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Contents 1 Recent Publications 2 Patents 3 Talks 4 Dissertations 5 Internal

Recent Publications

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2012

[61] ExM: High Level Dataflow Programming for Extreme-Scale Systems, Timothy G. Armstrong, Justin M. Wozniak, Michael Wilde, Ketan Maheshwari, Daniel S. Katz, Matei Ripeanu, Ewing L. Lusk, Ian T. Foster, 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '12), June 7-8, Berkeley, CA. pdf

[60] Key Challenges in Defending against Malicious Socialbots, Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu, 5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET'12), collocated with USENIX NSDI’12, San Jose, CA, April 2012 (acceptance rate: 18%)pdf slides

[59] The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible?, Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu, ACM Interactions Magazine, March-April 2012, pp45-46 pdf

[58] GPUs as Storage System Accelerators, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (accepted with minor revisions, May 2012). Technical Report arXiv:1202.3669

[57] Branded with a Scarlet “C”: Cheaters in a Gaming Social Network, Jeremy Blackburn, Ramanuja Simha, Nicolas Kourtellis, Xiang Zuo, Matei Ripeanu, John Skvoretz, Adriana Iamnitchi, World Wide Web Conference (WWW’12), Lyon, France, April 2012. (acceptance rate: 80/655 = 12.2%) pdf slides (Technical Report arXiv:1112.4915v1 pdf)

[56] A Workflow-Aware Storage System: An Opportunity Study, Emalayan Vairavanathan, Samer Al-Kiswany, Lauro Costa, Zhao Zhang, Daniel Katz, Michael Wilde, Matei Ripeanu, 12th International Symposium on Clusters, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid’12), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012 (acceptance rate: 27%) pdf

[55] Characterizing and Harnessing Peer-Production of Information in Social Tagging Systems, Elizeu Santos-Neto, In the Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining – Doctoral Consortium (WSDM 2012 Doctoral Consortium), Seattle, WA, USA, February 2012 pdf

2011

[54] AME: An Anyscale Many-Task Computing Engine, Zhao Zhang, Daniel Katz, Matei Ripeanu, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster, 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (collocated with SC 2011), Seattle, November 2011 pdf slides

[53] The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money, Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011. pdf (acceptance rate 18.5%, Best Paper Award) (preliminary version presented as a poster at USENIX Security Symposium, August 2011 pdf). Project webpage

[52] Scoop: Decentralized and Opportunistic Multicasting of Information Streams, Dinan Gunawardena, Thomas Karagiannis, Alexandre Proutiere, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Milan Vojnovic, The 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 2011. (acceptance rate 13%) pdf

[51] Assessing Data Deduplication Trade-offs from an Energy Perspective, Lauro Beltrão Costa, Samer Al-Kiswany, Raquel Vigolvino Lopes, Matei Ripeanu, Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS), Orlando, Florida, July 2011. pdf slides

[50] VMFlock: VM Co-Migration for the Cloud, Samer Al-Kiswany, Dinesh Subhraveti, Prasenjit Sarkar, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2011), San Jose, CA, June 2011. (acceptance rate 13%, Best Presentation Award) pdf slides

[49] Strategies for prioritization of malicious URL re-evaluation, Onur Komili, Kyle Zeeuwen, Matei Ripeanu, Konstantin Beznosov, Virus Buletin Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 2011. pdf slides

[48] Improving Malicious URL Re-Evaluation Scheduling through an Empirical Study of Malware Download Centers, Kyle Zeeuwen, Matei Ripeanu, Konstantin Beznosov, Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011), collocated with 20th International World Wide Web Conference, Bangalore, India, April 2011. pdf slides

[47] Failure Avoidance through Fault Prediction Based on Synthetic Transactions, Mohammad Shatnawi, Matei Ripeanu, 11th International Symposium on Clusters, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid’11), May 2011. (acceptance rate 29%) pdfslides

[46] Accelerating Sequence Alignment on Hybrid Architectures, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, Scientific Computing Magazine, January/February 2011. pdf

