[Colloq] REMINDER: Thesis Proposal by Dan Kunkle, Monday, Nov. 9
Rachel Kalweit
rachelb at ccs.neu.edu
Mon Nov 9 09:07:19 EST 2009
The College of Computer and Information Science presents:
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Dan Kunkle
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Time: 1:30pm
Location: 366 West Village H
Title: "Roomy: A New Approach to Parallel Disk-based Computation"
Abstract:
Disk-based computation provides a major new application of disks in
addition to the three traditional uses: file systems, databases, and
virtual memory. Disk-based computation uses the many disks already
available in a computational cluster as main memory. In doing so, we
elevate the disk to a level normally reserved for RAM, and provide
applications with several orders of magnitude more working space for
the same price.
Unfortunately, developing efficient parallel disk-based applications
is often a difficult task. To solve this problem, we propose Roomy: a
new programming language extension for writing parallel disk-based
applications. All aspects of parallelism and remote I/O are hidden
within the Roomy library.
The core of the proposed research is in developing a library of
general algorithms and larger applications on top of Roomy. In doing
so, the two central questions we seek to answer are:
1. What is the class of applications for which parallel disk-based
computing is practical?
2. How can existing sequential algorithms and software be adapted to
take advantage of parallel disk-based computing?
Committee:
Gene Cooperman (Advisor)
Panagiotis Manolios
Mirek Riedewald
Fan Yang (Google)
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