Mark Smotherman Associate Professor School of Computing Clemson University office: 108 McAdams Hall email: mark at clemson.edu phone: (864) 656-5878

CV former students publications

Spring 2013 Courses

• CPSC 322 / section 1 - Introduction to Operating Systems

• CPSC 330 / section 1 - Computer Systems Organization

Student Resources at Clemson

• Academic Success Center, provides materials and workshops on improving study skills and offers services such as individual academic counseling

• Graduate Students
  • New Student Page at Graduate School
  • New Student Page at Office of International Affairs

  • 2012-2013 School of Computing Graduate Student Handbook (pdf)
  • 2011-2012 School of Computing Graduate Student Handbook (pdf)

  • PhD timeline (pdf)
  • recent School of Computing theses and dissertations
  • Graduate School deadlines

  • general links for students considering graduate school

Research Interests

My research interests include computer architecture and system modeling. Possible projects that students could do under my supervision span this kind of range:

• microarchitecture
• instruction sets (e.g., EPIC, VLIW)
• selected OS topics (e.g., interrupt handling structures)
• workload analysis / performance and reliability models
• selected parallel programming topics
  • multicore/multithreading approaches such as Intel's Threading Building Blocks and RapidMind's modules
  • The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley

Computer Architecture Links

• Parallel Computing Laboratory, UC Berkeley
• Parallel@Illinois
• Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, Stanford

• ACM SIGARCH
• ACM SIGMICRO
• TC-microARCH
• HPCA
• WWW Computer Architecture Home Page (at Univ. Wisconsin)
• Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory EE380 Colloquium Series

• my page on computer architects
• my pages on computer architecture history
• IBM Stretch history page
• IBM ACS history page

• my pages on SPARC assembly language