CONTACT(S)
Peter Varman, Program Director
Velma Lawson, Program Specialist
SCOPE
This program
supports basic research on new computing systems and
architectures. Focus is on new architecture ideas and
concepts that will form the basis for solving computing problems
likely to arise in the future. Broadly speaking, this covers the
design, implementation, and evaluation of novel computing
structures and technologies. Theoretical and small-scale
experimental studies are supported, as are assessments of fault
tolerance and performance. Research on system software,
when intimately connected to the architecture or hardware, is
supported. Currently, special attention is given to research
on:
Emerging
Architectures: Molecular and nano architectures, quantum
computing, and optical computing systems.
Hardware-Software Co-Design: Reconfigurable
architectures, co-simulation, synthesis, low power design,
and embedded systems.
Microarchitecture: compiler-architecture interaction,
out-of-order execution, VLIW, instruction and data prefetching and
prediction, speculation, superscalar processing, multithreading,
embedded processor design, lower power architectures.
Metrics and
parallelism: performance evaluation of single processor
and multiprocessor architectures, analytical modeling, new
measurement and simulation techniques, co-simulation, benchmarks
for scientific and commercial system architectures.
Systems: latency reduction, interconnection networks,
active networks, shared memory multiprocessors, workstation
clusters, quality of service, fault-tolerance and reliability, and
real-time communication.
Memory: new memory architectures, bandwidth, latency
reduction, data prefetching and forwarding techniques, cache
coherence and synchronization, memory hierarchy management,
processor-in-memory, active memory, and memory management
problems.
Input/Output: Disk organization, scheduling, data stream
management, low-overhead protection, latency reduction, active
disk, and high performance I/O design.
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