University of Southern California

Research Directions

Computational Sciences research is divided into:

VLSI group

  • Polymorphic computing
  • Radiation Hardness by Design (RADHARD)
  • Fault-tolerant multi-core architecture
  • Trusted foundry

Compiler group - website

  • For high-end applications
  • For multi-core devices
  • Automatic performance tuning
  • Specific application areas

Forces Modeling group

  • Scalable entity-level simulations
  • Interest-managed communication (jointly with the California Institute of Technology)
  • Distributed data management (jointly with ISI’s Distributed Scalable Systems Division)
  • General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GP GPU)