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 people to easily harness large systems consisting of hundreds or thousands of machines. These systems are called clusters, clouds, grids, or simply distributed systems. I am currently looking for new students to join my research lab. For more information, watch this movie, read my blog, or visit my research lab.

My Weekly Schedule

Blog on Distributed Computing

Research

The Cooperative Computing Lab

Current System Status

Undergraduate Research (REU)

Software: Chirp - Parrot - Makeflow - Work Queue

Systems: Condor - Lockdown - Biocompute - BXGrid

Teaching

CSE 40771/60771 - Distributed Systems - Spring 2010 - (F2008) - (S2007) - (F2004)

CSE 60641 - Graduate Operating Systems - Fall 2009 - (F2007) - (F2006) - (F2005)

CSE 30341 - Operating Systems Principles - Spring 2009 - (S2005)

CSE 40243/60243 - Compilers - Fall 2008 - (S2006)

Most Recent Papers

Christopher Moretti, Hoang Bui, Karen Hollingsworth, Brandon Rich, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain,
All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Campus Grids,
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(1), pages 33-46, January, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2009.49

Li Yu, Christopher Moretti, Andrew Thrasher, Scott Emrich, Kenneth Judd, and Douglas Thain,
Harnessing Parallelism in Multicore Clusters with the All-Pairs, Wavefront, and Makeflow Abstractions,
to appear in Journal of Cluster Computing, January, 2010.

Douglas Thain and Chris Moretti,
Abstractions for Cloud Computing with Condor,
Syed Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas, Cloud Computing and Software Services, CRC Press, December, 2009. ISBN: 9781439803158

Christopher Moretti, Michael Olson, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
Highly Scalable Genome Assembly on Campus Grids,
Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS), November, 2009.

Andrew Blaich, Douglas Thain, and Aaron Striegel,
Reflections on the Virtues of Modularity: A Case Study in Linux Security Modules,
to appear in Software: Practice and Experience, 39(15), pages 1235-1251, October, 2009. DOI: 10.1002/spe.933

(Complete List of Papers)

Most Recent Talks

Scaling Up Data Intensive Science to Campus Grids, at Clemson University, September 2009.
Science in the Clouds: History, Challenges, and Opportunities, opening talk at Cloud Computing and the Geosciences Workshop, IUPUI, Indianapolis, September 2009.
Getting Beyond the Filesystem, High End Computing File Systems and I/O Workshop, Washington DC, August 2009.
Scaling Up Data Intensive Scientific Applications to Campus Grids, keynote talk at Large Scale Application Performance (LSAP) Workshop at HPDC, June 2009.
High Throughput Computing with Condor at Notre Dame CRC Workshop, April 2009.
Using Abstractions to Scale Up Applications to Campus Grids, Purdue University, April 2009.
(Complete List of Talks)

Research Funding

CRI: Distributed Research Testbed (DiRT), Douglas Thain, National Science Foundation, August 2009-2012.

CDI-Type II: Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Ahsan Kareem, Gregory Madey, Douglas Thain, August 2009-2013.

"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

Program Committee, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing, 2010, 2009, 2008.

Organizing Committee, Cloud Computing and its Applications, 2009, 2008.

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

Program Committee, IEEE ICDCS, 2008, 2007.

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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