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Two PhD Research Studentships in the Computer Architecture Group

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Two PhD Research Studentships in the Computer Architecture Group
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Applications are invited from students with backgrounds in computer science or electronic engineering for PhD studentships at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. The successful candidates will join one of two EPSRC funded projects (Loki and BIMPA) which are investigating massively-parallel processor architectures. A successful applicant would join a small, but highly motivated, group of researchers exploring a broad range of exciting problems.

The Loki project is exploring novel parallel processing fabrics for embedded applications. The architectures under investigation have similarities to both FPGAs and multicore approaches. Research is currently being pursued at the language, compiler and architecture levels.

The BIMPA project is investigating power-efficient million-core architectures for massive simulation including neural simulation.

We have two projects (Loki and BIMPA) with studentships attached. For further details, see:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/comparch/research/

An excellent academic track record is essential (1st class honours degree). Projects exist for students with both computer science or electronics/VLSI backgrounds, although a good understanding of computer architecture is necessary in either case.

The studentship offers full costs (fees plus stipend) for 36 months for UK and EU citizens, who satisfy the eligibility criteria of the UK Research Councils. The studentship is not available to citizens of non-EU countries.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr. Robert Mullins, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (email: Robert.Mullins@cl.cam.ac.uk). Please contact Dr. Mullins as soon as possible if you are interested. The final deadline for formal applications is March 31st, but an earlier application is strongly recommended. Formal applications need to follow the official procedure which is outlined here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/admissions/phd/