Equipments

Equipments

Computing equipments

ULBS High Performance Computing (HPC) System. It has 30 Intel Xeon E5405 homogenous quad cores (15 blades, 120 cores), operating at 2 GHz. This means a total of 120 Intel cores. Our High Performance Computing system also includes 4 IBM Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) processors (2 blades, 36 cores). The IBM Cell is a heterogeneous multicore, consisting of a 64-bit dual thread PowerPC (master) core plus 8 SIMD processors. These (slave) processors, called SPU (Synergistic Processor Unit), are specialized for data intensive processing domains like cryptography, media and scientific applications. The HPC allocates 4.84 GB of DRAM memory for each two Intel quad cores and 7.85 GB of DRAM memory for each two IBM Cell cores. This means a total of 88.3 GB of RAM memory. The total storage capacity is approximately 1.2 TB of disk. The system uses the RedHat Enterprise 5.4 Linux Operating System;

Dedicated multiprocessor server, with the possibility of virtualization of CUDA parallel processing architecture, HPE DL380 Gen10 2x Intel Xeon-G 6240, NVIDIA Quadro RTX8000 GPU

2 Workstations for PhD-Students, HP MT i7-9700/8GB/256GB SSD/Win10Pro

Software

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
Programing languages: C/C++, Java, Python, Visual C++, C#
IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA
Compilers: GCC
Simulators: gem5, Multi2Sim, M-SIM, ns-3, Simics, GAP, SimpleScalar tool set v.3.0, LC-2 simulators, SPIM, DLX, SATSim, Complex simulator set for optimization of advanced microarchitectures (local development), CACTI, UniSim
Benchmarks: SPEC 2000, MiBench, E3S (EEMBC), HSA, Reuters Corpus v.1, Application for document classification and clustering (local development), BU-Web-Client (six months of web client traces)
Our developed frameworks: FADSE, UniMap

Latest News

În ultimii 5 ani, pentru doctoranzii din domeniul Calculatoare și Tehnologia Informației au fost susține prelegeri pe următoarele tematici:

Ingineria sistemelor fizico-cibernetice, în cadrul școlii de vară CPS Summer School 3rd – 7th July 2017 de la Sibiu (https://projects.au.dk/into-cps/dissemination/summerschool/), de către (printre alții): Prof.dr. Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University), Associate Prof. dr. Ken Pierce (Newcastle University), Prof.dr. Bernhard Thiele (Linköping University), Prof.dr. Alois Zoitl (Fortiss, Germany), Prof.dr. Frank Zeyda (University of York), Prof.dr. Hans Vangheluwe (University of Antwerp) etc. De asemenea, Prof.dr.ing. Lasse Berntzen (University of South-Eastern Norway) a expus in perioada 26-27 Februarie 2017 Sibiu, Romania, prelegerea “A Mobile Platform for Environmental Monitoring”.

Imagistică medicală, în cadrul scolii de vară https://ssima.eu/ssima-2018/, de către (printre alții): Bart Romeny (Eindhoven Technological University), Kim Mouridsen (Aarhus University), Michael Lustig (Berkeley University), Ovidiu Andronesi (Harvard Medical School), Michael Lindenbaum (Technion IIT, Israel). De asemenea, pe aceeași tematică, în cadrul școlii de vară organizate în cadrul proiectului Brain IT https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/brainit/partners.php au conferențiat: Mario Monzón (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) și Ilaria Cacciotti (Universita Degli Studi Niccolo Cusano Telematica Roma).

Inteligență artificială, Prof.dr. Ugo Fiore (University of Naples), 16 - 19 October 2019, Sibiu, Romania, a expus in fața studenților doctoranzi prelegerea “Neural Networks in the Educational Sector: Challenges and Opportunities”.
- metode de aplicare a conceptului de Design Thinking in dezvoltarea si implementarea de soluții inovative pentru rezolvarea problemelor ce presupun procese complexe, Prof.dr. Ulrich Weinberg, de la HPI School of Design Thinking din Germania a organizat în data de 9 iulie 2019 workshopul "Design Thinking: The Creative Power of Teams", https://centers.ulbsibiu.ro/itchpiulbs/ro/news.php

Workshop cu participare internationala in stiinta calculatoarelor

Pe data de 2 aprilie a.c. ULBS va gazdui (Sala Senatului, Rectorat) un workshop stiintific care se va desfasura sub egida Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice din Romania precum si a singurei retele europene de excelenta in domeniul sistemelor de calcul de inalta performanta si compilatoarelor, finantata de catre Comisia Europeana, numita European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) – v. http://www.hipeac.net/. Scopul principal al acestei manifestari consta in prezentarea retelei de excelenta HiPEAC, urmata de sustinerea unor comunicari stiintifice focalizate pe cercetari de varf referitoare la sistemele de calcul ale viitorilor ani.

Din partea HiPEAC vor participa - cu prezentari consistente ale unor proiecte europene de cercetare stiintifica pe care le conduc - profesorii universitari Koen de Bosschere (Belgia), coordonatorul retelei europene de excelenta, Rainer Leupers (Germania) si Kostas Magoutis (Grecia), membri ai Steering Committee. Din Romania, vor participa cu expuneri stiintifice profesorii universitari Nicolae Tapus (UP București), Sergiu Nedevschi (UT Cluj-Napoca), Lucian Vintan (ULB Sibiu) si Marius Marcu (UP Timișoara), specialisti recunoscuti pe plan national si international in stiinta calculatoarelor, primii trei fiind și membri ai Academiei de Stiinte Tehnice.

Pe aceasta baza se are in vedere initierea unor proiecte de cercetare comuna in domeniul stiintei calculatoarelor. Anexat se poate consulta agenda aferenta workshop-ului.

July 6^th, 2012: Professor Lucian Vintan was elected full-member of the Academy of Technical Sciences from Romania (www.astr.ro). In 2005 he was elected correspondent member of this prestigious scientific institution.

Nov. 25th, 2011: Horia Calborean and Ciprian Radu successfully publicly defended their PhD theses entitled Multi-Objective Optimization of Advanced Computer Architectures using Domain-Knowledge and respectively Optimized Algorithms for Network-on-Chip Apllication Mapping. Both theses were supervised by Professor Lucian Vintan and had the following reviewers: Professor Nicolae Țăpus (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania), Professor Valentin Cristea (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) and Professor Mircea Popa (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania).

Nov. 4th, 2011: Radu Cretulescu successfully publicly defended his PhD thesis entitled (in romanian) Contribuţii la proiectarea sistemelor de clasificare a documentelor. The thesis was supervised by Professor Lucian Vintan.

Professor Lucian Vintan was invited to be member in the committee of the Championship Branch Prediction, co-organized by Intel, as a recognition of his merits in adaptive dynamic branch prediction, his novel ideas being cited in more than 160 works published all over the world.