Architectural Support for Performance Critical Applications (ASPCA)
Project team
This project is a collaboration between the
APPARC consortium and the
Center for Supercomputing Research and
Development,
University of Illinois, USA.
The researchers are spread over the participating institutes.
Harry Wijshoff is the
coordinator of the project.
Research Objectives
The activity will focus mainly on the design and evaluation of
memory systems with an emphasis on the design and use of software
mechanisms for improving memory efficiency usage and
hardware support for sparse computations, and on the development
of sparse algorithms for performance-critical applications.
Our specific objectives in the proposed collaboration are to use
the research results obtained at CSRD and apply them to the
APPARC specific goals and to have an extensive collaboration
with researchers at CSRD for making joined progress in areas of
common interest.
Intended results, deliverables
The APPARC consortium will study more efficient architecture
designs for memory organization (covering both software techniques
and hardware). Along that line, the experience gained at
CSRD through building and simulating complex memory systems
including sophisticated interconnection networks will be
extremely valuable for APPARC. In particular, the existence of
the CEDAR system featuring a complex system will constitute
an excellent testbed for our performance evaluation methodology,
numerical algorithms and data locality optimization techniques.
Timetable
From 01/01/1993 to 01/01/1996
Last modified on July 2, 1996 by Lex Wolters.