Research on DAS-2 at the University of Amsterdam

Ph.D. projects completed:

• Branching growth in stony corals (Merks; Ph.D. 2003)
• Hybrid systems for N-body simulations (Spinnato; Ph.D. 2003)
• Mesoscopic Computational Haemodynamics (Artoli, Ph.D. 2003)

Project in MMIS Lab

• User Transparent Parallel Image Processing (Seinstra)
• Object Recognition by a Robot Dog Connected to a Wide-Area Grid System

Current Ph.D. projects in the CSP lab

• Parallel Discrete Event Simulations on the Grid (Kamil Iskra (SCS), PH.D expected in 2004)
• ISS-Conductor an agent-based system for Interactive Simulation Systems (Zhiming Zhao (SCS), Ph.D. expected in 2004)
• Interactive Applications in a Grid Environment (Alfredo Tirado Ramos (SCS, Ph.D. started in 2002; see CrossGrid).
• Development and use of Astronomical N-Body codes (Alessia Gualandris (SCS/Pannekoek Institute), Ph.D. started in 2003).
• Computational Haemodynamics (Lilit Abrahamyan (SCS), Ph.D. started in 2003; see Token 2000).

Other current projects in the CSP lab

• Dynamite: Dynamic load balancing, checkpointing & fault tolerance for parallel applications in a Grid environment (Breanndan O Nullain, Tomasz Gubala, Dick van Albada, Kamil Iskra, earlier Adianto Wibisono (MSc Thesis))
• Gigabit and optical routing (Hans Blom (AIR))
• VLAM-G, VLE Virtual Lab for e-science development + testbed (ICES-KIS project; many people involved)
• CrossGrid IST-2001-32243, European Fifth Framework project. The UvA node of DAS-2 is part of the testbed infrastructure of the CrossGrid Project (Alfredo Tirado Ramos, Alfons Hoekstra, Peter Sloot, Elena Zudilova and others).
• Token 2000; simulation of medical interventions (Lilit Abrahamyan, Alfons Hoekstra, Elena Zudilova)

Future plans:

• Testbed for bioinformatics application research