publications

Journals

  • Recep Bugra Uludag, Serhat Cagdas, Yavuz Selim Isler, Neslihan Serap Sengor, and Ismail Akturk, “Bio-realistic Neural Network Implementation on Loihi 2 with Izhikevich Neurons”, in ArXiv, abs/2307.11844, 2023, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.11844 .
  • Pooneh Safayenikoo and Ismail Akturk, “Weight Update Skipping: Reducing Training Time for Artificial Neural Networks”, In IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) , 2021, doi: 10.1109/JETCAS.2021.3127907
  • Ismail Akturk and Ozcan Ozturk, “Adaptive Thread Scheduling in Chip Multiprocessors”,
    In International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), 2019, doi: 10.1007/s10766-019-00637-y
  • Ismail Akturk, and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “Trading Computation for Communication: A Taxonomy of Data Recomputation Techniques”, In IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), November 2018
  • Serif Yesil, Ismail Akturk, and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “Toward Dynamic Precision Scaling”, In IEEE Micro Magazine, Special Issue of Approximate Computing, July/August 2018
  • Karen Khatamifard, Ismail Akturk, and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “On Approximate Speculative Lock Elision”, In IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), November 2017
  • Ismail Akturk, Riad Akram, Mohammad M. Islam, Abdullah Muzahid, and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “Accuracy Bugs: A New Class of Concurrency Bugs to Exploit Algorithmic Noise Tolerance”,
    In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2016, Article 48
  • Ismail Akturk, Ulya Karpuzcu, Nam Sung Kim, “Decoupling Control and Data Processing for Approximate Near-threshold Voltage Computing”, In IEEE Micro Magazine, Special Issue of Heterogeneous Computing, July/August 2015
  • Ozcan Ozturk, Ismail Akturk, Ismail Kadayif and Suleyman Tosun, “Energy Reduction in 3D NoCs Through Communication Optimization”, In Computing Journal, Springer Vienna, doi: 10.1007/s00607-013-0378-1, December 2013, pp. 1-17
  • Omer E. Albayrak, Ismail Akturk and Ozcan Ozturk, “Improving Application Behavior on Heterogeneous Manycore Systems Through Kernel Mapping”, In Parallel Computing, Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2013, pp. 867-878
  • Ismail Akturk and Ozcan Ozturk, “Reliability-Aware Heterogeneous 3D Chip Multiprocessor Design”, In Journal of Electronic Testing, Theory and Applications(JETTA), 2013, doi:
    10.1007/s10836-013-5373-0
  • Dilek Demirbas, Ismail Akturk, Ozcan Ozturk and Ugur Gudukbay, “Application-specific Heterogeneous Network-on-Chip Design”, In The Computer Journal, 2013, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxt011
  • Tevfik Kosar, Ismail Akturk, Mehmet Balman and Xinqi Wang, “PetaShare: A Reliable, Efficient, and Transparent Distributed Storage Management System”, In Scientific Programming Journal, Vol. 19, Issue 1, January 2011, pp.27-43
  • Xinqi Wang, Dayong Huang, Ismail Akturk, Mehmet Balman, Gabrielle Allen and Tevfik Kosar, “Semantic Enabled Metadata Management in PetaShare”, In International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC)}, Vol.1 No.4, 2009, pp.275-286

Conferences

  • Recep Bugra Uludag, Serhat Cagdas, Yavuz Selim Isler, Neslihan Serap Sengor, and Ismail Akturk, “Exploring Scaling Efficiency of Intel Loihi Neuromorphic Processor”, in International International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), December 2023 .
  • Christos Sakalis, Zamshed Chowdhury, Shayne Wadle, Ismail Akturk, Alberto Ros, Magnus Sjalander, Stefanos Kaxiras and Ulya Karpuzcu, “Do Not Predict – Recompute! How Value Recomputation Can Truly Boost the Performance of Invisible Speculation”, In International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED), September 2021
  • Nafis Ahmed, Evan Teters, Rumana Aktar, Ismail Akturk, Guna Seetharaman, and Kannappan Palaniappan, “GPU and Multi-Threaded CPU enabled Normalized Cross Correlation”, In SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, May 2020
  • Ismail Akturk, “Machine Learning-Based Multi-Objective Prediction and Scheduling on Highly Heterogeneous Systems”, In Machine Learning for Computer Architecture and Systems Workshop (colocated with ISCA), May 2020
  • Zhenduo Zhai, and Ismail Akturk, “Exploiting Refractory Period for Functional Multiplexing and Short-Term Memory in Spiking Neural Networks”, In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on New advances in Brain-inspired Perception, Interaction and Learning (BRAIN-PIL), May 2020
  • Ismail Akturk and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “ACR: Amnesic Checkpointing and Recovery”, In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2020), San Diego, California, February 2020
  • Ismail Akturk and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “AMNESIAC: Amnesic Automatic Computer – Trading Computation for Communication for Energy Efficiency”, In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Xi’an, China, April 2017
  • Ismail Akturk, Karen Khatamifard and Ulya R. Karpuzcu, “On Quantification of Accuracy Loss in Approximate Computing”, In Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing and Debunking (WDDD), Portland, Oregon, June 2015 (colocated with ISCA)
  • Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Ismail Akturk and Nam Sung Kim, “Accordion: Toward Soft Near-threshold Voltage Computing”, In Proceedings of The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014), Orlando, Florida, February 2014
  • Ismail Akturk and Ozcan Ozturk, “ILP-Based Communication Reduction for Heterogeneous 3D Network-on-Chips”, In Proceedings of 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Belfast, February 2013
  • Omer E. Albayrak, Ismail Akturk and Ozcan Ozturk, “Effective Kernel Mapping for OpenCL Applications in Heterogeneous Platforms”, In Proceedings of Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2), Pittsburgh, PA, September 2012
  • Ismail Akturk, Xinqi Wang and Tevfik Kosar, “Toward a Reliable Distributed Data Management System”, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2010

Peer Reviewed Abstracts and Posters

  • Serhat Cagdas,  Ismail Akturk, N. Serap Sengor, “Network Architecture of Cortex and Cerebellum for Supporting Superlearning”, In Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2022), August 2022.
  • Zhenduo Zhai, and Ismail Akturk, “Temporal-Rate Encoding to Realize Unary Positional Representation in Spiking Neural Systems”, In Workshop on Unary Computing, Phoenix, AZ, June 2019 (colocated with ISCA)
  • Tochukwu Idika, and Ismail Akturk, “Holistic Hardware Security Assessment Framework: A Microarchitectural Perspective”, In Workshop on Energy-Secure System Architectures (ESSA), McLean, VA, May 2019 (colocated with HOST)