Our Mission

The High Performance Computing Tools group (HPCTools) is a research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. The group was created by Dr. Barbara Chapman who joined the department in Spring 1999. Our mission is to perform cutting-edge research and development in programming languages, compilers, tools and applications for performance, productivity and power in HPC systems. We are also part of the OpenMP community and take part in the OpenMP ARB committees. We are also a member of the Multicore Association (MCA) and actively contribute to the development of MCA standards for parallel systems.

Our Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by our sponsors:

• National Science Foundation
• U.S. Department of Energy
• Total S.A
• Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)

More information about our collaborations with various institutes from industry and academia can be found in here.

What is cOMPunity ?

cOMPunity is the community of OpenMP researchers and developers in academia and industry. It is a forum for the dissemination and exchange of information about OpenMP. cOMPunity is also a forum for discussing our experiences with this programming API and for debating ideas that might improveit. Dr. Barbara Chapman is CEO of cOMPunity, which aims to enable research participation in the OpenMP standards activities and promotes interactions between vendors, researchers and users of this industry standard.

Join our group NOW

   We are happy to announce availability of Web Developer position in our group in the upcoming Spring 2012 semester.

For more information please visit here.