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Bhargav Reddy Godala

Bhargav Reddy Godala

5th Year Graduate Student
A member of the Liberty Research Group,
Led by Professor David I. August
In the Computer Science Department
at Princeton University

E-mail : bgodala(at)cs.princeton.edu
Office : Friend Center
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About me

I’m a 6th year graduate student at Princeton University advised by Prof. David I. August. I’m currently working on CPU microarchitecture with a focus on improving performance of CPU front-end for datacenter workloads. My broader interests include Computer Architecture, Microarchitecture, Systems, Compilers, Program Analysis, Programming Languages, Security. I work on improving performance of the whole application stack from hardware to software. During the course of my PhD I worked on LLVM compiler and gem5 architectural simulator. I have built several tools to enable fast checkpointing of multithreaded application using real hardware for ARM architecture (using Raspberry Pi and Apple’s M1 Mac).

I did my undergrad in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT, Hyderabad). After graduating from IITH, I joined compilers team in AMD India, Bangalore. I worked on AOCC( AMD Optimizing C and C++ Compiler) which is based on LLVM Compiler. I worked on several compiler optimizations such as Loop Vectorization, Loop Distribution, Loop Independent Code Motion, Macroop Fusion, Branch Combine, etc.

Simulation Infrastructure

ARM 64-bit datacenter workloads used in EMISSARY paper [ download ]

QPoints: QEMU to gem5 ARM Full System Checkpointing [ source ]

Modern Decoupled Front-end Pipeline in gem5 [ source ]

Publications

Revisiting Computation for Research: Practices and Trends [abstract]
Jeremiah Giordani*, Ziyang Xu*, Ella Colby, August Ning, Bhargav Reddy Godala, Ishita Chaturvedi, Shaowei Zhu, Yebin Chon, Greg Chan, Zujun Tan, Galen Collier, Jonathan D. Halverson, Enrico Armenio Deiana, Jasper Liang, Federico Sossai, Yian Su, Atmn Patel, Bangyen Pham, Nathan Greiner, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
To Appear: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), November 2024.
Accept Rate: 22% (102/449).
(*Co-first authors)

GhOST: a GPU Out-of-Order Scheduling Technique for Stall Reduction [abstract] (PDF)
Ishita Chaturvedi, Bhargav Reddy Godala, Yucan Wu, Ziyang Xu, Konstantinos Iliakis, Panagiotis-Eleftherios Eleftherakis, Sotirios Xydis, Dimitrios Soudris, Tyler Sorensen, Simone Campanoni, Tor M. Aamodt, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 51st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024.
Accept Rate: 21% (79/372).
Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

PDIP: Priority Directed Instruction Prefetching [abstract] (PDF)
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Sankara Prasad Ramesh, Gilles A. Pokam, Jared Stark, Andre Seznec, Dean Tullsen, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating System (ASPLOS), April 2024.
Accept Rate: 13% (54/405).
Awarded Best Paper (one of six) out of 922 submissions. Awarded all top ACM Reproducibility Badges offered by the Artifact Evaluation Committee.

Criticality-Aware Front-end [abstract] (PDF)
Bhargav Reddy Godala
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 2024.

QPoints: QEMU to gem5 ARM Full System Checkpointing [abstract]
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Ishita Chaturvedi, Yucan Wu, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
ISCA 2023: The gem5 Workshop, June 2023.

Modern Front-end Support in gem5 [abstract]
Bhargav Reddy Godala, Nayana Prasad Nagendra, Ishita Chaturvedi, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
ISCA 2023: The gem5 Workshop, June 2023.

EMISSARY: Enhanced Miss Awareness Replacement Policy For L2 Instruction Caching [abstract] (PDF)
Nayana Prasad Nagendra*, Bhargav Reddy Godala*, Ishita Chaturvedi, Atmn Patel, Svilen Kanev, Tipp Moseley, Jared Stark, Gilles A. Pokam, Simone Campanoni, and David I. August
Proceedings of the 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2023.
Accept Rate: 21% (79/372).
(*Co-first authors)