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Hello! I am a final year PhD candidate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, supervised by Prof. Babak Falsafi.

I will be joining Oracle after my PhD, as a senior member of technical staff in Zurich!

My current research focus is the architecture of a CPU and SoC specifically tailored for use in the datacentre, encompassing a specialized microarchitecture, and integrated network interface. In general, my interests are an amalgamation of datacenter systems, networking, and CPU microarchitecture.

You can find my CV (updated February 2022) here.

Contact Me

mark /dot/ sutherland /at/ epfl /dot/ ch

EPFL IC ISIM PARSA INJ 239 (Bât. INJ) Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Sept. 2016 - Sept. 2022

Thesis: Hardware and Software Support for RPC-Centric Server Architecture
Supervisor: Prof. Babak Falsafi, Parallel Systems Architecture Lab (PARSA)

Master of Applied Science (MASc.), University of Toronto, Sept. 2014 - Jul. 2016

Thesis: Co-Locating Code and Data for Energy Efficient CPUs

Supervisor: Prof. Natalie Enright Jerger, Percy Hart Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bachelor of Applied Science (BApSc.) - Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Sept. 2009 - Jun. 2014

Thesis: Security: At What Price? Investigating the Hardware Cost of Physical Layer Security in Communication Systems

Supervised by Prof. Vaughn Betz and Prof. Ashish Khisti

Publications

Cooperative Concurrency Control for Write-Intensive Key-Value Workloads

Mark Sutherland, Babak Falsafi, and Alexandros Daglis

In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS'23. (Paper accepted and will appear.)

Cerebros: Evading the RPC Tax in Datacenters

Arash Pourhabibi, Mark Sutherland, Alexandros Daglis, and Babak Falsafi

In Proceedings of the 54th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO'21). October 2021.

The NeBuLa RPC-Optimized Architecture

Mark Sutherland, Siddharth Gupta, Babak Falsafi, Virendra J. Marathe, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, and Alexandros Daglis

In Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'20). June 2020.

Optimus Prime: Accelerating Data Transformation in Servers

Arash Pourhabibi, Siddharth Gupta, Hussein Kassir, Mark Sutherland, Zilu Tian, Mario Drumond, Babak Falsafi, and Christoph Koch

In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS'20. March 2020.

RPCValet: NI-Driven, Tail-Aware Balancing of us-Scale RPCs

Alexandros Daglis, Mark Sutherland, and Babak Falsafi

In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS'19, April 2019.

Design Guidelines for High-Performance SCM Hierarchies

Dmitrii Ustiugov, Alexandros Daglis, Javier Picorel, Mark Sutherland, Edouard Bugnion, Babak Falsafi, and Dionisios Pnevmatikatos.

In Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Memory Systems, MEMSYS'18, October 1st 2018.

Near Data Processing at Runtime

Mark Sutherland and Natalie Enright Jerger.

In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architecture for Graph Processing (AGP-1), 2017.

Not Quite My Tempo: Matching Prefetches to Memory Access Times

Mark Sutherland, Ajaykumar Kannan, and Natalie Enright Jerger.

In Proceedings of the 2nd Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-2), 2015.

Texture Cache Approximation on GPUs

Mark Sutherland, Joshua San Miguel, and Natalie Enright Jerger.

In Proceedings of the Workshop on Approximate Computing Across the System Stack (WAX), 2015.