High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing (HPC) integrates high end hardware with highly tuned software to solve complex scientific problems. HPC simplifies and accelerates substantial computational components in a number of essential fields, such as genome sequencing and molecular dynamics in computational biology or cyber physical domains. HPC also applies data driven and AI techniques to diagnose and solve performance challenges in HPC systems themselves. HPC research at CISE focuses on improving performance, reducing cost, and making the systems more energy efficient by applying intelligent and interdisciplinary methods. Research areas cross-cut design automation (EDA), computer architecture, computer systems, and applied machine learning.

CISE Faculty Recognized for Groundbreaking AI Research with AIRR Awards

Recognized for their cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, 11 CISE faculty affiliates have been honored with AI Research Resource (AIRR) awards. This Hariri Institute program supports AI research at Boston University by giving researchers access to the New England Research Cloud (NERC), a regional computing infrastructure that provides cloud-based resources tailored to academic research. A […]

Secretary of State John Kerry Visits CISE Director Ayse Coskun

On Thursday, February 6th, 2025, former Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering to meet with CISE Director and Professor Ayşe K. Coşkun (ECE, SE). Secretary Kerry was joined by Ambassador David H. Thorne, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and Varun Sivaram, Council on […]

CISE Hosts 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 11.0)

Over 100 student and faculty attendees gathered on January 24th, 2025, for the 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop hosted by the Center of Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). The day-long symposium featured doctoral students from different disciplines across Boston University’s College of Engineering presenting their original research.   “CGSW aims to bring together CISE students, faculty, […]

Innovative Energy Efficiency: Fisheye Cameras in Smart Spaces

Imagine a bustling corporate office building where energy consumption needs to be balanced with maintaining a comfortable environment for employees. In such settings, traditional methods of regulating air handling systems can lead to inefficiencies and waste energy in unoccupied areas. This is where the research of Boston University Professors and CISE affiliates Thomas Little, Janusz […]

Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing

Some computational problems are so complex that they require many times more calculations than a typical laptop can handle. High performance computing (HPC) combines a number of computer servers to carry out these large-scale computations that often operate on massive data sets. But data centers for HPC require immense amounts of power and limiting power […]

Automated Analytics for Improving Efficiency, Safety, and Security of HPC Systems

Performance variations are becoming more prominent with new generations of large-scale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Understanding these variations and developing resilience to anomalous performance behavior are critical challenges for reaching extreme-scale computing. To help address these emerging performance variation challenges, there is increasing interest in designing data analytics methods to make sense out of the […]

AI-based Scalable Analytics for Improving Performance, Resilience, and Security of HPC Systems

Next generation large-scale  High Performance Computing (HPC) systems face important cost and scalability challenges due to anomalous system and application behavior resulting in wasted compute cycles and the ever-growing difficulty of system management. There is an increasing interest in the HPC community in using AI-based frameworks to tackle analytics and management problems in HPC so […]