Michael O’Boyle

6.6k citations

145 papers · 3.7k · 1 hit paper · h-index 34

Impact in

Hardware and Architecture top 0.1%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques
Software top 1%
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Papers in

Hardware and Architecture 125
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques 122
- Embedded Systems Design Techniques 44
Computer Networks and Communications 82
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies 31
- Interconnection Networks and Systems 28
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems 27

Co-authors: Zheng Wang (14 shared papers)Christophe Dubach (22 shared papers)Timothy M. Jones (11 shared papers)P.M.W. Knijnenburg (11 shared papers)Björn Franke (15 shared papers)Edwin V. Bonilla (11 shared papers)Grigori Fursin (13 shared papers)T. Kisuki (6 shared papers)
Journals: ACM SIGPLAN Notices (8 papers)Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2 papers)IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2 papers)ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (2 papers)ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (11 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

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Michael O’Boyle

140 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Michael O’Boyle's Hit Papers

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Microarchitectural Design Space Exploration Using an Architecture-Centric Approach 2007 · 322 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 Microarchitectural Design Space Exploration Using an Architecture-Centric Approach

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1	Microarchitectural Design Space Exploration Using an Architecture-Centric Approach Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, Michael O’Boyle Hit paper breakdown →	2007	322
2	Using Machine Learning to Focus Iterative Optimization Felix Agakov, Edwin V. Bonilla, José E Cavazos, Björn Franke, Grigori Fursin, Michael O’Boyle, John Thomson, Michel Toussaint, Christopher K. I. Williams	2006	266
3	Towards a holistic approach to auto-parallelization Georgios Tournavitis, Zheng Wang, Björn Franke, Michael O’Boyle	2009	138
4	Rapidly Selecting Good Compiler Optimizations using Performance Counters John Cavazos, Grigori Fursin, Felix Agakov, Edwin V. Bonilla, Michael O’Boyle, Olivier Temam	2007	137
5	Milepost GCC: Machine Learning Enabled Self-tuning Compiler International Journal of Parallel Programming ·Grigori Fursin, Yuriy Kashnikov, Abdul Wahid Memon, Zbigniew Chamski, Olivier Temam, Mircea Namolaru, Elad Yom‐Tov, Bilha Mendelson, Ayal Zaks, Eric Courtois, François Bodin, Philip Barnard, Elton Ashton, Edwin V. Bonilla, John Thomson, Christopher K. I. Williams, Michael O’Boyle	2011	128
6	Mapping parallelism to multi-cores Zheng Wang, Michael O’Boyle	2009	121
7	Combined Selection of Tile Sizes and Unroll Factors Using Iterative Compilation International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques ·T. Kisuki, P.M.W. Knijnenburg, Michael O’Boyle	2000	120
8	Machine Learning in Compiler Optimization Proceedings of the IEEE ·Zheng Wang, Michael O’Boyle	2018	111
9	Smart multi-task scheduling for OpenCL programs on CPU/GPU heterogeneous platforms Yuan Wen, Zheng Wang, Michael O’Boyle	2014	99
10	Portable mapping of data parallel programs to OpenCL for heterogeneous systems Dominik Grewe, Zheng Wang, Michael O’Boyle	2013	93
11	Proceedings of the GCC Developers' Summit Grigori Fursin, Cupertino Miranda, Olivier Temam, Mircea Namolaru, Elad Yom‐Tov, Ayal Zaks, Bilha Mendelson, Edwin V. Bonilla, John Thomson, Hugh Leather, Christopher Williams, Michael O’Boyle, Philip Barnard, Elton Ashton, Eric Courtois, François Bodin	2008	88
12	A large-scale cross-architecture evaluation of thread-coarsening Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Alberto Magni, Christophe Dubach, Michael O’Boyle	2013	82
13	IATAC: a smart predictor to turn-off L2 cache lines ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization ·Jaume Abella, Antonio González, Xavier Vera, Michael O’Boyle	2005	74
14	Partitioning streaming parallelism for multi-cores Zheng Wang, Michael O’Boyle	2010	73
15	MILEPOST GCC: machine learning based research compiler Edinburgh Research Explorer ·Grigori Fursin, Cupertino Miranda, Olivier Temam, Mircea Namolaru, Elad Yom‐Tov, Ayal Zaks, Bilha Mendelson, Edwin V. Bonilla, John Thomson, Hugh Leather, Christopher K. I. Williams, Michael O’Boyle, Philip Barnard, Elton Ashton, Eric Courtois, François Bodin	2008	70
16	Method-specific dynamic compilation using logistic regression John Cavazos, Michael O’Boyle	2006	69
17	Automatic Feature Generation for Machine Learning Based Optimizing Compilation Hugh Leather, Edwin V. Bonilla, Michael O’Boyle	2009	66
18	Automatic performance model construction for the fast software exploration of new hardware designs John Cavazos, Christophe Dubach, Felix Agakov, Edwin V. Bonilla, Michael O’Boyle, Grigori Fursin, Olivier Temam	2006	62
19	A Predictive Model for Dynamic Microarchitectural Adaptivity Control ANU Open Research (Australian National University) ·Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, Edwin V. Bonilla, Michael O’Boyle	2010	60
20	Portable compiler optimisation across embedded programs and microarchitectures using machine learning Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, Edwin V. Bonilla, Grigori Fursin, Michael O’Boyle	2009	58

About Michael O’Boyle

Michael O’Boyle is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, having authored 145 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (122 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (44 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (31 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (28 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (27 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (21 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (14 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hardware and Architecture (3.0k citations), Software (364 citations), Computer Networks and Communications (2.1k citations), Information Systems (1.1k citations) and Computational Mathematics (19 citations). Michael O’Boyle has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Zheng Wang, Christophe Dubach, Timothy M. Jones, P.M.W. Knijnenburg, Björn Franke, Edwin V. Bonilla, Grigori Fursin, T. Kisuki, John Cavazos and Felix Agakov. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems and ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.

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