Computer Architecture Group of the University of Zaragoza
Address: C/ María de Luna 1 (Edificio Ada Byron) 50018 Zaragoza (España)
The Computer Architecture Group of the University of Zaragoza
(gaZ) is a research group targeting simple software and hardware
mechanisms to improve processing speed, to lower power consumption and
to ensure minimum response time. Funds for our basic research mostly
come from public agencies.
We are also involved
in technology transfer and applied research, with companies and
research groups requiring non-conventional software optimization or
design. Examples are Convolutional Neural Networks, real-time embedded
systems, hard-to-extract parallelism, or energy-oriented program
optimization. Innovative execution platforms such as system-on-chip
multicores (MPSoCs), GPGPUs or FPGAs are within our field of knowledge.
Our applied research covers several market segments, from inexpensive
embedded devices or hard real-time processors to massive parallel
engines.
The gaZ is mostly composed of
professors of the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering (DIIS)
at the University of Zaragoza. Other gaZ members are with the UPC, Univ.
Valladolid, Univ of Cantabria, and University of the Basque Country in
Spain, and with the Univ. Adelaida, Australia. The gaZ is integrated
into the Engineering Research Institute of Aragon (I3A) and is a member
of the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High-Performance and
Embedded Architecture and Compilation). We are involved in the Spanish
Society of Architecture and Computer Technology (SARTECO), which is
committed to the development of Computer Architecture in our country.
The
gaZ actively collaborates with other Spanish universities and
institutions (BSC, UCM, UMA) and also with a number of foreign
universities (UCSC and University of Illinois in the USA, Toronto
University in Canada, University of Ferrara in Italy and the CINVESTAV
Guadalajara in Mexico).
