Paolo Faraboschi
Intelligent Infrastructure Lab
Sant Cugat del Valles
Biography
Paolo is a Distinguished Technologist in the Exascale Computing Lab. He has been with HP Labs since 1994.
From 2004 to 2010, Paolo led a research group in Barcelona, Spain. The focus of the group was on system-level simulation and modeling of compute fabrics for next-generation computing systems. The COTSon simulator was released as open source in January 2010.
From 1995 to 2003 he was the technical lead of the "Custom-Fit Processors" Project at HP Labs Cambridge (MA). In that role, he was the principal architect of the instruction set architecture of the Lx/ST200 family of VLIW embedded processor cores (developed as a partnership between HP Labs and STMicroelectronics).
Paolo holds a Ph.D (Dottorato) in EECS (1993) and an M.S. (Laurea) in Electrical Engineering (1989) from the University of Genoa (Italy).
Research interests
Paolo's interests skirt the boundaries of hardware and software, including highly-parallel systems, virtualization, simulation, compilers, VLIW architectures and ILP
Publications
See publication page for details
Patents
16
Professional activities
Paolo is an active member of the computer architecture community, and regularly serves in program and organization committees. He was Program Chair for HiPEAC10 , MICRO41 (2008) and MICRO34 (2001) . He also was General Chair for MICRO38 , Progam Chair for CASES'03 and General Chair for CASES'05 . He is a co-author (with Josh Fisher and Cliff Young) of the book "Embedded Computing: a VLIW approach to architecture, compilers and tools" . Paolo also serves in the industrial advisory board of the HiPEAC European network of excellence on High Performance and Emedded Architectures and Compilers, and is currently an Associated Editor of ACM TACO (Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization)