PPI Introduction
The Parallel Processing Institute (PPI) at Fudan University conducts research in all aspects of computer systems, with a primary focus on parallel compiler, interactions between compiler and computer architecture, and operating systems.
The PPI was established by Prof. Chuan-Qi ZHU in 1992, as an expansion of a research group on parallel processing (founded in 1988). In the past years, PPI independently designed and developed AFT, a parallel compiling system for FORTRAN. Such system achieved considerable performance improvement, which is comparable to SUIF, a widely used parallel compiler from Stanford. We also designed and developed Agassiz, a parallel compiling system for C, cooperated with University of Minnesota and Purdue University.
Currently, we investigate innovative ideas on compiler by exploiting new features of modern architecture to improve the performance for both general purpose applications as well as domain-specific applications, such as multimedia and communication applications. Meanwhile, we dig into the realm of operating systems and focus on employing virtualization to enhance the reliability, security and trustworthy of operating systems.
