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SAFARI: Projects

Our major research interests are in computer architecture, especially the hardware/software interface and cooperation to improve the design of parallel system architectures. We are interested in designing novel and efficient hardware/software cooperative techniques to overcome fundamental performance, security, robustness, reliability, and efficiency challenges in current and future computer systems. We are also interested in new research areas such as biocomputing and architectures for it. Some of our current research interests/projects include but are not limited to the following.

Research Areas and Projects (not comprehensive and out of date)

• Memory Systems: Latency, Bandwidth, Parallelism
  • Memory Controllers
  • Emerging Memory Technologies
  • Prefetching
  • QoS/Fairness in Shared Memory Systems/Controllers
  • Memory Energy and Power
  • Caching
  • Runahead Execution (Latency Tolerance and Memory Level Parallelism)
  • Other Memory Level Parallelism
  • Speculative Memory References
• Architectural Support for Programmer Productivity: PL/Architecture Interaction, Parallel Program Bottlenecks, Safe Language Bottlenecks
• Computer architectures for robust and secure operating systems (OS): OS/architecture interaction: Resource Management, Fairness, QoS, Security
• Interconnection Networks and Efficient Router Design
• Fault Tolerance
• Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)
• Bioinformatics and Biocomputing
• Control Flow, Speculative Execution, Wrong Path Execution
• High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Control Flow Handling
• Speculative and Wrong Path Execution
• Energy-efficient Microarchitectures
• Heterogeneous Systems
• Enabling and Exploiting Emerging Technologies