The i-acoma group, led by Professor Josep Torrellas, focuses on new processor, memory, and system technologies and organizations to build novel computer architectures. The goal is to design high-performance computers that are very easy to program, inexpensive, and built out of commodity components.
The main emphasis is on several areas:
- Architecture and software support for Thread Level Speculation (TLS)
- Architectural design for reliability, debugging (See The PROBE Project), and fault recovery
- Reconfigurable architectures (See The Morphable Multithreaded Memory Tiles (M3T) architecture)
- Architectures that integrate many processor cores and substantial memory on a chip (See The FlexRAM Intelligent Memory System)
- Architectural techniques for energy management in advanced chips
We are involved in the NCSA Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) effort.
We have released the tool: Augmint: A multiprocessor execution-driven simulator for Intel x86 assembly.