We’d like to congratulate Christina Giannoula on receiving the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from her home university National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) for her PhD thesis on “Accelerating Irregular Applications via Efficient Synchronization and Data Access Techniques“.
The Iakovos Gyourunlian PhD award recognizes the best doctoral thesis with a subject of industrial interest in the School of Electrical of Engineering & Computer Engineering at NTUA and was given through the Michael N. Stasinopoulos Charitable Foundation.
Christina completed her PhD in Sept 2022 and was co-advised by Onur Mutlu. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto in the EcoSystem research group of Gennady Pekhimenko and continues to have strong collaborations with our group working on hardware/software co-design of emerging applications, designing scalable memory hierarchies and efficient hardware support for synchronization and concurrency.
Congratulations, Christina, on this well-deserved award!
Award News: NTUA/Michael N. Stasinopoulos Charitable Foundation
Read more:
Christina wrote about her experiences with our group in an interview in our January 2021 Newsletter.
Christina’s website: https://cgiannoula.github.io/
Christina Giannoula, (defended 27 September 2022)
Thesis title: “Accelerating Irregular Applications via Efficient Synchronization and Data Access Techniques“, PhD Thesis, National Technical University of Athens
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Thesis arXiv (pdf)]
[SAFARI Live Seminar Video (with Q&A); SAFARI Live Seminar Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
Core PhD Contributions with SAFARI:
Christina Giannoula, Ivan Fernandez, Juan Gomez-Luna, Nectarios Koziris, Georgios Goumas, and Onur Mutlu,
“SparseP: Towards Efficient Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on Real Processing-In-Memory Architectures”
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Mumbai, India, June 2022.
[Extended arXiv Version]
[Abstract]
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Long Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[SparseP Source Code]
[Talk Video (16 minutes)]
[Long Talk Video (55 minutes)]
Christina Giannoula, Nandita Vijaykumar, Nikela Papadopoulou, Vasileios Karakostas, Ivan Fernandez, Juan Gómez-Luna, Lois Orosa, Nectarios Koziris, Georgios Goumas, and Onur Mutlu,
“SynCron: Efficient Synchronization Support for Near-Data-Processing Architectures”
Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Virtual, February-March 2021.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Short Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (21 minutes)]
[Short Talk Video (7 minutes)]
[SAFARI Live Seminar Video (1 hr 29 mins)]
Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Nandita Vijaykumar, Christina Giannoula, Roknoddin Azizi, Skanda Koppula, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Taha Shahroodi, Juan Gomez-Luna, and Onur Mutlu,
“SMASH: Co-designing Software Compression and Hardware-Accelerated Indexing for Efficient Sparse Matrix Operations”
Proceedings of the 52nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Columbus, OH, USA, October 2019.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Lightning Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Poster (pptx) (pdf)]
[Lightning Talk Video (90 seconds)]
[Full Talk Lecture (30 minutes)]
Juan Gomez-Luna, Izzat El Hajj, Ivan Fernandez, Christina Giannoula, Geraldo F. Oliveira, and Onur Mutlu,
“Benchmarking a New Paradigm: Experimental Analysis and Characterization of a Real Processing-in-Memory System”
IEEE Access, 10 May 2022.
[arXiv version]
[PrIM Benchmarks Source Code]
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Long Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Short Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[SAFARI Live Seminar Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[SAFARI Live Seminar Video (2 hrs 57 mins)]
[Lightning Talk Video (3 minutes)]
[Short Talk Video (21 minutes)]
[1-hour Talk Video (58 minutes)]
Ivan Fernandez, Ricardo Quislant, Christina Giannoula, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gómez-Luna, Eladio Gutiérrez, Oscar Plata, and Onur Mutlu,
“NATSA: A Near-Data Processing Accelerator for Time Series Analysis”
Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Virtual, October 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (10 minutes)]
[Source Code]
Core PhD Contributions with NTUA:
High-Performance and Balanced Parallel Graph Coloring on Multicore Platforms Journal of Supercomputing 2022 Christina Giannoula, Athanasios Peppas, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris
An Adaptive Concurrent Priority Queue for NUMA Architectures CF 2019 Foteini Strati*, Christina Giannoula*, Dimitrios Siakavaras, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris * Joint first authors
Combining HTM with RCU to Speed up Graph Coloring on Multicore Platforms ISC 2018 Christina Giannoula, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris