Richard Y. Huang

Graduate Student, Computer Science University of California, San Diego Research Advisor: Andrew A. Chien VGrADS Activities: Working on Execution System (Scheduling) ryhuang@cs.ucsd.edu http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~ryhuang

Educational Background

• B.S. in Biology (1997), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1998), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.S. in Computer Science (2005), University of California, San Diego
• Currently, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Diego

Research Experience

Richard Huang's research interests broadly fall under the catetgory of distributed computing. Prior to joining the Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG) led by Dr. Andrew Chien, Richard worked on the LoCoMo project in the Multimedia Laboratory at UCSD. He focused on video encription as part of the security measures for an emerging wireless home entertainment system.

Since joining CSAG and the VGrADS project, Richard has focused on scheduling compute intensive applications in the grid environment. He used PSI-BLAST and 123D representing compute intensive applications to examine effects of volatility on application performance. Richard examined both volatility in the resource environments as well as the variance in the task runtime predictions and their effects on application performance.

For the Virtual Grid Execution System (vgES), Richard helped defined the Virtual Grid Descriptive Language (vgDL) and the architecture for vgES. For the implementation of vgES, Richard is focused on vgMON, the component responsible for monitoring application expectations. Richard is currently working on defining a second order annotation language Expectations Definition Language (eDL) that users can use in conjunction with vgDL to refine their expectations for the virtual grid.

Concurrently with the vgMON project, Richard has also been planning on experimentation with running scheduling experiments using vgES and quantifying the benefits of using vgES versus a scheduling approach without using vgES.

Publications

1. Andrew Chien, Henri Casanova, Yang-Suk, Richard Huang. The Virtual Grid Descriptive Language: vgDL. UCSD Technical Report CS2005-0817 (2004).
2. Richard Huang. Scheduling Compute Intensive Applications in Volatile, Shared Resource (Grid) Environments. Master's thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2005.
3. Yang-Suk Kee, Dionysios Logothetis, Richard Huang, Henri Casanova, and Andrew A. Chien. Efficient Resource Description and High Quality Selection for Virtual Grids, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005).