Private:progress-aldhamin

Summer 2012

• Courses: none
• Working on my research...

May 20

• Report: [1]
• Doing a final review of the "Hystor" paper and organizing my thoughts

Spring 2012

• Courses:
  • CMPT 781: Technical Communication
  • CMPT 886: Special Topics in Operating Systems

March'12

• Report: [2]
• Working on my 886 project and there is a high chance for a conference publication.

February'12

• Report: [3]
• Summarized common problems in SSD-based applications.
• Working on my 886 term project.
• Submitted the final draft and my talk to ISMS'12 committee. My paper was accepted in the conference, which took place between Feb 8 - 10.

January'12

• Report: [4]
• Continued my survey into more researches to get a wider horizon into classifying the studies on this prospect.
• I'm reading about the impact of PCI Express and phase-change memory on this field.
• I will utilize my research on the 781 course requirement to utilize the time for both.
• I'm still having difficulty reading papers (in terms of the time it takes to completely finishing a paper) but it's improving with time considering that both courses I'm taken this semester do have a considerable amount of readings of that type.

Fall 2011

• Courses:
  • CMPT-705: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • CMPT 880: Programming Parallel and Distributed Systems

November 14

• Report (No updates): [5]
• No progress regarding the research. Courses are consuming all the time I have!!

October 11

• Report (No major updates): [6]
• Still working on a separate report for each of the problems listed on the progress report.

September 22

• Continuing the research on various topics of flash memory and high performance computing.
• Five (5) general ideas have been listed.