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2021

2021 Dec. 6: A paper by Endo et al., titled “ComposableThreads: Rethinking User-level Threads with Composability and Parametricity in C++,” got accepted to Journal of Information Processing.
2021 Nov. 1: Ihara Hiroka recieved IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists.
2021 Jul. 27: A paper by Fujimura et al., titled “An Efficient and Scalable Distributed Hypergraph Processing System,” got accepted to Journal of Information Processing.
2021 Mar. 19: Shumpei Shiina received a Dean’s award from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology for his master thesis, “Efficient Thread Scheduling Strategies for Nested Parallel Programs.”
2021 Mar. 19: Shumpei Shiina, Takuya Fukuoka, and Ryutaro Yamaguchi received a master’s degree.
2021 Mar. 18: Takato Hideshima, Shugo Fujimura, Genki Kimura, and Makoto Yakuyama received a bachelor’s degree.
2021 Feb. 8: A paper by Takuya Fukuoka et al., titled “Pitfalls of InfiniBand with On-Demand Paging,” has been accepted by ISPASS 2021.

2020

2020 Dec. 11: A paper by Le Li et al., titled “Plex: Scaling Parallel Lexing with Backtrack-Free Prescanning,” has been accepted by IPDPS 2021.
2020 Nov. 17: A paper by Shumpei Shiina et al., titled “Lightweight Preemptive User-Level Threads,” has been accepted by PPoPP 2021.
2020 Oct. 2: A paper by Wataru Endo et al., titled “MENPS: A Decentralized Distributed Shared Memory Exploiting RDMA,” got accepted for IPDRM 2020.
2020 Sep. 25: Christian Helm received a doctor’s degree.
2020 Sep. 16: A paper by Christian Helm et al., titled “Reliable Reverse Engineering of Intel DRAM Addressing Using Performance Counters,” has been accepted by MASCOTS 2020.
2020 Aug. 28: A research presentation by Takuya Fukuoka et al., titled “Analyzing Performance Pitfalls of On-Demand Paging of InfiniBand,” received the Best Young Researcher Presentation Award at the 150th OS Research Meeting (SWoPP 2020).
2020 Jul. 31: Shigeyuki Sato received the 2020 Yamashita SIG Research Award.
2020 Jul. 28: A paper based on the master’s research of Hiroto Ihara, titled “Centaurus: A Dynamic Parser Generator for Parallel Ad Hoc Data Extraction,” was accepted by IPSJ Transactions on Programming Vol.13 No.4.
2020 May. 26: A paper by Christian Helm et al., titled “Automatic Identification and Precise Attribution of DRAM Bandwidth Contention,” has been accepted by ICPP 2020.
2020 Feb. 14: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “Analyzing the Performance Trade-Off in Implementing User-Level Threads,” has been accepted by IEEE TPDS.

2019

2019 Oct. 14: A paper by Christian Helm et al., titled “On the Correct Measurement of Application Memory Bandwidth and Memory Access Latency,” has been accepted by HPC Asia 2020.
2019 Sep. 24: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “BOLT: Optimizing OpenMP Parallel Regions with User-Level Threads,” won the Best Paper Award in PACT 2019.
2019 Aug. 11: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “BOLT: Optimizing OpenMP Parallel Regions with User-Level Threads,” is nominated as one of the four best paper candidates in PACT 2019.
2019 Aug. 6: A paper by Shumpei Shiina et al., titled “Almost Deterministic Work Stealing,” has been accepted by SC 2019.
2019 Jul. 9: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “BOLT: Optimizing OpenMP Parallel Regions with User-Level Threads,” has been accepted by PACT 2019.
2019 May. 16: A paper by Takuya Fukuoka et al., titled “An Efficient Inter-node Communication System with Lightweight-thread Scheduling,” has been accepted by HPCC 2019.
2019 Mar. 26: The undergraduate thesis of Shumpei Shiina, titled “Almost Deterministic Scheduling for Dynamic Task Parallelism,” received the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering.
2019 Mar. 13: Takuya Fukuoka et al. won Best Undergraduate Student Award in xSIG 2019 for their paper “An Implementation of Inter-node Communication System with Efficient Lightweight-thread Scheduling.”
2019 Mar. 13: Shumpei Shiina et al. won Best Research Award in xSIG 2019 for their paper “Almost Deterministic Work Stealing.”
2019 Mar. 07: A paper by Tomokazu Higuchi et al., titled “ClPy: A NumPy-compatible Library Accelerated with OpenCL,” has been accepted by ScaDL 2019.
2019 Mar. 01: A paper by Christian Helm et al., titled “PerfMemPlus: A Tool for Automatic Discovery of Memory Performance Problems,” has been accepted by ISC High Performance 2019.

