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Summer 2012

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

June'12

  • Learning and practising Intel Open Storage toolkit.
  • learning and practising blktrace tool.

May'12

  • 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.