Ioan Raicu
- PhD Student
- Department of Computer Science
Contact Information
University of Chicago
1100 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: RI323
Phone: (773)702-6614
Fax: (773)702-8487
iraicu@cs.uchicago.edu
Personal Homepage
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~iraicu/
Research
My main area of research is Grid Computing, with an emphasis on resource management in large scale distributed systems and grid computing. Within resource management, I am particularly interested in efficient task dispatch and execution systems, resource provisioning, data management, scheduling, and performance evaluations. My latest work revolves around a system called Falkon, which I designed and implemented, to enable the rapid and efficient execution of many independent jobs on large compute clusters. Falkon combines three techniques to achieve this goal: (1) multi-level scheduling techniques to enable separate treatments of resource provisioning and the dispatch of user tasks to those resources; (2) a streamlined task dispatcher able to achieve order-of-magnitude higher task dispatch rates than conventional schedulers; and (3) performs data caching and uses a data-aware scheduler to leverage the co-located computational and storage resources to minimize the use of shared storage infrastructure. I am also interested in Parallel Computing, Networking, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Chicago (09/2005 – Present)
- Expected Graduation: March 2009
- Dissertation: “Harnessing Grid Resources with Data-Centric Task Farms”
- Graduate Research Advisor: Ian Foster
- Committee Members: Rick Stevens and Alex Szalay
Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Chicago (09/2003 – 06/2005)
- Thesis: “A Performance Study of the Globus Toolkit® and Grid Services via DiPerF, an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework”
- Graduate Research Advisor: Ian Foster
Master of Science in Computer Science, Wayne State University (09/2000 – 05/2002)
- Thesis: “An Empirical Analysis of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)”
- Graduate Research Advisor: Sherali Zeadally
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Wayne State University (09/1997 – 05/2000)