Parallel Computing Systems

Research group

The Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) group at the University of Amsterdam performs research on the design, programming and run-time management of parallel and distributed computer systems. The modeling, analysis and optimization of the extra-functional aspects of these systems, such as performance, power/energy consumption, thermals, reliability, security or verifiability but also the degree of productivity to design and program these systems, play a pivotal role in this work.

News

The paper 'Compact SER Models for Line-Source-Induced Charge Collection Using Model Order Reduction' was accepted at IEEE DFTS '25.

Jul 6, 2025

The paper 'Unraveling Parallelism in Automated Workload Modeling for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems' was accepted at DSD '25.

Jun 26, 2025

The paper 'A Comparative Study of Streaming Graph Processing Systems' was accepted at GraphSys '25.

Jun 24, 2025

The paper 'System-Level Aware Power Delivery Network Generator for Multiprocessor Systems' was accepted at ICDCSW '25.

May 21, 2025

The paper 'MaCP: Minimal yet Mighty Adaptation via Hierarchical Cosine Projection' was accepted at ACL 2025.

May 16, 2025
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Meet the Team

Group Chair

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Andy D. Pimentel

Full Professor

Staff

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Ana Lucia Varbanescu

Guest Professor (University Twente)

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Semeen Rehman

Associate Professor

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Andrés Goens

Assistant Professor

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Anuj Pathania

Assistant Professor

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Francesco Regazzoni

Associate Professor

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Kostas Papagiannopoulos

Assistant Professor

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Benny Akesson

Professor by special appointment

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Simon Polstra

Scientific Programmer / Lecturer

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Martin Bor

Lecturer

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Dolly Sapra

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Yixian Shen

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD students

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Daphnée Chabal

PhD Student

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Georgios Tasopoulos

PhD Student

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Kanwal Batool

PhD Student

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Kyrian Maat

PhD Student

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Linus Mainka

PhD Student

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Marco Brohet

PhD Student

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Romke van Dijk

PhD Student

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Amna Hassan

Phd Student

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Xu Hang

Phd Student

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Jelle van Dijk

Phd Student

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Lukas Miedema

Phd Student

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Marius Herget

Phd Student

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Pooya Khandel

Phd Student

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Saeedeh Baneshi

Phd Student

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Shaoshuai Du

Phd Student

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Stephen Swatman

Phd Student

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Sudaksh Kalra

Phd Student

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Sudam Wasala

Phd Student

Alumni

Clemens Grelck

Associate Professor

Benjamin Rouxel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cagkan Erbas

PhD student

Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ehsan Aghapour

Phd Student

Giulio Stramondo

PhD student

Hugo Meyer

Postdoctoral Researcher

Julius Roeder

Phd Student

Jun Xiao

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mark Thompson

PhD student

Merijn Verstraaten

Phd Student

Michiel van Tol

PhD student

Mike Lankamp

PhD student

Peter van Stralen

PhD student

Raphael Poss

Postdoctoral Researcher

Roberta Piscitelli

PhD student

Roeland Douma

PhD student

Roy Bakker

PhD student

Sebastian Altmeyer

Assistant Professor

Sobhan Niknam

Postdoctoral Researcher

Thomas Bernard

PhD student

Toktam Taghavi

PhD student

Uraz Odyurt

Phd Student

Wei Quan

PhD student

Xiaotian Guo

Phd Student

Projects

ISSE

Improved Secure Semiconductor Evaluations

CASTOR

Secure, trusted, and optimized communication across the compute continuum

COIN-3D

Pushing the frontiers of 2.5/3D chiplet architectures

SECURED

Secure and trusted environment for decentralized, cooperative processing

Edge AI

DNN model inference on resource-constrained Edge devices

Thermals

Thermal modeling, simulation and optimization of chips

EnergyLabels

Monitor the Energy Costs of Digital Services

APROPOS

Approximate Computing for Power and Energy Optimisation [Finalized]

ADMORPH

Towards Adaptively Morphing Embedded Systems [Finalized]

DSE 2.0

Towards Optimal Design of Complex, Distributed Cyber Physical Systems

iDAPT

Interactive DSL for Composable EFB Adaptation using Bi-simulation and Extrinsic Coordination [Finalized]

TeamPlay

Time, Energy and security Analysis for Multi/Many-core heterogenous PLAtforms [Finalized]

ALOHA

Software framework for runtime-Adaptive and secure deep Learning On Heterogeneous Architectures [Finalized]

Recent Publications

Ehsan Aghapour, Dolly Sapra, Andy Pimentel, Anuj Pathania (2024). ARM-CO-UP: ARM COoperative Utilization of Processors. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.

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Saeedeh Baneshi, Anuj Pathania, Benny Akesson, Andy Pimentel, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu (2024). Analyzing Per-Application Energy Consumption in a Multi-Application Computing Continuum. 2024 9th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC).

DOI

Faezeh Sadat Saadatmand, Todor Stefanov, Ignacio González Alonso, Andy D. Pimentel, Benny Akesson, Marius Herget, Martin Bor (2024). Automated Derivation of Application Workload Models for Design Space Exploration of Industrial Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems. 2024 IEEE 7th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS).

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Andy D. Pimentel, Valeria Bertacco, Aida Todri-Sanial, Theocharis Theocharides (2024). DATE 2024: Consolidating the New Conference Format. IEEE Design & Test.

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Weihang Li, Andrés Goens, Nicolai Oswald, Vijay Nagarajan, Daniel J. Sorin (2024). Determining the Minimum Number of Virtual Networks for Different Coherence Protocols. 51st ACM/IEEE Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 29 - July 3, 2024.

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PCS Software

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All Deep Learning Simulators System Modeling Thermal Management Coordination Languages and Compilers

AutoDICE

Automated Distributed CNN Inference at the Edge

Cecile Coordination Compiler

for heterogeneous real-time systems

T-TSP

Transient-Temperature Based Safe Power Budgeting in Multi-/Many-Core Processors

CoMeT

Core-memory thermal simulations for 2D, 2.5D, and 3D processors

HotSniper

Interval thermal simulation of 2D multi-/many-cores

Pipe-All

High-throughput CPU-GPU CNN inference pipeline

Sesame

High-level modeling and simulation of MPSoCs for early DSE

Synthetic Portnet Generator

for modeling software interfaces

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