Postgraduate Supervision - Peter Strazdins

Currently Available Topics

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Below are some pre-prepared projects for research (intended for PhD and Masters by Research students, although could be adopted for Honours).

• Energy Efficiency Issues in HPC Clouds
• Computational Infrastructure for Fault-tolerant Algorithms for Petascale (and beyond) Supercomputers (APA Scholarship will be available from July 2011)
• Advanced Parallelization Techniques and Supporting Infrastructure for Climate Science Simulations
• Data Clouds for Large-scale Scientific Data Processing
• Heterogeneous Multicore Chip Architecture for supporting Virtualized Clusters and Clouds
• Fault-tolerant Data Services for High Performance Computing on Clouds
• Efficient Application Performance Modelling and Prediction for Cluster Computers.
  

Current Research Students under Supervision

• Jaison Mulerikkal, PhD, started November 2007 (APAI Scholar, HPNumSOA project)

Theses Completed

• Jie Cai, PhD, Jan 2012 Region-based Techniques for Modeling and Enhancing Cluster OpenMP Performance (APAI Scholar, Intel Cluster OpenMP project)
• Muhammad Atif, PhD, July 2011. Adaptive Resource Relocation in Virtualized Heterogeneous Clusters (Jabberwocky project)
• Xi Yang, MPhil, May 2011, Locality aware zeroing: Exploiting both hardware and software semantics
• Travis Stenborg, Hons, Nov 2009, NBody Algorithms for heterogenous Clusters
• Andrew Over, PhD, Aug 2009, Two Approaches to Multiprocessor Memory System Simulation (APAI Scholar, CC-NUMA Project)
• Song Jin, Hons, Nov 2007, Characterization of Application Performance on Cluster Computers
• Hugh Blemings, MIT, Nov 2006, Multithreading Issues on Contemporary IBM Multiprocessors
• Tony Breeds, MIT, completed Jun 2006, Network-level Optimization of Cluster Computers (Jabberwocky project)
• Nic Jean, BSc Hons, completed November 2005, Performance Analysis of the OpenMP NAS parallel Benchmarks (see here for the original project proposal )
• Mark Thorn, BSEng, completed Dec 2004. Using Threading Techniques to speed up SMP Computer Simulation.
• Zhen He, PhD, Aug 1999-Dec 2002, Online clustering, replication and caching in hierarchical memory structures , (co-supervision with Stephen Blackburn and Ramesh Sankaranayana)
• John Uhlmann, Efficient Job Scheduling on Cluster Computers, Dec 2002 (see here for original proposal)
• Wi Bing Tan, Analysis and Optimisation of Communication Patterns on a Beowulf, July 2002 (see here for original proposal)
• Adam Czezowski, MSc, Singular Value Computations on the AP-1000 Array Computer , April 1995
• Seng Loke, BSc (Hons) Efficient FP Communication Functions on the Fujitsu AP1000 , December 1994 (University Medal Winner 1994; thesis deemed to be the best produced by the Department over 1993-4)
• Andrew Lynes, BSc (Hons), Linear Algebra Communication and Algorithms on the Fujitsu AP1000 , December 1994