[45] ThriftStore: Finessing Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol 22(6), pp.910-923, June 2011. pdf

[44] Many-Task Computing Tools for Multiscale Modeling, Daniel S. Katz, Matei Ripeanu, Michael Wilde, Technical report arXiv:1110.0404v1

2010

[43] The Small World of File Sharing, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Ian Foster, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28 Sept. 2010. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. preprint pdf

[42] Towards Automating the Configuration of a Distributed Storage System, Lauro B. Costa, Matei Ripeanu, 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2010), Brussels, Belgium. October 2010 (acceptance rate: 23%) pdf slides

[41] Size Matters: Space/Time Tradeoffs to Improve GPGPU Applications Performance, Abdullah Gharaibeh and Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2010), New Orleans, LA, November 2010. (acceptance rate 20%) pdf slides

[40] Assessing the Value of Contributions in Tagging Systems, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara Almeida, Miranda Mowbray, Marcos Gonçalves, Matei Ripeanu, Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking -- SIN'2010), Minneapolis, MN, August 2010 (acceptance rate 15%) doi pdf slides

[39] A GPU Accelerated Storage System, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, IL, June 2010. (acceptance rate 25%) pdf slides

[38] In Search of Simplicity: A Self-Organizing Group Communication Overlay, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster, Anne Rogers. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons eds., vol. 22(7), pp. 788-815, May 2010. pdf

[37] Efficient and Spontaneous Privacy-Preserving Protocol for Secure Vehicular Communication, Hu Xiong, Konstantin Beznosov, Zhiguang Qin, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. pdf NetSysLab-TR-2009-01 pdf slides

[36] CrystalGPU: Transparent and Efficient Utilization of GPU Power, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Technical Report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2010-01. pdf

2009

[35] Authorization Recycling in Hierarchical RBAC Systems, Qiang Wei, Konstantin Beznosov, Jason Crampton, Matei Ripeanu, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (accepted) pdf

[34] GPU Support for Batch Oriented Workloads, Lauro B. Costa, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE 28th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC’09), December 2009, Phoenix, AZ. pdf slidescode

[33] The Case for a Versatile Storage System, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage’09), October 2009, Big Sky Resort Big Sky, MT. (acceptance rate 20%) pdf slides

[32] Individual and Social Behavior in Tagging Systems, Elizeu Santos-Neto, David Condon, Nazareno Andrade, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, proceedings of The 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'09), pp183-192, Torino, Italy, July 2009. (acceptance rate 32%) pdf doi slides

[31] Exploring Data Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, proceedings of The ACM/IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'09), pp217-226, Munich, Germany, June 2009. (acceptance rate 29%) pdf slides

[30] Resource Demand and Supply in BitTorrent Content-Sharing Communities, Nazareno Andrade, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Francisco Brasileiro, Matei Ripeanu, Computer Networks, Volume 53, Issue 4, 18 March 2009 pdf doi

[29] On GPU's Viability as a Middleware Accelerator, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto and Matei Ripeanu, Cluster Computing Journal, vol. 12(2), pp.123-140. June 2009, Springer Verlag. pdf

[28] Beyond Music Sharing: An Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Data Dissemination Techniques in Large Scientific Collaborations, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi and Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 91-114, March 2009. pdf

[27] Cooperative Secondary Authorization Recycling, Qiang Wei, Matei Ripeanu, Konstantin Beznosov, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol.20, (3), pp275-288, February 2009. pdf

[26] The Globus Replica Location Service: Design and Experience, Ann L. Chervenak, Robert Schuler, Matei Ripeanu, Muhammad Ali Amer, Ian Foster, Shishir Bharati, Adriana Iamnitchi, Carl Kesselman, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 20(9), pp.1260-1272 September 2009. pdf

2008

[25] Authorization Using the Publish-Subscribe Model, Qiang Wei, Matei Ripeanu, and Konstantin Beznosov; 6th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), Sydney, Australia, December 2008. (acceptance rate 36%) pdf slides

