David E. Culler

Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley e-mail: culler@cs.berkeley.edu  Phone: (510) 643-7572,  Fax: (510) 643-7352 Computer Science Division #1776  627 Soda Hall University of California at Berkeley  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Currently on Industrial Leave  @ Arch Rock Corporation

TinyOS Technology Exchange III , Feb 10, 2006 @ Stanford

UCB Sensor Net Day  

Intel Research Lab @ Berkeley

Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach  David E. Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh

Research Projects

• PlanetLab - an open infrastructure for exploring planetary-scale services
• Wireless Embedded Sestems (WEbS) for Networked Embedded Systems Technology
• Tiny OS: Design Principles for Deeply Embedded Networked Systems
• The Endeavour Expedition: Charting the Fluid Information Utility
• Ninja - Platform architecture for Scalable Internet Services
• Post-PC Era (IBM Pervasive Computing Meetings)
• Millennium Clusters of Clusters on a Campus-wide Scale
• TITAN A Next-Generation Infrastructure for Integrating Computing and Communication.
• NOW: Network of Workstations as a High Performance Integrated System
• The Castle Project: Integrated software support for parallel computing.
• Split-C: A performance programming language for parallel machines.

Course Materials

• CS252 - Graduate Computer Architecture, Fall 2005.
  
• EECS150 - Digital Design Techniques, Fall 2004
  
• CS294-1 Deeply Embedded Network Systems, Fall 2003
  
• CS252 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2003
• CS252 Graduate Computer Architecture, Spring 2002
• CS298-1 System Seminar, Spring 2000
• CS294-8 Design of Deeply Networked Systems, Spring 2000
• CS258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1999
• CS294-11 Topics in System Design for the Post-PC Era, Spring 1999
• CS294-8 Advanced Topics in the Design of Systems of Systems Fall 1997.
• CS 61C Computer Structures
• CS267 Spring 1997
• CS 152 Computer Design and Engineering, Spring 1996
• CS 298-1 System Seminar, Spring 1996
• CS 258 Parallel Processors, Spring 1995

References

Current Graduate Students

• Robert Szewczyk,  PhD Candidate,  Sensor Network Design for Long-Lived Applications
  
• Kamin Whitehouse, PhD Candidate, Ad hoc localization and calibration
• Sukun Kim             PhD Candidate, Structures Monitoring
• Gilman Tolle           PhD Candidate, Sensor Network Managment, Microclimate Modeling
• Jonathan Hui          PhD Candidate
• Prabal Dutta           PhD Candidate
  

Former Students

• Phil Levis,               PhD 2005, Programming Models for Sensor Networks, Stanford University
  
• Joe Polastre,           PhD 2005, Habitat Monitoring, Wireless Networks, Moteiv Corp.
  
• Alec Woo,             PhD 2004, Wireless Embedded Networkin, Arched Rock
  
• Frederick Wong,   PhD 2004  Message Passing on Configurable Hardware
• Jason Hill               PhD 2003, Infrastructure Enabled Tiny Devices, JHL Labs
  
• Matt Welsh,           PhD 8/02, Staged Event-Driven Architecture for Robust Internet Services, Harvard
• Philip Buonadonna, PhD 2002 QP/IP, Intel Research
  
• Brent Chun,           PhD 12/01, System Support for Computational Economies, CIT, Intel, Arched Rock Corp.
  
• Alan Mainwaring,  PhD 11/99, Virtual Networks, Intel Research
• Richard Martin,     PhD 8/99  Performance Sensitivity, Asst. Prof. at Rutgers
  
• Andrea Dusseau,   Phd 11/98, Implicit Co-Scheduling, Asst. Prof at Wisconsin
• Steven Lumetta,    PhD 11/98, Multi-Protocol Communication,  Univ. Ill, Urbana-Champaign
• Seth Goldstein,      PhD, Lazy Threads,  CMU
• Thorsten von Eicken, PhD Active Messages, Cornell, , ExpertCity
• Klaus Schauser      PhD, Compilation of Non-strict Languages, Assoc. Prof. UCSB, ExpertCity
• Bruce Holmer         PhD, Automated Prolog Instruction Set Design, Northwestern

• Andrew Geweke,   MS, Economic-Based Resource Mgmt
• Chad Yoshikawa,   MS, Active Messages on Meiko CS-2
• Anurag Sah
• Steve Luna
• Lok Tin Liu
• Cedric Krumbein
• Martin Bell

Press Stuff

• Sun World, Dec 1996, "Can a `network of workstations' provide cheap, scalable supercomputing power?"
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 1999: Visionaries have a plan for life beyond the dull PC
• 800-node live ad hoc sensor network demo at Intel Developers Forum

Stuff for friends, relatives, and guinea pigs

• Susanne Culler Memorial
• Glen Culler Memorial
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