Computer Systems
The Computer and Software Systems cluster consists of two research sections:
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Leiden Embedded Research Center (LERC)
High Performance Computing
prof. dr. Harry A.G. Wijshoff (head)
The programme concentrates on a broad range of research topics in the area of computer science: (optimising) compilers, parallel and distributed computing, grid computing, large-scale applications, large-scale database systems, embedded software development, virtual environments, application drivers, problem solving environments, analysis of multimedia information toward the needs of human computer interaction (HCI), and content based retrieval in digital libraries. We focus our research on the following sub-areas:
- Large-scale applications, grid computing, problem solving environments
- Parallel and distributed computing, optimizing compiler technology, embedded software development
- Large-scale database systems, data compilation, data integration, and data mining
The mission of HPC is to investigate, analyze and improve the state of the art applications of computer and software system technology, and to rigorously demonstrate the effectiveness of the resulting novel techniques in software, algorithms, and problem-directed/data-directed computing for selected current and future computational challenges.
Leiden Embedded Research Center
prof. Ed F. Deprettere (head)
LERC is an expert group in advanced research in Embedded Systems and Software. The group covers three related topics in this rapidly evolving domain:
- Embedded Systems (theory and applications)
- Embedded Software (embedded software)
- Embedded Design (software architectures/software engineering practice)
LERC's application domains are multimedia, signal processing, computer vision, and molecular biology. The research at LERC deals with modeling of applications and multi-processor architectures, and mapping methods in these domains, at various levels of abstraction, for exploration and design, theoretically and practically, down to real platforms.
LERC is advocating and applying modern state–of–the–art Software Engineering Practice both in the way the group’s projects are integrated, documented, and assessed, and in the way software that implements research results is written, tested and assessed.