Research

Current Projects

Our research is mainly concerned with distributed (operating) systems. In particular we concentrate on distributed data management and especially on consistency and fault tolerance. Currently, we are developing a In-Memory Data management service for Clouds: ECRAM (Elastic Cooperative RAM). ECRAM is designed to manage distributed states of MMVEs with a massive scale of interactive users, provide a distributed cache for web applications, and also an in-memory storage for data intensive applications like for example MapReduce and bioinformatics applications.

iAM (Interactive Augmented Microscopy)
Started in 2011

ECRAM (Elastic Cooperative RAM)
Elastic In-Memory Data Management Service for Clouds, from 2011

Wissenheim (MMVE application)
Cooperation with University of Ulm, since 2004.

Old Projects

GOSS (Grid Object Sharing Service)
Transparent data sharing for grid environments (within XtreemOS).
European Integrated-Project within FP6, 2006 - 2010.

XtreemGCP (Grid Checkpointing Service)
Fault tolerance and job migration for grids (within XtreemOS)
European Integrated-Project within FP6, 2006 - 2010.

TGOS (Typed Grid Object Sharing)
Cooperation with University of Ulm, since 2007.

DTDOS (Distributed Transactional Distributed Operating System)
In the Plurix context (see below). Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2006-2008.

RDSM (Reliable Distributed Shared Memory), cooperation with INRIA/IRISA
(Dr. Christine Morin, Rennes, France), funded by the DAAD, 2004-2006.

Plurix Operating System and Plurix Java Compiler (PJC) 1998-2006.

JVTOS (Joint Viewing and Teleoperating Service) within the MagicWAND project,
European Project within FP5, 1996-1998, (WAND = Wireless ATM Network Demonstrator)

Heterogeneous Application Sharing (for Microsoft Windows NT and X-Window), 1995-1996.