[24] Configurable Security for Scavenged Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), Alexandria, Virginia, October 2008. pdf slides

[23] Scalable Resource Annotation in Peer-to-Peer Grids, Nazareno Andrade, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Francisco Brasileiro, 8th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Aachen, Germany, September 2008. (acceptance rate 18%) pdf slides

[22] StoreGPU: Exploiting Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate Distributed Storage Systems, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, George Yuan, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, MA, June 2008. (acceptance rate 17%) pdf TechnicalReport slides

[21] Enabling Cross-Layer Optimizations in Storage Systems with Custom Metadata, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Samer Al-Kiswany, Nazareno Andrade, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008) – Hot Topics track, Boston, MA, June 2008. pdf slides

[20] stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Abdullah Gharaibeh, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008. (acceptance rate 16%)pdf slides media coverage

[19] Amazon S3 for Science Grids: A Viable Solution?, Mayur Palankar, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, Simson Garfinkel, International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2008. pdf slides media coverage

[18] Authorization Recycling in RBAC Systems, Qiang Wei, Konstantin Beznosov, Jason Crampton, Matei Ripeanu, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT'08), Estes Park, CO, June 11-13, 2008. (acceptance rate 22%)pdf slides

[17] Virtual Organizations, M. Ripeanu, M. P. Singh, and S. Vazhkudai, guest editors' introduction IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Virtual Organizations, March/April 2008. www

[16] Content Reuse and Interest Sharing in Tagging Communities, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu, and Adriana Iamnitchi. AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia - Social Information Processing. Stanford, CA, USA, March 2008. abstract pdf slides

[15] Performance Analysis of Transmissions Opportunity Limit in 802.11eWLANs, Fei Peng and Matei Ripeanu, 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium, (CNS’08) Ottawa, Canada, April 14-17 2008. pdf

[14] Aggregate Memory as an Intermediate Checkpoint Storage Device, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, ORNL Technical Report 013521, November 2008. pdf

2007

[13] A High-Performance GridFTP Server at Desktop Cost, S. Al-Kiswany, A. Bahramshahry, H. Ghasemi, M. Ripeanu, S. Vazhkudai, poster, SC2007, Reno, NV, November 2007. pdf poster

[12] Are P2P Data-Dissemination Techniques Viable in Today's Data Intensive Scientific Collaborations?, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Sudarshan Vazhkudai, European Conference on Parallel Computing (EuroPar), Rennes, France, August 2007. (acceptance rate 26%) abstract pdf slides

[11] In Search of Simplicity: A Self-Organizing Group Communication Overlay, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster, Anne Rogers, First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2007. pdfNetSysLab-TR-2007-02

[10] Cooperative Secondary Authorization Recycling, Qiang Wei, Matei Ripeanu, Konstantin Beznosov, 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Monterey Bay, CA, June 2007. (acceptance rate 20%) abstractpdf slides

[9] S4: A Simple Storage Service for Sciences, M. Ripeanu, A. Iamnitchi, 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) - Hot Topics Track, Monterey Bay, CA, June 2007. pdf NetSysLab-TR-2007-03 slides media coverage

[8] Tracking User Attention in Collaborative Tagging Communities, E. Santos-Neto, M. Ripeanu, and A. Iamnitchi, Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAMA'07), Vancouver, Canada, June 2007. abstractpdf slides

[7] Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?, M. Palankar, A. Onibokun, A. Iamnitchi, M. Ripeanu, poster, 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI'07), April 2007. pdf

[6] A Simulation Tool to Study Data Distribution Strategies in Large-scale Scientific Data Collaborations, S. Al-Kiswany and M. Ripeanu, 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, April 2007. abstractpdf

[5] vanDisk: An Exploration in Peer-To-Peer Collaborative Back-up Storage, A. Javidan, T. Angerilli, A. Bahramshahry, G. Lemieux, R. Lisagor, M. Ripeanu, 20th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, April 2007. abstractpdf

