The BARDD Research Group
The BYU Architecture Research, Design, and Description Group investigates computer architecture. Our principal research interests lie in the realms of chip multiprocessor architecture, parallel optimization for chip multiprocessors, tools which allow computer architects to describe a system, and hardware synthesis from high-level specifications.
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BARDD NewsSunday Nov 08, 2009Sep 1, 2009: David Greenland, Tyler Harris, and Daniel Richins join the BARDD groupThe BARDD group welcomes David Greenland, Tyler Harris, and Daniel Richins to its ranks as graduate research assistants and bids farewell to Abhishek Pokhrel and Daniel Rich. May 26, 2009: Koy has finished his degree!Koy Rehme successfully defended his MS thesis, An Internal Representation for Adaptive Online Parallelization. Congratulations, Koy! May 4, 2009: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review paper appearsA paper which Dr. Penry authored entitled Multicore Diversity: A Software Developer's Nightmare has been published in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. Jan 3, 2009: Jeremy Mickelson and Abhishek Pokhrel join the BARDD groupThe BARDD group welcomes Jeremy Mickelson and Abhishek Pokhrel to its ranks as undergraduate research assistants and bids farewell to David Ward and Michael Williams. Why BARDD?The word bardd is a Welsh word meaning bard. A bard is an ancient Celtic poet, though William Shakespeare is sometimes referred to as "the Bard". At any rate, bardd made a good acronym which acknowledges Dr. Penry's Welsh ancestry and liking for Celtic music and poetry. Also, when mispronounced by English speakers, it sounds like what it means. (Bardd should be pronounced as "barth" where the "th" is voiced as in "this".) Finally, it gives a good name for the group members: bards. (In Welsh, the plural would actually be beirdd, but that's too much to expect people to remember.) And maybe someday we'll post some poetry.... |
Y gwir yn erbyn y byd ("The truth against the world") - old bardic saying
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