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Monday, October 13

Research in High-Performance Computing at the
Net-Centric Software and Systems Consortium

Krishna Kavi, The University of North Texas, Dallas
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar
10:00 AM, Research Office Building (5700), Room E-104
Contact: Angie Scott (scottar@ornl.gov), 865.241.0331

Abstract

Net-Centric Software and Systems Consortium (NCSSC) is currently in the process of creating a NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC). This I/UCRC will initially include the University of North Texas (lead), the University of Texas at Dallas and Southern Methodist University, and will work closely with leading companies, such as Boeing, Cisco, EDS, Fujitsu, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, T-Systems, and others, to enable the rapid development of highly dependable systems for critical net-centric defense, civil infrastructure, commerce, and other application domains (see http://netcentric.cse.unt.edu/).

The research conducted by the faculty of the center is very broad ranging from software quality assurance, real-time and embedded systems, high-performance multi-core and many-cores systems, wireless and sensor networks, VoIP, and IPT.

In terms of high performance computing, our focus has been on optimizing memory systems for high performance multi-core and many cores systems. This talk will cover our work on cache memories and dynamic memory management and some results from very innovative multi-threaded architectures proposed by our research group. Although we do not envision processors to drastically deviate from x86 architecture, our ideas can play a role on how a compiler can abstract the architecture to create more efficient load distribution and synchronization. This talk also describes some of recent, yet unpublished, research projects in these areas.

BIO: Krishna Kavi Krishna Kavi is currently a professor and the Chairman of Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of North Texas. He is also the director of the Net Centric Software and Systems IUCRC. Previously he held the Eminent Scholar Chair professorship at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a professorship at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was a Scientific Program Director at the US National Science Foundation between 1993-1995.

His research interests are primarily in the various aspects of Computer Architecture. He also conducted research on formal methods for the design and verification of software systems, agent-based formalisms, performance and reliability analyses of computer systems using Petri nets. He authored or co-authored more than 150 technical publications http://www.csrl.unt.edu/~kavi