Maryam Kontagora-Computer Scientist

RGU News reports on Maryam Kontagora's parallel computing work:

Using the spare cycles of the computers at the University, Maryam ran a myriad of concurrent MapReduce jobs to simulate hundreds of users searching and sorting on Google at the same time, ultimately improving the results of these searches....Her work describes how to improve benchmarks of the search engine’s MapReduce environment on multiple virtual machines. Thousands of MapReduce jobs are executed on Google's clusters every day...

Via Loy Okezie