Distributed Storage

For my dissertation, I have been developing ROARS (Rich Object ARchive System), a distributed storage system for scientific repositories. ROARS utilizes a cluster filesystem for data archiving and a SQL database for persistent metadata caching. ROARS is currently used for BXGRID, a biometric data repository at Notre Dame.

Publication:

Hoang Bui, Peter Bui, Patrick Flynn and Douglas Thain,
ROARS: A Scalable Repository for Data Intensive Scientific Computing,
The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing at ACM HPDC 2010,

Hoang Bui, Diane Wright, Clarence Helm, Rachel Witty, Patrick Flynn and Douglas Thain,
Towards Long Term Data Quality in a Large Scale Biometrics Experiment,
Managing Data Quality for Collaborative Science at ACM HPDC 2010, June, 2010.

Hoang Bui, Michael Kelly, Christopher Lyon, Mark Pasquier, Deborah Thomas, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain,
Experience with BXGrid: A Data Repository and Computing Grid for Biometrics Research,
Journal of Cluster Computing, 12(4), pages 373, April, 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10586-009-0098-7

Hoang Bui, Deborah Thomas, Michael Kelly, Christopher Lyon, Douglas Thain, and Patrick J. Flynn,
Poster: BXGrid: A Data Repository and Workflow Abstraction for Biometrics Research,
IEEE International Conference on e-Science, pages 394-395, December, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2008.135

Christopher Moretti, Hoang Bui, Karen Hollingsworth, Brandon Rich, Patrick Flynn, and Douglas Thain,
All-Pairs: An Abstraction for Data Intensive Computing on Campus Grids,
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 21(1), pages 33-46, January, 2010. DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2009.49

Image Processing

For my master thesis, I worked on reconstructing fragments of objects using 2D scan. My research advisors were Dr. Catherine V. Stringfellow and Prof. Richard P. Simpson.

Publication:

Hoang Bui, YuChun Peng, Catherine Stringfellow, Richard Simpson, and Jeffery Hood,
Matching 2D Fragments of Objects,
Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Computers and Their Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2008), November, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 150-156.

Wireless WEB Caching

As an undergraduate student , I worked with Dr. Nelson Luiz Passos to better understand content delivery in a wireless environment, and to come up with new approach for a more efficent integrated caching and content delivery.

Publication:

R. Zuck, A. Williams, B. Kair, H. Bui, C. Stringfellow, and N. L. Passos,
Adjusting Web Caching Computers to Reduce Communication Channel Allocation,
,Proceedings of the ISCA 17th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, November, 2004, Orlando, Florida, pp. 17-20.

R. Zuck, A. Williams, B. Kair, H. Bui, C. Stringfellow, and N. L. Passos,
Network Centric Improvements to Resource Caching,
Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, January, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 202-205.(nominated for the best paper award)

Loop Transformations

My very first research experience was working with Dr. Nelson Luiz Passos . I researched new mothods to transform any uniform nested loops so they can be executed in parallel at instruction level

Publication:

P. Xue, H. Bui, A. Joseph, and N. L. Passos,
Modeling and Retiming Non-Uniform Acyclic Loops,
,Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2003), November, 2003, Marina Del Rey, CA, pp. 328-332.

P. Xue, H. Bui and N. L. Passos,
Instruction Level Parallelism of Non-Uniform Acyclic Loops,
,Proceedings of the 15th Annual CCSC South Central Conference, in the Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, April 2004, Austin, TX, pp. 279-286.

K. P. Mayfield, A. Joseph, S. Black, H. Bui, and N. L. Passos,
Scheduling Multi-Dimensional Loops in a Computer Cluster,
in the Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, November, 2006, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 78-82.