VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Shubham Bhawalkar
dblp:273/7291
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs · 53% Memory systems · 32% Processor architecture and microarchitecture · 16% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs › reconfigurable architecture
reconfigurable logic |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Post-Fabrication Microarchitecture · MICRO 2021 |
Processor architecture and microarchitecture
branch prediction |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Post-Fabrication Microarchitecture · MICRO 2021 |
Memory systems
cache |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Post-Fabrication Microarchitecture · MICRO 2021 |
Memory systems › cache › prefetching
data prefetching |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Post-Fabrication Microarchitecture · MICRO 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reconfigurable logic fabric · 0.5IPC analysis · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Post-Fabrication MicroarchitectureabstractMicroarchitectural enhancements that improve performance generally, across many workloads, are favored in superscalar processor design. Targeting general performance is necessary but it also constrains some microarchitecture innovation. We explore relieving this constraint, via a new paradigm called Post-Fabrication Microarchitecture (PFM). A high-performance superscalar core is coupled with a reconfigurable logic fabric, RF. A programmable interface, or Agent, allows for RF to observe and microarchitecturally intervene at key pipeline stages of the superscalar core. New microarchitectural components, specific to applications, are synthesized on-demand to RF. All instructions still flow through the superscalar pipeline, as usual, but their execution is streamlined (better instructions per cycle (IPC)) through microarchitectural intervention by RF. Our research shows that one can achieve large speedups of individual applications, by analyzing their bottlenecks and providing customized microarchitectural solutions to target these bottlenecks. Examples of PFM use-cases explored in this paper include custom branch predictors and data prefetchers. Chanchal Kumar, Anirudh Seshadri, Aayush Chaudhary, Shubham Bhawalkar, Eric Rotenberg |
MICRO | 4 |