The Computer Architecture Department (http://www.ac.upc.es)
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The Computer Architecture Department (DAC) is one of the 38 departments of the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia. It is located in Barcelona and it
teaches a number of courses on computer structure and organization, computer 
architecture, operating systems, computer networks, computer evaluation and 
VLSI design. The DAC is involved in the curricula of four centers in the UPC.
The DAC offers also a Graduate Program where students can be enroled to pursue
their Ph. D. 
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At the UPC, the research activities are organizated through the research 
lines. They are groups of people with common interest in a technical or 
scientific area. In the DAC there are currently four research lines:

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<LI>     - High Performance Computing
<LI>     - Design and Performance Evaluation of Broadband Integrated Communication 
       Systems
<LI>     - Distributed Systems Architecture
<LI>     - VLSI Systems Design 
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The activities related to COOPERNET will be hosted by the High Performance
Computing research group. 
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The department participates in the management of three centers: 

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<LI>     - CEPBA: European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona
<LI>     - CCABA: Broadband Communication Center
<LI>     - esCERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
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The High Performance Computing Group (http://www.ac.upc.es/hoc)
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This research group is currently composed of 21 Ph. D. members and and 26
Ph. D. students. They research focus on computer architecture and programming 
tools for high-performce computers. The main topics that have been the
target of recent investigations in the group are:

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<LI>	- Processor architecture 
<LI>        - Memory Management and Organization 
<LI>        - Instruction-Level Parallelism 
<LI>        - Parallelization, Data Distribution and Loop Transformations 
<LI>        - Algorithms and Architectures for Linear Algebra and Sparse Matrix 
	  computations 
<LI>        - Microkernel Technology Support to Parallel Applications 
<LI>        - Operating Systems for Parallel Machines 
<LI>        - Systematic mapping of algorithms to hardware 
<LI>        - Execution of Applications based on the Declarative Programming 
	  Paradigm 
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The group has participated in more than 15 international projects in the last
10 years related to these topics. Most of these projects have been funded
by ESPRIT. Besides, it has organized 7 international conferences and will
host the forthcomming ISCA conference.