Doug Burger

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President

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- GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models
  
  Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao
  
  July 2026
  
  arXiv | July 2026
  
  Preprint
  
  Publication
- AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
  
  Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Doug Burger, Chi Wang
  
  COLM 2024 | August 2024
  
  Best Paper, LLM Agents Workshop ICLR'24
  
  Publication Video Video Video Project
- Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
  
  Blake Pelton, Adam Sapek, Ken Eguro, Daniel Lo, Alessandro Forin, Matt Humphrey, Jinwen Xi, David Cox, Rajas H. Karandikar, Johannes de Fine Licht, Evgeny Babin, Adrian Caulfield, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | May 2024, Vol 8: pp. 1066-1090
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Logan Adams, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Daniel Firestone, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Michael Papamichael, Yi Yuan, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  June 2023
  
  June 2023
  
  Publication Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Arjang Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point
  
  Bita Darvish Rouhani, Daniel Lo, Ritchie Zhao, Ming Liu, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Anna Vinogradsky, Sarah Massengill, Lita Yang, Ray Bittner, Alessandro Forin, Haishan Zhu, Taesik Na, Prerak Patel, Shuai Che, Lok Chand Koppaka, Xia Song, Subhojit Som, Kaustav Das, Saurabh Tiwary, Steve Reinhardt, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  NeurIPS 2020 | November 2020
  
  Publication
- A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Daniel Lo, Shlomi Alkalay, Michael Haselman, Logan Adams, Mahdi Ghandi, Stephen Heil, Prerak Patel, Adam Sapek, Gabriel Weisz, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2018 | June 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud
  
  Daniel Firestone, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Matt Humphrey, Kalin Ovtcharov, Jitu Padhye, Doug Burger, Dave Maltz, Albert Greenberg, Sambhrama Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Mike Andrewartha, Vivek Bhanu, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Somesh Chaturmohta, Jack Lavier, Norman Lam, Fengfen Liu, Gautham Popuri, Shachar Raindel, Tejas Sapre, Mark Shaw, Gabriel Silva, Madhan Sivakumar, Nisheeth Srivastava, Anshuman Verma, Qasim Zuhair, Deepak Bansal, Kushagra Vaid, David A. Maltz
  
  15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | April 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave
  
  Eric Chung, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Adrian Caulfield, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Mahdi Ghandi, Daniel Lo, Steve Reinhardt, Shlomi Alkalay, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Alessandro Forin, Doug Burger, Lisa Woods, Gabriel Weisz, Michael Haselman, Dan Zhang
  
  IEEE Micro | March 2018, Vol 38: pp. 8-20
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Configurable Clouds
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Daniel Firestone, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Haselman, et al, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | June 2017, Vol 37(3): pp. 52-61
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Jeremy Fowers, Michael Haselman, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Puneet Kaur, Joo-Young Kim, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture | October 2016
  
  PDF Project
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, James Larus, Eric Peterson, Simon Pope, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2015, Vol 35: pp. 10-22
  
  PDF Publication Project
- A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, Scott Hauck
  
  The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2015
  
  PDF Project Project
- PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users
  
  Gennady Pekhimenko, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Oriana Riva, Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '15) | May 2015
  
  PDF
- Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability
  
  Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Behnam Robatmili , Dong Li, Bertrand A. Maher , Aaron Smith, Stephen W. Keckler , Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Transactions on Computers | August 2014, Vol 63: pp. 2025-2038
  
  Publication
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Peterson, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger, Jim Larus, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Simon Pope
  
  Proceeding of the 41st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecuture (ISCA) | June 2014
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4799-4394-4
  
  Selected as an IEEE Micro TopPick
  
  PDF Publication Video Project
- General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, A. Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Bradley Thwaites, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, A. Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2014
  
  IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences Honorable Mention 2016
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer
  
  Joo-Young Kim, Scott Hauck, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2014
  
  PDF Project
- EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores
  
  Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Using Managed Runtime Systems to Tolerate Holes in Wearable Memories
  
  Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M Blackburn, Doug Burger, James Larus, Kathryn McKinley, Jim Larus, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation | June 2013
  
  PDF
- How to Implement Effective Prediction and Forwarding for Fusable Dynamic Multicore Architectures
  
