Abdullah Gharaibeh

I am a PhD candidate in the Networked Systems Laboratory. My advisor is Prof. Matei Ripeanu. My research interests are in the design and evaluation of high-performance distributed systems and GPU-based computing.

Mailing Address
2332 Main Mall
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dep.
The University of British Columbia
Vacnouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
CANADA

Email  abdullah [at] ece [dot] ubc [dot] ca





Refereed Journal Publications

[2] ThriftStore: Finessing Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2010. [pdf]

[1] On GPU's Viability as a Middleware Accelerator, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu, Cluster Computing Journal, Springer, June 2009. [link]


Refereed Conference Publications

[5] Size Matters: Space/Time Tradeoffs to Improve GPGPU Applications Performance, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2010), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2010. (acceptance rate 20%) [pdf] [slides] [code/workloads]

[4] A GPU Accelerated Storage System, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Matei Ripeanu, ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2010), Chicago, Illinois, June 2010. (acceptance rate 25%) [pdf] [slides]

[3] Exploring Data Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009), Munich, Germany, June 2009. (acceptance rate 29%) [pdf] [slides]

[2] StoreGPU: Exploiting Graphics Processing Units to Accelerate Distributed Storage Systems, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Elizeu Santos-Neto, George Yuan, Matei Ripeanu, IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, MA, June 2008. (acceptance rate 17%) [pdf] [code]

[1] stdchk: A Checkpoint Storage System for Desktop Grid Computing, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Abdullah Gharaibeh, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 08), Beijing, China, June 2008. (acceptance rate 16%) [pdf]


Short Papers / Technical Reports

[3] Accelerating Sequence Alignment on Hybrid Architectures, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, Scientific Computing Magazine, February 2011. [pdf]

[3] CrystalGPU: Transparent and Efficient Utilization of GPU Power, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Technical report, Networked Systems Lab, University of British Columbia, NetSysLab-TR-2010-01, 2010. [pdf] [code]

[2] The Case for a Versatile Storage System, Samer Al-Kiswany, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Matei Ripeanu, Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 09), Big Sky Resort Big Sky, MT, October 2009. (acceptance rate 20%) [pdf]

[1] Configurable Security for Scavenged Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, 4th International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2008), Alexandria, Virginia, October 2008. [pdf] [slides]


Dissertation

Exploring Data Reliability Tradeoffs in Replicated Storage Systems, Abdullah Gharaibeh, Master of Applied Science Thesis, The University of British Columbia, June 2009. [link] [slides]


Merit-based Awards

UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, $20K/year, 2009 - 2013 [link]

MITACS Accelerate, Canada's Graduate Research Internship Program, $15K, 2010 [link]

British Columbia Innovation Council Innovation Scholars Award, $20K/year, 2008 - 2009 [link]


Internships

Research Intern, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA , Summer 2011

Software Engineer Intern, Singular Software, Vancouver, BC , Summer 2010

Software Engineer Intern, Zeugma Systems, Vancouver, BC , Summer 2009