Josep Torrellas

13.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
349 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Josep Torrellas is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Josep Torrellas has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 282 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 256 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 108 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Josep Torrellas's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (268 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (126 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (92 papers). Josep Torrellas is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (268 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (126 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (92 papers). Josep Torrellas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Israel. Josep Torrellas's co-authors include Luís Ceze, James Tuck, Pablo Montesinos, Milos Prvulović, Venkata Krishnan, Jose Renau, Smruti R. Sarangi, Brian Greskamp, Abhishek Tiwari and José F. Martínez and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Communications Magazine and Computer.

In The Last Decade

Josep Torrellas

334 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

DynamoLLM: Designing LLM Inference Clusters for Performan... 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15
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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. DynamoLLM: Designing LLM Inference Clusters for Performance and Energy Efficiency
    2025 17 citations Íñigo Goiri, Josep Torrellas 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
Josep Torrellas United States 52 7.5k 6.5k 3.4k 1.3k 1.1k 349 9.4k
Todd Austin United States 41 8.2k 1.1× 5.3k 0.8× 5.0k 1.5× 2.0k 1.5× 914 0.8× 149 10.9k
Timothy Sherwood United States 40 5.6k 0.7× 4.0k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 2.2k 1.6× 891 0.8× 190 7.0k
Steven K. Reinhardt United States 35 6.9k 0.9× 6.3k 1.0× 3.6k 1.0× 760 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 86 8.7k
Gurindar S. Sohi United States 47 7.0k 0.9× 6.0k 0.9× 2.0k 0.6× 732 0.5× 984 0.9× 177 7.8k
Brad Calder United States 51 7.7k 1.0× 6.9k 1.1× 2.2k 0.6× 1.5k 1.1× 1.9k 1.7× 173 9.5k
Sarita V. Adve United States 51 7.3k 1.0× 6.2k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 990 0.9× 186 9.4k
Dean M. Tullsen United States 47 10.1k 1.3× 8.7k 1.3× 3.5k 1.0× 836 0.6× 2.0k 1.8× 191 11.6k
Lieven Eeckhout Belgium 44 6.0k 0.8× 5.3k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 766 0.6× 2.1k 1.8× 317 7.5k
Milo M. K. Martin United States 38 4.2k 0.6× 3.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 827 0.7× 91 6.0k
Robert Cohn United States 24 4.3k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 44 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Josep Torrellas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josep Torrellas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josep Torrellas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josep Torrellas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josep Torrellas 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 Josep Torrellas. Josep Torrellas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Shahbaz, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). HardHarvest: Hardware-Supported Core Harvesting for Microservices. 708–722.
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Goiri, Íñigo, et al.. (2025). TAPAS: Thermal- and Power-Aware Scheduling for LLM Inference in Cloud Platforms. 1266–1281. 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Jian, et al.. (2024). HADES: Hardware-Assisted Distributed Transactions in the Age of Fast Networks and SmartNICs. 785–800. 1 indexed citations
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Mendis, Charith, et al.. (2024). Two-Face: Combining Collective and One-Sided Communication for Efficient Distributed SpMM. 1200–1217. 4 indexed citations
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Shahbaz, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). μManycore: A Cloud-Native CPU for Tail at Scale. 1–15. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Tianyin, et al.. (2023). MXFaaS: Resource Sharing in Serverless Environments for Parallelism and Efficiency. 1–15. 20 indexed citations
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Voulgaris, Petros G., et al.. (2019). Maya: Falsifying Power Sidechannels with Operating System Support.. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Shih‐Lien & Josep Torrellas. (2012). Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. 2 indexed citations
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Greskamp, Brian & Josep Torrellas. (2007). Paceline: Improving Single-Thread Performance in Nanoscale CMPs through Core Overclocking. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques. 213–224. 65 indexed citations
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Torrellas, Josep & Siddhartha Chatterjee. (2006). Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming. 3 indexed citations
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Garzarán, María Jesús, et al.. (2001). Architectural Support for Parallel Reductions in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques. 243–254. 16 indexed citations
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Huang, Michael, Jose Renau, Seung-Moon Yoo, & Josep Torrellas. (2001). The design of DEETM: A framework for dynamic energy efficiency and temperature management. 3. 12 indexed citations
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Torrellas, Josep, et al.. (1999). Second Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads. 322.
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Krishnan, Venkata & Josep Torrellas. (1999). The need for fast communication in hardware-based speculative chip multiprocessors. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques. 24–33. 21 indexed citations
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Krishnan, Venkata & Josep Torrellas. (1998). An Direct-Execution Framework for Fast and Accurate Simulation of Superscalar Processors. International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques. 286–293. 47 indexed citations
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Rauchwerger, Lawrence, et al.. (1998). A Unified Approach to Speculative Parallelization of Loops in DSM Multiprocessors. 2 indexed citations
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Torrellas, Josep, et al.. (1994). An efficient algorithm for the run-time parallelization of DOACROSS loops. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 518–527. 48 indexed citations
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Torrellas, Josep, Monica S. Lam, & John L. Hennessy. (1990). Share Data Placement Optimizations to Reduce Multiprocessor Cache Miss Rates.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 266–270. 54 indexed citations

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