This document summarizes a student's doctoral research on runtime environments for data-intensive scalable computing. The key points are:
1) The student is investigating cloud runtimes like MapReduce, DryadLINQ, and i-MapReduce for data and compute-intensive applications represented as filter pipelines.
2) The student has applied these runtimes to applications in domains like genomics, phylogenetics, and high energy physics, demonstrating their ability to parallelize tasks.
3) The student has developed i-MapReduce to support iterative MapReduce computations more efficiently than traditional MapReduce systems by caching static data in memory between iterations.
4) Current research directions include evaluating the