  Behnam Robatmili, Dong Li, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Andrew Putnam, Doug Burger, Stephen Keckler
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) | February 2013
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
  
  PDF
- Power challenges may end the multicore era
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  Commun. ACM | February 2013, Vol 56(2): pp. 93-102
  
  Communications of the ACM, Special Issue: Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2012, Vol 32(3): pp. 122-134
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI
- Preventing PCM Banks from Seizing Too Much Power
  
  Andrew Hay, Karin Strauss, Timothy Sherwood, Gabriel H. Loh, Doug Burger
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture) | December 2011
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture)
  
  PDF
- Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2011
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks and Communications of the ACM Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Pocket Cloudlets
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  ASPLOS 2011 (International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2011
  
  PDF
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore Architecture
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News | January 2011, Vol 38: pp. 27-32
  
  Publication Publication
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  1st International Workshop on Highly-efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies | June 2010
  
  PDF
- Use ECP, not ECC, for Hard Failures in Resistive Memories
  
  Stuart Schechter, , Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture) | June 2010
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)
  
  PDF
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  MSR-TR-2010-15 | February 2010
  
  PDF
- Compiler-Assisted Hybrid Operand Communication
  
  Dong Li, Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Steve Keckler
  
  TR-09-33 | November 2009
  
  PDF
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative
  
  Benjamin Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) | June 2009
  
  PDF
- An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System
  
  Mark Gebhart, Bertrand A. Maher, Katherine E. Coons, Jeff Diamond, Paul Gratz, Mario Marino, Nitya Ranganathan, Behnam Robatmili, Aaron Smith, James Burrill, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2009
  
  Publication
- Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | January 2009, Vol 29: pp. 104-115
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI Publication
- Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Microarchitecture | November 2008
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences
  
  DOI Publication
- Software Infrastructure and Tools for the TRIPS Prototype
  
  Bill Yoder, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Kevin Bush, Katie Coons, Mark Gebhart, S. Govindan, Bert Maher, Ramadass Nagarajan, B. Robatmili, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Sadia Sharif, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  3rd Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation (MoBS) | June 2007
  
  PDF
- Dataflow Predication
  
  Aaron Smith, Ramadass Nagarajan, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) | December 2006
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-22 | October 2006
  
  Published by University of Texas
  
  Proceedings of Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, ® Stockholm, Sweden
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Intermediate Language (TIL) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jon Gibson, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-20 | October 2006
  
  Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2
  
  PDF
- Compiling for EDGE Architectures
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Jon Gibson, Bertrand Maher, Nick Nethercote, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Kathryn McKinley
  
  4th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) | March 2006
  
  PDF Publication

- GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models
  
  Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao
  
  July 2026
  
  arXiv | July 2026
  
  Preprint
  
  Publication
- AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
  
  Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Doug Burger, Chi Wang
  
  COLM 2024 | August 2024
  
  Best Paper, LLM Agents Workshop ICLR'24
  
  Publication Video Video Video Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Arjang Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point
  
  Bita Darvish Rouhani, Daniel Lo, Ritchie Zhao, Ming Liu, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Anna Vinogradsky, Sarah Massengill, Lita Yang, Ray Bittner, Alessandro Forin, Haishan Zhu, Taesik Na, Prerak Patel, Shuai Che, Lok Chand Koppaka, Xia Song, Subhojit Som, Kaustav Das, Saurabh Tiwary, Steve Reinhardt, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  NeurIPS 2020 | November 2020
  
  Publication
- A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Daniel Lo, Shlomi Alkalay, Michael Haselman, Logan Adams, Mahdi Ghandi, Stephen Heil, Prerak Patel, Adam Sapek, Gabriel Weisz, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2018 | June 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave
  
  Eric Chung, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Adrian Caulfield, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Mahdi Ghandi, Daniel Lo, Steve Reinhardt, Shlomi Alkalay, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Alessandro Forin, Doug Burger, Lisa Woods, Gabriel Weisz, Michael Haselman, Dan Zhang
  
  IEEE Micro | March 2018, Vol 38: pp. 8-20
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, A. Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Bradley Thwaites, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, A. Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2014
  
  IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences Honorable Mention 2016
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | January 2009, Vol 29: pp. 104-115
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI Publication
- Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Microarchitecture | November 2008
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences
  
