Emerging applications impose challenging demands on the performance and real-time response of general-purpose computer systems. Our mission is to provide design methods and principles to meet these demands.

The main focus of the work in the High-Performance Computer Architecture Group at Chalmers is design principles and methods for emerging general-purpose computer systems for industrial applications with high and predictable (real-time) performance demands. Target applications are e.g. transaction-processing, telecom, real-time 3D computer graphics as well as industrial process control. A current focus is on the exploitation of symmetric multiprocessor systems and high-performance microprocessors in these and other performance demanding application domains. The work in the group is carried out in a number of projects. The topics span issues in architecture, modeling, and scheduling and parallelization methods.