Principal Investigator Charles Leiserson
Co-investigators Nir Shavit , Alan Edelman
Project Website http://toc.csail.mit.edu/node/137
Parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture in recent years. The parallel computation group includes three sub-groups addressing the design of parallel software, from languages to algorithms and to the fields computational foundations.
(*) The Multicore algorithmics Group headed by Prof. Nir Shavit develops techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessor algorithms, in particular concurrent data structures for multicore machines and the mathematical foundations of the computation models that govern their behavior.
(*) The Supertech Research Group headed by Prof. Charles E. Leiserson investigates the technologies that support scalable high-performance computing, including hardware, software, and theory.
(*) The Applied Computing Group headed by Prof. Alan Edelman designs software for high performance computing, develops algorithms for numerical linear algebra and researchs random matrix theory and its applications.