Brian Towles

According to our database, Brian Towles authored at least 31 papers between 2001 and 2024.

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2024

Resiliency at Scale: Managing Google's TPUv4 Machine Learning Supercomputer.

Yazhou Zu, Alireza Ghaffarkhah, Hoang-Vu Dang, Brian Towles, Steven Hand, Safeen Huda, Adekunle Bello, Alexander Kolbasov, Arash Rezaei, Dayou Du, Steve Lacy, Hang Wang, Aaron Wisner, Chris Lewis, Henri Bahini

Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2024

2023

TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings.

Norman P. Jouppi, George Kurian, Sheng Li, Peter C. Ma, Rahul Nagarajan, Lifeng Nai, Nishant Patil, Suvinay Subramanian, Andy Swing, Brian Towles, Cliff Young, Xiang Zhou, Zongwei Zhou, David A. Patterson

Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2023

2022

The Specialized High-Performance Network on Anton 3.

Keun Sup Shim, Brian Greskamp, Brian Towles, Bruce Edwards, J. P. Grossman, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 2022

2021

Anton 3: twenty microseconds of molecular dynamics simulation before lunch.

David E. Shaw, Peter J. Adams, Asaph Azaria, Joseph A. Bank, Brannon Batson, Alistair Bell, Michael Bergdorf, Jhanvi Bhatt, J. Adam Butts, Timothy Correia, Robert M. Dirks, Ron O. Dror, Michael P. Eastwood, Bruce Edwards, Amos Even, Peter Feldmann, Michael Fenn, Christopher H. Fenton, Anthony Forte, Joseph Gagliardo, Gennette Gill, Maria Gorlatova, Brian Greskamp, J. P. Grossman, Justin Gullingsrud, Anissa Harper, William Hasenplaugh, Mark Heily, Benjamin Colin Heshmat, Jeremy Hunt, Douglas J. Ierardi, Lev Iserovich, Bryan L. Jackson, Nick P. Johnson, Mollie M. Kirk, John L. Klepeis, Jeffrey S. Kuskin, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Roy J. Mader, Richard McGowen, Adam McLaughlin, Mark A. Moraes, Mohamed H. Nasr, Lawrence J. Nociolo, Lief O'Donnell, Andrew Parker, Jon L. Peticolas, Goran Pocina, Cristian Predescu, Terry Quan, John K. Salmon, Carl Schwink, Keun Sup Shim, Naseer Siddique, Jochen Spengler, Tamas Szalay, Raymond Tabladillo, Reinhard Tartler, Andrew G. Taube, Michael Theobald, Brian Towles, William Vick, Stanley C. Wang, Michael Wazlowski, Madeleine J. Weingarten, John M. Williams, Kevin A. Yuh

Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, 2021

The ΛNTON 3 ASIC: a Fire-Breathing Monster for Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Peter J. Adams, Brannon Batson, Alistair Bell, Jhanvi Bhatt, J. Adam Butts, Timothy Correia, Bruce Edwards, Peter Feldmann, Christopher H. Fenton, Anthony Forte, Joseph Gagliardo, Gennette Gill, Maria Gorlatova, Brian Greskamp, J. P. Grossman, Jeremy Hunt, Bryan L. Jackson, Mollie M. Kirk, Jeffrey Kuskin, Roy J. Mader, Richard McGowen, Adam McLaughlin, Mark A. Moraes, Mohamed Nasr, Lawrence J. Nociolo, Lief O'Donnell, Andrew Parker, Jon L. Peticolas, Terry Quan, T. Carl Schwink, Keun Sup Shim, Naseer Siddique, Jochen Spengler, Michael Theobald, Brian Towles, William Vick, Stanley C. Wang, Michael E. Wazlowski, Madeleine J. Weingarten, John M. Williams, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the IEEE Hot Chips 33 Symposium, 2021

2015

Filtering, Reductions and Synchronization in the Anton 2 Network.

J. P. Grossman, Brian Towles, Brian Greskamp, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2015

2014

Anton 2: Raising the Bar for Performance and Programmability in a Special-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Supercomputer.

David E. Shaw, J. P. Grossman, Joseph A. Bank, Brannon Batson, J. Adam Butts, Jack C. Chao, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, Amos Even, Christopher H. Fenton, Anthony Forte, Joseph Gagliardo, Gennette Gill, Brian Greskamp, C. Richard Ho, Douglas J. Ierardi, Lev Iserovich, Jeffrey Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, Timothy Layman, Li-Siang Lee, Adam K. Lerer, Chester Li, Daniel Killebrew, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Shark Yeuk-Hai Mok, Mark A. Moraes, Rolf Mueller, Lawrence J. Nociolo, Jon L. Peticolas, Terry Quan, Daniel Ramot, John K. Salmon, Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, U. Ben Schafer, Naseer Siddique, Christopher W. Snyder, Jochen Spengler, Ping Tak Peter Tang, Michael Theobald, Horia Toma, Brian Towles, Benjamin Vitale, Stanley C. Wang, Cliff Young

Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, 2014

Unifying on-chip and inter-node switching within the Anton 2 network.

Brian Towles, J. P. Grossman, Brian Greskamp, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2014

2013

A detailed and flexible cycle-accurate Network-on-Chip simulator.

Nan Jiang, Daniel U. Becker, George Michelogiannakis, James D. Balfour, Brian Towles, David E. Shaw, John Kim, William J. Dally

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems & Software, 2013

The role of cascade, a cycle-based simulation infrastructure, in designing the anton special-purpose supercomputers.

