What is SAFARI?

SAFARI is the research group of Professor Onur Mutlu in the Computer Architecture Lab (CALCM) at Carnegie Mellon University. Our research spans the boundaries of computer architecture, systems and circuits (hardware, software, and devices) with the goal of designing fundamentally more robust, efficient, secure and high-performance computing platforms of the future. Our research also focuses on algorithms and architectures for bioinformatics and medicine. Our ongoing projects are in:

Computer architecture and systems. Memory and storage systems. Multi/many-core systems. Scalable, QoS-aware, latency-tolerant systems.

Novel computer architectures for health, biological, medical, and bioinformatics applications.

Computer architectures for secure and robust operating systems (OS). OS/architecture interaction.

Architectural support for safe/managed/parallel programming languages (PL) and programmer productivity. PL/architecture interaction.

Fault tolerant and bug-tolerant architectures. Dependable systems.

System-wide resource management and QoS, especially in multi-core and multithreaded systems.

See our Publications, Technical Reports, and Talks for more on our research.

SAFARI is affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon Parallel Data Laboratory (PDL), the Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) and Cylab.

Longer Summary of Our Main Memory Systems Research (as of January 2015) -- The following invited article summarizes our research in memory systems, as of January 2015.

Onur Mutlu, Justin Meza and Lavanya Subramanian, "The Main Memory System: Challenges and Opportunities" Invited Article in Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE), 2015.

Brief Summary of Our Main Memory Systems Research (as of August 2013) -- The following talk (both video and slides) and the associated paper summarize our research in memory scaling, as of August 2013.

Onur Mutlu, "Memory Scaling: A Systems Architecture Perspective" Technical talk at MemCon 2013 (MEMCON), Santa Clara, CA, August 2013. Slides (pptx) (pdf) Video