Increased efforts to keep pace with the evolution in HPC hardware and software represent unique challenges that only a handful of enabling technology researchers are capable of addressing successfully. Our cutting-edge research efforts of the past have provided the foundation for addressing these challenges and serve as catalysts for success in our ever growing research portfolio. Our vision, our expertise, our determination, and our track record continue to position ICL as a leader in academic research.

What originally began more than 20 years ago as in-depth investigations of the numerical libraries that encode the use of linear algebra in software, our research portfolio has grown extensively. We have evolved and expanded our research agenda to accommodate the aforementioned evolution of the HPC community, which includes a focus on algorithms and libraries for multicore and hybrid computing. We also now include work in high performance parallel and distributed computing, with efforts focused on message passing and fault tolerance. As we have gained a solid understanding of the challenges presented in these domains, we have further expanded our research to include work in performance analysis and benchmarking for high-end computers.

Demonstrating the range and diversity of our research, we will be engaged in more than 20 significant research projects during 2010-2011 across our main areas of focus.