The CASCADE Lab at UT Austin develops next-generation architectures and systems that enhance performance, efficiency, and utilization in cloud and datacenter environments.

The CASCADE Lab, led by Jovan Stojković, develops next-generation computer architectures and systems for cloud and datacenter environments. We design novel hardware and software solutions that improve performance, energy efficiency, and resource utilization for modern and emerging workloads, often by orders of magnitude. Our research emphasizes fundamental, radical rethinking of hardware-software co-design, targeting the unique challenges of cloud-native workloads (e.g., microservices, serverless computing) and ML/AI workloads (e.g., LLM inference). CASCADE's work appears in top-tier architecture venues, including ISCA, ASPLOS, HPCA, and MICRO, and we maintain active collaborations with industry partners such as Meta, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and others. Several of our innovations have already been adopted in production by major hyperscalers.

We are looking for highly motivated students to join our lab!
Please reach out to jovan.stojkovic@utexas.edu with your CV if you are interested.

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