Basem A. Nayfeh

bnayfeh@ogun.stanford.edu

Current Info

I'm the Chief Scientist at Revenue Science after my company was acquired in April 2001. In the "old days" my work was in the area of single-chip multiprocessors (now known as dual-core or multi-core processors). Some papers on the subject and my thesis (The Case for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor) are below. It's really cool to see that they are now becomming commercially available.

Used to be Current Info

I have started an e-commerce technology startup with some other Stanford and MIT guys... Check it out at http://www.corelation.com

Old Info

Research Scientist at Compaq/Digital's Western Research Lab in Palo Alto.

Even Older Info

I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working in the Computer Systems Laboratory under Kunle Olukotun.

My research is in the area of Single-Chip Multiprocessors, and I'm part of a group working on the Stanford Hydra Microprocessor, a next generation, shared-cache, microarchitecture.

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, 1992.
MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, 1993.
PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, 1998

Thesis

The Case for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor
Basem A. Nayfeh
September 1998
Available as: PDF

Recent Publications

A Single-Chip Multiprocessor
Lance Hammond, Basem A. Nayfeh and Kunle Olukotun,
To appear in the IEEE Computer Special Issue on "Billion-Transistor Processors", September 1997.
Available as:
Software and Hardware for Exploiting Speculative Parallelism with a Multiprocessor
Jeffery Oplinger, David Heine, Shih-Wei Liao, Basem A. Nayfeh, Monica S. Lam and Kunle Olukotun
Stanford University Computer Systems Lab Technical Report CSL-TR-97-715, 1997.
Available as: PDF Postscript
The Case for a Single-Chip Multiprocessor
Kunle Olukotun, Basem A. Nayfeh, Lance Hammond, Ken Wilson and Kun-Yung Chang
Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Architectural Support for Parallel Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII), October 1996.
Available as: PDF Postscript
Evaluation of Design Alternatives for a Multiprocessor Microprocessor
Basem A. Nayfeh, Lance Hammond and Kunle Olukotun
Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-23), May 1996.
Available as: PDF Postscript
The Impact of Shared-Cache Clustering in Small-Scale Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
Basem A. Nayfeh, Kunle Olukotun and Jaswinder Pal Singh
Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2), February 1996.
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The Benefits of Clustering in Shared Address Space Multiprocessors: An Applications Driven Investigation
Andrew J. Erlichson, Basem A. Nayfeh, Jaswinder Pal Singh and Kunle Olukotun
Proceedings of Supercomputing'95, December 1995.
Available as: HTML Postscript
Exploring the Design Space for a Shared-Cache Multiprocessor
Basem A. Nayfeh and Kunle Olukotun
Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-21), February 1994.
Available as: PDF Postscript
Rationale and Design of the Hydra Multiprocessor
Note: This is the original MCM based design
Kunle Olukotun, Jules Bergmann, Kun-Yung Chang and Basem A. Nayfeh
Stanford Technical Report CSL-TR-94-645, Stanford University, 1994.
Available as: Postscript
Using a Cellular Automata to Solve Mazes
Basem A. Nayfeh
Dr. Dobb's Journal, February, 1993.
Available as: HTML