PALLAS stands for Parallel Applications, Libraries, Languages, Algorithms, and Systems.
It is a research group in The Parallel Computing Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley, led by Professor Kurt Keutzer.
The group believes that the productive development of applications for an emerging generation of highly parallel microprocessors is the preeminent programming challenge of our time.
The group conducts its research with the hypothesis that the key to the design of parallel programs is software architecture, and the key to their efficient implementation is frameworks.
Borrowed from civil architecture,[1] the term design pattern means solutions to recurring design problems that domain experts learn.