Erik Altman
Location: (Hawthorne, NY)
Personal Research Web Page: http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/ealtman.index.html
Keywords: multicore, SSD, middleware, webserving, middleware, databases, appserver,multi-tier
Posted on: Friday, June 5th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Hardware / Architecture, Information Systems / Information Science, Networks / Operating Systems, Programming Languages / Compilers, Software Engineering
Research Interests:
PROJECT 1 is developing tooling and analysis techniques to enable
performance optimization in support of large commercial workloads in
the massive multicore era in which systems have hundreds or thousands
of processor cores. PROJECT 1 involves working with large-scale,
commercial applications with an eye towards dramatic improvements in
the performance of critical enterprise software deployments. This
project would benefit from postdocs whose research focuses on such
issues and who have experience with deployment and performance
analysis of multi-tier web applications, and more particularly
experience with Java programming, scripting (Javascript, Awk, Perl),
Java EE, database setup and tuning.
PROJECT 2 also focuses on future system architectures with large
numbers of multicore processors, but with a particular focus on how
such systems incorporate solid state disk / memory. PROJECT 2 is
analyzing how software can best take advantage of SSD and multicore
advances and what algorithms and architectures are best suited to
these systems — with approaches again focused on critical enterprise
workloads. This project would benefit from postdocs whose research
focuses on such issues and who have experience in storage systems and
disk modeling and with good knowledge of system benchmarking,
performance modelling, flash memory design, and interfaces such as
Sata and PCIe.
