NTNU Database Group
The database and distributed systems research group is part of the Department of computer and information science (IDI), which is the principal computer science department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The technology part of NTNU was formerly known as the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH).
These web pages provide information about the people in our group, outline our present courses and present our current research activities. In addition, you can find information regarding some of our past research projects, as well as a fairly complete overview of the publications that has been produced during the years.
SPOTLIGHT »Faculty Profile
Professor Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd
Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd has been employed at NTNU since 1996 as a part time professor in Continuously Available Databases and as a full-time professor since august 2001.
His main research is within highly available, parallel databases. He is currently addressing online schema modifications while maintaining continous availability of the system, optimised two-phase commit in a shared-nothing, high-speed networking environment, and efficient repair after node fault methods. He is also focusing on next generation search engines.
Svein-Olaf is teaching TDT4225 "Management of Large Data Volumes" in the autumn and TDT4150 "Adavanced Database Management System" in the spring.