Computer architecture at Johns Hopkins

The research program in computer architecture at The Johns Hopkins University is basically a continuation of a program originally developed at NorthwesternUniversity and moved in 1970 to Hopkins. It presently consists of myself and secretary (Mrs. Rogers), together with four Predoctoral Fellows (R. Regis, G. TJaden, C. Neuhauser and J. Misra) and two research associates (Dr. S. P. Kartashev and Dr. V. I. Kartashev). The size of the staff and number of students have varied over the years (starting in 1966 at Northwestern), but our present Complement is probably about as large as we have ever been. From the beginning the work has been sponsored (at least in part) by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission; originally at Argonne National Laboratory and later through spearate research contracts. The program is based upon my own view of computer systems architecture which tends to be quite broad. Any algorithm which directly controls the physical resources of the system is a candidate to study and analysis. Thus we have worked over the years in areas such as arithmetic, ultra-reliable computing, computational complexity (of finite domain algorithms), as well as computer organization. We have been especially interested in parallel organizations of various kinds and especially interested in both categorizing organizations and