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.
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
"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.