Amit Jain Associate Professor Department of Computer Science College of Engineering Boise State University Boise , Idaho 83725. Contacting me. Teaching. Research. Education. Service. Other Stuff.

Contact Information

• email:
• office: MEC 302M (Micron Engineering Center)
• phone: 208-426-3821
• fax: 208-426-2470
• CS dept office: 208-426-5788

Teaching

Fall 2008

Scheduled classes

• COMPSCI 430/530: Parallel Computing
• COMPSCI 453/552: Operating Systems

Supervised Masters Projects/Theses (COMPSCI 591/593)

• Joey Mazzarelli
• Renu Ramanatha
• Makho Ngazimbi
• John Prestwich
• Luke Hindman

Classes From Previous Semesters

Handouts for students

Education

• Ph.D. (1994) in Computer Science from  the  School of Computer Science   at  the  University of Central Florida.
                       (PhD Advisor: Professor Narsingh Deo)
  


• B. Tech (1987) in Computer Science and Engineering from the  Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

PhD Dissertation [472K, Postscript] 

Research

Director of the Beowulf Cluster Lab (funded by National Science Foundation Award No. 0321233)

I am also the Chief Scientist for Balihoo, Inc, a media planning search engine software company.

Organizer of the First IEEE Idaho High Performance Computing Workshop.

Supervised Undergraduate Student Projects:

• Chess Playing  Machine (CPM Project website):  Joe Coffland.
• Interpeater: An Internet Radio Repeater (website): Shaun Henry, senior in Computer Science.
  
• Parallelization of Pencil Beam Redefinition Code (manuscript, in PDF): Paul Alderson and Mark Wright, seniors in Computer Science.
  
• Remote Power Control for a Beowulf Cluster: Brady Catherman, sophomore in Computer Science.
  
• Clusmon: A CLUster MONitoring System: Joey Mazzarelli, senior in Computer Science.
  

• Beowulf Low Latency Protocol. (Ira Burton, 2003)
• Java Bindings for Parallel Virtual Machine. (Eric Fialkowski, 2004)
  
• Connection Pooling in PostgreSQL. (Michael Shelton, 2004)
• Manual versus Automatic Parallelization Using PVM and HPF (Hongyi Hu, 2004)
• Beosh: The Beowulf Cluster Shell  (Mason Vail, 2006)
• ClusMon: A Beowulf Cluster Monitoring System (Conrad Kennington, 2006)
• PTK: A Parallel ToolKit Library (Kirsten Allison, 2007)
• CombAlg: A Parallel Library of Combinatorial Algorithms (Brad Seewald, 2007)
• BSACI: Boise State Automated Cluster Installer (Paul Kreiner, 2007)
• Performance Study of Lucene in Parallel and Distributed Environments (Kishore Sajja, 2007)

• Kevin Nuss
• Joey Mazzarelli
• John Prestwich
• Renu Ramanatha
• Makho Ngazimbi

Publications

Grants

MPL Examples

Links Related to Parallel Computing

• Beowulf clusters.
• Parallel Processing using Linux.
• A comprehensive list of parallel computing sites.

Service

• Member of the Idaho Software Employers Alliance executive board.
• High School Programming Competition
• Engineering PR Committee
  
• Departmental Tenure and Progress Committee
• Computer Science Graduate Committee
• Departmental Scholarship Committee

Other Stuff

• Blue and Orange!
• The House.
• The Big Guy .
• How to get hurt...
• Experiments in Light Absorption.