Welcome to the Davis Computer Architecture Research Group (DArchR) website

It’s an exciting time to be a computer architect! For the past 40 years, we’ve relied on Moore’s Law and related manufacturing advances for the meteoric increase in computer performance. However, these advances are approaching their physical limits. To increase the efficiency of our devices and enable novel applications we must architect new hardware and computing systems. Our research targets important end-to-end applications (e.g., big-data analytics, machine learning, and high-performance computing) and develops new hardware, software, and systems to improve their performance increase their scalability. Computing systems’ performance improvements have brought the world amazing things: smart phones, Google search, machine learning, and now it is up to computer architects to enable the next wave of revolutionary applications.

We’re recruiting!

We’re currently building an interdisciplinary research group to bridge the gap between advances in architecture and important new applications. If this sounds interesting to you, DArchR is recruiting new students to work on a variety of projects. If you’re excited about computer architecture research, check out the prospective student page.

Recently published papers

Potential and Limitation of High-Frequency Cores and Caches

Potential and Limitation of High-Frequency Cores and Caches

ModSim 2024 poster-presentation on the potential of cryogenic semiconductor computing and superconductor electronics as promising alternatives to traditional semiconductor devices.

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TB-scale DRAM Cache

A Case Against Hardware Managed DRAM Caches for NVRAM based Systems

An analysis of a current DRAM cache design on TB-scale workloads. A follow on to our NVMW work.

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gem5art and gem5-resources

Enabling reproducible and agile full-system simulation

Zen and the Art of gem5 experiments, or how to make gem5 experiments easy and reproducible.

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Featured projects

Hardware-software security interfaces

How can we design new hardware-software interfaces to allow for more secure devices?

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Heterogeneous Memory

Cross-layer rethinking of the memory hierarchy for heterogeneous systems

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gem5

gem5 is an open source system simulator used in academia and industry

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