  DOI Publication
- Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
  
  Blake Pelton, Adam Sapek, Ken Eguro, Daniel Lo, Alessandro Forin, Matt Humphrey, Jinwen Xi, David Cox, Rajas H. Karandikar, Johannes de Fine Licht, Evgeny Babin, Adrian Caulfield, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | May 2024, Vol 8: pp. 1066-1090
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Logan Adams, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Daniel Firestone, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Michael Papamichael, Yi Yuan, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  June 2023
  
  June 2023
  
  Publication Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Arjang Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point
  
  Bita Darvish Rouhani, Daniel Lo, Ritchie Zhao, Ming Liu, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Anna Vinogradsky, Sarah Massengill, Lita Yang, Ray Bittner, Alessandro Forin, Haishan Zhu, Taesik Na, Prerak Patel, Shuai Che, Lok Chand Koppaka, Xia Song, Subhojit Som, Kaustav Das, Saurabh Tiwary, Steve Reinhardt, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  NeurIPS 2020 | November 2020
  
  Publication
- A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Daniel Lo, Shlomi Alkalay, Michael Haselman, Logan Adams, Mahdi Ghandi, Stephen Heil, Prerak Patel, Adam Sapek, Gabriel Weisz, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2018 | June 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud
  
  Daniel Firestone, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Matt Humphrey, Kalin Ovtcharov, Jitu Padhye, Doug Burger, Dave Maltz, Albert Greenberg, Sambhrama Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Mike Andrewartha, Vivek Bhanu, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Somesh Chaturmohta, Jack Lavier, Norman Lam, Fengfen Liu, Gautham Popuri, Shachar Raindel, Tejas Sapre, Mark Shaw, Gabriel Silva, Madhan Sivakumar, Nisheeth Srivastava, Anshuman Verma, Qasim Zuhair, Deepak Bansal, Kushagra Vaid, David A. Maltz
  
  15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | April 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave
  
  Eric Chung, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Adrian Caulfield, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Mahdi Ghandi, Daniel Lo, Steve Reinhardt, Shlomi Alkalay, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Alessandro Forin, Doug Burger, Lisa Woods, Gabriel Weisz, Michael Haselman, Dan Zhang
  
  IEEE Micro | March 2018, Vol 38: pp. 8-20
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Configurable Clouds
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Daniel Firestone, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Haselman, et al, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | June 2017, Vol 37(3): pp. 52-61
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Jeremy Fowers, Michael Haselman, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Puneet Kaur, Joo-Young Kim, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture | October 2016
  
  PDF Project
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, James Larus, Eric Peterson, Simon Pope, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2015, Vol 35: pp. 10-22
  
  PDF Publication Project
- A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, Scott Hauck
  
  The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2015
  
  PDF Project Project
- Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability
  
  Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Behnam Robatmili , Dong Li, Bertrand A. Maher , Aaron Smith, Stephen W. Keckler , Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Transactions on Computers | August 2014, Vol 63: pp. 2025-2038
  
  Publication
- General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, A. Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Bradley Thwaites, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, A. Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2014
  
  IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences Honorable Mention 2016
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer
  
  Joo-Young Kim, Scott Hauck, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2014
  
  PDF Project
- EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores
  
  Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Power challenges may end the multicore era
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  Commun. ACM | February 2013, Vol 56(2): pp. 93-102
  
  Communications of the ACM, Special Issue: Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2012, Vol 32(3): pp. 122-134
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI
- Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2011
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks and Communications of the ACM Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  1st International Workshop on Highly-efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies | June 2010
  
  PDF
- Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative
  
  Benjamin Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) | June 2009
  
  PDF
- An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System
  
  Mark Gebhart, Bertrand A. Maher, Katherine E. Coons, Jeff Diamond, Paul Gratz, Mario Marino, Nitya Ranganathan, Behnam Robatmili, Aaron Smith, James Burrill, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2009
  
  Publication
- Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | January 2009, Vol 29: pp. 104-115
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI Publication
- Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Microarchitecture | November 2008
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences
  
  DOI Publication
- TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-22 | October 2006
  
  Published by University of Texas
  
  Proceedings of Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, ® Stockholm, Sweden
  
  PDF
- Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Logan Adams, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Daniel Firestone, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Michael Papamichael, Yi Yuan, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  June 2023
  
