Peter Szwed

Academic and Professional Interests Novel memory system architectures Parallel processor architectures and systems High-performance communication sub-system HW/SW interface Protocol processing offload for high-performance I/O Fault tolerance at the application and system level Simulation methods for architectural studies and hardware verification

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Projects and Courses

• My advisor is Prof. Sally McKee, and I am a member of her Fusion Research Group.
• Memory systems
• Computer Architecture
  • ECE 699 High Performance Memory System Design
  • ECE 696 Contemporary Issues in Computer Architecture
  • ECE 695 Multithreaded Architectures
  • ECE 575 High Performance Microprocessor Design
  • ECE 572 Parallel Architectures
• Computer Science (My minor subject)
  • CompS 514 Intermediate Computer Systems
  • CompS 612 Compiling for High Performance
  • CompS 632 Advanced Database Systems

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Publications and Patents

  Application-Level Checkpointing for Shared Memory Programs
G. Bronevetsky, M. Schulz, P. Szwed, D. Marques, K. Pingali,
to appear in the proceedings of ASPLOS-XI: Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, USA, October, 2004.

  SimSnap: Fast-Forwarding via Native Execution and Application-Level Checkpointing
P.K. Szwed, D. Marques, R.M. Buels, S.A. McKee, M. Schulz,
Interact-8: Workshop on the Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures, Madrid, Spain, February 2004.

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  5,901,326 Memory bus address snooper logic for determining memory activity without performing memory accesses. Issued May 4, 1999.

  5,450,602 Two stage register for capturing asynchronous events and subsequently providing them to a processor without loss or duplication of the captured events. Issued September 12, 1995.

  5,363,484 Multiple computer system with combiner/memory interconnection system employing separate direct access link for transferring information packets. Issued November 8, 1994.

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Biographical Information

• Since 1/2003: PhD Student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University and member of the Computer Systems Lab.
• Since 2/1988: Employed with IBM Corporation as a hardware engineer within the Server Group.
• January 1995: Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University through a work-study program offered at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
• August 1987: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1986-1987: "Academic Year in Britain" participant as an Undergraduate student in Computer Science at the University of Wales at Swansea
• 1983-1986: Undergraduate student in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

More detail about my career is available in my resume.