Introduction

At the UPC, the research activities are organizated through the research lines. They are groups of people with common interest in a technical or scientific area. In this chapter, we present the current four research lines bellowing to the Computer Architecture Department:

• High Performance Computing
• Design and Performance Evaluation of Broadband Integrated Communication Systems
• Distributed Systems Architecture
• VLSI Systems Design

For each line, we present a brief description, the most important topics of each one, and for each topic the most relevant papers are shown. Also, the grants, basic research projects and R+D projects of the last 5 years are presented.

To finish this chapter, we present an exhaustive list of all the papers published from 1992 to 1996 in the Computer Architecture Department.