Research students

Students I am currently supervising or co-supervising are:

PhD students

• Nor Asilah Abdul Wati Hamid, Communication Performance Measurement and Analysis on Commodity Clusters
• Nick Falkner
• Peter Kelly
• Jesudas Mathew, Java for High-Performance Computing
• Daniel Walton, Combining Replica Management and Resource Scheduling in Data Grids

Masters by research students

• Ben Moretti (Department of Environmental Biology), Data management issues in biodiversity informatics

Masters by coursework students

• Qiushi Yuan, Adaptive Middleware for Mobile Systems

Honours students

• Phi Tang, Adaptive Resource Allocation in a Mobile Computing Environment

If you are interested in being supervised on PhD, Masters or Honours research projects, check my research interests and the list of DHPC research projects and available honours and masters projects, and contact me to discuss potential projects.

Research students I have previously supervised or co-supervised are:

PhD students

• Dr Duncan Grove, Performance Modeling of Message-Passing Parallel Programs, University of Adelaide, June 2003.
• Dr M.A. Saleh Elmohammed, Algorithms and Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Case Study of Academic Course Scheduling, Syracuse University, December 2000.
• Dr Sung-Hoon Ko, Java for High Performance SPMD and Message Passing Programming, Syracuse University, September 2000.
• Dr Heath James, Scheduling in Metacomputing Systems, University of Adelaide, July 1999.
• Dr Alvin Leung, Real-Time Interactive Client-Server Terrain Rendering, Syracuse University, September 1997.
• Dr Nawal Copty, Language and Runtime Support for the Execution of Heirarchical Clustering Applications on Distributed Memory Machines, Syracuse University, January 1996.
• Dr David Koester, Parallel Block-Diagonal-Bordered Sparse Linear Solvers for Power Systems Applications, Syracuse University, October 1995.
• Dr Leping Han, Monte Carlo Simulations of Random Surfaces with Extrinsic Curvature, Physics Department, Syracuse University, December 1994.
• Dr Zheng-Yao Su, The Hierarchical Algorithms: Theory and Applications, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, July 1994.

Masters by coursework students

• Ismet Isnaini, Parallel Graph Colouring Algorithms for Shared Memory Machines, University of Adelaide, July 2002.
• Lici Lu, Resource Management for a Campus Computational Grid, University of Adelaide, July 2002.
• Kevin Fenwick, A Performance Analysis of Java Distributed Shared Memory Implementations, University of Adelaide, October 2001.

Honours students

• Huy Tuong Le, The Data-Aware Resource Broker: A Resource Management Scheme for Data-Intensive Applications, University of Adelaide, November 2003.
• Andrew Newell, Parallel Random Number Generators in Java, University of Adelaide, November 2003.
• Scott Powell, Simulated Tempering for Optimization, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, November 2003.
• Nick Tindall, An Experimental Testbed for Grid Computing, University of Adelaide, November 2003.
• Jimmy Lee, Active Data Repositories for Computational Grid Applications, University of Adelaide, October 2002.
• Sam Patten, A Resource Broker for Globus, University of Adelaide, October 2002.
• Daniel Walton, The Simulation of Dynamic Resource Brokering in a Grid Environment, University of Adelaide, October 2002.
• Anna Forest, Improved Searching Mechanisms for Distributed Geospatial Image Archives , University of Adelaide, October 2001.
• Matthew Swan, An Implementation of k-tiling Algebra, University of Adelaide, October 2000.
• Richard Zschech, Computer Network Visualisation, University of Adelaide, October 2000.
• Simon Del Fabbro, Developing a Distributed Image Processing and Management Framework, University of Adelaide, June 2000.