Mithuna S Thottethodi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Schools of Engineering, Purdue University Office: EE327, EE Building 465 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035 Phone: (765) 496-6787 FAX: (765) 494-2706 e-mail: mithuna@purdue.edu My calendar is available if you have a google account. (Please use this for scheduling appointments and Dissertation/Prelim examinations.)

Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award, 2007.
• Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006.
• Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Professor, Fall 2004.

Teaching:

• EE 437 : Computer Design and Prototyping (All info via WebCT. No public webpage.)

• EE 437 : Computer Design and Prototyping -- Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004
• ECE 608 : Computational Models and Methods -- Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
• ECE 666 : Advanced Computer Systems -- Spring 2005, Spring 2003

Research :

• Interconnection Networks Research:
  Scope: Emerging on-chip networks. Aspects of routing, switch arbitration, congestion control, multi-service networks, fault-tolerance. (New. Paper accepted at IPDPS 07. (pdf) ) "Table-lookup based Crossbar Arbitration for Minimal-Routed, 2D Mesh and Torus Networks" DaeHo Seo (Purdue University, USA); Mithuna Thottethodi (Purdue University, USA)
  Funding: Seed funding from Purdue Research Foundation, National Science Foundation ( See here for additional details.)
• Storage: Performance Modeling and Performance Optimization:
  (With Profs. Jeffrey Vitter, Vijay Pai, T.N. Vijaykumar and Rahul Shah) Scope: End-to-end modeling of storage systems and disk-bound applications. Model driven, cross-layer optimizations (e.g., SAN-aware disk block placement and migration, access entropy aware placement/migration etc.) (New. Prof. Pai has a paper accepted at IPDPS 07 on Reliability in parallel disks for VoD workloads. (pdf) )
  Funding: National Science Foundation (See here for additional details.)
• Multicore Memory Hierarchy: Cross Layer Management:
  Scope: Application- and OS-driven management of new classes of shared resources unique to multicores.
  Funding: Seed funding from Purdue Research Foundation, National Science Foundation (See here for additional details.)

Nascent projects:
There are other projects in the areas of systems architecture for bioinformatics, HPC acceleration and for which preliminary investigations and sponsorship search are ongoing.

Research Interests :
Micro-architecture, Systems architecture, Interconnection networks, Storage, Multicore memory hierarchies.

Students:

• Eric Villasenor
• Ahmed Amin (Co-advised with Prof. T.N. Vijaykumar)
• Brian Rothhaar
• Tariq Mahmood
• Jeffrey Lee
• Xiang Xiao (Co-advised with Prof. Jaehwan (John) Lee from IUPUI)
• Won-Taek Lim

• DaeHo Seo, (Ph.D.) First Employment: Intel.
• Nauman Rafique, (Ph.D.) First Employment: Google.
• Akif Ali, (M.S.) First Employment: Intel.

Publications:

A list of my publications may be seen here.

Misc. Links:

• Purdue Computer Architecture
• CiteSeer ResearchIndex
• WWW Computer Architecture Page
• ACSL page
• Purdue Computer Architecture