About Us

CASL is part of the NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center on Experimental Research in Computer Systems (www.cercs.gatech.edu). Our efforts are focused primarily on the exploration of novel concepts in computer architecture with an emphasis on interconnection networks and memory hierarchies and their integration into overall software systems and architectures. The efforts are guided by an experimental philosophy that develops hardware and software artifacts and consequently are influenced by emerging standards. Towards this end, and through Georgia Tech, we are members of the Hypertransport Consortiumand have been members of the Open Core Protocol Consortium.

Our current projects are broadly guided by the following two themes. The first is heterogeneous computing with a focus on acceleration via special purpose cores. The second is the integration of interconnection networks and memory systems with an emphasis on high efficiency computing. To enable exploration and evaluation, these themes are supported with development of supporting infrastructures.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of these efforts by the National Science Foundation, Intel, NVIDIA, LogicBlox, IBM and RNET Technologies, as well as the support of past projects by HP Labs, DARPA, ONR and DOE.