Manolis G.H. Katevenis

Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete;

Head, Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems (CARV) Laboratory, and
Deputy Director, Institute of Computer Science (ICS),
Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Home Page: http://users.ics.forth.gr/~kateveni/
E-mail: kateveni papaki ics teleia forth teleia gr
Tel: +30 - 2811.39.16.64 (ICS office), +30 - 2810.39.35.64 (CSD office), Fax: +30 - 2811.39.16.61
Address (Postal and Courier): FORTH-ICS, 100 Plastira Ave, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, Crete, GR-70013 GREECE.
UoC-CSD Visiting Address and Office Hours: Room K329, Computer Science Building; Mondays and Wednesdays 12:10 - 13:15 (preferably, call or email before coming, for confirmation and appointment).
FORTH-ICS Visiting Address: Room C-149, Central Building (A), ICS, FORTH Campus (more local and travel info, from HiPEAC'11).

Areas of Interest:
- Computer Architecture: Scalable, Low-Power, Manycore / Multiprocessor / Warehouse-Scale System Architecture for High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data; Exascale Computing; RISC-V;
- Interprocessor Communication, Memory and Protection Architecture;
- Interconnection Network Architecture;
- VLSI Systems.

Member of Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe (see also www.AE-Info.org for more information of general interest)

Member of the Steering Committee of the European Network of Excellence (NoE) on High-Perfomance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC)

Co-founder of the European Research Center on Computer Architecture (EuReCCA) – now evolved into EuroLab-4-HPC

Stelios Pichoridis Award for Outstanding Univesity Teaching – jointly with Charalampos Katerinopoulos – University of Crete, 2015: Lecture Slides [PDF] [and a TV conference at TV Creta]

Award by the Secretary General of the Region of Crete, 2003 – jointly with Stelios Orphanoudakis and Panos Constantopoulos – as the Principal Organizers of the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete.

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 1984 "For his dissertation Reduced Instruction Set Computer Architectures for VLSI." In 2015, the RISC Project was recognized as an IEEE Milestone.

Detailed Curriculum Vitae (HTML version of Dec. 2018) [or PDF version]; includes Biography and full lists of: publications, grants, conference organization, invited lectures, students, and courses

Brief Biography (2013) (or Greek version (2013)) (or very short version (2012)).

Older (March 2011) list of Publications by topic, with pointers to the corresponding project pages.

Research Projects:

Coordinator of the ExaNeSt – European Exascale System Interconnect and Storage Horizon2020 FET-HPC Project
Collaboration with KALEAO Ltd. (UK) and its R&D Lab in Heraklion, Crete (GR), in commercializing CARV's research results
Scalable Multicore Systems: Interprocessor Communication and Memory Architecture
Networks-on-Chip
Buffered Crossbar (CICQ), Variable-Size Packet Switching.
Benes Fabrics with Internal Backpressure for Scalable Non-Blocking Switching.
Multi-Lane Architectures for Robust and Secure Communication Networks.
Weighted-Round-Robin Scheduling:
Per-Flow Queueing.
Flow Control: ATLAS I: 10 Gb/s single-chip ATM switch with backpressure (1995-99).
Wormhole IP over ATM.
Packet Switch Architecture: list of current and past projects in Crete, including
- Pipelined Memory Shared Buffer for VLSI Switches.

Teaching:

CS-120: Digital Design (Fall semesters - F'15 and older, since 2002). [Private local]
CS-225: Computer Organization (Sp'15, Sp'14, and many spring semesters since the late 80's). [Private local]
CS-534: Packet Switch Architecture (graduate course - Sp'15 with N. Chrysos; Sp'13, and most spring semesters since the mid-90's) [obsolete 2nd copy].
CS-121: Electric Circuits (Sp'12, Sp'11, Sp'10) [2nd copy].
CS-425: Computer Architecture (F'06; F'04; F'03; F'00; F'99, F'96, and older).
CS-422: Introduction to VLSI Systems (F'02, F'00, F'99, Sp'98, and older).

Others:

Crete, by Nikos Kazantzakis.
from the Preface to "Capetan Michalis", by Nikos Kazantzakis (in Greek).
RISC History (micro-) Photographs and RISC II chip CIF description
Oral Presentation Advice: by M. Hill; How to Give a Bad Talk, by D. Patterson; by H. Schulzrinne at Columbia
Strunk and White: "The Elements of Style" -- excellent advice on written-English style
Writing Style Advice
About Ph.D. thesis research, by H. T. Kung.
Manousakas (A Cretan Comic).