Next Seminar
None scheduled. See y'all next semester!

The Compilers, Architecture, and Parallel Computing (CAP) Seminar is geared toward anyone affiliated with the University of Illinois to discuss research in these three (and tangential) areas. We meet once a week and critique papers, practice presentations, and discuss ideas.

Please email the CAP Seminar organizers if you have any questions or want to present in the seminar.


Spring 2025 Schedule

Date Type Speaker Paper/Topic
January 21 Logistics Saugata Ghose Spring Kickoff
January 28 Presentation Xudong Sun Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop
February 4 Presentation Jinghan Sun Towards Building a Learning-Based Storage Ecosystem and Beyond
February 11 Paper Presentation Vijay Shah Clockhands: Rename-free Instruction Set Architecture for Out-of-order Processors (MICRO 2023)
Paper Presentation Aditya Panwar Route Packets, Not Wires: On-Chip Interconnection Networks (DAC 2001)
February 18 Presentation Nicholas Satchanov Becoming a CXL-pert: An Introduction to CXL
Presentation John Li Adaptive, Loss-Resilient, Real-Time Video Encoding-Decoding Schemes for Video Transmission and Streaming
February 25 Open Mic Sudhanshu Agarwal Conway's Game of Life
Open Mic Rutvik Choudhary Unitary Matrices (Compiler Loop Transformations and Quantum Mechanics/Computing)
March 4 No Seminar
March 11 Paper Presentation Bikrant Das Sharma and David Sun Overcoming the Memory Wall with CXL-Enabled SSDs (USENIX ATC 2023)
Paper Presentation Aniket Das and Dawei Xiong Pathfinding Future PIM Architectures by Demystifying a Commercial PIM Technology (HPCA 2024)
March 18 No Seminar
March 25 Presentation Jianping Li Massive Parallelism in Large Scale DNN Training
April 1 No Seminar
April 8 No Seminar
April 15 Open Mic Nicholas Satchanov The Past, Present, and Future of Graphics Rendering: A Growing Cooperation with AI
Open Mic Sriram Devata (Some) Problems and Solutions in Serving ML Inference Pipelines
April 22 Presentation Pavlo Pastaryev Model-based Custom Memory Allocation
April 29 Paper Presentation Nabila Tasnim and Justin Tang Hardware-Software Co-Design for Brain-Computer Interfaces (ISCA 2020)
Paper Presentation Sharvil Garg and Yihan Zhang Stream-K: Work-Centric Parallel Decomposition for Dense Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on the GPU (PPoPP 2023)
May 6 Presentation Yiqiu Sun MaRIMBA: A Framework to Manage Processing-Using-Memory Architectures at Scale
Presentation Abraham Farrell Data Placement and Replication in Distributed Caches

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