Andrew A. Chien

Andrew A. Chien

William Eckhardt Professor
Department of Computer Science
Senior Fellow
Computation Institute
Senior Computer Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory

Interests

Systems

Contact Information


Office: Ryerson 257C (at West end)
Phone: 773-834-0117 (pls email)
achien "at" cs dot uchicago dot edu

Personal Homepage

http://lssg.cs.uchicago.edu/

Research

I have broad interests in systems spanning applications, system software, networking, and architecture. Current interests include: 1) Programming and Computer Architecture for Exascale computers; 2) Data-intensive computing tools which are easy to use; and 3) Programming models and tools for post-Moore's Law computing substrates.

Education

Sc.D. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B. in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Additional

Andrew served on the National Science Foundation's CISE Advisory Committee from 2006-2010, and the Board of the Computing Research Association from 2006-2011. He has also served on numerous visiting and advisory committees for the Department of Energy, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, University of Washington and other leading research organizations.

From 2005-2010, Andrew was the Vice President of Research of Intel Corporation where he led long-range and disruptive technologies research in computer science. in this role, he was instrumental in creation of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC) focused on parallel software, the Open Cirrus Consortium focused on Cloud computing, and Intel’s long range computing technology -- Exascale -- Research program (UHPC).

Chien’s previous positions also include the SAIC Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and founding Director of the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California at San Diego (1998-2005). From 1999 to 2003, Andrew was Founder and CTO of Entropia, Inc. an early grid computing company. Chien was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)(1990-1998).