2006

[4] Gifting Technologies: A BitTorrent Case Study, Matei Ripeanu, Miranda Mowbray, Nazareno Andrade, and Aliandro Lima, First Monday, vol. 11(11), November 2006. abstracthtml

[3] A Multi-layer Framework to Connect Client Objectives and Resource Capabilities, Asit Dan, Catalin Dumitrescu, Kavitha Ranganathan, and Matei Ripeanu, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, vol. 15(3) p.1-23, September 2006. abstractpdf

[2] The Design, Performance, and Use of DiPerF: An automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework, Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, and Matei Ripeanu, Journal of Grid Computing, vol. 4(3), p.287-309, September 2006. abstractpdf

[1] Note on Zipf Distribution in Top500 Supercomputers List, M. Ripeanu, IEEE Distributed Systems Online (accepted), October 2006. pdf

2005 and older

[i] Influences on Cooperation in BitTorrent Communities, Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Aliandro Lima, Gustavo Wagner, and Matei Ripeanu, 3rd Workshop on Economics of P2P Systems (P2P Econ), Philadelphia, PA, August 2005. pdf

[ii] Incentive Mechanisms for Large Collaborative Resource Sharing, Kavitha Ranganathan, Matei Ripeanu, Ankur Sarin and Ian Foster, 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid-04), Chicago, April 2004. pdf

[iii] Globus and PlanetLab Resource Management Solutions Compared, Matei Ripeanu, Mic Bowman, Jeffrey Chase, Ian Foster, and Milan Milenkovic, 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-13), Honolulu, HA, June '04; also as PlanetLab PDN-04-018. pdf

[iv] Small-World File-Sharing Communities, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, and Ian Foster, IEEE INFOCOM 2004, pp. 952-963, March 7-11 2004, Hong Kong. pdf

[v] Connecting Client Objectives with Resource Capabilities: An Essential Component for Grid Service Management Infrastructures, Asit Dan, Catalin Dumitrescu, and Matei Ripeanu, 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), November 2004, New York, NY. pdf

[vi] DiPerF: automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, and Ian Foster, 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2004), November 2004, Pittsburg, PA. pdf

[vii] Cache Replacement Policies For Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Protocols, Adam Wierzbicki, Nathaniel Leibowitz, Matei Ripeanu, and Rafał Woźniak, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Special Issue on P2P Networking and P2P Services, vol 15(6) 2004. pdf

[viii] Cache Replacement Policies Revisited: The Case of P2P Traffic, Adam Wierzbicki, Nathaniel Leibowitz, Matei Ripeanu, and Rafał Woźniak, 4th GP2P Workshop, April 2004, Chicago, IL. pdf

[ix] Dynamic Creation and Management of Runtime Environments in the Grid, Kate Keahey, Matei Ripeanu, and Karl Doering, Workshop on Designing and Building Grid Services, GGF-9, October 2003, Chicago, IL. pdf.

[x] To Share or Not to Share: An Analysis of Incentives to Contribute in Collaborative File Sharing Environments, Kavitha Ranganathan , Matei Ripeanu, Ankur Sarin and Ian Foster, Workshop on Economics of P2P Systems (P2PEcon), June 2003, Berkeley, CA. (a refined version appeared in proceedings of CCGrid'04 conference) pdf.

[xi] Deconstructing the Kazaa Network, Nathaniel Leibowitz, Matei Ripeanu, and Adam Wierzbicki, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP'03), June 2003, San Jose, CA [pdf].

