Research
There is a high risk that we would find ourselves reliant on systems that are fragile and cannot deliver the services and performance for which they were engineered. Previous research has focused on developing models to study complex information technology infrastructures and gain better understanding of how their structure impact their emergent behaviors. In my research, I take a different prospective that assumes that unpredictable changes to system performance will occur and actively seek to develop uniform adaptive frameworks, methodologies and tools to achieve system resilience in future large-scale computing systems. In this context, system resilience characterizes the ability of the system to mitigate the impact of and dynamically adapt to changing conditions in order to provide appropriate QoS support for diverse types of applications and services in heterogeneous computing environments. I am working on a new computational model, called shadow computing, which provides goal-based adaptive system-resilience using dynamic execution to meet the requirements of complex applications in highly parallelized faulty environments.
I'm defending my disertation in May 2014; this means I'm looking for a job. If you are looking for someone to do research on resilence in distributed systems then drop me an email (bmills at cs dot pitt dot edu). Application Materials: Curriculum Vitae , Research Statement , Teaching Statement , and Publication List
Publications
- Xiaolong Cui, Bryan Mills, Taieb Znati and Rami Melhem. Shadows on the Cloud: An energy-aware, profit maximizing resilience framework for cloud computing. International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2014. April 3-5, 2014. [PDF]
- Bryan Mills, Taieb Znati, Rami Melhem, Ryan E. Grant and Kurt B. Ferreira. Energy Consumption of Resilience Mechanisms in Large Scale Systems. Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP), 22st Euromicro International Conference. Feburary 12-14, 2014. [PDF]
- Bryan Mills, Taieb Znati and Rami Melhem. Shadow Computing: An Energy-Aware Fault Tolerant Computing Model. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). Feburary 3-6, 2014. [PDF]
- Bryan Mills Ryan E. Grant, Kurt B. Ferreira and Rolf Riesen. Evaluating Energy Savings for Checkpoint/Restart. First International Workshop on Energy Efficient Supercomputing (E2SC) in conjunction with SC13: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. November 17, 2013. [PDF, Presentation]
- Bryan Mills and Taieb Znati. Increasing DHT Data Security by Scattering Data. 17th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN). August 3-7, 2008. [PDF]
- Bryan Mills and Taieb Znati. SCAR - Scattering Concealing and Recovering data within a DHT. Proc. of the 41th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS). April 13-16, 2008. [PDF]
- Subrata Acharya, Bryan Mills, Mehmud Abliz, Taieb Znati, Jia Wang, Zihui Ge, and Albert Greenberg. OPTWALL: A Traffic-Aware Hierarchical Firewall Optimization. 14th Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), 2007.