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Vijay Karamcheti
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Friday, Nov. 19, 11:00am
LC 102, Brooklyn Campus, Polytechnic University
Current day parallel and distributed applications are required to
execute in diverse network environments with widely varying resource
and security characteristics, and need to cater to multiple usage
scenarios. To avoid having to explicitly construct different
application configurations for each scenario, one would ideally like
to rely upon a software system infrastructure that allows applications
to automatically adapt to their execution environments.
This talk will present ongoing research in the NYU Parallel and
Distributed Systems Group, which is investigating different ways of
building such infrastructures. The talk will focus on three frameworks
- Application Tunability, CANS, and Mutable Services - which support
adaptation at the level of a single application component, at the
level of data streams flowing between components, and at the
inter-component level respectively. Using application studies
spanning image visualization, web access with weak devices over
low-bandwidth networks, and clients accessing wide-area network
services, we discuss how application flexibility is exposed in each of
the frameworks, and describe the system support required to exploit
this flexibility for adaptation purposes.
Bio:
Vijay Karamcheti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he heads the Parallel and Distributed Systems research group. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. in the same area from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a Subject Area Editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and is a recipient of a 1999 NSF CAREER Award. Additional details about his research can be found at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/vijayk.
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