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2012

January 25

• Reading chapters from "Understanding the Linux® Virtual Memory Manager".

January 22

• Successfully isolated and compiled the Infiniband SDP driver
• Studying PLX NTB DMA Driver
• Reading about DMA programming

January 3

• Study the differences between DMA and RDMA
• Discover how Infiniband SDP is exchanging local memory addresses

January 1

• Successfully isolated and compiled the infiniband driver.
• Identify driver dependencies and find PCIe equivalent.

Fall 2011

• Courses:
  • CMPT 880 Programming Parallel and Distributed Systems

December 27

• Isolating interested code from OFED Infiniband software stack.
• Socket switch modul can be used with no change

December 26

• Reading chapters from "Understanding Linux Network Internals"
• Going through the source code of SDP implementation for Infiniband

December 12

• Exploring PLX SDK
• Studying Infiniband implementation of SDP and how to bypass TCP while using standard socket API
• Researching how to create devices in Linux
• Working on course project

November 30

• Collected all the information I need about NTB and SDP.
• Registered to PLX website to download and experiment with their SDK and development kit.

November 14

• Learning how to write kernel modules
• Learning about PCIe protocol layers
  • http://www.mindshare.com/files/ebooks/PCI%20Express%20System%20Architecture.pdf
• Researching the different types of PCIe bridges and adapters.

September 19

• Here is my progress report [1]

September 12

• Working on my research progress report

Summer 2011

• Courses:
  • CMPT 777 Formal Verification

June 17

Studying for the final

June 6

No update

May 8

Beside my course work, I am planning to contunue work on my project. Check the latest report. [2]

Spring 2011

• Courses:
  • CMPT 771 Internet Arch and Protocols
  • CMPT 886 Special Topics Operating Syst

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April 8

Plotted the initial result of an experiment that supports the claim that process network traffic is correlated to execution times which makes network traffic a good metric for performance degradation due to interconnect contention. What is left is to run the experiment two more times to confirm the results.

Mar 14

• Work on Course Projects.
• Experiment with a tool that measure network traffic per process on HPC systems to use it on my project.

Mar7

• Work on Course Projects.
• Read about power consumption effects on multi-core system performance.

Mar 1

• Work on Course Projects.
• Prepare description for my new research project.

Jan21

• I have been working on "Top Ten Computationally-Complex Problems in Oil and Gas Exploration Filed" survey and trying to enrich my overall knowledge about the subject. I am focusing right now on applications based on seismic data and have written an introduction about it in the report [3]

• I have also found a very interesting book "Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis in Oil Exploration" by M. Nikravesh, L.A. Zadeh, Fred Aminzadeh [4]. It is mainly about solving petroleum engineering problems using artificial intelligent techniques, which I think can lead me to find interesting research topic.

Fall 2010

• Courses:
  • CMPT 705 Design/Analysis Algorithms
  • CMPT 741 Data Mining