I am a computer scientist working on grid and SOA systems, pervasive technologies, and high performance middleware for distributed systems. More about me here. You can contact me here. I also regularly write on my blog, which can be found here.
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After 5 years working with Prof.Vladimir Getov at the Distributed and Intelligent Systems group of the University of Westminster, the time has come to move on. From tomorrow I will be working as a Senior Researcher for Fujitsu Laboratories Europe with Dr. David Snelling. More details to come soon…
The GridCOMP project was concluded with great success at the end of last month, receiving glowing comments from the reviewers! The final year review was held in Pisa at the very end of January.
I have personally spent about a year and a half working in this project in the Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DIS) group of Westminster, so I was particularly happy to see it finish in such a way! We, at the DISGroup, were leading the workpackage responsible for the design and development of a complete integrated environment for grid application composition -termed GridIDE*.
Well done to everyone involved. I will miss lots of the people I met during the project, but hopefully we will reunite in the future one way or another!
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Footnotes:
I have personally spent about a year and a half working in this project in the Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DIS) group of Westminster, so I was particularly happy to see it finish in such a way! We, at the DISGroup, were leading the workpackage responsible for the design and development of a complete integrated environment for grid application composition -termed GridIDE*.
Well done to everyone involved. I will miss lots of the people I met during the project, but hopefully we will reunite in the future one way or another!
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Footnotes:
- * True, not a very original name, but then again imagination seems to be restricted in such contexts
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I have found some spare time to upload all my publications (including the very latest one from last week from the PDCN Conference). You can find download links to all papers here.
I am slowly preparing a Wiki for my PhD Research and Development Project: the Virtual Clusters.
Hopefully it will be completed at least with the initial contents to get interested people started, within the next couple of weeks.
At a first stage, the compiled classes will be released and a month or so later I will be able to release the source code as well.
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June 20th, 2007 • Filed under: Research
I finally found some time to upload the presentation I gave in Crete on “Dynamic Service Aggregation in Heterogeneous Grids“.
The presentation focuses on the integration of mobile and small-scale devices in grid systems as service providers. Two are the main contributions here: a performance oriented lightweight service container suitable for small-scale devices, very simple to install and use with no software or technology dependencies, and an Aggregator Framework (part of the Virtual Clusters platform) that enables the dynamic integration of heterogeneous mobile services into the grid, while providing high level views and abstractions, monitoring and mobility prediction, dynamic reconfiguration, and more.
For any clarifications, further details, or comments feel free to contact me and have a look at the Virtual Clusters pages.
The presentation focuses on the integration of mobile and small-scale devices in grid systems as service providers. Two are the main contributions here: a performance oriented lightweight service container suitable for small-scale devices, very simple to install and use with no software or technology dependencies, and an Aggregator Framework (part of the Virtual Clusters platform) that enables the dynamic integration of heterogeneous mobile services into the grid, while providing high level views and abstractions, monitoring and mobility prediction, dynamic reconfiguration, and more.
For any clarifications, further details, or comments feel free to contact me and have a look at the Virtual Clusters pages.
I am preparing for the week-long trip to Heraklion in Crete, Greece, for the CoreGRID Workshop and meetings.
The workshop takes place at FORTH, on Tuesday and Wednesday. I am giving a presentation on my work on “Dynamic Service Aggregation in Heterogeneous Grids“. Hopefully I will find time to upload the slides by the end of the week.
The workshop takes place at FORTH, on Tuesday and Wednesday. I am giving a presentation on my work on “Dynamic Service Aggregation in Heterogeneous Grids“. Hopefully I will find time to upload the slides by the end of the week.
The 20th Open Grid Forum will take place in Manchester in the second week of May (7th - 11th). It is one of the largest (if not the largest) and most important Grid-related international events, and taking place in the UK gives me a great opportunity to attend.
Further, as I am a CoreGRID member, I have received a small scholarship to cover all my expenses during the event! I will thus spend 7 days in Manchester, helping in the organization of OGF20, attending interesting talks and forums, and networking with colleagues from around the world!
Further, as I am a CoreGRID member, I have received a small scholarship to cover all my expenses during the event! I will thus spend 7 days in Manchester, helping in the organization of OGF20, attending interesting talks and forums, and networking with colleagues from around the world!
Overally it has been a good last couple of months for my research. My PhD is moving on nicely and I had a couple of papers accepted lately!
The first one was a collaboration between many of us in the HPDC Group in Westminster and INRIA Sophia Antipolis: “A Proposal for a Generic Lightweight Grid Platform Architecture“. This was accepted for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (for the Workshops) which was held in Paris last week. I’ll try to upload the paper within the next few days.
The second one was my studies on “Dependability in Hybrid Grid Systems” utilizing my Virtual Clusters prototype platform. This was accepted today for the IEEE JVA International Symposium on Modern Computing to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria this October.
More to come within the next few days as well.
The first one was a collaboration between many of us in the HPDC Group in Westminster and INRIA Sophia Antipolis: “A Proposal for a Generic Lightweight Grid Platform Architecture“. This was accepted for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (for the Workshops) which was held in Paris last week. I’ll try to upload the paper within the next few days.
The second one was my studies on “Dependability in Hybrid Grid Systems” utilizing my Virtual Clusters prototype platform. This was accepted today for the IEEE JVA International Symposium on Modern Computing to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria this October.
More to come within the next few days as well.
This week three CoreGRID meetings take place in Krakow, WP3 (Programming Model), WP4 (System Architecture) and WP7 (Tools and Environments).
I arrived on Sunday and will stay here till Thursday lunchtime. Unfortunately Krakow is extremely hot these days (35 C!) to my disappointment, when I expected to find some cool weather getting away from humid London…
The Krakow partners will also host the Integration Workshop in November where hopefully things will be (a bit) cooler…
I arrived on Sunday and will stay here till Thursday lunchtime. Unfortunately Krakow is extremely hot these days (35 C!) to my disappointment, when I expected to find some cool weather getting away from humid London…
The Krakow partners will also host the Integration Workshop in November where hopefully things will be (a bit) cooler…
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) and the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) are organising a 60 minute webcast on grid computing in the enterprise.
There will be a presentation from UBS, a world-leading wealth management company, entitled: “UBS: An End User Perspective on Enterprise Grid Computing“, as well as a briefing on EGA’s latest technical publication “Enterprise Grid Data and Storage Provisioning Problem Statement and Approach“.
Registration is open and free to everyone and will take place on Tuesday March 28, 2006, 5:00 PM England time.
There will be a presentation from UBS, a world-leading wealth management company, entitled: “UBS: An End User Perspective on Enterprise Grid Computing“, as well as a briefing on EGA’s latest technical publication “Enterprise Grid Data and Storage Provisioning Problem Statement and Approach“.
Registration is open and free to everyone and will take place on Tuesday March 28, 2006, 5:00 PM England time.