Mark Silberstein

I joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology

I am looking for motivated graduate students with a strong hands-on background in building systems. We will tackle  the core challenges of the next generation computer systems involving bleeding-edge massively parallel processors and accelerators.

The projects cover various aspects of GPUs, High speed I/O devices, Operating Systems,  Distributed Storage systems and hardware security.

Send your CV, grade transcript, and a brief description of your technical background and research interests to mark@ee.technion.acil,

Or come and see me @ EE 914.



Until  August 2013  I was at the UT Austin as a post-doc with Prof. Emmett Witchel.

I received my PhD in Computer Science at the Technion in 2010.

My thesis was on the mechanisms for building supercomputing systems using large-scale distributed, unreliable resources and graphical processing units (GPUs).




Research interests

Heterogeneous architectures: programming tools, scheduling algorithms, OS abstractions, privacy support in OS
High performance computing on grids and clouds, distributed storage systems
Parallel processing on multicores and GPUs.

Google scholar profile

Research Projects

Ongoing
  • GPUFS: File System  support for GPUs. See my talk at GTC2012. Our ASPLOS13 paper is here. The source code is now available from GITHUB.
  • Privacy in modern systems
  • Efficient Erasure Coding in Distributed Storage Systems
Production

Teaching (lecturer)


EE046274 Spring 2011 - Programming Massively Parallel Processors (as a part of the CUDA Teaching Center)
CS236370 Autumn 2010 - Concurrent and Distributed Programming
CS236804 Spring 2010 - Seminar on  parallel algorithms and applications for GPUs
CS236371  Spring 2010 - Project in parallel and distributed programming


Program committees

2013: IPDPS, CCGrid, SFMA, Systor
2012: CCGrid
2011: CCGrid

Internships

In 2011 I spent two months working with Ofer Dekel at Microsoft Research Redmond on acceleration of  decision tree learning algorithms on GPUs.

In 2009 I visited Prof. Matsuoka lab in Tokyo Tech working on TSUBAME - the world largest supercomputer based on GPUs. The goal was to use TSUBAME for genetic linkage analysis, and it was accomplished!

I spent  fantastic three summer months of 2007 in UC Davis working in the group of Prof. John Owens. This was the turning point in my research on GPUs.

Past

I worked as a student researcher at IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, at the Distributed System Department, conducting research on Grid Computing Systems. I am one of the authors of Dynamo - IBM directory replicator for Grid.

Family

My wife Natalia's homepage

My dad's homepage