Projects

Laboratories

Technical Reports

TR-2023-04
Scheduling Variable Capacity Resources for Sustainability Workshop. Anne Benoit; Andrew A Chien; Yves Robert. 14 September, 2023. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2022-05
Synergistic Datacenter Load Adaptation: Sharing Information with the Grid is Key. Liuzixuan (Peter) Lin; Andrew A Chien. 27 June, 2022. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2022-04
Dennard, Carbon, and Moore: Technology Trends Shaping Future Investment in Scientific Computing Equipment. Mark Dietrich; Andrew A Chien. 25 May, 2022. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2022-03
Navigating Dennard, Carbon and Moore: Scenarios for the Future of NSF Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Andrew A Chien; Mark Dietrich. 8 April, 2022. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2022-02
Updown Instruction Set Architecture v0.9. Andrew A Chien; S R Andronicus; Marziyeh Nourian; Chen Zou; Yuanwei Fang. 21 January, 2022. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2021-05
Going Beyond Efficiency to Eliminate computing’s Absolute Negative Environmental Impact. Andrew A Chien. 11 March, 2021. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-10
Coupling Models for Cloud Datacenters and Power Grids. Liuzixuan (Peter) Lin; Andrew A Chien. 4 November, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-09
Using Carbon-awareness to Reduce the Cloud’s Environmental Impact. Chaojie (Sam) Zhang; Andrew A Chien. 4 November, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-08
Options for Extending the Life of Scientific Computing Equipment. Mark Dietrich; Andrew A Chien. 22 October, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-06
Characterizing Stranded Power in the ERCOT in Years 2012-2019: A Preliminary Report. Liuzixuan (Peter) Lin; Andrew A Chien. 4 August, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-05
Scientific Computing Equipment (SCE) Decommissioning in the University Community, 2017-2023: A Survey of the Coalition for Advanced Scientific Computing (CASC). Hakizumwami Birali Runesha; Mark J. Dietrich; Andrew A Chien. 8 July, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-04
Analysis of US National Science Foundation Awards for Scientific Computing Equipment (SCE), 2013-19. Mark Dietrich; Andrew A Chien. 8 July, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-02
Empowering Architects and Designers: A Classification of What Functions to Accelerate in Storage. Chen Zou; Andrew Chien. 2 June, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2020-01
Recode Software User Guide. Majed Valad Beigi; Chen Zou; Yuanwei Fang; Andrew A Chien. 14 February, 2020. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-19
Zero Carbon Compute Project. Andrew A Chien. 4 December, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-17
Evaluating Achievable Latency and Cost SSD Latency Predictors (MittOS Model Inference). Olivia Weng; Andrew Chien. 2 October, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-13
Real-time Serverless: Cloud Resource Management for Bursty, Real-time Workloads. Hai Nguyen; Chaojie Zhang; Zhujun Xiao; Andrew Chien. 16 July, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-11
Information Models: Creating and Preserving Value in Volatile Cloud Resources. Chaojie Zhang; Varun Gupta; Andrew A Chien. 7 May, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-09
Information Models: Creating and Preserving Value in Volatile Cloud Resources. Chaojie Zhang; Varun Gupta; Andrew A Chien. 6 April, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2019-08
Zero-carbon Cloud: Research Challenges for Datacenters as Supply-following Loads. Andrew A Chien; Chaojie Zhang; Hai Nguyen. 5 February, 2019. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2018-07
Characterizing Opportunity Power in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) in Years 2015-2017. Andrew A Chien. 8 October, 2018. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2018-05
How to Increase the Value of Volatile Cloud Resources: Resource Management and Information Disclosure. Chaojie Zhang; Varun Gupta; Andrew A Chien. 14 April, 2018. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2017-05
UDP System Interface and Lane ISA Definition. Yuanwei Fang; Andrew A Chien. 10 August, 2017. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2017-01
Characterizing Curtailed and Uneconomic Renewable Power in the Mid-continent Independent System Operator. Andrew A Chien; Fan Yang; Chaojie Zhang. 11 January, 2017. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2016-05
Data Centers as Dispatchable Loads to Harness Stranded Power. Kibaek Kim; Fan Yang; Victor M. Zavala; Andrew A. Chien. 1 March, 2016. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2016-04
Scaling Supercomputing with Stranded Power: Costs and Capabilities. Fan Yang; Andrew A Chien. 11 February, 2016. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-09
ZCCloud: Exploring Wasted Green Power for High-Performance Computing. Fan Yang; Andrew A. Chien. 19 October, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-08
10x10: A Case Study in Highly-Programmable and Energy-Efficient Federated Heterogeneous Architecture. Andrew A Chien; Tung Thanh Hoang; Dilip Vasudevan; Yuanwei Fang; Amirali Shambayati. 8 October, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-05
EffCLiP: Efficient Coupled-Linear Packing for Finite Automata. Yuanwei (Kevin) Fang; Andrew Lehane; Andrew A Chien. 30 May, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-03
Understanding Graph Computation Behavior to Enable Robust Benchmarking. Fan Yang; Andrew Chien. 31 March, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-02
A Data Layout Transformation (DLT) Accelerator: Architectural support for data movement optimization in accelerated systems. Tung Hoang; Amirali Shambayati; Andrew Chien. 30 March, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2015-01
Does Arithmetic Logic Dominate Data Movement ? A Systematic Comparison of Energy-Efficiency for FFT Accelerators. Tung Hoang; Amirali Shambayati; Henry Hoffmann; Andrew Chien. 30 March, 2015. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-16
Log-Structured Global Array for Efficient Multi-version Snapshots. Hajime Fujita; Nan Dun; Zachary Rubenstein; Andrew Chien. 4 November, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-13
Global View Resilience (GVR) Documentation, Release 1.0. Andrew Chien. 5 October, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-09
Data Decomposition in Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Simulations using Global View Arrays. Nan Dun; Hajime Fujita; John R. Tramm; Andrew A. Chien; Andrew R. Siegel. 21 May, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-08
Log-Structured Global Array for Efficient Multi-Version Snapshots. Hajime Fujita; Nan Dun; Zachary Rubenstein; Andrew A. Chien. 16 May, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-06
How Applications use GVR: Use Cases. Andrew A. Chien; The GVR Team. 28 April, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-05
Global View Resilience, API Documentation R0.8.1-rc0. Andrew A. Chien; The GVR Team. 28 April, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-04
Applying GVR to Molecular Dynamics: Enabling Resilience for Scientific Computations. Aiman Fang; Andrew A. Chien. 24 April, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-03
Generalized Pattern Matching Micro-Engine. Yuanwei Fang; Raihan Rasool; Dilip Vasudevan; Andrew A. Chien. 25 March, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2014-01
Fault Tolerance in an Inner-outer Solver: A GVR-enabled Case Study. Ziming Zheng; Andrew A Chien; Mark Hoemmen; Keita Teranishi. 9 January, 2014. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2013-11
Error Checking and Snapshot-Based Recovery in a Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Solver. Zachary Rubenstein; James Dinan; Hajime Fujita; Ziming Zheng; Andrew A Chien. 16 December, 2013. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2013-06
Characterizing the Opportunity and Feasibility of Reconfigurable Memory Hierarchies for Improved Energy Efficiency. Pietro Cicotti; Laura Carrington; Andrew A. Chien. 21 August, 2013. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2013-04
Calibrating the Relationship between Hardware Customization and Energy Efficiency. Apala Guha; Yao Zhang; Raihan ur Rasool; Andrew A Chien. 11 July, 2013. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2012-07
An Evaluation of Difference and Threshold Techniques for Efficient Checkpoints. Sean Hogan; Jeff R. Hammond; Andrew A. Chien. 17 August, 2012. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2012-06
Moore’s Law: The First Ending and A New Beginning. Andrew A. Chien; Vijay Karamcheti. 17 August, 2012. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2012-05
Systematic Evaluation of Workload Clustering for Designing 10x10 Architectures. Apala Guha; Andrew Chien. 29 June, 2012. Communicated by Andrew Chien.
TR-2012-01
The 10x10 Foundation for Heterogeneity: Clustering Applications by Computation and Memory Behavior. Apala Guha; Pietro Ciccotti; Allan Snavely; Andrew A. Chien. 16 February, 2012. Communicated by Andrew Chien.