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Office:
333 Photonics Center Building
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 353-9850
herbordt (at) bu.edu

Lab:
340 Photonics Center Building
8 Saint Mary's Street
Boston MA 02215
(617) 353-2840
www.bu.edu/caadlab

Office Hours: TTh 3-5

 

 

Martin Herbordt
Professor
Department of Electrical &
  Computer Engineering
Boston University

 

My research interests are in computer architecture and high performance computing, especially in finding ways to accelerate applications not optimally served directly by commercial off-the-shelf solutions. This has led me to fascinating domains such as computer vision, weather and climate modeling, bioinformatics, computational biology, and computational electrodynamics.  Early on I concentrated on ASIC-based solutions (e.g., with the IUA project); later, on switching fabrics for connecting off-the-shelf components or IP; and most recently on using the incredible, but largely untapped, computation capabilities of Graphics Processors (GPUs) and configurable circuits (FPGAs).  Always critical to my research has been programmability -- at various times this has led to work in portable programming languages.  Lately I've been interested in low-latency interconnects, especially among the accelerators themselves; in thermal and power aware application development; and in HPC in the Cloud.

 

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