Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory

Illinois Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science

Publications (peer reviewed)

2024

• Varvara Bondarenko, Renato Diaz, Lan Nguyen, Ioan Raicu "Improving the Performance of Proof-of-Space in Blockchain Systems", IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2024 

• Poornima Nookala, Kyle Chard, and Ioan Raicu. "X-OpenMP - eXtreme fine-grained tasking using lock-less work stealing", Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) 2024 

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Anna Giannakou, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Kyle Chard, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "SCIPIS: Scalable and Concurrent Persistent Indexing and Search in High-End Computing Systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2024 

• Jamison Kerney, Kyle Hale, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Fine-Grained Parallelism in Contemporary HPC Applications", Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, MS Thesis, 2024 

• Jamison Kerney, John Raicu, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Fine-grained Parallelism in Parallel and Distributed Python Libraries”, IEEE International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS) 2024, co-located with IEEE IPDPS 2024

2023

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Ioan Raicu. "Scalable Indexing and Search in High-End Computing Systems", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Doctorate Dissertation, August 2023

• Lan Nguyen, Ioan Raicu. “XStore: Xcelerated performance in time-series key/value STORagE systems”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2023

• Lan Nguyen, Ioan Raicu. "Accelerating CRUD with Chrono Dilation for Time-Series Storage Systems”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2023

• Aahad Abubaker, Tanmay Anand, Sonal Gaikwad, Mahad Haider, Jackie Mcaninch, Lan Nguyen, Alexandru Orhean, Ioan Raicu. "Exploring Green Cryptographic Hashing Algorithms”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2023

2022

• Poornima Nookala, Ioan Raicu. "Extreme Fine-grained Parallelism on Modern Many-Core Architectures", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Doctorate Dissertation, December 2022

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Ioan Raicu. "Distributed Indexing and Search in Large-Scale Storage Systems", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, December 2022

• Poornima Nookala, Ioan Raicu. "Exploring Extreme Fine-grained Parallelism on Modern Many-Core Architectures", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, May 2022

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Anna Giannakou, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu. "SCANNS: Towards Scalable and Concurrent Data Indexing and Searching in High-End Computing System”, The 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid) 2022

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Anna Giannakou, Katie Antypas, Ioan Raicu, Lavanya Ramakrishnan. "Evaluation of a Scientific Data Search Infrastructure”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2022

2021

• Poornima Nookala, Peter Dinda, Kyle Hale, Ioan Raicu and Kyle Chard. "Enabling Extremely Fine-grained Parallelism via Scalable Concurrent Queues on Modern Many-core Architectures", Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS ‘21) 2021

2019

• Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "A High-Performance Distributed Relational Database System for Scalable OLAP Processing", IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2019

2018

• Alexandru Orhean, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu. “XSearch: Distributed Information Retrieval in Large-Scale Storage Systems”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2018

• Alex Ballmer, Brendan Batliner, Anna Benson, Blake Ehrenbeck, Zhen Huang, Parker Joncus, Travis Koehring, Alexandru Orhean, William Scullin, Ben Allen, Ioan Raicu. “Reaching for 100TFlops at 3KW Power with Intel Scalable Processors and NVIDIA V100 NVLINK GPUs”, Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2018

• Ioan Raicu, William Scullin, Ben Allen, Kyle Hale, Kyle Chard, Alexandru Iulian Orhean. "Breaking 100TFlops at 3KW Power with IBM Power9 and NVIDIA V100 GPUs over NVLink and 200GbE Mesh Interconnect”, Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2018

• Vineeth Remanan Pillai, Daniela Stan Raicu, Ioan Raicu. "Accelerating Worm Segmentation through Inter-node Parallelism", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC) 2018; (poster)

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Florin Pop, Ioan Raicu. "New Scheduling Approach using Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) 2018

• Alexandru Orhean, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu. “XSearch: Distributed Information Retrieval in Large-Scale Storage Systems”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2018

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2017

• Poornima Nookala, Peter Dinda, Kyle Hale, Ioan Raicu. “XTASK - eXTreme fine-grAined concurrent taSK invocation runtime”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2017

• Jian Peng, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. “Burst Buffer Simulation in Dragonfly Network”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2017

• Alex Ballmer, David Ghiurco, Ryan Mitchell, Ryan Prendergast, Hasan Rizvi, Iva Veseli, William Scullin, Ben Allen, Ioan Raicu. “Application Profiling and Power Management for the Student Cluster Competition”, Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2017

