Best Grad Schools for Distrbuted Computing

[blade777]

Hi,

I am planning to apply for Grad School. My interest areas distributed systems, web services. What are the best Grad Schools for the above research areas? Where can I find it?

[efacdargeht]

http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/index.html

Featuring such favorites as UC Berkeley, UCSD, Rutgers, and University of Washington.

UMCP is another.

[vincent]

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a very good one. Just review their graduate courses and you will find several specialized courses on parallel processing. You will also find a lot of research undergoing in systems. Also take into account that they have the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the birth place of Mosaic, the first web browser. So they have plenty of facilities to do this kind of research.

[djrg]

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a very good one. Just review their graduate courses and you will find several specialized courses on parallel processing. You will also find a lot of research undergoing in systems. Also take into account that they have the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the birth place of Mosaic, the first web browser. So they have plenty of facilities to do this kind of research.

I'm with vincent! I have a friend in UIUC's doctoral program and he is doing really amazing research on distributed systems. Their program is really good

[blade777]

Is there a ranking which I refer to when it comes to distributed computing? I went through the USNews web site, but could not find any ranking which relates to specific fields (in my case distributed computing) of computer science.

[kyung]

Is there a ranking which I refer to when it comes to distributed computing? I went through the USNews web site, but could not find any ranking which relates to specific fields (in my case distributed computing) of computer science.

What kinds of distributed computing do you want to study? Find conferences and read papers from the conferences. (I recommend OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, USENIX ATC, ... ) Then, you can find "your" best schools.

[blade777]

What kinds of distributed computing do you want to study?

I was thinking in the lines of cloud computing and middleware.

[beenaround]

I agree with kyung. The best way to look at which schools are strong in a particular field is to look at the top conferences for that field and see which schools (and which faculty at those schools) are publishing there. For experimental distributed computing kyung is right, those are SOSP, OSDI and NSDI -- with USENIX ATC being particularly more applied. You might also look at Middleware given you particular stated interests there although its not in the same league as those others. If you're more interested in the formal/theoretical side you should check out PODC. Its also worth then making sure the faculty are still where you think they are (there is a modest amount of movement of faculty between schools from year to year)

[CS800]

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a very good one. Just review their graduate courses and you will find several specialized courses on parallel processing. You will also find a lot of research undergoing in systems. Also take into account that they have the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the birth place of Mosaic, the first web browser. So they have plenty of facilities to do this kind of research.

Yes, while MPI was created by William Gropp who is a full professor of UIUC, I think working as a student of him is honourable! Isn't it? :wink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gropp

http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp/