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Dr. Greg Wright
Senior Staff Engineer
Portmeirion Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


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Menlo Park, CA 94025


Greg Wright is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories working on processor/memory architecture for object-oriented systems, particularly the Java(TM) platform.

His research interests include Computer System Analysis & Design, Distributed Systems, JVM and Programming Languages

Education:

* PhD Computer Science 2000, University of Manchester * MA & Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Cambridge

Technical Reports

  • Introspection of a Java Virtual Machine under Simulation
    By: Greg Wright, Mario Wolczko, Phil McGachey and Erika Gunadi
    Report Number: TR-2006-159
    Sep 18, 2006
  • Object-aware memory architecture, An
    By: Greg Wright, Matthew L. Seidl and Mario Wolczko
    Report Number: TR-2005-143
    Feb 1, 2005

    Latest Sun Patents

  • Detecting raw hazards in an object-addressed memory hierarchy by comparing an object identifier and offset for a load instruction to object identifiers and offsets in a store queue
    (Oct 6, 2009)
  • Method and apparatus for maintaining an object-based write barrier to facilitate garbage-collection operations
    (Jan 27, 2009)
  • Facilitating concurrent non-transactional execution in a transactional memory system
    (Sep 2, 2008)
  • Method and system for concurrent garbage collection and mutator execution
    (Sep 2, 2008)
  • Method and apparatus for using memory compression to enhance error correction
    (Mar 4, 2008)
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