Parallel Algorithms/Multimedia systems lab (PAMS) is actively involved in pursuing cutting edge research on issues related to high performance computing, parallel algorithms for compute intensive computational biology problems, privacy preserving collaborations, multimedia communication, computing and storage. The problems in these areas are of enormous scope and complexity, requiring expertise in diverse computing disciplines including artificial intelligence, networking, databases, parallel algorithms and architectures, bioinformatics, signal processing, and software engineering. Currently the lab has ongoing projects in the following areas:

•     Multimedia Indexing, Retrieval, and Mining
  
•     Distributed Privacy Preserving Secure Collaborations
  
•     Distributed Multimedia Processing for Sensor Networks
  
•     MAC and Upper Layer Routing in Wireless Networks
  
•     High Performance Computing for computationally challenging biology applications
  
•     Distributed high performance Data mining for bioinformatics
  

Currently, PAMS hosts nine PhD students, three MS students, and one undergraduate student. The research projects are funded by National Science Foundation, and US National Academy of Sciences. The Lab has a 22 node Beowulf PC cluster, an 8 processor Sunfire 4800 SMP machine, and a 2 terabyte Hitachi 9980 intelligent storage server.

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