Our research themes include:
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Systems level research:
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Exascale FastForward and DesignForward: Exploring a range of enabling processor, memory and interconnect technologies and software necessary to build futuristic, high-performance computers beyond the year 2020, and investigating the impact of these technologies on consumer and enterprise markets. This research spans from circuits and microarchitectures through software. It seeks to improve the performance, energy-efficiency, reliability and programmability of future computing systems.
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Workloads for future computing: With big data, big compute and cloud computing becoming more and more prevalent, we are committed to leveraging a plethora of techniques to understand and enhance AMD performance for diverse key emerging applications.
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Enabling technologies:
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CPU, GPU and HSA architectures: Development of next-generation, high-performance architectures for the next five years and beyond.
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Memory systems: Understanding of system design implications from memory technologies emerging on the horizon.
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Low power: Design of circuits and architectural techniques to reduce the power consumption of future platforms.
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I/O subsystems: Improvement of I/O subsystem performance that’s increasingly critical to the overall system performance.
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Research infrastructure:
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gem5: An important element of our research is simulator development to facilitate evaluation of revolutionary ideas. Besides AMD internal work, we are a leader in developing the open source simulator named gem5.
We support and encourage research in the academic community aligned with the AMD strategic thrusts listed above.
