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Christian Fensch School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) Informatics Forum 1.02, 10 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB, United Kingdom Tel: +44 131 650 5182 email: <C.Fensch @ ed.ac.uk>

I am a researcher in the CARD group and a member of NAIS.
I am a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow.

Research

My research interests revolve around the design of many-core architecture and its implications on programability. In particular, I am interested in:

• Patterns in parallel applications and exploiting these patterns in both software (programmability) and hardware (coherence mechanisms).
• Memory consistency and coherence model for many-core architectures.
• Transactional Memory and its usage in many-core architetures for consistency.
• Interaction of hardware and software in many-core architectures.

Refereed Conferences

• Proximity Coherence for Chip Multiprocessors
  Nick Barrow-Williams, Christian Fensch and Simon Moore,
  Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT '10).
• A Communication Characterisation of Splash-2 and Parsec
  Nick Barrow-Williams, Christian Fensch and Simon Moore,
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC '09).
• An OS-Based Alternative to Full Hardware Coherence on Tiled CMPs
  Christian Fensch and Marcelo Cintra,
  Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '08).

Journals

• PARTANS: An Autotuning Framework for Stencil Computation on Multi-GPU Systems
  Thibaut Lutz, Christian Fensch, and Murray Cole,
  ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol 9(4), 2013.
• Designing a Physical Locality Aware Coherence Protocol for Chip-Multiprocessors
  Christian Fensch, Nick Barrow-Williams, Robert Mullins, and Simon Moore,
  IEEE Transaction on Computer, Vol 62(5), May 2013.
• Auto-tuning Parallel Skeletons
  Alexander Collins, Christian Fensch, and Hugh Leather,
  Parallel Processing Letters, 22(02), 1240005 (16 pages), 2012.
• An Evaluation of an OS-Based Coherence Scheme for Tiled CMPs
  Christian Fensch and Marcelo Cintra,
  International Journal of Parallel Programming Vol 39(3), 2011.