1972 Dr. Davis' research interests are in computer organization and architecture, with emphasis on parallel processing. Our investigations continue in parallel systems, directed toward performance and efficiency of architectural features, memory configurations, software development environments, and parallel algorithms.
Related activity is concerned with evaluation and use of high-performance parallel machines.
We have investigated various architectures for computation-intensive modeling applications. Issues include performance, exploiting parallelism, scalability of architecture with problem size, software portability, and parallel algorithm development. Recently, we investigated the use of distributed workstation clusters for rapid processing of ray traced animation sequences. The constant theme through this research is the use of parallelism in architectures, applications, and algorithms. 40, No. 2, February 1994, pp.