Institute of Computer Engineering

Research Group Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl)

Efficient usage of available computer architectures is an essential component of many applications. The parallelization of existing algorithms and methods plays just as crucial a role as the systematic utilization of all available hardware components. From a research perspective, this raises some very interesting questions. How can emerging tasks be efficiently distributed across the existing structures? What happens when individual components or even entire computing nodes fail? What might scheduling methods look like that already take future hardware developments into consideration? What techniques can ensure adherence to real-time constraints? How precise do results really have to be? Could race conditions and similar typical parallelization challenges be used deliberately to achieve more efficient parallelization?

The Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing (CAPP) research group, headed by Prof. Karl, primarily  focuses on the development and implementation of highly parallel and highly heterogeneous process implementations, developing new scheduling methods, investigating and combining methods of approximate computing, and not leaving cutting-edge research areas such as neural networks untouched.

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