"Multi-core computing architectures, employing multiple processing engines within a single chip, have stormed the market thanks to their increased performance. However, despite their rapid expansion, information sciences experts struggle to obtain the maximum output.
Although the introduction of high parallel computing (an architecture employing hundreds or tightly coordinated processors) is already causing changes in the design of supercomputers, efficiency is lost due to the fact that the software layers have not been adapted to support this kind of processors. To overcome this challenge, Francisco Javier Cazorla created the research group named Computer-Architectures and Operating Systems (CAOS). The group, belonging to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – National Centre of Supercomputing (BSC-CNS), targets its activities towards the significant improvement of the highly parallel computing, by proposing hardware solutions which improve the adopted chips, both in common and in high-performance systems, and by modifying the software so that it is capable of supporting highly parallel computing.
'”In a very short time, Cazorla has converted himself into a leader in the multi-core system resource management domain”, says Mateo Valero Cortés, BSC director and Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2007 to the most prestigious researcher in the field of digital systems and computer architectures. “His research proved to the software community the way to take advantage of the resource control mechanisms offered by multi-core architectures.”
At 32 years, the young innovator has already coordinated over 10 projects, among which research projects for ESA (the European Space Agency) and IBM stand out particularly. Furthermore, he can boast over 50 publications in congresses and international magazines of this sector, such as IEEE Transaction on Computers, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters or ACM SIGOPS Operating System Review."
