OpenSolaris

Winning Grant Proposals

The following projects have won grants. We hope the OpenSolaris community will get involved in monitoring these grants and mentoring these grant recipients. We need community members to review monthly progress reports, for example. If you have a particular interest in one of these projects, please post a note to the awards-program forum.

• DVD Authoring System for Open Solaris
  Igor Struchkov, Vladimir Omelin
  Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
   The purpose for the project is creation of system for DVD authoring for operation system Open Solaris.
• Image Storage and Retrieval in OpenSolaris
  Sanjiv K. Bhatia, Antonin Brjetchka, Drew Garrett, Dante Avery, Prasad Raghavendra
  University of Missouri - Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
   We plan to develop a utility that can be used to store and organize image files in OpenSolaris. Our aim is to expand the utilization of OpenSolaris by providing adequate means to store large number of image files, and their fast and accurate retrieval.
• Application Flow Controller
  Huang Liqun, Zhou Li, Zhao Jinhua, Zhou Bin, Zhang Yu
  Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
   Our purpose of this project is to design a networking management system named Application Flow Controller (AFC). Application Flow is network flow that application used to communicate with the Internet. AFC can implement network access authorization control based on protocol analysis. AFC analyzes the data flow and identifies the flow of certain applications, then limits or cut such flow at proper time to ensure the network in good condition.
• A study of the Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
  Goutam Sanyal, Kurchi Subhra Hazra, Tania Hamid
  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
   The research work is aimed at carrying out a thorough study of Zettabyte File System, a new kind of file system developed by Sun Microsystems for Solaris OS, which claims to provide simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. We propose verifying its performance and explain the working behind it. As an ambitious proposal, we also intend to suggest some possible improvements in it.
• OpenxVM Research
  Dinesh Naik, Ashwin Bhat K S, Balaji Rao R
  National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
   This Project aims a thorough analysis and study on Open xVM Hypervisor internals with different Guests as Domains / Virtual Machines and try for optimizations and improve performance of libvirt and other associated libraries.
• Antagonistic GA applied to Dynamic Data Sets
  Alex Aravind, Joseph Jeffery, Steven Mclean
  University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
   We intend to examine antagonistic genetic algorithms as they apply to dynamic data sets, and write a thread safe library to facilitate research. This library will be extensible for special purpose tasks, but will be functional for the general case. The primary development and deployment platform will be OpenSolaris, and I intend on taking advantage of OpenSolaris features such as DTrace where possible.