About our group

The Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Group focuses on the design and evaluation of advanced computing systems consisting of hardware as well as software components. The work has a strong experimental orientation with an emphasis on modeling, simulation and benchmarking of man made systems. Moreover, research on federated/distributed database architectures and distributed robot architectures is also included.

The work on system architecture aims at the integrated design of architectures, with a specific interest in modeling and simulation of computing systems. The computing architecture is studied as a whole, encompassing a number of layers such as: application, compiler, operating system and run-time support and hardware. System architecture design work is validated via experiments either to check the model or the real architecture. Design work includes application specification, the mapping of applications to the machines and compiler design. The experimental work includes modeling, simulation and validation of both applications and underlying architecture, simulation at different levels and the development of benchmark sets.

The research on federated information management for complex high performance multi-system applications focuses on the design and development of architectures and systems that support the inter-operability and integration of cooperative information systems. The federated cooperative-system facility preserves every node's autonomy to have both private and sharable information, supports the heterogeneity of information representation in different nodes, and provides novel distributed schema management and distributed query processing methodologies.

Scientific keywords:parallel computing, computer architecture, embedded systems, modeling and simulation, (optical) networking, network protocols, scalability, federated database architecture, object oriented information management, cooperative and inter-operable systems.

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