Ghent University was founded in 1817. Today, after decades of uninterrupted growth, Ghent University is one of the leading institutions of higher education and research in the Low Countries. Ghent University offers high-quality, research-based education in all academic disciplines. Today Ghent University attracts over 30,000 students, with a foreign student population of over 1,100 EU citizens and some 1,000 students from non-EU countries. Excluding the Ghent University Hospital, the university employs 6800 staff members, including 912 professors. Its research budget for 2009 was 213 M€.
The Computer Systems Lab (CSL) of UGent’s engineering faculty will participate in this project. The Lab (49 researchers, including 8 faculty members) is part of the Electronics and Information Systems Department. The part of the lab involved in this project conducts research on the hardware-software interface of programmable computing systems. This research spans the domains of system software, including compilers and operating and run-time systems, as well as computer architecture and micro-architecture component design. CSL has internationally recognized expertise in performance analysis, evaluation and modeling of modern multicore processors, fast simulation techniques, virtual machine designs, software protection techniques, reliability-enhancing software/hardware co-design, compiler techniques, and software parallelization techniques. CSL has active collaborations with leading American research groups at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Arizona, the University of California, San Diego, IBM T.J. Watson, … It is also a partner in the recently started Intel Exascience Lab Flanders.