This research seminar is offered every quarter.
Novel classes of applications are becoming popular in the high performance computing (HPC) arena, such as Computational Biology problems involving large amounts of data (genome assemblies, whole genome comparisons, protein folding and other proteomics applications), Geophysics applications (processing of satellite and interplanetary probe data), High Energy Physics (handling od data from high energy physics experiments). These new applications pose new challenges to the designer of systems for high end computing, particularly in the areas of network and I/O susbsystems performance, the handling (transfer, storage, processing) of large data sets, and the effective scheduling of data intensive jobs.
By participating in this seminar, the student can participate to our
interesting research projects on the above issues. The topic of the
specific
project to be carried out by the student is chosen by me together with
the student based on his/her background and preferences. Participation
of students from other disciplines (biology, physics, engineering, etc)
and having computationally challenging problems to suggest is strongly
encouraged. The projects will be carried out on our Datacluster and/or
on clusters at other institutions if appropriate.