CCL Research Publications

2008

  • Scaling Up Classifiers to Cloud Computers, Christopher Moretti, Karsten Steinhaeuser, Douglas Thain, and Nitesh V. Chawla, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December 2008.
  • Grid Heating: Transforming Cooling Constraints Into Thermal Benefits, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, and Dewitt Latimer, Technical Report 2008-09, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, July 2008.
  • Troubleshooting Thousands of Jobs on Production Grids Using Data Mining Techniques, David Cieslak, Nitesh Chawla, and Douglas Thain, IEEE Grid Computing, September 2008.
  • DataLab: Transactional Data Parallel Computing on an Active Storage Cloud, Brandon Rich and Douglas Thain, IEEE/ACM High Performance Distributed Computing, June 2008.
  • Towards a Data Analysis Grid for Biometric Research, Douglas Thain and Patrick Flynn, Technical Report 2008-05, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, April 2008.
  • All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data-Intensive Cloud Computing, Christopher Moretti, Jared Bulosan, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Miami FL, April 2008.
  • Chirp: A Practical Global Filesystem for Cluster and Grid Computing, Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Jeffrey Hemmes, Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, accepted for publication in 2008. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-008-9100-5. (The original is available on http://www.springerlink.com.)
  • Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Prioritized Storage Management in GEMS, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre, Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 24, issue 1, pages 10-16, 2008.

    • 2007

  • On Demand Transient Storage and Backup in Mobile Systems, Jeffrey Hemmes, Christian Poellabauer, and Douglas Thain, IEEE Military Communications Conference, October 2007.
  • Efficient Access to Many Small Files in a Filesystem for Grid Computing, Douglas Thain and Christopher Moretti, IEEE Conference on Grid Computing, Austin TX, September 2007.
  • Poster: All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data-Intensive Computing, Christopher Moretti, Jared Bulosan, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn, IEEE Conference on Grid Computing, Austin TX, September 2007.
  • Refereed Poster: Lockdown: Distributed Policy Analysis and Enforcement within the Enterprise Network, Andrew Blaich, Qi Liao, Greg Allan, Aaron Striegel, and Douglas Thain, USENIX Security Symposium, August 2007.
  • Lessons Learned Building TeamTrak: An Urban/Outdoor Mobile Testbed, Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, Christian Poellabauer, Christopher Moretti, Phil Snowberger, and Brendan McNutt. WASA 2007: International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, Chicago, August 2007.
  • Work In Progress: Integrating Undergraduate Research and Education via the TeamTrak Mobile Computing Framework, Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, and Christian Poellabauer. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, October 2007.
  • Flexible Object Based Filesystems for Scientific Computing, Christopher M. Moretti, MSCSE Thesis, University of Notre Dame, April 2007.
  • Sub-Identities: A Hierarchical Identity Model for Practical Containment, Philip Snowberger, MS CSE Thesis, University of Notre Dame, April 2007.
  • Challenges in Executing Data Intensive Biometric Workloads on a Desktop Grid, Christopher Moretti, Timothy Faltemier, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn, Workshop on Large Scale and Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGRID) at IPDPS, Long Beach California, March 2007.
  • Biomolecular Path Sampling Enabled by Processing in Network Storage, Paul Brenner, Justin Wozniak, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jeffrey Peng, and Jesus Izaguirre, IEEE Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology at IPDPS, Long Beach California, March 2007.

    • 2006

  • Access Control for a Replica Management Database, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jesus Izaguirre, ACM Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS), October 2006.
  • Grid Deployment of Legacy Bioinformatics Applications with Transparent Data Access, Christophe Blanchet, Remi Mollon, Douglas Thain, and Gilbert Deleage, IEEE Conference on Grid Computing, September 2006.
  • Cacheable Decentralized Groups for Grid Resource Access Control, Jeffrey Hemmes and Douglas Thain, IEEE Conference on Grid Computing, September 2006.
  • Operating System Support for Space Allocation in Grid Storage Systems, Douglas Thain, IEEE Conference on Grid Computing, September 2006.
  • Positioning Dynamic Storage Caches for Transient Data, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Douglas Thain, Xiaosong Ma, and Vincent Freeh, Workshop on High-Performance I/O Techniques and Deployment of Very Large Scale I/O Systems, at IEEE Cluster Computing, September 2006.
  • Experience with a Literate Approach to Computer Science, Douglas Thain and Christian Poellabauer, IEEE Frontiers in Education, September 2006.
  • Poster: Sub-Identities: Security for Mere Mortals, Phil Snowberger and Douglas Thain, USENIX Security Symposium, August 2006.
  • iDIBS: An Improved Distributed Internet Backup System, Faruck Morcos, Thidapat Chantem, Philip Little, Tiago Gasiba, and Douglas Thain, IEEE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Minneapolis MN, July 2006.
  • Short Paper: Troubleshooting Distributed Systems via Data Mining, David Cieslak, Douglas Thain, Nitesh Chawla, IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Paris, France, June 2006.
  • Applying Feedback Control to a Replica Management System, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, Jesus Izaguirre. Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, IEEE Control Systems Society, March 2006.
  • Transparently Distributing CDF Software with Parrot, Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, and Igor Sfiligoi, Computing in High Energy Physics, February 2006.
  • Using Condor Glide-Ins and Parrot to Move from Dedicated Resources to the Grid, Stefano Belforte, Matthew Normal, Subir Sarkar, Ifor Sfiligoi, Douglas Thain, Frank Wuerthwein, Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA), Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Volume 81, pages 285-292, 2006.

    • 2005

  • The Consequences of Decentralized Security in a Cooperative Storage System, Douglas Thain, Christopher Moretti, Paul Madrid, Phil Snowberger, and Jeff Hemmes, IEEE Workshop on Security in Storage (SISW), San Francisco, December 2005.
  • Separating Abstractions from Resources in a Tactical Storage System, Douglas Thain, Sander Klous, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, Nov 2005.
  • Identity Boxing: A New Technique for Consistent Global Identity, Douglas Thain, In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing, Nov 2005.
  • Sub-Identities: Towards Operating System Support for Distributed System Security, Philip Snowberger and Douglas Thain, Technical Report 2005-18, Univ of Notre Dame, Computer Science and Engineering Dept, October 2005.
  • Work in Progress: A Literate Approach to Graduate Computer Science Education, Douglas Thain and Christian Poellabauer, IEEE Frontiers in Education, October 2005.
  • Poster Paper: Identity Boxing: Secure User-Level Containment for the Grid, Douglas Thain, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 2005.
  • Generosity and Gluttony in GEMS: Grid Enabled Molecular Simulations, Justin Wozniak, Paul Brenner, Douglas Thain, Aaron Striegel, and Jesus Izaguirre, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 2005.
  • Patisserie: Support for Parameter Sweeps in a Fault-Tolerant, Massively Parallel, Peer-to-Peer Simulation Environment, Timothy Schoenharl, Scott Christley, and Douglas Thain, Workshop on Agent Directed Simulation (ADS), San Diego, California, April 2005.
    • Cooperative Computing Lab - CSE Department - Notre Dame