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Projects [ Back to Top]
- The OceanStore Project, UC Berkeley
- The Personal Terabyte Project, Georgia Institute of Technology
- SMART: Storage Management Algorithms, University of Maryland, College Park
Adaptive ComputingDynamic
- Data Intensive Computing, (University of Maryland, College Park)
Conferences [ Back to Top ]
Choosing a venue: conference or journal?
- Rankings of CS Journals
- The ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) (Submission Deadline: March. 15, 2003)
- The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (Submission Deadline: December 1, 2002)
- International Parallel and Distribued Processing Symposium (IPDPS03) (Submission Deadline: October 4, 2002)
- Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation(OSDI '02) (Submission Deadline: May 17, 2002)
- Supercomputing November 16-22, 2002 (Submission Deadline: APRIL 8, 2002)
- ACM 14th Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA '02) August 11-13, 2002 (Submission Deadline: Feb. 27, 2002)
- The 21st ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2002) (Submission Deadline: Feb. 3, 2002)
- Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) January 28-30, 2002 (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2001)
- The International Conference on Dependable Systems and NetworksDSN-2002 (Submission Deadline: Nov. 19, 2001)
- Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST2002) (Submission Deadline: July 20, 2001)
- International Parallel and Distribued Processing Symposium (IPDPS02) (Submission Deadline: Sep. 28, 2001)
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Research Groups [ Back to Top ]
- Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group, MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science
- Parallel and Distributed Systems Group, California Institute of Technology
- Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin
- Laboratory for Experimental Software Systems, University of Texas at Austin
- Parallel Systems Lab, The Hebrew University
People [ Back to Top ]
- Prof. Laxmi N. Bhuyan University of California, Riverside
- Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi University of Texas at Austin, Distributed Computing, with a special emphasis on Fault-Tolerance
- Dr. Dror Feitelson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cluster Computing, Job Scheduling, Parallel I/O
- Prof. Guang R. Gao University of Delaware, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Parallel Algorithms
- Prof. Mark Heinrich Cornell University, active memory and I/O subsystems, computer architectures, scalable cache coherence protocols,
- Prof. Dr. Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zentrum, high performance eager replication protocols
- Dr. Samir Khuller, University of Maryland, College Park
- Prof. Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Akamai, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Communication, Wireless networks, communication protocols.
References [ Back to Top ]
UNIX Systems
Papers [ Back to Top ]
Distributed load balancing Resources
- IEEE Trans. on Computers, SPECIAL SECTION ON FAULT-TOLERANT EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
- Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS. abstract
- Integration of Tools for Parallel Real-Time Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications 1999 Abstract
- An Open Real-Time Environment for Parallel and Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000) Abstract
- A Study of Network Routers for Real-Time Parallel Computers. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '95)
- Scheduling hard-realtime parallel tasks onto the processor network with wrapped mesh topology. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications 1995. Abstract
- A Task Duplication Based Scheduling Algorithm for Heterogeneous Systems (IPDPS'00)
I/O and File Systems
- Job Scheduling that Minimizes Network Contention Due to Both Communication and I/O (IPDPS'00)
- Speed vs. Accuracy in Simulation for I/O-intensive Applications (IPDPS'00)
- T. E. Anderson, D. E. Culler, D. A. Patterson, and the NOW Team, "A Case for NOW(Networks of Workstations)", IEEE Micro, Feb, 1995.
- T. E. Anderson, M. D. Dahlin, J. M. Neefe, D. A. Patterson, D. S. Roselli, and R. Y. Wang, "Serverless Network File Systems," the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Dec. 1995, and the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1996.
- Recovery in the Calypso File System, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (to appear in 1996)
- Evaluations of Design Alternatives for a Cluster File System, USENIX '95 Conference
- Distributed Token Managenment in Calypso File System, IEEE Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Oct '94, Dallas
- Server Recovery Using Naturally Replicated State: A Case Study , Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May '95, Vancouver
- The conference paper "A Cost-Effective, High-Bandwidth Storage Architecture," Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.
- CMU SCS technical report "A Case for Network-Attached Secure Disks" CMU-CS-96-142, September 1996
- CMU SCS technical report version of "Filesystems for Network-Attached Secure Disks," CMU-CS-97-118, 1997.
- The Global File System, Proceedings of the Fifth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies , September 17-19, 1996, College Park, MD.
- The Design and Performance of a Shared Disk File System for IRIX, Proceedings of the Sixth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 23-26, 1998, College Park, MD.
- Shared File Systems and Fibre Channel, Proceedings of the Sixth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 23-26, 1998, College Park, MD
Tools [ Back to Top ]
Software [ Back to Top ]
- Parallel I/O-intensive applications. Currently, source for one application, Sparse Cholesky factorization, is available.
Traces
- Traces from seven parallel I/O-intensive applications. The application suite includes DB2, a datamining application for retail data, a parallel web server, parallel text search, Titan (satellite database), LU factorization and Sparse Cholesky factorization.