The PLASMA group investigates issues spanning the areas of programming languages, run-time systems (especially memory management) and operating systems. The focus of the group is on cooperative system support for robust and high-performing computing in the context of modern programming languages.   people   Prof. Emery Berger Prof. Eliot Moss Prof. Prashant Shenoy Prof. Scott Kaplan (Amherst College) Yi (Eric) Feng Matthew Hertz Gene Novark Ting Yang   projects   CRAMM, Cooperative Robust Automatic Memory Management SAVMM, Scheduler-Aware Virtual Memory Management Heap Layers, infrastructure for building memory managers Hoard, fast and scalable memory manager

recent publications UMass CS TR-04-17: Automatic vs. Explicit Memory Management: Settling the Performance Debate with Matthew Hertz. UMass CS TR-04-16: Page-Level Cooperative Garbage Collection with Matthew Hertz and Yi (Eric) Feng - Abstract. UMass CS TR-04-15 (to appear in OOPSLA 2004): MC2: High-Performance Garbage Collection for Memory-Constrained Environments with Naren Sachindran and Eliot Moss. UMass CS TR-04-14 (to appear in ISMM 2004): Autonomic Heap Sizing: Taking Real Memory into Account with Ting Yang, Matthew Hertz, Scott Kaplan, and Eliot Moss - Abstract. SOSP 2003 (poster): Scheduler-Aware Virtual Memory Management Emery Berger, Scott Kaplan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pritesh Sharma, Abhishek Chandra, Prashant Shenoy   OOPSLA 2002: Reconsidering Custom Memory Allocation Emery Berger, Ben Zorn & Kathryn McKinley - Abstract, PowerPoint.   PLDI 2001: Composing High-Performance Memory Allocators Emery Berger, Ben Zorn & Kathryn McKinley - PowerPoint, HeapLayers 0.2 (Zip, Tarball), benchmark suite.   ASPLOS-IX: Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator for Multithreaded Applications Emery Berger, Kathryn McKinley, Robert Blumofe, & Paul Wilson - PowerPoint, Hoard home page.   Ph.D. THESIS: Memory Management for High-Performance Applications, Emery Berger, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin (2002). nominated for ACM best dissertation award