DHPC Postgraduate Research

The DHPC group works within the Computer Science Department at Adelaide University in the education and training of Australia's next generation of advanced computing researchers and software engineers. There are currently several postgraduate students supervised by the group, who benefit in a number of ways from their affiliation. Students in the group:

• gain access to advanced high-end computing and networking facilities;
• have an opportunity for travel both in Australia and internationally, to attend conferences and visit collaborating organisations;
• gain familiarity with leading-edge technologies in distributed and high-performance computing;
• gain exposure to real-world applications and organisations, better preparing them for future career opportunities.

Postgraduate students in the DHPC group undertake research on a variety of issues in distributed and high-performance computing. Core technologies for this work include Java, CORBA, and parallel computing software. Topics include:

• remote computing;
• process scheduling;
• distributed objects;
• data distribution and layout;
• data compression;
• data encryption, security and authentication;
• resource description and discovery;
• network latency amortisation;
• distributed database integration;
• large-scale distributed and heirarchical data storage;
• managing and interfacing to large-scale distributed data archives;
• Java for high-performance computing;
• parallel computing;
• cluster computing.

PhD Theses of previous DHPC students are available.

Opportunities exist to join the DHPC group to carry out postgraduate research. Contact Paul Coddington for more information. You can also learn more about Postgraduate Research in the Computer Science Department at Adelaide University.

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