At PennCIL, our research focuses on future systems in two general directions:
- Augmenting computer systems with domain specific accelerators and emerging memories – an essential step towards next-generation systems. It requires modest system changes and has low deployment barrier but the performance gain might be potentially limited.
- Architecture/Algorithm Co-design
- Large scale graph analytics
- Deep learning and AI
- Mechanisms and Abstractions for Virtualization in Cloud
- Open Source Computer System Infrastructure
- Rethinking computer systems with post-CMOS technology – a more aggressive approach in pushing innovations across the entire system stack. It could lead to dramatic improvement in performance but often requires more disruptive change in both hardware and software.
- Liquid Silicon
- Two-Dimensional Associative Processor
