Research in networking and distributed systems focuses on enabling communication of and orchestrating coordination of a large number of computing nodes.

Focuses on efficient experimental and theoretical solutions to problems on state-of-the-art computational systems consisting of large numbers of computational elements, including clouds, clusters, grids, networks-of-workstations, massively parallel supercomputers, and GPU-based systems.

Focuses on developing innovative system software and programming techniques to manage computer hardware, software resources, and common software-mediated services.