I am a member of the Glasgow Parallelism Group and the Embedded, Networked and Distributed Systems research groups in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
My research interests are in the broad area of scalable reliable parallel and distributed systems. I am working in the RELEASE project that aims to improve the scalability of Erlang/OTP onto commodity architectures with 100,000 cores. I concentrate on scalable persistent storages for Erlang, i.e. Mnesia, CouchDB, Riak and Cassandra. I have measured the scalability and availability of Riak on the Kalkyl Cluster (find more). My another major research focus is to investigate the scalability limits of distributed Erlang. I have developed a benchmarking tool (DE-Bench) to measure the scalability of distributed Erlang. Results are published at the Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang.
- A. Ghaffari. Investigating the Scalability Limits of Distributed Erlang. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Erlang, pages 43-49, September 2014. ACM Press.
- A. Ghaffari, N. Chechina, P. Trinder, and J. Meredith. Scalable Persistent Storage for Erlang: Theory and Practice. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Erlang, pages 73-74, September 2013. ACM Press.
- A. Ghaffari, N. Chechina, P. Trinder, J. Meredith. Scalable Persistent Storage for Erlang: Theory and Practice. Technical Report HW-MACS-TR-0098, June 2013.
- N. Chechina, P. Trinder, A. Ghaffari, R. Green, K. Lundin, and R. Virding. The Design of Scalable Distributed Erlang. Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, July 2012.
- A. Ghaffari. A Front-End For Knowledge 2.0 Platform. Master of Science Thesis, August 2011.
- Presenting "Investigating the scalability limits of distributed Erlang" at the thirteenth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden ("slides"). (September 2014)
- Giving a talk, "Scaling Riak and Erlang to the limits!" at Riak Meetup in London. ("slides"). (October 2013)
- Presenting a poster at the Twelfth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ("poster"). (September 2013)
- Presenting "Scalable Persistent Storage for Erlang: Theoty and Practice" in a Computer Science seminar at the University of Kent. (May 2013)
- Giving a talk, "Scaling Erlang" at the Scottish Programming Languages Seminar in St Andrews. (April 2013)
Master of Science (M.Sc) with distinction in Advanced Internet Application at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.
My master's thesis was a front-end for knowledge 2.0 platform under supervision of Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Loidl.
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In this project, web 2.0 technologies are used for designing and implementing a front-end for a scientific publication platform. The platform supports submitting publication files and appropriate meta data, editorial board, double blind referee, semantic ranking and role base user management. The project is developed by Spring framework on J2EE platform.
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It is developed in J2EE platform -
Spring MVC framework
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Annotation-based container configuration
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Hibernate Validator Annotation for JavaBean validation
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Marshalling XML using Castor O/X Mappersand
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Struts Tiles templating system
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Spring client Restful web service
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Apache Commons FileUpload
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Java Script and JQuery for client side validation, confirmation and tooltip
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Ajax to avoid post back in delete and update
- COMPSCI2001: Java Programming 2 (2013/14)
- F21DF1: Database and Information Systems (2012/13)
- F21SF: Software Engineering Foundations (2012/13)
- F21AS: Advanced Software Engineering (2012/13)
- B31XO: Real Time Imaging and Control (2012/13)
- F27PX: Praxis (2012/13)
- F27SG2: Software Development 3 (2012/13)
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