Harold W. Cain

About me

Research Staff Member, Computer Architect


Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)








          


Harold "Trey" Cain
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

P.O. Box 218,
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598
(914) 945-2829
tcain at us.ibm.com

Research interests:

  • Hardware/software co-design
  • Multiprocessor memory systems
  • Synchronization and transactional Memory
  • Processor microarchitecture
  • Simulation methodology



Dr. Cain is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he conducts research on the memory system and microarchitecture of highly multithreaded processors.

He has co-authored more than 15 publications in the areas of multiprocessor memory system design, processor microarchitecture, simulation methodology, and the characterization of commercial server applications. He is also a co-organizer of the annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking(WDDD) associated with ISCA.

Before joining IBM, he was a member of the PHARM group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Trey holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelors degree from the College of William and Mary. His graduate research was selected as a 2004 "Top Pick" in computer architecture by IEEE Micro. His accent comes from the hills of eastern Kentucky.
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Last updated 2 Jan 2009

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