CONTENTS

• The Department | Annuary
• Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
• Computing Lab (LCAC)
• Research activities
• Reports
• Teaching
• Doctoral studies
• Seminars, Conferences, Workshops, Courses
• European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA)
• Links to home pages
• 25++ anniversary
• Museum of Computer Architecture (MAC)
• How to get here

THE DEPARTMENT

The Computer Architecture Department (DAC) is in charge of the teaching of courses on computer structure and organization, computer architecture, operating systems, computer networks, computer evaluation and VLSI design. The DAC is involved in the curricula of 4 centers in the UPC: FIB, ETSETB, EPSC, EPSEVG. The DAC maintain, at present, five separate research groups. In relation to these research groups, the DAC offers a doctoral program.

The legislative body of the DAC is the Council, where all the members of the DAC are represented, accordingly to an elective system; this body delegates the everyday tasks in a smaller commission, the Junta , whose members are also elected. Some specific tasks are associated to a number of ad-hoc committees of the DAC. Two relevant examples are the Academic commission , which deals with the evaluation of the academic quality of the DAC members, and the Research commission , created to guarantee the coordination and quality of the research groups in the DAC.

The address of the DAC is:

Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
Jordi Girona, 1-3, D6 Campus Nord
08034 Barcelona (SPAIN)
Phone: +34-934017001
Fax: +34-934017055

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CATALONIA (UPC)

The Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) was created in 1971 to do training and research on science and engineering. It is located in several cities of Catalonia.

The training programs are conducted by the Departments, and closely related to their respective research groups.

The centers of the UPC are spread all over Barcelona area. In the academic year 2005-06, the UPC had 31897 students in graduate and posgraduate courses, 3077 doctoral students, 2554 teaching staff and 1363 administrative staff.