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This research seminar is offered every quarter.
During the last several years, networking and computing technologies are undergoing rapid growth and leading to low-cost, high-performance, and commodity computers and networking components (switches, routers, and adapters). This is giving rise to a new computing paradigm known as Network-Based Computing where computers distributed over LAN and WAN can be used together to provide computing environments for a wide variety of application domains (such as scientific computing, medical imaging, real-time visualization, database, web, and multimedia). Such systems are typically connected over high performance interconnections such as Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, ATM, GigaNet, and HIPPI.
Several challenging research issues have to be addressed in designing such network-based computing systems. These include issues related to routing, interprocessor communication, collective communication, synchronization, low-overhead messaging layers and communication protocols with OS bypass, NIC-level support, flow control mechanisms, reliability, Quality of Service (QoS), gateway protocol design, high performance implementation of emerging communication standards (such as Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) and InfiniBand (IBA), high performance file systems and I/O, supporting popular programming environment layers (such as distributed-memory and distributed-shared memory), etc.
By participating in this seminar, the student can join in carrying out interesting research projects on the above issues and evaluate them on the experimental testbed in the network-based computing laboratory.
Permission of instructor