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Systems at the University of Chicago

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The Systems Group is a vibrant, collaborative research community with diverse research activities ranging across systems and networking, architecture and programming languages, graphics and visualization, and systems biology. The Systems group has deep ties to the Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division, so high-performance computing has long been a strength.

With a strong core of faculty and students in place, we are looking to grow in broadly-defined strategic clusters. Our first strategic cluster is Data-Intensive Computing which we define broadly to include all computer science areas inspired by activities taking data thru collection, organization, analysis, and new insight (in contrast to the traditional definition ). Strategic growth of the Systems Group has the strong support of the department and the university which together have launched a strategic initiative to grow the Systems Group, hiring a number of new faculty and significantly growing the doctoral program in Systems.

Faculty Recruiting We are hiring top junior Systems faculty as part of a university strategic initiative to build an extraordinary Systems Group. Our official recruiting ad is here. And while our strategic focus is Data-Intensive Computing, we welcome applications from top candidates in all Systems areas. Come and join us!

We've nearly completed a very successful faculty recruiting process, and we will have several new systems faculty next year! Stay tuned for more information...

Graduate Student Recruiting We are always looking for energetic, creative PhD students. Information about our graduate programs can be found here.

We've just completed a very successful PhD student recruiting process, and we're please to have five excellent new systems students joining us this fall. Welcome Aiman, Tanakorn, Ronald, Annie, and Amirali!

Current Research Projects:

  • BHIVE ----A Modeling and Simulation Environgment for Large-scale study of Cellular Community Behavior

  • Diderot -- A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis and Visualization

  • EASE ---- Easy Exabyte Computing (includes the Blockus and GVR projects)

  • Globus Online ---- Enabling Computational Science with Online Services

  • KBASE ---- The Systems Biology Knowledgebase

  • Manticore ---- Heterogeneous Parallel Programming for Multicore

  • 10x10 ---- Taming Heterogeneity for General-Purpose Computing

  • XSEDE ---- XSEDE: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment


    The Systems Group is part of the University of Chicago's Department of Computer Science , the hub of a diverse computing community of over two hundred researchers focused on advancing the foundations of computing and driving its most advanced applications. Long distinguished in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, the Department is engaged in a multi-year effort to build an extraordinary Systems research group. This closely-knit community includes the Computation Institute , the Toyota Technological Institute , and Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division .

    Last modified: May 2012