Joseph Spadavecchia

Ph.D. Candidate

Member of the Database Group at the
Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

email:   joseph "at" redtrie.com
phone: +44 (0)131-650-5187
fax:     +44 (0)131-651-3815
misc:    GPG Key,   CV

address:

Room 2.16 Appleton Tower
Crichton Street,
Edinburgh, EH8-9LE
United Kingdom

Research Interests

Peer-to-peer systems, databases, operating systems; parallel and distributed systems; randomised algorithms; probabilistic analysis.

About me

I am pursuing my doctorate in computer science under the supervision of Stratis Viglas. My current research focus is on new methods for indexing in structured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems.

Publications

1.	A. Purohit, C. Wright, J. Spadavecchia and E. Zadok. Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode. In 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, May 2003. [ps, pdf]
2.	J. Spadavecchia and E. Zadok. Enhancing NFS Cross-Administrative Domain Access. Usenix Technical Conference, FreeNIX Track, June 2002. [ps, pdf]

Technical Reports

1.	A. Purohit, J. Spadavecchia, C. Wright and E. Zadok. Improving Application Performance Through System Call Composition. SUNY Stony Brook: FSL-02-01, June 2002. [ps, pdf]

Clustered Computing

I am also interested in clustered computing. Here are some systems that I have deployed.

The Njal Supercomputing Cluster
Neumann Supercomputing Cluster (University of Edinburgh)
The Gladiator Cluster (University of Edinburgh)

Software

Linkage

Linkovi

Ljiljana Spadavecchia (my wife's page)
Nenad Dedić's Webpage
Michael Martino's Page (a.k.a. eternal construction page)
Alin Stefanescu
Vincent Graziano