A founding member of the Quantum Architecture Research Center, the Computer Architecture Laboratory serves as a focal point for research into various aspects of computer design and performance. The laboratory facilities include top of the line workstations from Intel, Compaq, IBM, HP, and Sun, which are used to support many different research projects, including (but not limited to) research into applications and architectures for novel technologies, mechanisms to increase the functionality and useability of a processor design, ways to increase information content of data streams, studies of how best to use billions of transistors, the design of a decoupled access-execute architecture that holds great promise for increased performance, work on reducing the memory access penalty, and an investigation of optimal multiprocessor cache configurations.