The Vortex Project

Overview:

The Vortex project at the University of Maryland is investigating novel architectural mechanisms to bridge the processor-memory gap. In particular, we are interested in supporting the memory requirements of emerging non-numeric applications such as databases, search engines, and stream-based computing, as well as applications written in object-oriented programming environments such as Java. In contrast to traditional scientific workloads, emerging non-numeric applications present new memory design challenges due to the unstructured nature of the computation and data structures involved.

  • Project Details
  • People:

    Faculty

  • Donald Yeung
  • Chau-Wen Tseng
  • Students

  • Seungryul Choi
  • Dongkeun Kim
  • Changping Li
  • Alumni

  • Nick Kohout
  • Publications:

  • Nicholas Kohout, Seungryul Choi, and Donald Yeung. Multi-Chain Prefetching: Exploiting Memory Parallelism in Pointer-Chasing Codes. University of Maryland Systems and Computer Architecture Group Technical Report, UMD-SCA-TR-2000-01, June 2000.
    (compressed postscript)
  • Funding:

    The Vortex project is funded under NSF grant #CCR-0000988, and under an University of Maryland junior faculty grant.

    Last updated: June 2000 by Donald Yeung (yeung@eng.umd.edu)