  June 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud
  
  Daniel Firestone, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Matt Humphrey, Kalin Ovtcharov, Jitu Padhye, Doug Burger, Dave Maltz, Albert Greenberg, Sambhrama Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Mike Andrewartha, Vivek Bhanu, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Somesh Chaturmohta, Jack Lavier, Norman Lam, Fengfen Liu, Gautham Popuri, Shachar Raindel, Tejas Sapre, Mark Shaw, Gabriel Silva, Madhan Sivakumar, Nisheeth Srivastava, Anshuman Verma, Qasim Zuhair, Deepak Bansal, Kushagra Vaid, David A. Maltz
  
  15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | April 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Jeremy Fowers, Michael Haselman, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Puneet Kaur, Joo-Young Kim, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture | October 2016
  
  PDF Project
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, James Larus, Eric Peterson, Simon Pope, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2015, Vol 35: pp. 10-22
  
  PDF Publication Project
- A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, Scott Hauck
  
  The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2015
  
  PDF Project Project
- PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users
  
  Gennady Pekhimenko, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Oriana Riva, Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '15) | May 2015
  
  PDF
- Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability
  
  Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Behnam Robatmili , Dong Li, Bertrand A. Maher , Aaron Smith, Stephen W. Keckler , Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Transactions on Computers | August 2014, Vol 63: pp. 2025-2038
  
  Publication
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Peterson, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger, Jim Larus, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Simon Pope
  
  Proceeding of the 41st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecuture (ISCA) | June 2014
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4799-4394-4
  
  Selected as an IEEE Micro TopPick
  
  PDF Publication Video Project
- A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer
  
  Joo-Young Kim, Scott Hauck, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2014
  
  PDF Project
- EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores
  
  Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Using Managed Runtime Systems to Tolerate Holes in Wearable Memories
  
  Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M Blackburn, Doug Burger, James Larus, Kathryn McKinley, Jim Larus, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation | June 2013
  
  PDF
- How to Implement Effective Prediction and Forwarding for Fusable Dynamic Multicore Architectures
  
  Behnam Robatmili, Dong Li, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Andrew Putnam, Doug Burger, Stephen Keckler
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) | February 2013
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
  
  PDF
- Preventing PCM Banks from Seizing Too Much Power
  
  Andrew Hay, Karin Strauss, Timothy Sherwood, Gabriel H. Loh, Doug Burger
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture) | December 2011
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture)
  
  PDF
- Pocket Cloudlets
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  ASPLOS 2011 (International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2011
  
  PDF
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore Architecture
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News | January 2011, Vol 38: pp. 27-32
  
  Publication Publication
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  1st International Workshop on Highly-efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies | June 2010
  
  PDF
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Compiler-Assisted Hybrid Operand Communication
  
  Dong Li, Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Steve Keckler
  
  TR-09-33 | November 2009
  
  PDF
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System
  
  Mark Gebhart, Bertrand A. Maher, Katherine E. Coons, Jeff Diamond, Paul Gratz, Mario Marino, Nitya Ranganathan, Behnam Robatmili, Aaron Smith, James Burrill, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2009
  
  Publication
- Software Infrastructure and Tools for the TRIPS Prototype
  
  Bill Yoder, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Kevin Bush, Katie Coons, Mark Gebhart, S. Govindan, Bert Maher, Ramadass Nagarajan, B. Robatmili, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Sadia Sharif, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  3rd Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation (MoBS) | June 2007
  
  PDF
- Dataflow Predication
  
  Aaron Smith, Ramadass Nagarajan, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) | December 2006
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-22 | October 2006
  
  Published by University of Texas
  
  Proceedings of Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, ® Stockholm, Sweden
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Intermediate Language (TIL) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jon Gibson, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-20 | October 2006
  
  Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2
  
  PDF
- Compiling for EDGE Architectures
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Jon Gibson, Bertrand Maher, Nick Nethercote, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Kathryn McKinley
  
  4th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) | March 2006
  
  PDF Publication
- Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
  
  Blake Pelton, Adam Sapek, Ken Eguro, Daniel Lo, Alessandro Forin, Matt Humphrey, Jinwen Xi, David Cox, Rajas H. Karandikar, Johannes de Fine Licht, Evgeny Babin, Adrian Caulfield, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | May 2024, Vol 8: pp. 1066-1090
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Using Managed Runtime Systems to Tolerate Holes in Wearable Memories
  
  Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M Blackburn, Doug Burger, James Larus, Kathryn McKinley, Jim Larus, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation | June 2013
  
  PDF
- AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
  
  Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Doug Burger, Chi Wang
  
  COLM 2024 | August 2024
  
  Best Paper, LLM Agents Workshop ICLR'24
  
  Publication Video Video Video Project
- Configurable Clouds
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Daniel Firestone, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Haselman, et al, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | June 2017, Vol 37(3): pp. 52-61
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, Scott Hauck
  
  The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2015
  
  PDF Project Project
- PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users
  
  Gennady Pekhimenko, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Oriana Riva, Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '15) | May 2015
  
  PDF
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Peterson, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger, Jim Larus, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Simon Pope
  
  Proceeding of the 41st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecuture (ISCA) | June 2014
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4799-4394-4
  
  Selected as an IEEE Micro TopPick
  
  PDF Publication Video Project
- Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  MSR-TR-2010-15 | February 2010
  
  PDF
- Use ECP, not ECC, for Hard Failures in Resistive Memories
  
  Stuart Schechter, , Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture) | June 2010
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)
  
  PDF

- GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models
  
  Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao
  
  July 2026
  
  arXiv | July 2026
  
  Preprint
  
  Publication
- Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Logan Adams, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Daniel Firestone, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Michael Papamichael, Yi Yuan, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  June 2023
  
  June 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis
  
  Blake Pelton, Adam Sapek, Ken Eguro, Daniel Lo, Alessandro Forin, Matt Humphrey, Jinwen Xi, David Cox, Rajas H. Karandikar, Johannes de Fine Licht, Evgeny Babin, Adrian Caulfield, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | May 2024, Vol 8: pp. 1066-1090
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave
  
  Eric Chung, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Adrian Caulfield, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Mahdi Ghandi, Daniel Lo, Steve Reinhardt, Shlomi Alkalay, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Alessandro Forin, Doug Burger, Lisa Woods, Gabriel Weisz, Michael Haselman, Dan Zhang
  
  IEEE Micro | March 2018, Vol 38: pp. 8-20
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Configurable Clouds
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Daniel Firestone, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Haselman, et al, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | June 2017, Vol 37(3): pp. 52-61
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, James Larus, Eric Peterson, Simon Pope, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2015, Vol 35: pp. 10-22
  
  PDF Publication Project
- Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability
  
  Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Behnam Robatmili , Dong Li, Bertrand A. Maher , Aaron Smith, Stephen W. Keckler , Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Transactions on Computers | August 2014, Vol 63: pp. 2025-2038
  
  Publication
- Power challenges may end the multicore era
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  Commun. ACM | February 2013, Vol 56(2): pp. 93-102
  
  Communications of the ACM, Special Issue: Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | May 2012, Vol 32(3): pp. 122-134
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore Architecture
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News | January 2011, Vol 38: pp. 27-32
  
  Publication Publication
- Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE Micro | January 2009, Vol 29: pp. 104-115
  
  IEEE Micro Special Issue
  
  DOI Publication
- AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
  
  Qingyun Wu, Gagan Bansal, Jieyu Zhang, Yiran Wu, Beibin Li, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Li Jiang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Ahmed Awadallah, Ryen W. White, Doug Burger, Chi Wang
  
  COLM 2024 | August 2024
  
  Best Paper, LLM Agents Workshop ICLR'24
  
  Publication Video Video Video Project
- Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point
  
  Bita Darvish Rouhani, Daniel Lo, Ritchie Zhao, Ming Liu, Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Anna Vinogradsky, Sarah Massengill, Lita Yang, Ray Bittner, Alessandro Forin, Haishan Zhu, Taesik Na, Prerak Patel, Shuai Che, Lok Chand Koppaka, Xia Song, Subhojit Som, Kaustav Das, Saurabh Tiwary, Steve Reinhardt, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  NeurIPS 2020 | November 2020
  
  Publication
- A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Todd Massengill, Ming Liu, Daniel Lo, Shlomi Alkalay, Michael Haselman, Logan Adams, Mahdi Ghandi, Stephen Heil, Prerak Patel, Adam Sapek, Gabriel Weisz, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Steve Reinhardt, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2018 | June 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud
  
