Sohi, Gurindar S.

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Gurindar S. Sohi

Gurindar S. Sohi
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Contact Information

6375 Computer Sciences and Statistics
1210 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-7985
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E-mail: sohi@cs.wisc.edu

Departments

Education

Ph.D. (Computer Science) University of Illinois - Urbana, 1985
M.S. (Electical Engineering) University of Illinois - Urbana, 1983
B.E. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, India, 1981

Fields of Interest

computer architecture
non-numeric processing
VLSI design
parallel processing

Summary

My current research focuses on the design of the highest performance uniprocessors of a current generation. Currently we are investigating the architecture of a circa 2000 processor. With plenty of transistors available on a chip, the challenge is to use these resources to get the highest possible performance when executing a sequential program. A target that we have set for ourselves is to sustain the execution of over 10 instructions per cycle, for ordinary non-numeric application programs.

My research group is investigating several issues that need to be resolved before our goals can be achieved. We are studying and characterizing the nature of instruction-level parallelism in non-numeric application programs in order to understand the available parallelism and how it could be exploited. The bulk of my group's research effort is expended in continuing the development of the Multiscalar processing model, a novel paradigm for exploiting ILP. Currently we are developing the Multiscalar compiler, and carrying out detailed simulation studies to assess the potential of the Multiscalar concept.

Date last modified: 19-Aug-2011
Content by: sohi@cs.wisc.edu
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