It seems that there are more and more PhD in Mandriva community these days

The thesis was about providing autonomy to distributed systems, by understanding and predicting process behavior. In other words, the goal is to watch what is happenning with each process, automatically discover its access patterns and forecast future actions, and, with this, improve process allocation over the environment, prefetch data accesses, and so on. And all of this supporting all kind of existent processes and environments.

From the implementation point of view (done on Linux ), we can grab any process, automatically convert threads into distributed processes, migrate them over the network, and maintain their communication transparent by using a distributed shared memory system. And all of this is possible over LAN, MAN and WAN networks. For example, taking a large MPI application, which would take about 3 months to run over a large grid, with this process prediction and auto-optimization the execution time was reduced to just about 3 hours .

One of the published articles (in future generation computer systems journal) explains some of the thesis ideas – http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2009.05.004

Now you should come here to Curitiba for us to drink some beers to celebrate