Ýmir Vigfússon
Ymir Vigfusson
IBM Research Haifa Lab
ymir@ymsir:com
I work with Dr. Gregory Chockler as a post-doc at IBM Research in Haifa. I defended my Ph.D. thesis from Cornell University in August 2009, where my advisor was Prof. Ken Birman. In May 2005, I completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Iceland. My advisor there was Prof. Magnus M. Halldorsson.
My research is focused around distributed systems, and I am particularly interested in real-world problems that embody deep trade-offs. Other research interests include mathematical modeling, data mining, computer security, randomized algorithms and computational biology.
- Curriculum Vitae (updated in September 2009).
Thesis
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Affinity in Distributed Systems.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, August 2009.
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Papers and Publications
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GO: Platform Support For Gossip Applications.
Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak Nataraj.
To appear in LADIS: Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, Big Sky, MT. October 2009.
Invited to P2P '09: Ninth Annual International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. September 2009.
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Adaptively Parallelizing Distributed Range Queries.
Ymir Vigfusson, Adam Silberstein, Brian Cooper, Rodrigo Fonseca.
At VLDB: International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 2009.
We filed for a patent for this work titled Parallel Execution of Range Queries on Distributed Partitioned Database in September 2008.
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Slicing Distributed Systems
Vincent Gramoli, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Robbert van Renesse.
In PODC: Principles of Distributed Computing, Toronto, Canada. August 2008 (Brief announcement).
In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Section on Autonomic Network Computing. July 2009.
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Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability
Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Yoav Tock.
In HotNets: Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, Calgary, Canada, October 2008.
Also in LADIS: Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, White Plains, NY. September 2008.
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Hyperspaces for Object Clustering and Approximate Matching in Peer-to-Peer Overlays.
Bernard Wong, Ymir Vigfusson, Emin Gun Sirer.
In HotOS: Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, San Diego, CA. May 2007.
This work evolved into the Cubit project, which was Slashdotted in May 2008.
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Technical Reports
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Ajil: Distributed Rate-limiting for Multicast Networks.
Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan.
Cornell University Technical Report. December 2008. -
A Delivery Network Creation Game
Georgios Piliouras, Ymir Vigfusson
Cornell University Technical Report (TR 1813-11801). November 2006.
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Posters
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GO: Platform Support for Gossip Applications
Ymir Vigfusson, Ken Birman, Qi Huang, Deepak Nataraj.
At P2P '09: Ninth Annual International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. September 2009.
poster - Dr. Multicast: Harnessing IP Multicast in Data Centers
[Best Poster Award]
Ymir Vigfusson, Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Gregory Chockler, Yoav Tock.
At NSDI: 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA. April 2009.
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CATTAGAT: Web Server For Primer Specificity Scan
Magnus Halldorsson, Haukur Thorgeirsson, Ymir Vigfusson, Hans G. Thormar, Jon J. Jonsson.
Appeared at GIW: Genome Informatics Workshop, Yokohama, Japan. December 2004.
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