Research Issues

• Identify parallelism in each component and in between components of the Alexandria system.

• Develop and experimentally validate efficient parallel algorithms for the Ingest component.

• Develop data distribution and compression strategies for efficient parallel storage and retrieval of images.

• Develop efficient parallel algorithms and data structures for manipulation of spatial data.

• Develop efficient parallel algorithms for image processing experiments on real-world data.

• Develop efficient parallel algorithms for various application problems, particularly those that arise in GIS/EOS research.

• Develop strategies and experimental verification means for handling parallel I/O, in particular for disk arrays.

• Develop partitioning and scheduling strategies for effectively handling query operations in a multiple user environment.