Douglas Thain Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 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.

Research

Teaching

Most Recent Papers

• Patrick Donnelly and Douglas Thain,
  Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System,
  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, May, 2012.

• Michael Albrecht, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Bui, and Douglas Thain,
  Makeflow: A Portable Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids,
  Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies, May, 2012.

• Andrew Thrasher, Zachary Musgrave, Douglas Thain, Scott Emrich,
  Shifting the Bioinformatics Computing Paradigm: A Case Study in Parallelizing Genome Annotation Using Maker and Work Queue,
  IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, February, 2012.

• Douglas Thain, Michael Albrecht, Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Rory Carmichael, Scott Emrich, and Patrick Flynn,
  Data Intensive Computing with Clustered Chirp Servers,
  Tevfik Kosar, Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large Scale Information Management, pages 140-154, IGI, January, 2012. ISBN: 9781615209712

• Christopher Moretti, Andrew Thrasher, Li Yu, Michael Olson, Scott Emrich, and Douglas Thain,
  A Framework for Scalable Genome Assembly on Clusters, Clouds, and Grids,
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, accepted, January, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.80

Most Recent Talks

• Real-World Barriers to Scaling Up Scientific Applications, Vrije University, The Netherlands, March 2012.
• Unsolved Computer Science Problems in Distributed Computing, Workshop on Grid Computing: The Next Decade, Zakopane, Poland, January 2012.
• High Throughput Scientific Computing with Condor: Computer Science Challenges in Large Scale Parallelism, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October 2011.
• Opportunities and Dangers in Large Scale Data Intensive Computing, Large Scale Data Mining Workshop at SIGKDD, August 2011.
• Condor Compatible Tools for Data Intensive Computing, Condor Week, Madison WI, May 2011.
• Models and Frameworks for Data Intensive Cloud Computing, IDGA Cloud Computing Summit, Washington DC, February 2011.
• Experience with Cloud Adoption at Notre Dame, IEEE Cloud Computing, November 2010.
• 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.
• (Complete List of Talks)

Research Funding

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