Dr Tom Spink

Dr Tom Spink

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3335
Email
tcs6@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

In AY 23/24, I'm teaching CS1007 - Computer Systems Fundamentals in S1, and CS4202 - Computer Architecture in S2.

Research areas

My research lies in the area of efficient cross-architecture hardware virtualisation - or techniques to efficiently emulate a full computer architecture on a different host.  Dynamic Binary Translation is the key underlying technology that I'm investigating, and I've been working on how we can use hardware acceleration to make this process more efficient, ultimately improving the performance of a virtualised system.

PhD supervision

  • Ferdia McKeogh

Selected publications

  • Accelerating shared library execution in a DBT

     Spink, T. & Franke, B., 1 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) 25th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems: LCTES'24. ACM

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Lasagne: a static binary translator for weak memory model architectures

     Rocha, R. C. O., Sprokholt, D., Fink, M., Gouicem, R., Spink, T., Chakraborty, S. & Bhatotia, P., 9 Jun 2022, Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2022). ACM, p. 888–902 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Leaps and bounds: analysing WebAssembly’s performance with a focus on bounds checking

     Szewczyk, R., Stonehouse, K., Barbalace, A. & Spink, T., 6 Nov 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization. Online: IEEE, p. 256-268 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Risotto: a dynamic binary translator for weak memory model architectures

     Gouicem, R., Sprokholt, D., Ruehl, J., Rocha, R., Spink, T., Chakraborty, S. & Bhatotia, P., 21 Dec 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 1 (ASPLOS 2023). Aamodt, T. M., Jerger, N. E. & Swift, M. (eds.). New York, NY: ACM, Vol. 1. p. 107–122 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    A retargetable system-level DBT hypervisor

     Spink, T., Wagstaff, H. & Franke, B., 30 May 2020, In: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 36, 4, p. 1-24

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access

    Fast and correct load-link/store-conditional instruction handling in DBT systems

     Kristien, M., Spink, T., Campbell, B., Sarkar, S., Stark, I., Franke, B., Böhm, I. & Topham, N., 2 Oct 2020, CASES '20: Proceedings of the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems. IEEE Computer Society, Vol. Early Access. 11 p. (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    A retargetable system-level DBT hypervisor

     Spink, T., Wagstaff, H. & Franke, B., 10 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Renton, WA: USENIX Association, p. 505-520 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Full-system simulation of mobile CPU/GPU platforms

     Kaszyk, J., Wagstaff, H., Spink, T., Franke, B., O'Boyle, M., Bodin, B. & Uhrenholt, H., 25 Apr 2019, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 68-78 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Low-cost deterministic C++ exceptions for embedded systems

     Renwick, J., Spink, T. & Franke, B., 16 Feb 2019, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC ’19): February 16–17, 2019, Washington, DC, USA. Washington, DC, USA: ACM, p. 76–86 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Open access

    Mitigating JIT compilation latency in Virtual Execution Environments

     Kristien, M., Spink, T., Wagstaff, H., Franke, B., Boehm, I. & Topham, N., 14 Apr 2019, Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments. ACM, p. 101–107 7 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

 

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