Philip Machanick
Publications
Unpublished work is listed as a technical report; for a list see my Technical Report pages.
Also look for older unpublished work at my previous School’s technical report page.
For opinions, see my blog, Opinionations. I have also published a novel, No Tomorrow.
Recent
Philip Machanick, Ariel Liebmann and Peter Fritzson. Modeling of CO2 Reduction Impacts on Energy Prices with Modelica, Proc. 6th International Modelica Conference, Bielefeld, Germany, 3-4 March 2008, pp 565-571 (abstract and PDF)
Design Principles for a Virtual Multiprocessor, Proc. SAICSIT-2007, Port Alfred, September-October 2007, pp 76-82 (abstract and PDF)
John Shield, Peter Sutton and Philip Machanick. Dynamic Cache Switching in Reconfigurable Embedded Systems, Proc. 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications FPL07, Amsterdam, August 2007, pp 111-116 (abstract and PDF)
John Shield, Peter Sutton and Philip Machanick. Analysis of Kernel Effects on Cache Reconfiguration in a Soft-core Reconfigurable System, Proc. 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications FPL07, Amsterdam, August 2007, pp 625-628 (abstract and PDF)
Teaching Java Backwards, Computers&Education, vol. 48 no. 3 pp 396-408, April 2007 (draft version – latest, see the journal – abstract and PDF)
A Social Construction Approach to Computer Science Education, Computer Science Education, vol. 17, no. 1, March 2007, pp 1-20 (abstract and PDF)
SMP-SoC Is the Answer If You Ask the Right Questions, Proc. SAICSIT-2006, Somerset West, South Africa, October 2006, pp 12-21 (abstract and PDF)
Kenneth Wilson and Philip Machanick. SecureTorrent: A Security Framework for File Swarming, Proc. Eleventh Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference ACSAC-2006, Shanghai, September 2006, pp 538-544 (abstract and pointer to publisher’s site)
The Value of a Small Microkernel for Dreamy Memory and the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 20 no. 5 September 2005, pp 586-595 (abstract and PDF)
A Distributed Systems Approach to Secure Internet Mail, Computers and Security, vol. 24 no 6 pp 492-499, 2005 (draft version – latest, see the journal – abstract and PDF)
Peer Assessment for Action Learning of Data Structures and Algorithms, Proc. 2005 Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE), Newcastle, NSW, January-February 2005, pp 73-82 (abstract and PDF)
Initial Experiences with Dreamy Memory and the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Proc. Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Beijing, September 2004, pp 146-159 (abstract and PDF)
Philip Machanick and Brynn Andrew. Latency Improvement in Virtual Multicasting, Proc. Eighth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, September 2003, pp 380-394 (abstract and PDF)
Philip Machanick and Zunaid Patel. L1 Cache and TLB Enhancements to the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Proc. Eighth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, September 2003, pp 305-319 (abstract and PDF)
Principles Versus Artifacts in Computer Science Curriculum Design, Computers&Education, vol. 41 no. 2, pp 191-201, September 2003 (draft version – latest, see the journal – abstract and full paper)
What if DRAM is a Slow Peripheral? Computer Architecture News, vol. 30 no. 6 December 2002, pp 16-19 (abstract and full paper)
Philip Machanick and Zunaid Patel. The Effect of First-Level Cache Improvements on the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Proc. IEEE Africon 02, George, South Africa, 2002, pp 71-76 (abstract and PDF)
Programming Skills as an Outcome in Panel Discussion: “Programming Early Considered Harmful” [Judith Gersting, Peter B. Henderson, Philip Machanick and Yale N. Patt], Proc. SIGCSE-2001, Charlotte, NC, 21-25 February 2001, pp 402-403 (slides and detailed web site)
[Philip Machanick and Brynn Andrew] Virtual Multicasting as an Example of Information Mass Transit, Proc. SAICSIT-2000, Cape Town, November 2000, pp 252-255 (special issue of South African Computer Journal, no. 26, November 2000) (abstract and full paper)
Scalability of the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, South African Computer Journal no. 25 August 2000, pp 68-73 (abstract and full paper)
Experience of Applying Bloom's Taxonomy in Three Courses, Proc. Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association Conference, Strand, June 2000, pp 135-144 (abstract and full paper)
Correction to RAMpage ASPLOS Paper, Computer Architecture News, vol. 27, no. 4 September 1999, pp 2-5 (abstract and full paper)
Teaching Programming Backwards, Proc. Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association Conference, Golden Gate, June 1999, pp 69-73. (abstract and full paper)
Curriculum 2020, in Computer Science Education in the 21st Century, editor Tony Greening, Springer, New York, 2000. (abstract and chapter)
Streaming vs. Latency in Information Mass-Transit, Computer Architecture News, vol. 26 no. 5, December 1998, pp 4-6. (abstract and full paper)
The Skills Hierarchy and Curriculum, Proc. SAICSIT '98, Gordon's Bay, South Africa, November 1998, pp 54-62. (abstract and full paper)
[P Machanick and P Salverda] Implications of Emerging DRAM Technologies for the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Proc. SAICSIT '98, Gordon's Bay, South Africa, November 1998, pp 27-40. (abstract and full paper)
Design of a Scalable Video on Demand Architecture, Proc. SAICSIT '98, Gordon's Bay, South Africa, November 1998, pp 211-217. (abstract and full paper)
Disk Delay Lines, Proc. SAICSIT '98 (poster session), Gordon's Bay, South Africa, November 1998, pp 142-144. (abstract and full paper)
[P Machanick, P Salverda and L Pompe] Hardware-Software Trade-Offs in a Direct Rambus Implementation of the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, Proc. ASPLOS-VIII Eighth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Jose, October 1998, pp. 105-114. (abstract and full paper)
[P Machanick and P Salverda] Preliminary Investigation of the RAMpage Memory Hierarchy, South African Computer Journal, no. 21, August 1998, pp 16-25. (abstract and full paper)
Socio-Cultural Challenges for the Internet in South Africa, accepted for Multi-Ethnic Cyberworld track: Crossroads in Culture Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland 28 June-1 July, 1998. (abstract and full paper)
The Abstraction-First Approach to Data Abstraction and Algorithms, Computers & Education, vol. 31 no. 2, September 1998, pp. 135-150. (abstract only)
Older Publications
A few selected publications from this point on…
The Case for SRAM Main Memory, Computer Architecture News, vol. 24, no. 5, December 1996 pages 23-30. This version has some minor corrections: (PDF 216K).
An Object-Oriented Library for Shared-Memory Parallel Simulations, PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. (abstract and PostScript)
[P Machanick, R Apteker, P Green, T McWalter] MISANET: The Southern African Press on the Net, Proc. Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, Cambridge, MA, May 1994 (abstract and full paper)
[DR Cheriton, HA Goosen, H Holbrook and P Machanick] Restructuring a Parallel Simulation to Improve Cache Behaviour in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor: The Value of Distributed Synchronization, Proc. 7th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, San Diego, May 1993, pp 159-162 (abstract and full paper)
[D R Cheriton H A Goosen and P Machanick] Restructuring a Parallel Simulation to Improve Cache Behavior in a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor: A First Experience, Proc. Int. Symp. on Shared Memory Multiprocessing, Tokyo, April 1991, pp. 109-118; update at 1991 Topaz User's Group Conference, DEC SRC, Palo Alto, 1991
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