Department of Computer Science

Large-scale Computing and Data Analysis

Large-scale distributed/parallel systems and big data analysis and management.
Symbolic big data illustration by Matti Ahlgren

The area focuses on novel methods, techniques, algorithms, and tools both for computing with large-scale distributed/parallel systems, and for big data analysis and management. Another focus is on identifying, optimizing, engineering, and verifying computationally challenging parts of software systems, dealing with huge amounts of data and computing resources, used in various application domains.

Research topics:

  • Programming models, tools and runtime systems for large-scale computing
  • Data intensive computing
  • High performance/extreme-scale computing/quantum computing
  • Performance, reliability, and elasticity for large-scale systems
  • Big data platforms and management
  • Large-scale data analysis and visualization
  • Data science and machine learning in large-scale systems
  • Computational models/algorithms for astrophysics, biophysics, dynamical systems, space plasmas, fusion plasmas, geoscience/earth observation
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Moloud Abdar, Mohammad Amin Fahami, Leonardo Rundo, Petia Radeva, Alejandro Frangi, U. Rajendra Acharya, Abbas Khosravi, H. K. Lam, Alexander Jung, Saeid Nahavandi 2023 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Distributed graph problems through an automata-theoretic lens

Yi Jun Chang, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela 2023 Theoretical Computer Science

The Small-scale Dynamo in a Multiphase Supernova-driven Medium

Frederick A. Gent, Mordecai Mark Mac Low, Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg, Nishant K. Singh 2023 Astrophysical Journal

Small-scale dynamos: From idealized models to solar and stellar applications

Matthias Rempel, Tanayveer Bhatia, Luis Bellot Rubio, Maarit Korpi-Lagg 2023 Space Science Reviews

HAIVAN: a Holistic ML Analytics Infrastructure for a Variety of Radio Access Networks

Linh Truong, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Trang 2023 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022)

Numerical evidence for a small-scale dynamo approaching solar magnetic Prandtl numbers

Jörn Warnecke, Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg, Frederick A. Gent, Matthias Rheinhardt 2023 Nature Astronomy

Wind to start the washing machine? High-Resolution Wind Atlas for Finland

X. Yang, Y. Tian, I. Schicker, A. Jung 2023 arXiv.org

Efficient Classification of Locally Checkable Problems in Regular Trees

Alkida Balliu, Sebastian Brandt, Yi-Jun Chang, Dennis Olivetti, Jan Studený, Jukka Suomela 2022 36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2022)
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