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University of Bristol: A Centre of Excellence
Rhiannon Burleigh
Arm supports academic research and recognizes the importance of maintaining strong links between academia and industry for continued research innovation. As part of this mission, Arm Research Collaborations have established seven Centres of Excellence (CoE), broadening research opportunities and strengthening links through a range of activities, including sponsoring students completing their PhDs. Part of a blog series, we look at the inspirational work each of our Centres are undertaking, fueling research success and collaboration between academia and industry.
The University of Bristol is committed to research making a positive impact within society, highlighting the importance of collaboration that inspires political, social, and cultural change. This Centre of Excellence focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), which is led at Bristol by Simon McIntosh-Smith. Other topics where we engage include Internet of Things (IoT, with Ian Craddock), Cyber Security (with Awais Rashid), and Trusted Computing (with Kerstin Eder).
Arm is sponsoring two students who are producing incredibly interesting work within computer architecture; keep reading to find out more about their work, and their previous experience in the industry.
Michael Jon O'Donnell: Physics simulation with novel computing architectures: Optically bound swarms and light-driven micromachines
Arm supervisor: Neil Burgess
The phenomenon of optical binding is numerically intensive to simulate and forms the basis of this PhD project. A former mechanic turned physicist, Michael aims to simulate the optical field and forces that occur during optical binding to make predictions that may direct potential experiments in the area of swarming micro-particles and light-driven micromachines. Michael's project offers the opportunity to exploit the benefits of the latest Arm architectures when running numerically intensive real-world scientific computing applications. This allows comparisons to be drawn between different processor design and paradigms for register usage.
Andrei Poenaru: Advanced computer architecture for High Performance Computing
Arm supervisor: Assad Hashmi
Modern processors rely on SIMD hardware to provide high performance for scientific applications. The next generations of high-performance Arm processors will use the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) to enable advanced and versatile vector processing, which is where Andrei's research project comes in. His work investigates vector computing for scientific applications in the context of Arm SVE, aiming to identify the key challenges that current vector hardware faces, the drawbacks, and the potential avenues of performance improvement. Andrei has previously been involved in several studies aiming to characterize performance and evaluate portability across diverse modern architectures.
"The Centre of Excellence at the University of Bristol is enabling Arm Research to build relationships with key academics across a range of relevant areas. In HPC, Bristol's Isambard project delivered the world's first production Arm-based supercomputer service back in 2017. Their security group provides national and international leadership in cyber security, and their new Digital Futures Institute, in which we are a partner, is exploring how digital innovation can build prosperous, inclusive and sustainable futures across society. We have been really impressed with the quality of their PhD students, and we look forward to further successful collaborations in due course."
Andrea Kells – Research Ecosystem Director, Arm Research
Arm Research collaborations
Our Centres of Excellence are just one way that we collaborate with academia and industry. Find out more about our Collaborations team and how we are helping shape the industry, and read our recent blogs highlighting the work we do. In terms of tools and support, we can also provide research access to IP and technical support. This allows our partners and future collaborators the chance to work with and understand our vision at Arm, helping us build the future of technology.
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More from our Centres of Excellence
This post represents one of Arm Research's Centres of Excellence. Click the following link to find out about our other established Centres of Excellence:
Arm-ECS Centre of Excellence at the University of Southampton
Our partnership with the University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh: An Arm Research Centre of Excellence
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