The laboratory focuses its research on the design and development of high-performance supercomputing systems and their applications. Targeted areas range from the key components of supercomputing systems, which include processor architectures, memory subsystems, network systems, task schedulers, and compilers, to high-performance multimedia processing algorithms such as photo-realistic computer graphics and intelligent pattern recognition. The laboratory also has active research on a HPC Cloud that aims at providing High Performance Computing as a service by integrating geographically distributed and networked high performance computing resources into virtual collaboration spaces.