• Ioan Raicu, William Scullin, Ben Allen, Kyle Hale, Kyle Chard, Simone Campanoni. “Maximizing Computation per Power Ratios in High-Performance Computing: from Aggressive Power Management to Approximate Computing”, Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2017

• Anna Blue Keleher, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Ioan Raicu. “Finding a Needle in a Field of Haystacks: Metadata Search for Distributed Research Repositories”, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2017

• Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Itua Ijagbone, Dongfang Zhao, Kyle Chard, Ioan Raicu. “Toward Scalable Indexing and Search on Distributed and Unstructured Data”, IEEE Big Data Congress 2017

• Iman Sadooghi, Jesús Hernández Martin, Tonglin Li, Kevin Brandstatter, Ketan Maheshwari, Tiago Pais Pitta de Lacerda Ruivo, Gabriele Garzoglio, Steven Timm,Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu. “Understanding the Performance and Potential of Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications”, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing (TCC) 2017

• S Timm, G Cooper, S Fuess, G Garzoglio, B Holzman, R Kennedy, D Grassano, A Tiradani, R Krishnamurthy, S Vinayagam, I Raicu, H Wu, S Ren and S-Y Noh. “Virtual machine provisioning, code management, and data movement design for the Fermilab HEPCloud Facility”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2017 

• Poornima Nookala, Peter Dinda, Kyle Hale, Ioan Raicu. “XTASK - eXTreme fine-grAined concurrent taSK invocation runtime”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2017

• Jian Peng, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. “Burst Buffer Simulation in Dragonfly Network”, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2017 

2016

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "Scalable Resource Management in Cloud Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Doctorate Dissertation, September 2016

• Itua Ijagbone, Ioan Raicu. "Scalable Indexing and Searching on Distributed File Systems", Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, MS Thesis, 2016 

• Prajakt Shastry, Daniel Parker, Sanjiv Kapoor, Ioan Raicu. “Exploring Randomized Multipath Routing on Multi-Dimensional Torus Networks”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2016 (Poster)

• Jian Peng, Sughosh Divanji, Ioan Raicu, Mike Lang. “Simulating the Burst Buffer Storage Architecture on an IBM BlueGene/Q Supercomputer”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2016 (Poster)

• Jonathan Wu, Suraj Chafle, Ioan Raicu, Kyle Chard. “Optimizing Search in Un-Sharded Large-Scale Distributed Systems”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2016 (Poster)

• Alex Ballmer, Ioan Raicu. “FemtoGraph: A Pregel Based Shared-memory Graph Processing Library”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC 2016 (Poster)

• Iman Sadooghi, Geet Kumar, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "Albatross: an Efficient Cloud-enabled Task Scheduling and Execution Framework using Distributed Message Queues", eScience 2016

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu (advisor). "Scalable Resource Management in Cloud Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, Doctorate Dissertation, September 2016

• Dongfang Zhao, Akash Mahakode, Sandip Lakshminarasaiah, Ioan Raicu. “High-performance Storage Support for Scientific Big Data Applications on the Cloud”, Springer’s Resource Management for Big-Data Platforms: Algorithms, Modelling, and High-Performance Computing Techniques, 2016

• Dongfang Zhao, Ke Wang, Kan Qiao, Tonglin Li, Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "Toward High-performance Key-value Stores through GPU Encoding and Locality-aware Encoding", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2016 

• Itua Ijagbone, Ioan Raicu (advisor). "Scalable Indexing and Searching on Distributed File Systems", Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, MS Thesis, 2016

• Pedro Valero-Lara, Poornima Nookala, Fernando L. Pelayo, Johan Jansson, Serapheim Dimitropoulos, Ioan Raicu. "Many-Task Computing on Many-Core Architectures," Special Issue on High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems, Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, 2016

2015

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "Distributed NoSQL Storage for Extreme-SCale System Services in Supercomputers and Clouds", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. Big Data System Infrastructure at Extreme Scales, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. Scalable Resource Management System Software for Extreme-Scale Distributed Systems, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "Scalable Resource Management in Cloud Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2015

• Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "HRDBMS: Combining the Best of Modern and Traditional Relational Databases", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2015  

• Dongfang Zhao, Kan Qiao, Zhou Zhou, Tonglin Li, Xiaobing Zhou, Ioan Raicu. “Exploiting Multi-cores for Efficient Interchange of Large Messages in Distributed Systems”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2015 (Impact Factor 1.0)

