Dr. Cruz Izu

Department of Computer Science

University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Australia Email:cruz@cs.adelaide.edu.au Phone: +61 8 8313 5762 Fax: +61 8 8313 4366

Information about me - Professional

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the The University of Adelaide. I received the B.Comp.Sc. in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Computer Architecture in 1994, both from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. From October 1991 to the end of 1993 I was a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey, England.

In February 1996, I joined the academic staff of the department as a Lecturer. I have concentrated on teaching computer architecture, computer systems, and operating systems.. I have also taught parts of the subjects computer networks and applications, open systems client/server computing, and specialised programming.

School Outreach

I've been involved in the program CS4HS since 2011, providing computer science support and development to high school teachers in the Adelaide metropolitan area. For information about this local program please click here . The new Australian curriculum will introduce computer science concepts at the primary and middle school level in the new subject Digital Technologies in 2014 and we are actively collating references nd resources at our pinterest page .

Research

Most of my research on Interconnection Networks has been carried out in collaboration with the Computer Architecture Group from the University of Cantabria, Spain. Our research focused on the analysis, evaluation and design of Interconnection Networks for parallel architectures.

My current research interests are

networks on chips
evaluation of interconnection network
traffic modelling
routing in wireless and sensor networks.

If you are interested in doing a PhD in these research topics and have a solid CS/EE background with some research experience send me email and a CV (in Pdf NOT word format).

Recent publications

Cruz Izu, Enrique Vallejo Throughput Fairness in Indirect Interconnection Networks. PDCAT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 13th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies Pages 233-238 doi: 10.1109/PDCAT.2012.129
Cruz Izu On the use of multiplanes on a 2D mesh network-on-chip . ICA3PP'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part II, pp. 276-286
Alexander, B.; Izu, C. Engaging weak programmers in problem solving. Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.997-1005, 14-16 April 2010 doi: 10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492468
Cruz Izu A throughput fairness injection protocol for mesh and torus networksi. 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC 2009: 294-303 (2009)

ACM publications

You can download this papers from the digital library at no cost.

Characterization and cost-efficient selection of NoC topologies for general purpose CMPs

Marta Ortín, Alexandra Ferrerón, Jorge Albericio, Darío Suárez, María Villarroya-Gaudó, Cruz Izu, Víctor Viñals
IMA-OCMC '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Interconnection Network Architecture: On-Chip, Multi-Chip, 2013

Improving parallel system performance by changing the arrangement of the network links

V. Puente, C. Izu, J. A. Gregorio, R. Beivide, J. M. Prellezo, F. Vallejo
ICS '00 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Supercomputing, 2000

Low-level router design and its impact on supercomputer system performance

V. Puente, J. A. Gregorio, C. Izu, R. Beivide, F. Vallejo
ICS '99 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Supercomputing, 1999

Applying segment routing to k-ary n-cube networks

C. Izu, A. Arruabarrena
ICS '98 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Supercomputing, 1998

For more information follow any of the links below

a full list of my publications.
previous projects and graduated students .
current projects for 2014 .