Research Interests

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Research Interests

• Andrew Rau-Chaplin
• www.cs.dal.ca/arc
• arc_at_cs.dal.ca

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High Performance Computing

• Parallel
• algorithms
• architectures
• applications
• systems / implementation
• Benchmarking and performance evaluation

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Project 1 Data Warehousing OLAP

• Datacube Generation
• Shared Memory
• Distributed Memory
• Partial
• Indexing
• Range search
• Updating
• Data
• Mining
• Cleaning

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Research Goal Building a Parallel 100 Terabyte
OLAP server

• Potential Thesis Topics
• Data representation, space filling curves,
  compression and indexing
• Parallel Iceberg Star cubes
• Parallel query processing
• Integration with standard OLAP query languages
• Comparisons with commercial systems

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Project 2 Parallel Computational Biochemistry

• Working with Biochemists
• Using min. vertex cover to improve large multiple
  sequence alignments
• Parallel Clustal Bio portal
• Other applications

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Project 3 Design Generation

• Mass Customization
• Automated architectural design service
• Geometric Design Grammars
• Parallel for high throughput

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Current Graduate Students

• Ph.D.
• Peter S.
• Oliver B.
• Ying C.
• Todd E. (Postdoc)
• MCS
• Josh S.
• May G.
• Zoë S.
• MCS co-supervised

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Interested???

• Read a paper www.cs.dal.ca/arc
• Take my CS6702 Parallel Computing
• Required background An interest in algorithms,
  architectures, system programming
• Come see me!!!