Research Interests

I am part of the FLASH and Hive projects and am most interested in simulation technology. Specifically, I am interested in the quick and informative simulation of operating system-intensive applications and how they behave on multiprocessor architectures. Most of my research is focused on a complete multiprocessor simulation environment named SimOS. Please visit the SimOS Home Page.

I am also the keeper of the Tango Lite multiprocessor simulator. To obtain this system, click here. No support is provided with this software.

Publications

  • Using Complete Machine Simulation to Understand Computer System Behavior

    • Stephen Alan Herrod
    Ph.D. Thesis, February 1998.
    Technical Report: STAN-CS-TR-98-1603
    Available as: abstract, postscript(1130k) , and acrobat(475k).
    (formatted for double-sided printing).

  • Using the SimOS Machine Simulator to Study Complex Computer Systems

    • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, and Stephen A. Herrod
    ACM TOMACS Special Issue on Computer Simulation, 1997.
    Available as: PDF


  • The Impact of Architectural Trends on Operating System Performance

    • Mendel Rosenblum, Edouard Bugnion, Stephen A. Herrod, Emmett Witchel, and Anoop Gupta
    In The 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1995.
    Available as: abstract, postscript


  • Complete Computer Simulation: The SimOS Approach

    • Mendel Rosenblum, Stephen A. Herrod, Emmett Witchel, and Anoop Gupta
    In IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, Fall 1995.
    Available as: abstract, postscript

  • Memory System Performance of UNIX on CC-NUMA Multiprocessors

    • John Chapin, Stephen A. Herrod, Mendel Rosenblum, and Anoop Gupta
    In SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '95, 1995.
    Available as: abstract, postscript

  • Tango Lite: A Multiprocessor Simulation Environment

    • Stephen A. Herrod
    Available as: postscript