Theses & Proposals

Theses Proposals

Currently, the HPDCS group offers to the students the possibility to work on the following topics:

Our group has been involved in the following Doctoral, Master’s, and Bachelor’s theses.

[PhD] Davide Cingolani: A new approach to reversible computing with applications to speculative parallel simulation - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[PhD] Mauro Ianni: Share-everything Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Multi-core Machines - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia

[MSc] Matteo Principe: Transparent Distributed Cross-State Synchronization in Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisor: F. Quaglia, A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Stefano Carnà: HOP - Hardware-based Online Profiling of multi-threaded applications via AMD Instruction-Based Sampling - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: S. Economo

[MSc] Emiliano Silvestri: Fine-Grain Time-Shared Execution of In-Memory Transactions - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisors: S. Economo, A. Pellegrini, P. Di Sanzo
[MSc] Stefano Conoci: Efficient Software Transactional Memory via Thread Scheduling and Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Salvatore Rivieccio: Energy Efficient Spin-Locking in Multi-Core Machines - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Andrea Scarselli: A Lock-Free Buddy System for Scalable Memory Allocation - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisors: M. Ianni, R. Marotta
[MSc] Tommaso Tocci: ORCHESTRA: An Asynchronous Wait-Free Distributed GVT Algorithm - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[BSc] Marta Paolucci: Progetto e sviluppo dell’assemblatore e supporti di simulazione per il processore z64 - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini

[MSc] Romolo Marotta: A Lock-Free O(1) Priority Queue for Pending Event Set Management - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisors: P. Di Sanzo, A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Nazzareno Marziale: Dynamic Clustering of Simulation Objects in Speculative Parallel Simulation Systems - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Francesco Nobilia: Runtime Management of Simulation Objects Cross-State Dependencies in NUMA-oriented Parallel Simulation Platforms - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini

[MSc] Mauro Ianni: Transactional Memory Based Speculative Parallel Execution of Discrete Event Applications - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Simone Economo: Lightweight approximate virtual page access tracing of multi-threaded applications via static binary instrumentation - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Andrea La Rizza: Elastic cloud resources provisioning for life insurance undertaking applications - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisors: P. Di Sanzo, A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Luca Forte: Proactive Workload Management in Cloud Environments in the Presence of Software Aging - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[BSc] Andrea Scarselli: Gestione ottimizzata della delivery e del buffering dei messaggi in piattaforme multi-thread in architetture NUMA - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini
[BSc] Daniele Moriggi: Progetto di un assemblatore per il processore z64 - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini

[PhD] Alessandro Pellegrini: Techniques for Transparent Parallelization of Discrete Event Simulation Models - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[PhD] Sebastiano Peluso: Efficient Protocols for Replicated Transactional Systems - [download]
Supervisors: F. Quaglia, P. Romano
[PhD] Diego Rughetti: Autonomic Concurrency Regulation in Software Transactional Memories - download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani
[MSc] Davide Cingolani: Application Transparent and Efficient Mixed State-Saving in Speculative Simulation Platforms - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini

[PhD] Roberto Vitali: Design of Software Support Structures for High Performance Optimistic Simulations with Special Focus on Multi-Core Hosting Environment - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia

[PhD] Pierangelo Di Sanzo: Performance Models of Concurrency Control Protocols for Transaction Processing Systems - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani
[PhD] Roberto Palmieri: Speculative Protocols for Actively Replicated Transactional Systems - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Pietro Stroia: Securing the IDT and the System Call Table from malicious LKMs - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini

[MSc] Alice Porfirio: Progettazione e implementazione di un meccanismo di rollback parziale per memorie software transazionali - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisors: P. Di Sanzo, A. Pellegrini
[MSc] Gionata Cerasuolo: Cache-Aware Memory Manager for Optimistic Simulations Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisors: A. Pellegrini, R. Vitali
[BSc] Fernando Visca: Tecniche di instrumentazione statica per il supporto alla trasparenza verso il programmatore nelle STM - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia - Co-Supervisor: A. Pellegrini, R. Palmieri

[MSc] Alessandro Pellegrini: Salvataggio e Ripristino Autonomico dello Stato degli Oggetti nei Sistemi di Simulazione Ottimistici - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Sebastiano Peluso Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Diego Didona Supervisor: F. Quaglia

[MSc] Roberto Vitali Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[MSc] Diego Rughetti: Raccolta ed elaborazione di dati provenienti da reti di sensori distribuiti - [download]
Supervisor: B. Ciciani - Co-Supervisor: P. Romano
[MSc] Roberto Palmieri: Modeling And Evaluation Of Relational Dbms Based On Lock Concurrency Control And Non Uniform Data Access Pattern - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia
[BSc] Alessandro Pellegrini: Tracciamento trasparente ed efficiente di scritture su memoria dinamica con granularità arbitraria in architetture per il calcolo ottimistico - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia

[PhD] Paolo Romano: Protocols for End-To-End Reliability in Multi-Tier Systems - [download]
Supervisor: F. Quaglia

[BSc] Roberto Palmieri: MicroOpGen tool and developing extensions for DisSimulator, a simulator for PD32 educational-processor Supervisor: B. Ciciani

[PhD] Andrea Santoro: Semi-Asynchronous Checkpointing for Optimistic Parallel Simulation
Supervisor: B. Ciciani

[PhD] Francesco Quaglia: Consistent Checkpointing in Distributed Computations: Theoretical Results and Protocols - [download
Supervisor: B. Ciciani
[PhD] Milton Romero: Disparity/Motion Estimation for Stereoscopic Video Processing
Supervisor: B. Ciciani

[PhD] Gianluca Battaglini: Analysis of Manufacturing Yields Evaluation of VLSI/WSI Systems: Methods and Methodologies
Supervisor: B. Ciciani

[MSc] Francesco Quaglia: Passo ottimo del salvataggio dello stato nel tool SIMCOR
Supervisor: B. Ciciani