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Ramon Canal

Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Mòdul C6-107
08034 BARCELONA
Telephone: +34-93-4054034
Fax: +34-93-4017055

About me

I am an associate professor at the "Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona" enclosed in the "Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya". I am working at the Computer Architecture Departament enclosed in the ARCO (ARchitectures and COmpilers) group. I received the BSc. MSc and Ph.D. from the UPC. The thesis was done under the supervision of Antonio González and James E. Smith in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and I happily spent a sabbatical at Harvard University during the course 2006-2007.

Current lectures

Disseny de Microprocessadors (DM) -Microprocessor design-
Disseny i Tecnologia de Computadors (DTC) -Computer Design and Technology-

Past lectures

Arquitectura de Computadors (AC) -Computer Architecture-
Introducció als Computadors (IC) -Introduction to computers-

Current research

Past research

Architectural support for dynamically scheduled processors

Current students

Enric Herrero (PhD)
Shrikanth Ganapathy (PhD)
Diego Marcos (PhD at CERN)
Jorge Martínez (MSc)

Past students

Susana Aguilar (MSc '06)
Marta Ruiz (BSc'06)
Ricardo Villáfila (MSc'06)
Alberto Costas (BSc'06)
Susana Fons (MSc'06)
David Oro (MSc '06)
Matteo Monchiero (Visiting PhD'07)
Manel Domínguez (BSc '07)
Enric Herrero (MSc '07)
Shrikanth Ganapathy(MSc '09)

Honors and Awards

First price in the 6th Duran Farell Award on technology and research in Spain, UPC and Gas Natural, member of the research team of the project: "Efficient processor design through clustering". (UPC press room)(UPC Informacions Magazine pp.10)
Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of the inclusion of “Replacing 6T SRAMs with 3T1D DRAMs in the L1 Data Cache to Combat Process Variability” in the Jan/Feb 2008 IEEE Micro Top Picks Special Issue on the most industry relevant and significant papers of 2007 in Computer Architecture. (certificate)
Fulbright Award, Comission for Cultural Educational and Scientific Exchange between the United States of America and Spain and the Generalitat de Catalunya, 2006 (certificate).
First Price in the Epson Foundation Rosina Ribalta Award to the best thesis project in the area of Information Technologies in Spain and Portugal. (Awards web page) (Thesis Project) (Thesis Project Presentation) (Article in Teraflop), 2001
Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Dynamic Cluster Assignment Mechanisms" in HPCA-6. (paper), 2000

Curriculum Vitae

Here you can find a brief CV of mine.

That's what I do in my spare time

Barcelona, October 2009