Douglas Thain

Douglas Thain
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
dthain-at-nd-dot-edu
382 Fitzpatrick Hall

I research and design software that allow users to harness large distributed systems consisting of hundreds or thousands of machines, called clusters, clouds, or grids. I am currently looking for new students to join my research lab. For more information, watch this short movie about my research.

My Weekly Schedule

Blog on Distributed Computing

Research

The Cooperative Computing Lab

Current System Status

Undergraduate Research (REU)

Projects: Chirp - Parrot - TeamTrak - Condor - GEMS - Lockdown

Teaching

CSE 40243/60243 - Compilers - Fall 2008 - (Spring 2006)

CSE 40771/60771 - Distributed Systems - Fall 2008 - (Spring 2007) - (Fall 2004)

CSE 60641 - Graduate Operating Systems - Fall 2007 - (Fall 2006) - (Fall 2005)

CSE 341 - Operating Systems Principles - Spring 2005

Recent Talks and Lectures

Programming Distributed Systems with High Level Abstractions, Cloud Computing Workshop (CCA-08), Chicago, October 2008.
Cooperative Computing for Data Intensive Science, NSF Bridges to Engineering 2020 Conference, March 2008.
Survey of Programming Models for Data Intensive Grid Computing, DPA Workshop, November 2007.
Efficient Access to Many Small Files in a Filesystem for Grid Computing, IEEE Grid, September 2007.
Data Intensive Abstractions for High End Biometric Applications, High End Computing FSIO Working Group, August 2007.
An Introduction to Grid Computing Research at Notre Dame, ND ACM Computer Club, February 2007.
Harnessing Idle Computers with Condor at Notre Dame: Impact on Research 2006, Notre Dame AFS/Unix Group, February 2007.
Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems, IEEE Grid Computing, Barcelona, Spain, September 2006.
Debugging Distributed Systems via Data Mining, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, June 2006.
Tactical Storage: Simple, Secure, and Semantic Access to Remote Data, European Condor Week, July 2006.
(Complete List of Talks)

Research Funding

"CSR-AES: Troubleshooting Large Scale Computing Grids with Machine Learning Techniques", Nitesh Chawla, Xiaohui Song, Shaowen Wang, and Douglas Thain, National Science Foundation, August 2007-2008.

"The Notre Dame Extended Research Community", Mitchell Wayne, Thomas Loughran, Douglas Thain, Daniel Karmgard, Anna Goussiou, National Science Foundation, GK-12 Program, Sep 2007-2012.

"CAREER: Data Intensive Grid Computing on Active Storage Clusters", Douglas Thain, National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development Program, May 2007-2012.

"HECURA: Deconstructing Clusters for High End Biometric Applications", Douglas Thain and Patrick Flynn, National Science Foundation, High End Computing University Research Activity, March 2007-2009.

"SGER: Enabling Electronic Self-Defense with Dynamic Identities", Douglas Thain, National Science Foundation, Cybertrust Program, September 2005-2007.

"An Experimental Approach to Integrative Research for Sensor-Rich Collaborative Teams" Christian Poellabauer, Nitesh Chawla, and Douglas Thain, Department of Defense, Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, April 2006-2007.

Professional Service

Organizing Committee, Cloud Computing and its Applications, 2008.

Program Committee, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, 2008, 2005.

Program Committee, IEEE ICDCS, 2008, 2007.

Program Committee, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, 2008.

Program Committee, Middleware for Grid Computing Workshop, 2007, 2006.

External Reviewer, IEEE Peer to Peer Computing, 2007, 2006.

External Reviewer, Journal of Grid Computing, 2007, 2005.

Program Committee, IEEE Grid Computing, 2007, 2006, 2005.

Program Committee, IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium, 2007.

External Reviewer, IEEE/IFIP Dependable Systems and Networks, 2006.

External Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005.

Nifty Tidbits

I have been slashdotted exactly once.

I play the tuba, euphonium, and trumpet.

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