Welcome
Hello and welcome to the homepage of the Real-Time Systems group at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here you can find information on our group, important dates, information about our current projects (including our LITMUSRT system), and photos from conferences.
News
February 2011
Visiting Researchers
We are pleased to welcome two visiting researchers. Starting February 8, Prof. Suriayati Chuprat, from the Univ. of Technology, Malaysia, will be visiting for a month. Starting March 1, Prof. Gerhard Fohler, from TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, will be visiting for a week.
January 2011
New LITMUSRT Release
LITMUSRT 2011.1 has been released. Among other changes, LITMUSRT has been rebased to Linux kernel version 2.6.36 and now supports the ARM CPU architecture. More information is available at the LITMUSRT website.
December 2010
Best Paper Award
Björn Brandenburg and James H. Anderson won the best student paper award for their paper entitled “Optimality Results for Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking” at the 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in San Diego, CA. Congratulations!
October 2010
New LinSched Release by Google
Google has announced a new release of LinSched (the Linux Schedule Simulator), originally created by recent graduate John Calandrino.
August 2010
Alum Receives NSF Award
Congratulations to Nathan Fisher, an alum of UNC's real-time group, for receiving an NSF CAREER award.
May 2010
Recruiting Graduate Students
UNC's real-time group is actively seeking Linux-savvy graduate students.
April 2010
Fellowships
Mac Mollison has been awarded a NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship. Björn Brandenburg has been awarded a UNC Dissertation Completion Research Fellowship. Jeremy Erickson received an honorable mention from NSF. We would like to thank all our funding sources for their continued support.
December 2009
Best Paper Award
Cong Liu and James H. Anderson won the best student paper award for their paper entitled “Task Scheduling with Self-Suspensions in Soft Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems” at the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in Washington, DC. Congratulations!
October 2009
Visiting Researcher
The UNC Real-Time Systems Group welcomes Andrea Bastoni (of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" ). Andrea will collaborate on joint LITMUSRT-related work during his year-long stay with us.
Archive
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