Dennis Abts

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
40 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Dennis Abts is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis Abts has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 25 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dennis Abts's work include Interconnection Networks and Systems (27 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (20 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (11 papers). Dennis Abts is often cited by papers focused on Interconnection Networks and Systems (27 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (20 papers) and Software-Defined Networks and 5G (11 papers). Dennis Abts collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Dennis Abts's co-authors include John Kim, Steve Scott, W.J. Dally, William J. Dally, Michael R. Marty, Philip M. Wells, Hong Liu, Bob Felderman, Natalie Enright Jerger and Mikko H. Lipasti and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Micro.

In The Last Decade

Dennis Abts

40 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Technology-Driven, Highly-Scalable Dragonfly Topology 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2008 2010 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Technology-Driven, Highly-Scalable Dragonfly Topology
    2008 366 citations John Kim, W.J. Dally et al. profile →
  2. Technology-Driven, Highly-Scalable Dragonfly Topology
    2008 346 citations John Kim, W.J. Dally et al. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News profile →
  3. Energy proportional datacenter networks
    2010 318 citations Dennis Abts et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dennis Abts United States 21 2.1k 1.1k 1.0k 683 214 40 2.5k
David Wentzlaff United States 23 2.7k 1.3× 2.4k 2.3× 1.1k 1.1× 533 0.8× 246 1.1× 84 3.4k
Jason Miller United States 16 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 811 0.8× 198 0.3× 117 0.5× 35 1.8k
Rachata Ausavarungnirun United States 25 1.6k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 899 0.9× 400 0.6× 76 0.4× 64 2.2k
Paul V. Gratz United States 23 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 862 0.8× 174 0.3× 319 1.5× 96 1.9k
Mithuna Thottethodi United States 23 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 503 0.5× 413 0.6× 110 0.5× 62 1.9k
Moriyoshi Ohara United States 5 3.7k 1.7× 3.7k 3.5× 1.4k 1.4× 489 0.7× 186 0.9× 7 4.4k
Nilay Vaish United States 5 2.4k 1.1× 2.8k 2.6× 1.7k 1.6× 228 0.3× 88 0.4× 6 3.5k
Michihiro Koibuchi Japan 20 1.5k 0.7× 720 0.7× 939 0.9× 120 0.2× 152 0.7× 166 1.6k
Isaac Keslassy Israel 25 2.4k 1.1× 624 0.6× 985 1.0× 392 0.6× 33 0.2× 102 2.5k
Gregory F. Pfister United States 14 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 469 0.5× 137 0.2× 177 0.8× 26 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Dennis Abts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dennis Abts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dennis Abts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dennis Abts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dennis Abts based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dennis Abts. Dennis Abts is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Abts, Dennis & John Kim. (2023). Enabling Artificial Intelligence Supercomputers With Domain-Specific Networks. IEEE Micro. 44(2). 41–49. 2 indexed citations
2.
Boyd, Matthew, et al.. (2022). Answer Fast: Accelerating BERT on the Tensor Streaming Processor. 80–87. 6 indexed citations
3.
Kim, John, et al.. (2014). Security Vulnerability in Processor-Interconnect Router Design. 358–368. 6 indexed citations
4.
Abts, Dennis & Bob Felderman. (2012). A Guided Tour of Datacenter Networking. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, John, William J. Dally, & Dennis Abts. (2010). Efficient Topologies for Large-scale Cluster Networks. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. OMV1–OMV1. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, John, William J. Dally, Steve Scott, & Dennis Abts. (2009). Cost-Efficient Dragonfly Topology for Large-Scale Systems. 2. OTuI2–OTuI2. 8 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, et al.. (2009). Achieving predictable performance through better memory controller placement in many-core CMPs. 451–461. 120 indexed citations
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Kim, John, W.J. Dally, Steve Scott, & Dennis Abts. (2008). Technology-Driven, Highly-Scalable Dragonfly Topology. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 36(3). 77–88. 346 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, John, W.J. Dally, Steve Scott, & Dennis Abts. (2008). Technology-Driven, Highly-Scalable Dragonfly Topology. 77–88. 366 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Kim, John, William J. Dally, & Dennis Abts. (2007). Flattened butterfly. 126–137. 309 indexed citations
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Kim, John, William J. Dally, & Dennis Abts. (2007). Flattened butterfly. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 35(2). 126–137. 78 indexed citations
12.
Abts, Dennis, et al.. (2007). Age-based packet arbitration in large-radix k -ary n -cubes. 1–11. 45 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, et al.. (2007). Age-based Packet Arbitration in Large k-ary n-cubes. 4 indexed citations
14.
Scott, Steven L., Dennis Abts, John Kim, & W.J. Dally. (2006). The BlackWidow High-Radix Clos Network. 16–28. 110 indexed citations
15.
Chen, Ying, Dennis Abts, & David J. Lilja. (2005). Efficiently generating test vectors with state pruning. 1196–1196. 2 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, et al.. (2004). State pruning for test vector generation for a multiprocessor cache coherence protocol. 74–77. 1 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, Stephen Scott, & David J. Lilja. (2004). So many states, so little time: verifying memory coherence in the Cray X1. 10–10. 55 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, Ying Chen, & David J. Lilja. (2003). Heuristics for Complexity-Effective Verification of a Cache Coherence Protocol Implementation. 5 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, Michael Symmons Roberts, & David J. Lilja. (2002). A balanced approach to high-level verification: performance trade-offs in verifying large-scale multiprocessors. 505–510. 3 indexed citations
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Abts, Dennis, David J. Lilja, & Steve Scott. (2000). Toward Complexity-Effective Verification: A Case Study of the Cray SV2 Cache Coherence Protocol. 8 indexed citations

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