  Daniel Firestone, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Derek Chiou, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Matt Humphrey, Kalin Ovtcharov, Jitu Padhye, Doug Burger, Dave Maltz, Albert Greenberg, Sambhrama Mundkur, Alireza Dabagh, Mike Andrewartha, Vivek Bhanu, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Somesh Chaturmohta, Jack Lavier, Norman Lam, Fengfen Liu, Gautham Popuri, Shachar Raindel, Tejas Sapre, Mark Shaw, Gabriel Silva, Madhan Sivakumar, Nisheeth Srivastava, Anshuman Verma, Qasim Zuhair, Deepak Bansal, Kushagra Vaid, David A. Maltz
  
  15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | April 2018
  
  PDF Project Project
- A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture
  
  Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Andrew Putnam, Hari Angepat, Jeremy Fowers, Michael Haselman, Stephen Heil, Matt Humphrey, Puneet Kaur, Joo-Young Kim, Daniel Lo, Todd Massengill, Kalin Ovtcharov, Michael Papamichael, Lisa Woods, Sitaram Lanka, Derek Chiou, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture | October 2016
  
  PDF Project
- A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs
  
  Jeremy Fowers, Joo-Young Kim, Doug Burger, Scott Hauck
  
  The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2015
  
  PDF Project Project
- PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users
  
  Gennady Pekhimenko, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Oriana Riva, Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '15) | May 2015
  
  PDF
- General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, A. Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Bradley Thwaites, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, A. Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2014
  
  IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences Honorable Mention 2016
  
  DOI Publication Publication
- A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services
  
  Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, Eric Chung, Derek Chiou, Kypros Constantinides, John Demme, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Jeremy Fowers, Jan Gray, Michael Haselman, Scott Hauck, Stephen Heil, Amir Hormati, Joo-Young Kim, Sitaram Lanka, Eric Peterson, Aaron Smith, Jason Thong, Phillip Yi Xiao, Doug Burger, Jim Larus, Gopi Prashanth Gopal, Simon Pope
  
  Proceeding of the 41st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecuture (ISCA) | June 2014
  
  ISBN: 978-1-4799-4394-4
  
  Selected as an IEEE Micro TopPick
  
  PDF Publication Video Project
- A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer
  
  Joo-Young Kim, Scott Hauck, Doug Burger
  
  IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines | May 2014
  
  PDF Project
- EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores
  
  Milovan Duric, Oscar Palomar, Aaron Smith, Osman Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Mateo Valero, Doug Burger
  
  Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Using Managed Runtime Systems to Tolerate Holes in Wearable Memories
  
  Tiejun Gao, Karin Strauss, Stephen M Blackburn, Doug Burger, James Larus, Kathryn McKinley, Jim Larus, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation | June 2013
  
  PDF
- How to Implement Effective Prediction and Forwarding for Fusable Dynamic Multicore Architectures
  
  Behnam Robatmili, Dong Li, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Andrew Putnam, Doug Burger, Stephen Keckler
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) | February 2013
  
  19th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
  
  PDF
- Preventing PCM Banks from Seizing Too Much Power
  
  Andrew Hay, Karin Strauss, Timothy Sherwood, Gabriel H. Loh, Doug Burger
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture) | December 2011
  
  MICRO-44 (International Symposium on Microarchitecture)
  
  PDF
- Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling
  
  H. Esmaeilzadeh, Emily R. Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture | June 2011
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks and Communications of the ACM Research Highlights
  
  DOI Publication
- Pocket Cloudlets
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  ASPLOS 2011 (International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2011
  
  PDF
- Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System
  
  Andrew Putnam, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger
  
  1st International Workshop on Highly-efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies | June 2010
  
  PDF
- Use ECP, not ECC, for Hard Failures in Resistive Memories
  
  Stuart Schechter, , Karin Strauss, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture) | June 2010
  
  ISCA 2010 (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)
  
  PDF
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative
  
  Benjamin Lee, Engin Ipek, Onur Mutlu, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) | June 2009
  