2018

2018 Dec. 21: Postdoctoral Researcher Position Opening
2018 Aug. 15: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “Lessons Learned from Analyzing Dynamic Promotion for User-Level Threading,” has been accepted by SC 2018.
2018 Aug. 2: Tomokazu Higuchi et al. won IPSJ Computer Science Area Award by his research on “Performance analysis and optimization of CPU and GPU in deep learning framework.”
2018 May. 31: A paper by Hiroka Ihara et al., titled “LL(*)文法に基づくスキャナレス構文解析器の提案,” won Outstanding Originality Award in xSIG 2018.
2018 May. 31: A poster by Tomokazu Higuchi et al. won Poster Award in xSIG 2018.
2018 May. 3: A paper by Yuchen Qiao et al., titled “Parallelizing and optimizing neural Encoder–Decoder models without padding on multi-core architecture,” has been accepted by Future Generation Computer System 2018.
2018 Mar. 23: The undergraduate thesis of Toru Fujisawa, titled “コールサイトローカルな型情報による効率的な関数インライン展開,” received the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering.

2017

2017 Oct. 1: A paper by Wataru Endo et al., titled “Parallelized Software Offloading of Low-Level Communication with User-Level Threads,” has been accepted by HPC Asia 2018.
2017 Jun. 30: A paper by An Huynh et al., titled “Delay Spotter: A Tool for Spotting Scheduler-Caused Delays in Task Parallel Runtime Systems,” has been accepted by IEEE Cluster 2017.
2017 Mar. 24: The undergraduate thesis of Hiroki Nakazawa, titled “Speeding Up AMFS: A File System for Emerging Persistent Memory Supporting Atomic Data Durability,” received the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering.
2017 Mar. 23: The master’s thesis of Shintaro Iwasaki, titled “An Automatic Cut-off for Task Parallel Programs,” received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.
2017 Feb. 28: A paper by Wataru Endo, titled “Parallelized Software Offloading in Low-Level Communication Layer,” won Best M2 Student Awards in xSIG 2017.
2017 Feb. 28: A paper by Kohei Toshimitsu, titled “Instant Cloud FS : 広域分散環境で即興に構築できる分散ファイルシステム,” won Best M1 Student Awards in xSIG 2017.
2017 Feb. 28: A paper by Hiroki Nakazawa, titled “アトミックなデータ永続化を備えた次世代不揮発性メモリ向けファイルシステム (AMFS) の高速化,” won Best B4 Student Awards in xSIG 2017.
2017 Feb. 28: A paper by Masaru Ito, titled “Bzip2+ : FBWT を用いた高速な圧縮,” won Outstanding Effort Award in xSIG 2017.
2017 Feb. 10: A short paper by Yuchen Qiao et al., titled “A Cache Friendly Parallel Encoder-Decoder Model without Padding on Mulit-core Architecture,” has been accepted by ParLearning 2017.

2016

2016 Nov. 14: A paper by Hiroka Ihara et al., titled “Pipelined Intermediate Fabrics for Parallel Execution,” has been accepted by PMES 2016 workshop.
2016 Aug. 25: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “A Static Cut-off for Task Parallel Programs,” is nominated as one of the three best paper candidates in ACM PACT 2016.
2016 Jul. 14: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “A Static Cut-off for Task Parallel Programs,” has been accepted by ACM PACT 2016.
2016 Jul. 14: Shintaro Iwasaki won IPSJ Computer Science Area Award by his research on “An effective cut off method for task parallel programs.”
2016 Jun. 29: A paper by Masaru Ito et al., titled “Fragmented BWT : Extended BWT for full-text indexing,” was accepted by SPIRE 2016.
2016 Jun. 28: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki et al., titled “Autotuning of a Cut-off for Task Parallel Programs,” has been accepted by ATMG 2016.
2016 Jun. 14: A poster by Shintaro Iwasaki was selected as Best Poster in ACM HPDC.

2015

2015 Dec. 25: Introduction to our lab for prospective students
2015 Dec. 14: A paper by Shintaro Iwasaki, titled “Autotuning for Task Parallel Programs,” won Outstanding Student Research in ACSI 2016.
2015 Dec. 14: A paper by Hiroshi Inoue, titled “Accelerating Tomographic Reconstruction With Efficient Interpolation,” won Outstanding Research Award in ACSI 2016.
2015 Sep. 11: A paper by An Huynh, titled “DAGViz: A DAG Visualization Tool for Analyzing Task-Parallel Program Traces,” has been accepted by VPA.
2015 Sep. 10: SSHFS-MUX (paper), a research product of Dun Nan, an ex-member of our laboratory, was featured in the Linux Magazine.
2015 Jun. 8: A paper by Yusuke Nishioka, titled “Scalable Task-Parallel SGD on Matrix Factorization in Multicore Architectures,” has been selected as the best paper by ParLearning 2015.
2015 May. 17: A paper by Shigeki Akiyama, titled “Uni-Address Threads: Scalable Thread Management for RDMA-based Work Stealing,” has been accepted by HPDC 2015.
2015 May. 11: A paper by Hiroshi Inoue, titled “SIMD- and Cache-Friendly Algorithm for Sorting an Array of Structures,” has been accepted by VLDB.
2015 Feb. 25: A paper by Yusuke Nishioka, titled “Scalable Task-Parallel SGD on Matrix Factorization in Multicore Architectures,” has been accepted by ParLearning 2015.
2015 Feb. 25: The undergraduate thesis of Shintaro Iwasaki, titled “Vectorizing Compiler for Task Parallel Programs,” received the Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Award (Best Thesis).

2014

2014 Nov. : A paper by Hiroshi Inoue, titled “Faster Set Intersection with SIMD instructions by Reducing Branch Mispredictions,” has been accepted by VLDB.