Papers

Research Papers

(Most papers are available as Adobe PDF and postscript.)

Concurrency

Transactional Memory, James Larus, Christos Kozyrakis, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp 80–88, July 2008.
Spending Moore’s Dividend, James Larus, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-69, May 2008.
Software and the Concurrency Revolution, Herb Sutter, James Larus, ACM Queue, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp 54–62, September 2005.

Singularity

Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack, Galen Hunt, James Larus, Operating Systems Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 37–49, April 2007.
Deconstructing Process Isolation, Mark Aiken, Manuel Fähndrich, Chris Hawblitzel, Galen Hunt, James Larus, ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness (MSPC 2006), at ASPLOS 2006, October 2006.
Reflective Program Generation with Patterns, Manuel Fähndrich, Michal Carbin, James Larus, Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE ’06), October 2006.
Singularity, James Larus, Galen Hunt, and David Tarditi, MSDN Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 176.
Sealing OS Processes to Improve Dependability and Security, Galen Hunt, Mark Aiken, Paul Barham, Manuel Fähndrich, Orion Hodson, James Larus, Steven Levi, Nick Murphy, Bjarne Steensgaard, David Tarditi, Ted Wobber, Brian Zill, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-51.
Deconstructing Process Isolation, Mark Aiken, Manuel Fähndrich, Chris Hawblitzel, Galen Hunt, James Larus, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-43.
Language Support for Fast and Reliable Message-based Communication in the Singularity OS, Manuel Fähndrich, Mark Aiken, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, Galen Hunt, James Larus, and Steven Levi, EuroSys 2006 Conference, pp. 177–190. (Best paper award.)
An Overview of the Singularity Project, Galen Hunt, James R. Larus, Martin Abadi, Mark Aiken, Paul Barham, Manuel Fahndrich, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, Steven Levi, Nick Murphy, Bjarne Steensgaard, David Tarditi, Ted Wobber, Brian D. Zill, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-135.
Broad New OS Research: Challenges and Opportunities, Galen Hunt, James Larus, David Tarditi, and Ted Wobber, USENIX Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HOTOS X), June 2005.

Various

Righting Software, James Larus, Thomas Ball, Manuvir Das, Rob DeLine, Manuel Fähndrich, Jon Pincus, Sriram Rajamani, Ramanathan Venkatapathy, IEEE Software, Vol. 21, No. 3, May/June 2004.
Debugging Temporal Specifications with Concept Analysis, Glenn Ammons, David Mandelin, Rastislav Bodik, James Larus, PLDI '03, June 2003 (postscript)
Using Cohort Scheduling to Enhance Server Performance, James Larus and Michael Parkes. Usenix Annual Technical Conference, June 2002 (postscript)
Mining Specifications, Glenn Ammons, Rastislav Bodik, James Larus, POPL '02, January 2002. (postscript)
Facile: A Language and Compiler For High-Performance Processor Simulators, Eric Schnarr, Mark Hill, and James Larus, PLDI '01, June 2001. (postscript)

Path Profiling

Using Paths to Measure, Explain, and Enhance Program Behavior, Thomas Ball and James Larus, IEEE Computer, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 57–65, July 2000.
Whole Program Paths, James Larus, PLDI '99, May 1999. (postscript)
Programs Follow Paths, Tom Ball and James Larus, January 1999. Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-99-01.
Improving Data-flow Analysis with Path Profiles, Glenn Ammons and James Larus, PLDI '98, June 1998. (postscript).
Exploiting Hardware Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling, Glenn Ammons, Thomas Ball, and James Larus, PLDI '97, June 1997. (postscript).
Efficient Path Profiling, Thomas Ball and James Larus, MICRO-29, December 1996. (postscript).

Cache-Conscious Data Structures

Making Pointer-Based Data Structures Cache Conscious, Trishul Chilimbi, James Larus, and Mark Hill IEEE Computer, Vol. 33, Num. 12, pp. 67-74, December 2000 (postscript)
Cache-Conscious Structure Definition, Trishul Chilimbi, Bob Davidson, and James Larus, PLDI '99, May 1999.
Cache-Conscious Structure Layout, Trishul Chilimbi, Mark Hill, and James Larus, PLDI '99, May 1999.
Using Generational Garbage Collection To Implement Cache-Conscious Data Placement, Trishul Chilimbi, and James Larus, International Symposium on Memory Management, October 1998. (postscript)

Other

Teapot: A Domain-Specific Language for Writing Cache Coherence Protocols, Satish Chandra, James Larus, and Bradley Richards, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 317–334, May/June 1999.

Older University of Wisconsin Papers

Most of my papers from the University of Wisconsin are available at the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel (WWT) website.