Algorithms,
Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) Program
Operations
Research Group
Algorithms
in the Real World (Guy Blelloch's course)
 |
Computational
Molecular Biology is
an active area of research at Carnegie Mellon, carried out
by faculty members who make this their primary research area
as well through collaborations between computational and biological
scientists. Areas of emphasis include the application of machine
learning and data mining techniques to large biological knowledge
bases, computational aspects of high-throughput laboratory
methodologies for large-scale, systematic studies of protein
structure and function, analysis of biological image data
and computational genomics |
The
SYNC project (Scheduling Your Network Connections) led by
Professor
Mor Harchol-Balter aims to speed up response time at Web servers
servicing static HTTP requests by 500 percent. The idea is simple.
Many HTTP requests arriving at a Web server are static, of the
form "Get me a file." For such requests, the size of
the request (i.e. the time required to service the request) is
well-approximated by the size of the file, which is well-known
to the server. Thus far, no company or research institution
has made use of this information. The
SYNC project uses the knowledge of the size of the request to
affect the scheduling order in which requests are serviced by
the Web server.
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