From January 18th to 21st, 2026, researchers from computer architecture, operating systems, and security came together at Schloss Dagstuhl for the seminar “Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon”. The seminar addressed the opportunities and security challenges arising from increasingly specialized processors and accelerators. Through invited talks, breakout sessions, and focused discussions, participants explored secure hardware-software co-design, trustworthy hardware architectures, and closer alignment between hardware and system software. These topics are closely connected to the research of SPP 2377. Disruptive memory technologies—including heterogeneous, non-volatile, CXL-attached, and near-memory systems—require coordinated changes across hardware and software. Both the priority program…
Congratualtions to SPP2377’s CXL-Bridge project! The team has won the best paper award at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS’26) with their paper titled Automated Synthesis and Verification of CXL Bridges for Heterogeneous Architectures. Congratulations to the authors Anatole Lefort (TU Munich), Julian Pritzi (TU Munich), Nicolò Carpentieri (TU Munich), David Schall (TU Munich), Simon Dittrich (TU Munich), Soham Chakraborty (TU Delft), Nicolai Oswald (NVIDIA), Pramod Bhatotia (TU Munich). The authors give a little insight into the award winning paper: The modern datacenter is no longer a uniform machine. x86 CPUs, Arm…
On September 11th and 12th the researchers of our priority program got together for the annual meeting 2025. This year’s meeting was special as it marked the end of the first funding period and the start of the second. But as usual it also offered a great opportunity present the individual projects and to exchange and discuss ideas. On the evening of September 10th participants started to arrive at the Sporthotel Fuchsbachtal in Barsinghausen just outside of Hannover. The venue not only offered a great conference room but also gave justice to its name. Located on the edge of a…
Our fellow reseacher Lars Wrenger from the ParPerOS project based at Leibnitz Universität Hannover presented his work at the ETOS Research Colloquium at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA in July. Lars was invited by Malte Schwarzkopf and his talk focused on LLFree and HyperAlloc, and their implications for scalable memory management in virtualized environments.
The DFG has published the call for the second funding period of our priority program “Disruptive Memory Technologies” (SPP 2377). The present call invites proposals for the second three-year funding period – follow-up proposals as well as new proposals. The deadline for submission will be March 5th 2025. Proposals must be written in English and submitted via elan, the DFG’s electronic proposal processing system. All necessary information can be found here.
