ZIH, being an essential part of the Technische Universität Dresden, has an extensive research program. The main focus of our research, which is connected to a variety of different scientific fields, is the promotion of scientific computing which supports users during optimization of their applications as well as the development of new methods to solve the growing challenges of science and research.  Our success is naturally due to the cooperation of other reasearch groups in an around TU Dresden.

Optimization tools are increasingly important for scientists as the complexity of parallel computers and their applications is increasing. These tools are the foundation for optimization and performance analysis of program codes.  An ample supply of user-friendly, simple to handle software tools can save an enormous amount of time in the development and diagnosis of applications, thus leading to a more efficient utilization of computer resources.

At ZIH, we emphasize the development and distribution of tools that support performance analysis and program optimization. For this purpose, exact knowledge of the underlying hardware and their capability characteristics is important.  Additionally, the influence of our tools are monitored on different parallel paradigm like MPI or OpenMP. Understanding is the key for optimal run time behavior of an application on each given architecture.

Research topics are found in the following areas:

• Software Tools supporting Programming and Optimization
  
• Programming Methods and Techniques for High Performance Computers
• Grid-Computing
  
• Mathematical Methods, Algorithms, and efficient Implementations
  
• Architecture and Performance Analysis of High Performance Computers
• Algorithms and Methods for the Modelling of biological Processes