ColloquiaRanganathan/MS Presentation/4-27-01

[Margaret Jaffey]

This is an announcement of Kavitha Ranganathan's Master's Presentation.

Date:	Friday, April 27, 2001

Time:	2:00 p.m.

Place:	Ryerson 277

M.S. Candidate:  Kavitha Ranganathan

M.S. Paper Title:  Design and Evaluation of Dynamic Replication Strategies
		for a High-Performance Data Grid

Abstract:

Dynamic replication can be used to reduce bandwidth and access latency in
high performance "data grids" where users require remote access to files
that are large: on average, around two Gigabytes. Different replication
strategies are defined depending on when, where, and how the replicas are
created and destroyed. I describe a simulation framework that I have
developed to enable comparative studies of alternative dynamic replication
strategies. The paper present preliminary results obtained with this
simulator, in which we evaluate the performance of six different
replication strategies for three different kinds of access patterns. The
paper also analyzes related literature regarding replica placement issues.

Ms. Ranganathan's Advisor:  Prof. Ian Foster

A draft copy of Ms. Ranganathan's M.S. paper is available for review 
in Ry 161A.

Margaret
-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Margaret P. Jaffey			margaret at cs.uchicago.edu
Department of Computer Science
Student Support Rep (Ry 161A)		(773) 702-6011
The University of Chicago		http://www.cs.uchicago.edu
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=