• Thomas Dubucq, Tony Forlini, Virgile Landeiro Dos Reis, Isabelle Santos, Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. “Benchmarking State-of-the-art Many-Task Computing Runtime Systems”, ACM HPDC 2015

• Steven Timm, Gabriele Garzoglio, Parag Mhashilkar, Joseph Boyd, G. Bernabeu, Neha Sharma, Nicholas Peregonow, Hyun Woo Kim, S. Noh, Sandeep Palur, and Ioan Raicu. "Cloud Services for the Fermilab scientific stakeholders", Journal of Physics: Conference Series (CHEP) 2015

• Xiaobing Zhou, Tonglin Li, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "MHT: A Light-weight Scalable Zero-hop MPI Enabling Distributed Hash Table", IEEE Big Data 2015 (poster)  

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "Distributed NoSQL Storage for Extreme-SCale System Services in Supercomputers and Clouds", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "Scalable Resource Management in Cloud Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2015

• Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "HRDBMS: Combining the Best of Modern and Traditional Relational Databases", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2015  

• Iman Sadooghi, Ke Wang, Dharmit Patel, Dongfang Zhao, Tonglin Li, Shiva Srivastava, Ioan Raicu. “FaBRiQ: Leveraging Distributed Hash Tables towards Distributed Publish-Subscribe Message Queues”, IEEE/ACM BDC 2015

• Tonglin Li, Ke Wang, Shiva Srivastava, Dongfang Zhao, Kan Qiao, Iman Sadooghi, Xiaobing Zhou, Ioan Raicu. "A Flexible QoS Fortified Distributed Key-Value Storage System for the Cloud", IEEE Big Data 2015

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "Distributed NoSQL Storage for Extreme-Scale System Services", Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2015  

• Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "HRDBMS: A NewSQL Database for Analytics", IEEE Cluster 2015 

• Tonglin Li, Chaoqi Ma, Jiabao Li, Xiaobing Zhou, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "GRAPH/Z: A Key-Value Store Based Scalable Graph Processing System", IEEE Cluster 2015 (poster)

• Poornima Nookala, Serapheim Dimitropoulos, Karl Stough, Ioan Raicu. "Evaluating the Support of MTC Applications on Intel Xeon Phi Many-Core Accelerators", IEEE Cluster 2015

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. Big Data System Infrastructure at Extreme Scales, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. Scalable Resource Management System Software for Extreme-Scale Distributed Systems, Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Dissertation, 2015

• Ke Wang, Kan Qiao, Iman Sadooghi, Xiaobing Zhou, Tonglin Li, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. "Load-balanced and locality-aware scheduling for data-intensive workloads at extreme scales", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) Journal 2015

• Dongfang Zhao , Kan Qiao , Jian Yin , and Ioan Raicu. "Dynamic Virtual Chunks: On Supporting Efficient Accesses to Compressed Scientific Data", IEEE Transaction on Service Computing (TSC) Journal 2015, Special Issue on Big Data

• Dongfang Zhao, Ning Liu, Dries Kimpe, Robert Ross, Xian-He Sun, and Ioan Raicu. "Towards Exploring Data-Intensive Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales through Systems and Simulations", IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) Journal 2015

• Tonglin Li, Xiaobing Zhou, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Iman Sadooghi, Zhao Zhang, Ioan Raicu. "A Convergence of Key-Value Storage Systems from Clouds to Supercomputers", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) Journal 2015

• Ke Wang, Ning Liu, Iman Sadooghi, Xi Yang, Xiaobing Zhou, Michael Lang, Xian-He Sun, Ioan Raicu. "Overcoming Hadoop Scaling Limitations through Distributed Task Execution", IEEE Cluster 2015; 24% acceptance rate

• Ben Walters, Alex Ballmer, Andrei Dumitru, Adnan Haider, Serapheim Dimitropoulos, Ariel Young, William Scullin, Ben Allen, Ioan Raicu. "15 TFlops Haswell vs. 60 TFlops Knight Landing for HPC Scientific Computing Applications", Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2015

• Ke Wang, Abhishek Kulkarni, Michael Lang, Dorian Arnold, and Ioan Raicu. "Exploring the Design Tradeoffs for Extreme-Scale High-Performance Computing System Software", IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 2015

• Ke Wang, Xiaobing Zhou, Kan Qiao, Michael Lang, Benjamin McClelland, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Scalable Distributed Workload Manager with Monitoring-Based Weakly Consistent Resource Stealing", ACM HPDC 2015; 27% acceptance rate

