Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo

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Research Interests [top]

Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications: cluster, grid, FPGA, GPU and/or IBM Cell/BE solutions
Hybrid Parallel Programming Environments: Unified Programming Environment with Shared Memory and Message Passing, Dynamic Load Balancing, Multi and Manycore architectures
Distributed Shared Memory: Memory Consistency Models, Memory Coherence Protocols

Academic background [top]

PhD - Computer Science: Laboratoire Logiciels, Systèmes et Reseaux (LSR), Institut de Mathématiques Appliqués (IMAG), Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) Grenoble - France, 1996.
MsC - Computer Science: Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS Porto Alegre - Brazil, 1991.

Selected Publications (2007-2010) - Full Papers in Journals [top]

(2010) BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, CORREA, Jan M., MELO, Alba C. M. A, JACOBI, R. P., "A Hardware Accelerator for Fast Retrieval of DIALIGN Biological Sequence Alignments in Linear Space", IEEE Transactions on Computers v.59, n.6, pp. 808-821.
(2010) SOUSA, Marcelo S., MELO, Alba C. M. A, BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, "An Adaptive Multi-Policy Grid Service for Biological Sequence Comparison", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing v.70, n.2, pp. 160-172.
(2010) SANDES, E. F. O., MELO, Alba C. M. A, "CUDAlign: Using GPU to Accelerate the Comparison of Megabase Genomic Sequences", ACM SIGPLAN Notices v.45, n.5, pp. 137-146.
(2008) BATISTA, R. B., BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, MELO, Alba C. M. A, "A Parallel Strategy for Biological Sequence Alignment in Restricted Memory Space", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing v.68, n.4, pp. 548-561.
(2007) BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, MELO, Alba C. M. A, SANDES, E. F. O., AYALA-RINCON, Mauricio,"An Exact Parallel Algorithm to Compare Very Long Biological Sequences in Clusters of Workstations", Cluster Computing v.10, n.2, pp. 187-202.
(2007) BOUKERCHE, Azzedine, MELO, Alba C. M. A, AYALA-RINCON, Mauricio, WALTER, Maria Emilia M. T. "Parallel Strategies for Local Biological Sequence Alignment in a Cluster of Workstations", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing v.67, n.2, pp. 170-185.

Graduate Students [top]

Simone Cintra Chagas. Visualizing Memory Consistency Models. Concluded in June 1999.
Cícero R. O. Galdino: Memory Coherence Protocols for Eficient DSM Systems. Concluded in December 2000.
Nilo S. L. Barros. Visualizing Hybrid Memory Consistency Models. Concluded in May 2000.
Jan M. Correa. Using a Classifier System for Dynamic Load Balancing. Concluded in November 2001.
Glaucia Dias. Integrating Optimistic Virtual Synchrony to a CORBA Object Group Service, Concluded in October 2002.
Gustavo J. Portela. Load Balancing Task Scheduling for Grid Computing Environments. Concluded in June 2004.
Jeferson G. Koch. Coordinated Checkpointing Mechanism for DSM Systems. Concluded in July 2004.
Marcelo S. Sousa. PackageBLAST: An Adaptive Grid Service with Multiple Task Allocation Policies for Biological Sequence Comparison, Concluded in September 2005.
Tania G. Ramos. An Extensible Resource Discovery Mechanism for Grid Computing Environments. Concluded in November, 2005.
Rodolfo B. Batista, Parallel Exact Biological Sequence Comparison with User-Restricted memory Usage. Concluded in April, 2006.
Glauber Scorsatto, GrAMoS: A Grid Service for Monitoring Agreements in Grids.Concluded in September, 2007.
Jan M. Correa, Hardware Accelerators for Biological Sequence Comparison Applications.Concluded in May, 2008.
Lidia A. Miranda,Parallel Strategy for Multiple Sequence Alignment with a Parallel Injection Island Algorithm. Concluded in September, 2009.
Alessandro F. Leite.A P2P Framework for Bag-of-Tasks Applications with Multiple Allocation Policies. Concluded in June, 2010.
Felipe P. Guimaraes.A Framework for Adaptive and Fault Tolerant Execution of Workflows in Grids. Expected Conclusion in October, 2010.
Emerson A. Macedo.Distributed Strategy for Biological Sequence Comparison with DIALIGN-TX in Heterogeneous Multicore Clusters. Expected Conclusion in October, 2010.
Edans F. O. Sandes. Parallel Exact Alignment of Whole Chromosomes in GPUs. Expected Conclusion in March, 2011.
Alisson Wilker.Service Agreement Auditor Negotiation in Grids. Expected Conclusion in June, 2011.

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