[xii] Giggle: A Framework for Constructing Scalable Replica Location Services, Ann L. Chervenak, Ewa Deelman, Ian Foster, Adriana Iamnitchi, Carl Kesselman, Wolfgang Hoschek, Peter Kunst, Matei Ripeanu, Bob Schwartzkopf, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, and Brian Tierney. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'02), November 2002, Baltimore, MD. pdf

[xiii] A Decentralized, Adaptive, Replica Location Service, Matei Ripeanu and Ian Foster, 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2002. pdf

[xiv] Locating Data in (Small-World?) P2P Scientific Collaborations, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu and Ian Foster, 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02), Cambridge, MA, March 2002. LNCS 2429. pdf

[xv] Mapping Gnutella Network, Matei Ripeanu and Ian Foster, 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02), Cambridge, MA, March 2002. LNCS 2429. pdf

[xvi] Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems and Implications for System Design, Matei Ripeanu; Ian Foster and Adriana Iamnitchi, in IEEE Internet Computing Journal special issue on peer-to-peer networking, vol. 6(1) 2002. pdf

[xvii] Performance Predictions for a Numerical Relativity Package in Grid Environments, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi and Ian Foster. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 15(4), Winter 2001, Sage Publications. ps

[xviii] Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus, Gabrielle Allen, Thomas Dramlitsch, Ian Foster, Tom Goodale, Nicholas Karonis, Matei Ripeanu, Ed Seidel, and Brian Toonen. In proceedings of International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'01), November 2001, Denver, Colorado. (Gordon Bell Award). pdf

[xix] Cactus Application: Performance Predictions in Grid Environments, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Ian Foster; European Conference on Parallel Computing (EuroPar), Manchester UK, August 2001, LNCS 2150. pdf

Patents

[4] "Deduplicated Virtual Machine Transfer", Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu. May 2012.

[3] "Scalable Graph Modeling for Deduplicated Systems"Abdullah Gharaibeh, Cornel Constantinescu, Maohua Lu. November 2011.

[2] "A Data Placement Method Optimized for Individual File Accesses on Deduplication-Enabled Tapes", Cornel Constaninescu, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Maohua Lu, David A. Pease, Anurag Sharma. November 2011.

[1] "A Mechanism and a System for Virtual Machines Co-Migration", Samer Al-Kiswany, Cornel Constantinescu, Prasenjit Sarkar, Mark Seaman, Dinesh Subhraveti. October 2010.

Talks

[4] The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money, March 2012, ENS Lyon / INRIA Lyon, slides

[3] MosaStore: A Versatile Storage System, February 2012, AVALON seminar / INRIA Lyon, slides

[2] Harvesting the Opportunity of GPU-Based Acceleration for Data-Intensive Applications, June 2011, IBM Almaden, slides

[1] Harvesting the Opportunity of GPU-based Acceleration, February 2011, IIT slides

Dissertations

[5] Kyle Zeeuwen, Optimizing re-evaluation of malware distribution networks, Master of Applied Science Dissertation, Dissertation, October 2011, link slides

[4] Qiang Wei, Towards Improving the Availability and Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems, PhD dissertation, October 2009, link

[3] Armin Bahramshahry, MCCA: A Communication Architecture for Online Multiplayer Games, Master of Applied Science Thesis, University of British Columbia, August 2009, link slides

[2] Abdullah Gharaibeh, Exploring Data Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Master of Applied Science Thesis, University of British Columbia, June 2009, link slides

[1] Samer Al-Kiswany, Beyond Music Sharing: An Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Data Dissemination Techniques in Large Scientific Collaborations, Master of Applied Science Thesis, University of British Columbia, December 2007, pdf slides

Internal

[5] Lauro Costa, Automated Configuration of Distributed Storage Systems, PhD proposal, June 2011, pdf slides

[4] Abdullah Gharaibeh, System Support for Massively Parallel Hybrid Systems, PhD proposal, May 2011, pdf slides

[3] Elizeu Santos-Neto, Characterizing and Harnessing Peer Production of Information in Tagging Systems, PhD proposal, February 2010, pdf slides

[2] Samer Al-Kiswany, Embracing Diversity: Optimized Distributed Storage Systems for Diverse Deployment Environments, PhD proposal, November 2009, pdf slides

[1] Qiang Wei, On Improving the Availability and Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems, PhD proposal, April 2008, pdf slides

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