag Mukkara, Nathan Beckmann, Maleen Abeydeera, Xiaosong Ma, Daniel Sanchez. MICRO 2018.
Project: Programming the Memory Hierarchy via Memory Services

Practical Bounds on Offline Caching with Variable Object Sizes [pdf]

Daniel Berger, Nathan Beckmann, Mor Harchol-Balter. SIGMETRICS 2018.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Intermittent Deep Neural Network Inference [pdf]

Graham Gobieski, Nathan Beckmann, Brandon Lucia. SysML 2018.
Project: Re-Architecting Edge Devices for the Internet of Things

LHD: Improving Cache Hit Rate by Maximizing Hit Density [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Haoxian Chen, Asaf Cidon. NSDI 2018.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Cache-Guided Scheduling: Exploiting Caches to Maximize Locality in Graph Processing [pdf]

Anurag Mukkara, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. AGP at ISCA 2017.
Project: Programming the Memory Hierarchy via Memory Services

Nexus: A New Approach to Replication in Distributed Shared Caches [pdf]

Po-An Tsai, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. PACT 2017.
Project: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

Jenga: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchies [pdf]

Po-An Tsai, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. ISCA 2017.
Project: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

Maximizing Cache Performance Under Uncertainty [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. HPCA 2017.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Whirlpool: Improving Cache Management with Application-Level Data Classification [pdf]

Anurag Mukkara, Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. ASPLOS 2016.
Project: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

Cache Calculus: Modeling Caches through Differential Equations [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. IEEE CAL 2016.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Modeling Cache Performance Beyond LRU [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. HPCA 2016.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

Talus: A Simple Way to Remove Cliffs in Cache Performance [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. HPCA 2015.
Project: Smart Caching at Datacenter Scale

CDCS: Scaling Non-Uniform Cache Architectures with Computation and Data Co-Scheduling [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Po-An Tsai, Daniel Sanchez. HPCA 2015.
Project: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

Jigsaw: Scalable Software-Defined Caches [pdf]

Nathan Beckmann, Daniel Sanchez. PACT 2013.
Project: Software-Defined Cache Hierarchy for Multicore Processors

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