The Department of Computer Architecture, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics covers a wide spectrum of research as well as teaching activities.

Research:

The main research activities include:

• modern architectures of distributed Internet systems including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), multitier Internet systems, client-server, distributed object systems, grid architectures,
• integration of distributed services,
• parallelization of algorithms and cluster systems for high performance computing,
• platforms and tools for development of parallel and distributed applications including MPI, PVM, Globus Toolkit, JEE, Web Services, JME.
• design and development of network applications for mobile devices,
• intelligent spaces and pervasive computing,
• applications of artificial intelligence,
• information systems for the society.

The department cooperates with several universities and firms in Poland and abroad. The department takes part in many Polish scientific grants and those funded by the EU. The current grants deal with strategies for service management in distributed environments, strategies for development of domain ontologies and methodologies for development of applications in spaces with generic services.

Details about current research projects are available at

Teaching:

The department offers the modern specialty Distributed applications and Internet systems which provides the candidate with knowledge and skills necessary for development of modern Internet applications and systems, knowledge of state-of-the-art in this area.

The department also offers post diploma studies Applications and Internet services which focuses on development of applications and Web systems, digital documents, publishing of information on the Web.

Laboratories and equipment:

The department uses a modern laboratory with application and database servers, 40-processor cluster with Infiniband, 18 workstations, laptops, palmtops, several sensors for embedded systems. The department cooperates with the Academic Computer Centre in Gdansk and uses HPC clusters like the 288-processor holk for parallel computing.

Publications:

The researchers and lecturers publish papers on several conferences such as EuroPVM/MPI, PPAM, ICCS and in journals such as International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, TASK Quarterly.

The yearly departmental seminar on the current research and teaching materials and programs results in a book in the KASKBOOK series.