Semester: Spring 2015

Lecture Time: Monday/Wednesday, 11:25AM - 12:40PM

Lecture Location: Stuart Building 113

Professor: Dr. Ioan Raicu (iraicu@cs.iit.edu)

Office Hours Time: Wednesday 12:45PM-1:45PM

Office Hours Location: Stuart Building 237D

Teaching Assistant: Ke Wang (kwang22@hawk.iit.edu)

Office Hours Time: Monday 10:15AM-11:15AM

Office Hours Location: Stuart Building 006

Teaching Assistant: Tonglin Li (tli13@iit.edu)

Office Hours Time: Tuesday 12:45PM-1:45PM

Office Hours Location: Stuart Building 006

Teaching Assistant: Dongfang Zhao (dzhao8@hawk.iit.edu) 

Office Hours Time: Thursday 12:45PM-1:45PM

Office Hours Location: Stuart Building 006

This course is a tour through various research topics in distributed data-intensive computing, covering topics in cluster computing, grid computing, supercomputing, and cloud computing. We will explore solutions and learn design principles for building large network-based computational systems to support data intensive computing. This course is geared for junior/senior level undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Prerequsites: CS450; however, one or more of the following courses would be recommended: 451, CS546, CS550, CS552, CS553, or CS570. 

We will be using Piazza to facilitate course discussions, at http://piazza.com/iit/spring2015/cs554/home 

In order to highight some of the best projects from the class this year (11 of the 27 projects), I have posted some of the final reports below (for a complete list of project titles and students, click here):

1. Arvind Shekar, Arihant Raj Nagarajan, Itua Ijagbone, Shivakumar Vinayagam. "Distributed Scheduling and monitoring service leveraging FaBRiQ as a building block for CloudKon+", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
2. Antonios Kougkas. "A Decoupled Execution Paradigm Programming Model", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
3. Kevin Brandstatter. "FusionFS: Enabling Distributed Indexing And Text Search", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
4. Tonglin Li, Chaoqi Ma, Jiabao Li, Ioan Raicu. "ZHT+: A Graph Database On ZHT", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
5. Alekya Thalari, Krishnaja Kethireddy, Nirmal Kumar Ravi, Prathamesh Mantri. "T-FUSE: Improving Hadoop through FusionFS", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
6. Vivek Viswanathan. "Hadoop Mapreduce OpenCL Plugin", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
7. Eric Faurie, Chaitanya Reddy Chatla. "JFusionFS: A Java Implementation of FusionFS", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
8. Thomas Dubucq, Tony Forlini, Virgile Landeiro Dos Reis, and Isabelle Santos. "MATRIX: Bench - Benchmarking the state-of-the-art Task Execution Frameworks of Many-Task Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
9. Karl Stough, Serapheim Dimitropoulos, Poornima Nookala. "Evaluating the Support of MTC Applications on Intel Xeon Phi Many-Core Accelerators", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
10. Sughosh Divanji, Raghav Kapoor, Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "PVFS simulation using CODES/ROSS simulator", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015
11. Gagan Munisiddha Gowda Benjamin L. Miwa Anirudh Sunkineni. "ZHT+ : Design and Implementation of a Graph Database Using ZHT", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report, 2015

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