Date: Wednesday, 20-Nov-96 19:49:27 GMTServer: NCSA/1.3MIME-version: 1.0Content-type: text/htmlLast-modified: Tuesday, 12-Nov-96 02:12:16 GMTContent-length: 3301<TITLE>OSL and SAA Home Page</TITLE><H1> Object Systems Laboratory  and <BR>   Systems for Advanced Architectures </H1><P>The Systems for Advanced Architecture and the Object Systems Laboratories arepart of the <!WA0><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/">Computer Science Department</a>at the <!WA1><a href="http://www.umass.edu/">University of Massachusetts,Amherst</a>.  The principal  investigators are:<UL><LI> <!WA2><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mckinley/home.html">Kathryn McKinley </A><LI> <!WA3><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~moss">EliotMoss. </A></UL><hr> <H2> <!WA4><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html">Papers</a> </H2>Our primary research areas are:<UL><LI> <!WA5><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#carch"> Compiler architectures </a><LI> <!WA6><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#copt"> Compiler optimizations </a> (in particular for enhancing parallelism and memory system performance)<LI> <!WA7><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#mm"> Memory management </a> (both compiler and runtime issues)<LI> <!WA8><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#msp"> Memory system performance </a><LI> <!WA9><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#ppl"> Persistent programming languages--design and implementation </a><LI> <!WA10><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#pos"> Persistent object stores </a><LI> <!WA11><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#ir"> Information retrieval </a><LI> <!WA12><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/papers.html#tm"> Transactional memory </a></UL><H2> Research Projects </H2><UL><LI> <!WA13><A HREF="http://saa-www.cs.umass.edu/~scale">Scale </A><LI> Mneme<LI> Optimizing object-oriented languages<LI> Garbage collection<LI> Analytical models for object allocation and deallocation behavior<LI> Loop optimizations<LI> Distributed support for information retrieval</UL><H2> Graduate Students </H2><UL><LI> <!WA14><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~cahoon">Brendan Cahoon </A><LI> <!WA15><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~cavazos">John Cavazos </A><LI> <!WA16><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jdoyle">Jim Doyle </A><LI> <!WA17><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~havlicek">Jim Havlicek </A><LI> <!WA18><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jung/">Karsten Jung </A><LI> <!WA19><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~singhai">Sharad Singhai </A><LI> <!WA20><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~stefanov">Darko Stefanovic </A><LI> <!WA21><A HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~stein">Cindy Stein </A><LI> <!WA22><A HREF="http://spa-www.cs.umass.edu/~weaver">Glen Weaver </A><LI> <!WA23><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~wright">Eric Wright </A></UL><H2> Recent Graduates </H2><UL><LI> <!WA24><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~brown/home.html">Eric Brown </A><LI> <!WA25><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~diwan/home.html">Amer Diwan </A><LI> <!WA26><A HREF="http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/hosking">Tony Hosking </A> </UL><hr><H2> Memoranda  </H2>  The <!WA27><a HREF="http://osl-www.cs.umass.edu/~oos/memoranda.html"> OSL and SAAmemoranda </a> are a collection of reports describing work in progress.<hr><H2> This page is frequently updated. Please visit again! </H2><I> Maintained by <!WA28><A HREF="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~singhai">Sharad Singhai.<br> <!WA29><a href="mailto:singhai@cs.umass.edu">singhai@cs.umass.edu</a></A>  Last updated Nov. 8, 1996</I>