Kazuaki Murakami (murakami@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp)

Professor of Department of Informatics at Kyushu University in Japan

(Formerly, Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering )

Table of Contents

Addresses
Education
Courses
Membership
Research Interests, Projects, and Summary

SysteMorph (Dynamic HW/ISA/SW Co-optimization) Project
SmartCore Project
EHPC (Embedded High-Performance Computing) Project
PPRAM (Parallel Processing Random Access Memory) Project
MOE (Molecular Orbital calculation Engine) Project
other projects

PPRAM Consortium
Laboratory, Graduate Students, and Alumni
Major Publications
Books
Journal
Newspaper/Magazine Articles
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Addresses:

Department of Informatics
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Kyushu University
6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga
Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan

murakami@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Phone: (+81)92-583-7640
Fax: (+81)92-583-1338

Education:

Ph.D. (Computer Science) Kyoto University - Japan, 1993
M.E. (Computer Science) Kyoto University - Japan, 1984
B.E. (Computer Science) Kyoto University - Japan, 1982

Courses:

· Undergraduate School:

o Computer Architecture II (Course Home Page [Japanese])

o Operating Systems (Course Home Page [Japanese])

· Graduate School:

o Advanced Computer Architecture & Design (Course Home Page [Japanese])

Membership:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Computer Society
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE)
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (JSIAM)

Research Interests:

· Computer system architectures

o Advanced microprocessors

o High-performance/low-power embedded processors

o SOC (system-on-a-chip)

o CMP (chip multiprocessor)

o Embedded DRAM

o High-performance interconnect

· Parallel computing/processing

Compiling for parallel architectures
Performance evaluation
Architecture/Hardware Modeling and Optimization

Research Projects:

KRPP (Kyushu university Reconfigurable Parallel Processor): Apr. 1987 - Sept. 1991
SIMP (Single Instruction stream/Multiple instruction Pipelining) Processor: Apr. 1987 - July 1990 (succeeded by DSNS)
DSNS (Dynamically-hazard-resolved, Statically-code-scheduled, Nonuniform Superscalar) Processor: July 1990 - Mar. 1992
MSFV (Multithreaded, Streaming/FIFO Vector) Processor: Apr. 1988 - Mar. 1993
3MPRT (3-stage MacroPipelined Ray Tracing) Engine: Apr. 1988 - Aug. 1993
Hyperscalar Processor: Mar. 1991 - Mar. 1995
PPRAM (Parallel Processing Random Access Memory): Oct. 1994 -
MOE (Molecular Orbital calculation Engine): Apr. 1995 - 1999
SmartCore (Smart IP Cores for SysteMorph): July 1999 -
EHPC (Embedded High-Performance Computing): Apr. 2000 -
SysteMorph (System Morphing: Dynamic HW/ISA/SW Co-optimization): Nov. 2000 -

Graduate Students:

Koji Inoue (D3)
Koji Hashimoto (B.E. 1997, M.E. 1999, D2)
Katsuhiko Metsugi (B.E. 1998, M.E. 2000, D1)
Hidehiko Magoshi (D1)
Takanori Hayashida (B.E. 1999, M2)
Katsumi Togawa (B.E. 1999, M2)
Hidenori Hatae (B.E. 2000, M1)

Alumni:

Morihiro Kuga (M.E. 1989, Ph.D. 1992, Kumamoto Univ.)
Shin-ichiro Mori (M.E. 1989, Ph.D. 1993, Kyoto Univ.)
Kazumasa Hamaguchi (M.E. 1989, Canon)
Oubong Gwun (Ph.D. 1993)
Tetsuo Hironaka (M.E. 1990, Ph.D. 1993, Hiroshima City Univ.)
Naohiko Irie (B.E. 1988, M.E. 1990, Hitachi)
Tsunehiko Kamachi (B.E. 1988, M.E. 1990, NEC)
Eiji Iwata (B.E. 1989, M.E. 1991, SONY)
Koji Kai (B.E. 1989, M.E. 1991, Matsushita)
Tetsuya Hara (B.E. 1989, M.E. 1991, Mitsubishi)
Keizo Okazaki (B.E. 1990, M.E. 1992, Nissan)
Akira Nodomi (B.E. 1990, M.E. 1992, Fujitsu)
Naoya Tokunaga (B.E. 1991, M.E. 1993, Matsushita)
Seiji Murata (B.E. 1991, M.E. 1993, Fujitsu)
Takashi Hashimoto (B.E. 1991, M.E. 1993, Matsushita)
Katsuhiro Kunisa (B.E. 1993, M.E. 1995, Fujitsu)
Yasuhiko Saitoh (B.E. 1993, M.E. 1995, NEC)
Akira Yamaga (B.E. 1993, M.E. 1995, Toshiba)
Shigenobu Iwashita (B.E. 1994, M.E. 1996, deceased)
Hiroshi Miyajima (B.E. 1994, M.E. 1996, Matsushita)
Satoru Shirakawa (B.E. 1995, M.E. 1997, Fujitsu)
Takashi Yoshii (B.E. 1995, M.E. 1997, Hitachi)
Taku Ohsawa (M.E. 1998, NEC)
Koichi Okino (M.E. 1998, Mitsubishi)
Hiroto Tomita (B.E. 1997, M.E. 1999, Matsushita)
Masaya Yamasaki (B.E. 1997, M.E. 1999, Toshiba)
Yong Liu (B.E. 2000, Logic Research)

Research Summary

Major Publications

Books

Computer System Engineering (in Japanese),
with S. Tomita,
Shokodo, 1988.

J.L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (Japanese Edition),
with S. Tomita and H. Niimi,
Nikkei BP, 1992.

M. Johnson, Superscalar Microprocessor Design (Japanese Edition),
with M. Sato and A. Yoshida,
Nikkei BP, 1994.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles

Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun (Japan Economic and Industrial Journal), Mar. 6, 1995.

Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun (Japan Economic and Industrial Journal), May 11, 1995.

Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Japan Economic Journal), May 29, 1995.

Nikkei Microdevices, May, 1996.

Infordia, pp.62-63, July, 1996.

Nikkei Microdevices, pp.20-21, July, 1996.

PPRAM in Newspapers/Magazines