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Mike Sullivan

Mike Sullivan is a senior research scientist in the Architecture Research Group, working out of Austin, TX. His main research interest is the design of efficient and dependable large-scale computer systems. Specifically, he has studied system-level reliability modeling with cross-layer coordination, strong memory system protection, low-cost pipeline protection, and efficient and reliable application-specific acceleration. He received a PhD in computer architecture from the University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Mattan Erez and Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr., and holds previous master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science, computer engineering and mathematics from George Mason University.

Research Area(s)
Algorithms and Numerical Methods
Computer Architecture
Resilience and Safety
Main Field of Interest
Computer Architecture
Google Scholar
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Publications

2022

Saving PAM4 Bus Energy with SMOREs: Sparse Multi-level Opportunistic Restricted Encodings
Mike O'Connor, Donghyuk Lee, Niladrish Chatterjee, Mike Sullivan, Steve Keckler
IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)

2021

Suraksha: A Framework to Analyze the Safety Implications of Perception Design Choices in AVs
Hengyu Zhao, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Mike Sullivan, Steve Keckler, Jishen Zhao
IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Optimizing Selective Protection for CNN Resilience
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Characterizing and Mitigating Soft Errors in GPU DRAM
Mike Sullivan, Nirmal Saxena, Mike O'Connor, Donghyuk Lee, Paul Racunas, Saurabh Hukerikar, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Steve Keckler
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
NVBitFI: Dynamic Fault Injection for GPUs
Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Oreste Villa, Steve Keckler
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Making Convolutions Resilient via Algorithm-Based Error Detection Techniques
Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

2020

GPU-Trident: Efficient Modeling of Error Propagation in GPU Programs
Abdul Rehman Anwer, Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storag…
AV-FUZZER: Finding Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems
Guanpeng Li, Yiran Li, Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Mike Sullivan, Siva Hari, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar Iyer
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISREE)
Best Research Paper, ISSRE 2020
Making Convolutions Resilient via Algorithm-Based Error Detection Techniques
Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
arXiv
Buddy Compression: Enabling Larger Memory for Deep Learning and HPC Workloads on GPUs
Esha Chouske, Mike Sullivan, Mike O'Connor, Mattan Erez, Jeff Pool, David Nellans, Steve Keckler
Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA …
Estimating Silent Data Corruption Rates Using a Two-Level Model
Siva Hari, Paolo Rech, Timothy Tsai, Mark Stephenson, Arslan Zulfiqar, Mike Sullivan, Philip Shirvani, Paul Racunas, Joel Emer, Steve Keckler
arxiv.org
Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNS
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Christopher W. Fletcher, Sarita V. Adve, Charbel Sakr, Naresh Shanbhag, Pavlo Molchanov, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
Workshop on Secure and Resilient Autonomy

2019

GPU Snapshot: Checkpoint Offloading for GPU-Dense Systems
Kyushick Lee, Mike Sullivan, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler, Mattan Erez
International Conference on Supercomputing
On the Trend of Resilience for GPU-Dense Systems
Kyushick Lee, Mike Sullivan, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler, Mattan Erez
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
ML-based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection
Saurabh Jha, Subho Banerjee, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2019)

2018

Optimizing Software-Directed Instruction Replication for GPU Error Detection
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage a…
Evaluating and Accelerating High-Fidelity Error Injection for HPC
Chun-Kai Chang, Sangkug Lym, Nicholas Kelly, Mike Sullivan, Mattan Erez
The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage…
Kayotee: A Fault Injection-based System to Assess the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles to Faults and Errors
Saurabh Jha, Timothy Tsai, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Steve Keckler, Ravishankar K. Iyer
Third IEEE International Workshop on Automotive Reliability & Test
SwapCodes: Error Codes for Hardware-Software Cooperative GPU Pipeline Error Detection
Mike Sullivan, Siva Hari, Brian Zimmer, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)
CRUM: Checkpoint-Restart Support for CUDA's Unified Memory
Rohan Garg, Apoorve Mohan, Mike Sullivan, Gene Cooperman
The International Conference on Cluster Computing (IEEE CLUSTER)
Modeling Soft Error Propagation in Programs
Guanpeng Li, Karthik Pattabiraman, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Hamartia: A Fast and Accurate Error Injection Framework
Chun-Kai Chang, Sangkug Lym, Nicholas Kelly, Mike Sullivan, Mattan Erez
The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)

2017

Understanding Error Propagation in Deep Learning Neural Network (DNN) Accelerators and Applications
Guanpeng Li, Siva Hari, Mike Sullivan, Timothy Tsai, Karthik Pattabiraman, Joel Emer, Steve Keckler
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storag…

2016

All-Inclusive ECC: Thorough End-to-End Protection for Reliable Computer Memory
Jungrae Kim, Mike Sullivan, Sangkug Lym, Mattan Erez
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
An Analytical Model for Hardened Latch Selection and Exploration
Mike Sullivan, Brian Zimmer, Siva Hari, Timothy Tsai, Steve Keckler
Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic--System Effects (SELSE)