  PDF
- An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System
  
  Mark Gebhart, Bertrand A. Maher, Katherine E. Coons, Jeff Diamond, Paul Gratz, Mario Marino, Nitya Ranganathan, Behnam Robatmili, Aaron Smith, James Burrill, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger, Kathryn S McKinley
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | March 2009
  
  Publication
- Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction
  
  Renee St. Amant, Daniel A. Jiménez, Doug Burger
  
  International Symposium on Microarchitecture | November 2008
  
  Selected for IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences
  
  DOI Publication
- Software Infrastructure and Tools for the TRIPS Prototype
  
  Bill Yoder, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Kevin Bush, Katie Coons, Mark Gebhart, S. Govindan, Bert Maher, Ramadass Nagarajan, B. Robatmili, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Sadia Sharif, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  3rd Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation (MoBS) | June 2007
  
  PDF
- Dataflow Predication
  
  Aaron Smith, Ramadass Nagarajan, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) | December 2006
  
  PDF
- Compiling for EDGE Architectures
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Jon Gibson, Bertrand Maher, Nick Nethercote, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Kathryn McKinley
  
  4th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) | March 2006
  
  PDF Publication
- RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling
  
  Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation
  
  Renee St. Amant, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jongse Park, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Arjang Hassibi, Luis Ceze, Doug Burger
  
  ISCA@50 25-Year Retrospective: 1996-2020 | Published by ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA | 2023
  
  Publication Project Project
- Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO
  
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, Doug Burger
  
  MSR-TR-2010-15 | February 2010
  
  PDF
- Compiler-Assisted Hybrid Operand Communication
  
  Dong Li, Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Aaron Smith, Doug Burger, Steve Keckler
  
  TR-09-33 | November 2009
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Bill Yoder, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-22 | October 2006
  
  Published by University of Texas
  
  Proceedings of Fifteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, ® Stockholm, Sweden
  
  PDF
- TRIPS Intermediate Language (TIL) Manual
  
  Aaron Smith, Jon Gibson, Jim Burrill, Robert McDonald, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Kathryn McKinley
  
  TR-05-20 | October 2006
  
  Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2
  
  PDF

Doug Burger

Publications

GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models

AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation

Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis

Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation

Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point

A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI

Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud

Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave

Configurable Clouds

A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture

A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)

A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs

PocketTrend: Timely Identification and Delivery of Trending Search Content to Mobile Users

Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability

A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation

A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer

EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

Using Managed Runtime Systems to Tolerate Holes in Wearable Memories

How to Implement Effective Prediction and Forwarding for Fusable Dynamic Multicore Architectures

Power challenges may end the multicore era

Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

Preventing PCM Banks from Seizing Too Much Power

Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling

Pocket Cloudlets

Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore Architecture

Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System

Use ECP, not ECC, for Hard Failures in Resistive Memories

Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories

Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO

Compiler-Assisted Hybrid Operand Communication

Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory

Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative

An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System

Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study

Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction

Software Infrastructure and Tools for the TRIPS Prototype

Dataflow Predication

TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual

TRIPS Intermediate Language (TIL) Manual

Compiling for EDGE Architectures

GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models

AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation

RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation

Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point

A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI

Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave

General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation

Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study

Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction

Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis

Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services

RETROSPECTIVE: Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

RETROSPECTIVE: General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation

Pushing the Limits of Narrow Precision Inferencing at Cloud Scale with Microsoft Floating Point

A Configurable Cloud-Scale DNN Processor for Real-Time AI

Azure Accelerated Networking: SmartNICs in the Public Cloud

Serving DNNs in Real Time at Datacenter Scale with Project Brainwave

Configurable Clouds

A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture

A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services (IEEE MICRO Top Pick)

A Scalable High-Bandwidth Architecture for Lossless Compression on FPGAs

Scaling Power and Performance via Processor Composability

General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation

A Scalable Multi-engine Xpress9 Compressor with Asynchronous Data Transfer

EVX: Vector Execution on Low Power EDGE Cores

Power challenges may end the multicore era

Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

Dark silicon and the end of multicore scaling

Dynamic Vectorization in the E2 Dynamic Multicore System

Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM Alternative

An Evaluation of the TRIPS Computer System

Mixed-Signal Approximate Computation: A Neural Predictor Case Study

Low-power, high-performance analog neural branch prediction

TRIPS Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual

Retrospective: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services