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
July 2015
Car Project on TV
Our research project about future cars was shown on TV. WNCN link: UNC explores future of transportation.
April 2015
Dissertation Defense
Bipasa Chattopadhyay successfully defended her dissertation, “Integrating Pragmatic Constraints and Behaviors Into Real-Time Scheduling Theory. ” Congratulations Bipasa!
March 2015
Dissertation Defense
Glenn Elliott successfully defended his dissertation, “Real-Time Scheduling of GPU’s with Applications in Advanced Automotive Systems, ” and has accepted a job at Tesla Motors. Congratulations Glenn!
January 2015
GPUSync
GPUSync: A Framework for Real-Time GPU Management has been released. GPUSync extends the LITMUSRT Linux kernel patch to support a myriad of reconfigurable and adaptive multi-GPU scheduling algorithms.
January 2015
RTAS Program Chair
James Anderson serves as the Program Chair for the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium.
January 2015
TCRTS Vice Chair
James Anderson has been named the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Congratulations!
January 2015
Dagstuhl Seminar
Sanjoy Baruah is organizing the Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms.
January 2015
RTCSA 2015
James Anderson serves as the General Co-Chair for the 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2015).
December 2014
Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
Sanjoy Baruah received the 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. Congratulations Sanjoy!
October 2014
Best Presentation
Bipasa Chattopadhyay won the best presentation award at RTNS for presenting the paper “Limited-Preemption Scheduling on Multiprocessors.” (co-authored with Sanjoy Baruah).
August 2014
Outstanding Paper
James Anderson, Jeremy Erickson, Umamaheswari Devi, Ben Casses won an outstanding paper award at RTCSA for their paper “Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduling in Soft Real-Time Systems.”
July 2014
Dissertation Defense
Jeremy Erickson successfully defended his dissertation, “Managing Tardiness Bounds and Overload in Soft Real-Time Systems, ” and has accepted a job at Google. Congratulations Jeremy!
July 2013
Outstanding Paper
Bryan Ward, Jonathan Herman, Chris Kenna, and Jim Anderson won an outstanding paper award at ECRTS for their paper “Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms.”
July 2013
Dissertation Defense
Cong Liu successfully defended his dissertation, “Efficient Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Complex Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” and has accepted a job as a tenure-track professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Congratulations Cong!
July 2013
Kenan Distinguished Professor
Jim Anderson has been named a Kenan Distinguished Professor. Congratulations Jim!
April 2013
Dissertation Defense
Haohan Li successfully defended his dissertation, “Scheduling Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems,” and has accepted a job at Mathworks. Congratulations Haohan!
February 2013
Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received another award for his dissertation, the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award.
December 2012
Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received the 2012 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for his dissertation.
November 2012
Sanjoy Baruah named IEEE Fellow
Sanjoy Baruah has been named an IEEE Fellow. Congratulations Sanjoy!
August 2012
Real-Time Linux Workshop
The 14th Real-Time Linux Workshop, which will be hosted at UNC by the Real-Time Systems Group, is only two and a half months away!
July 2012
Best Paper Award
Jeremy Erickson and James H. Anderson won the best paper award for their paper entitled “Fair Lateness Scheduling: Reducing Maximum Lateness In G-EDF-Like Scheduling” at the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems in Pisa, Italy. Congratulations!
January 2012
Distinguished Dissertation Award
Recent graduate Björn Brandenburg received the Linda Dykstra Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for his dissertation.
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