J. P. Grossman, Brian Towles, Joseph A. Bank, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference 2013, 2013

Hardware support for fine-grained event-driven computation in Anton 2.

J. P. Grossman, Jeffrey Kuskin, Joseph A. Bank, Michael Theobald, Ron O. Dror, Douglas J. Ierardi, Richard H. Larson, U. Ben Schafer, Brian Towles, Cliff Young, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2013

2011

Overcoming Communication Latency Barriers in Massively Parallel Scientific Computation.

Ron O. Dror, J. P. Grossman, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Brian Towles, Edmond Chow, John K. Salmon, Cliff Young, Joseph A. Bank, Brannon Batson, Martin M. Deneroff, Jeffrey Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, Mark A. Moraes, David E. Shaw

IEEE Micro, 2011

2010

Exploiting 162-Nanosecond End-to-End Communication Latency on Anton.

Ron O. Dror, J. P. Grossman, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Brian Towles, Edmond Chow, John K. Salmon, Cliff Young, Joseph A. Bank, Brannon Batson, Martin M. Deneroff, Jeffrey Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, Mark A. Moraes, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the Conference on High Performance Computing Networking, 2010

2009

Millisecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations on Anton.

David E. Shaw, Ron O. Dror, John K. Salmon, J. P. Grossman, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Joseph A. Bank, Cliff Young, Martin M. Deneroff, Brannon Batson, Kevin J. Bowers, Edmond Chow, Michael P. Eastwood, Doug Ierardi, John L. Klepeis, Jeffrey Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Paul Maragakis, Mark A. Moraes, Stefano Piana, Yibing Shan, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing, 2009

2008

Anton, a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulation.

David E. Shaw, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, Jeffrey Kuskin, Richard H. Larson, John K. Salmon, Cliff Young, Brannon Batson, Kevin J. Bowers, Jack C. Chao, Michael P. Eastwood, Joseph Gagliardo, J. P. Grossman, C. Richard Ho, Doug Ierardi, István Kolossváry, John L. Klepeis, Timothy Layman, Christine McLeavey, Mark A. Moraes, Rolf Mueller, Edward C. Priest, Yibing Shan, Jochen Spengler, Michael Theobald, Brian Towles, Stanley C. Wang

Commun. ACM, 2008

Hierarchical simulation-based verification of Anton, a special-purpose parallel machine.

J. P. Grossman, John K. Salmon, C. Richard Ho, Doug Ierardi, Brian Towles, Brannon Batson, Jochen Spengler, Stanley C. Wang, Rolf Mueller, Michael Theobald, Cliff Young, Joseph Gagliardo, Martin M. Deneroff, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computer Design, 2008

2005

Microarchitecture of a High-Radix Router.

John Kim, William J. Dally, Brian Towles, Amit K. Gupta

Proceedings of the 32st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2005), 2005

2004

Globally Adaptive Load-Balanced Routing on Tori.

Arjun Singh, William J. Dally, Brian Towles, Amit K. Gupta

IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett., 2004

Adaptive channel queue routing on k-ary n-cubes.

Arjun Singh, William J. Dally, Amit K. Gupta, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the SPAA 2004: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, 2004

2003

Guaranteed scheduling for switches with configuration overhead.

Brian Towles, William J. Dally

IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., 2003

Throughput-centric routing algorithm design.

Brian Towles, William J. Dally, Stephen P. Boyd

Proceedings of the SPAA 2003: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, 2003

GOAL: A Load-Balanced Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Torus Networks.

Arjun Singh, William J. Dally, Amit K. Gupta, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2003), 2003

Exploring the VLSI Scalability of Stream Processors.

Brucek Khailany, William J. Dally, Scott Rixner, Ujval J. Kapasi, John D. Owens, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'03), 2003

2002

Worst-case Traffic for Oblivious Routing Functions.

Brian Towles, William J. Dally

IEEE Comput. Archit. Lett., 2002

Locality-preserving randomized oblivious routing on torus networks.

Arjun Singh, William J. Dally, Brian Towles, Amit K. Gupta

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, 2002

Media Processing Applications on the Imagine Stream Processor.

John D. Owens, Scott Rixner, Ujval J. Kapasi, Peter R. Mattson, Brian Towles, Ben Serebrin, William J. Dally

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2002), 2002

VLSI Design and Verification of the Imagine Processor.

Brucek Khailany, William J. Dally, Andrew Chang, Ujval J. Kapasi, Jinyung Namkoong, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2002), 2002

Scalable Opto-Electronic Network (SOENet).

Amit K. Gupta, William J. Dally, Arjun Singh, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOTIC 2002), August 21, 2002

Comparing Reyes and OpenGL on a Stream Architecture.

John D. Owens, Brucek Khailany, Brian Towles, William J. Dally

Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Conference on Graphics Hardware, 2002

2001

Imagine: Media Processing with Streams.

Brucek Khailany, William J. Dally, Ujval J. Kapasi, Peter R. Mattson, Jinyung Namkoong, John D. Owens, Brian Towles, Andrew Chang, Scott Rixner

IEEE Micro, 2001

Route Packets, Not Wires: On-Chip Interconnection Networks.

William J. Dally, Brian Towles

Proceedings of the 38th Design Automation Conference, 2001