406, Computer Studies Building, University of Rochester, NY

NITIN BHARDWAJ

Contact Number: 312-550-8717 (M)

http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~bhardwaj

Objective: -

Regular Full-Time position; available January 2008

Research Interests: -

Performance Modeling of Chip Multiprocessor’s, System Modeling, Coherence Protocols and Memory hierarchy design, Validation Architecture and Tools.

Education: -

· MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec, 2007

University of Rochester, NY (Current CGPA 3.9)

Relevant Courses: Advanced Computer Architecture, Digital Integrated Circuit

Design, VLSI Design Methodologies, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and Advanced Algorithms (MIT Online Courseware)

· B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering May, 2003

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India (Aggregate: 72%)

Professional Experience:

· INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA June 07- August 07

Worked as an Intern in Enterprise Microprocessor Group, Architecture Validation team

§ Developed a test generator for Cache Coherence Protocol verification - This test generator framework extracts micro-architectural events, conflict scenarios from Formal Model specification (TLA+ trace) of cache coherence protocol and automatically generates test cases.

§ Developed automated mechanisms to verify the sanity/correctness of the simulated test stimuli with a formal model trace.

· Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, NY

Advisor: Prof. Sandhya Dwarkadas and Prof. Michael Huang August 06 – May 07

§ Improving support for locality and fine-grain sharing in tiled based CMP architectures using GEMS/SIMICS system simulator framework.

§ Linux Kernel hacking and building infrastructure for virtual environment.

§ Performed detailed analysis of commercial workload application, scientific workload applications (Splash) and graph mining application on different platforms and system simulator GEMS/Ruby framework mainly studied coherence traffic pattern, scalability of parallel application and performance enhancements with thread binding.

§ Developed parallel version of different applications like Gaussian elimination, successive over relaxation (SOR) using Pthreads and MPI and analyzed their speed-up curves.

§ Lockbox Implementation for Fine grained hardware synchronization.

§ Implemented Victim Cache in simple-scalar to study the behavior of SpecInt, SpecFP benchmarks.

§ Developed report on comparing different research proposals in the area of Cache Design: NUMA, NuRAPID, CMP-NuRAPID, Cache Design for CMT (Clustered Multithreaded), Cooperative Caching, Adaptive Selective Replication Coherence Protocol: Token Coherence, Coherence Ordering for Ring based CMP, Adaptive Protocol for Migratory Shared Data.

§ Designed schematic and layout of 6-bit Dynamic Manchester Carry Chain Adder.

· INTEL CORPORATION, Bangalore, India March 2004 – July 2006

§ Member of Pre-Silicon unit, full-Chip and Post-Silicon system validation teams for

Intel’s next generation pt-2-pt message based server product.

§ Test plan development & execution to validate MP cache coherency, bus-cluster

(logical bus connecting several on-chip processors), system configuration agent and cross product of non-coherent and coherent x-86 transactions

§ Worked on DRIT (directed random instruction test) tool developing focused test cases to cover architectural and micro-architectural conditions.

§ Developed libraries for interrupt handlers, generating split-line accesses, inserting delay loops, and grouping similar instructions together e.g. create a group of arithmetic, logical, fast-string, XMM etc instructions.

§ Worked on enhancing IA32 assembly test to BFM (Behavioral Functional Model) test stream generator in Perl.

§ Worked on driving design requirements for a SV (System Validation) test generator mainly looked at virtualization technology (VT-x) usage model validation, how to improve test tool coverage space and end result-checking strategies.

· Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi July 2003 – Feb 2004

Advisor: Prof. M. Balakrishnan and Prof. Anshul Kumar

§ Exploring Cache Interface of LEON (SPARC arch) and interfacing local memory.

§ Testing in-house developed FPGA Board for Virtex series of Xilinx FPGA.

§ Assisted several under-graduate projects: MIPS Emulator, Case Study of ADM-XRC FPGA Board and Floating Point Unit Integration with Leon.

Skill set: -

· Programming Languages: C, C++, IA32 Assembly, Perl, Python

· Hardware D Language: VHDL, VERILOG, I-HDL

· Simulators: System Level Simulator (SIMICS), C-SIM and IA simulator

· Post-Silicon debug tools: Intel H/W debug tools (ITP)

· VLSI Tools: Specman, Spice, Cadence Virtuoso- Layout Editor, Leonardo Spectrum, Synplify Pro, FPGA Express, Xilinx Implementation Tools, ModelSim SE 5.7c, Protel

Honors: -

· Member of Paper Review Committee of ISCAS’2007

· Member of Paper Review Committee of HPCA’2008

· Won Intel DRA (Department Recognition Awards) for Quality, Result Orientation and Customer Orientation several times.

Citizenship Status: - F1 Student Visa

-Nitin Bhardwaj