• Dongfang Zhao, Xu Yang, Iman Sadooghi, Gabriele Garzoglio, Steven Timm, Ioan Raicu. "High-Performance Storage Support for Scientific Applications on the Cloud", Invited Paper, ACM ScienceCloud 2015

• Tonglin Li, Kate Keahey, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "A Dynamically Scalable Cloud Data Infrastructure for Sensor Networks", Invited Paper, ACM ScienceCloud 2015

• Dongfang Zhao, Kan Qiao, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Cost-Effective and High-Performance Caching Middleware for Distributed Systems", International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI) 2015, Special Issue on High-Performance Data Intensive Computing

• Jason Arnold, Boris Glavic, Ioan Raicu. "HRDBMS: Combining the Best of Modern and Traditional Relational Databases", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2015

2014

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Supporting Data-Intensive Scientific Applications on Extreme-Scale High-Performance Computing Systems," Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Next Generation Resource Management at Extreme-Scales", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "A Convergence of NoSQL Storage Systems from Clouds to Supercomputers", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014 

• Yong Zhao, Youfu Li, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu, Wenhong Tian. "Enabling Scalable Scientific Workflow Management in the Cloud", Future Generation Computer Systems 2014

• Dongfang Zhao and Ioan Raicu. "Storage Support for Data-Intensive Scientific Applications on the Cloud", NSFCloud Workshop on Experimental Support for Cloud Computing 2014

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "Scheduling Data-intensive Many-task Computing Applications in the Cloud", NSFCloud Workshop on Experimental Support for Cloud Computing 2014

• Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu, Justin Wozniak, Michael Wilde. "Implicitly-Parallel Functional Dataflow for Productive Cloud Programming on Chameleon", NSFCloud Workshop on Experimental Support for Cloud Computing 2014

• Dongfang Zhao and Ioan Raicu. "Storage Support for Data-Intensive Applications on Extreme-Scale HPC Systems", Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2014

• Tonglin Li, Kate Keahey, Rajesh Sankaran, Pete Beckman, Ioan Raicu. “A Cloud-based Interactive Data Infrastructure for Sensor Networks”, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2014

• Dongfang Zhao, Zhao Zhang, Xiaobing Zhou, Tonglin Li, Ke Wang, Dries Kimpe, Philip Carns, Robert Ross, and Ioan Raicu. "FusionFS: Towards Supporting Data-Intensive Scientific Applications on Extreme-Scale High-Performance Computing Systems", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014; 18% acceptance rate

• Ke Wang, Xiaobing Zhou, Tonglin Li, Dongfang Zhao, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. "Optimizing Load Balancing and Data-Locality with Data-aware Scheduling", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014; 18% acceptance rate

• Dongfang Zhao, Jian Yin, Kan Qiao, Ioan Raicu. "Virtual Chunks: On Supporting Random Accesses to Scientific Data in Compressible Storage Systems", IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2014; 18% acceptance rate

• Yong Zhao, Youfu Li, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu, Cui Lin, Yanzhe Zhang, Wenhong Tian, Ruini Xue. "A Service Framework for Scientific Workflow Management in the Cloud", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2014

• Yong Zhao, Youfu Li, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu, Xuan Zhang. "Architecting Cloud Workflow: Theory and Practice", IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT) 2014 

• Kevin Brandstatter, Jason DiBabbo, Daniel Gordon, Ben Walters, Alex Ballmer, Lauren Ribordy, Ioan Raicu. "Delivering 3.5 Double Precision GFlops/Watt and 200Gb/sec Bi-Section Bandwidth with Intel Xeon Phi-based Cisco Servers", Student Cluster Competition (SCC), IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2014

• Yong Zhao, Youfu Li, Ioan Raicu, Cui Lin, Wenhong Tian, Ruini Xue. "Migrating Scientific Workflow Management Systems from the Grid to the Cloud", book chapter, Cloud Computing for Data Intensive Applications, Springer, 2014 

• Yong Zhao, Youfu Li, Shiyong Lu, Ioan Raicu, Cui Lin. "Devising a Cloud Scientific Workflow Platform for Big Data", IEEE International Symposium on Scientific Workflows and Big Data Science (SWF) 2014

• Scott J. Krieder, Justin M. Wozniak, Timothy Armstrong, Michael Wilde, Daniel S. Katz, Benjamin Grimmer, Ian T. Foster, Ioan Raicu. “Design and Evaluation of the GeMTC Framework for GPU-enabled Many-Task Computing”, ACM HPDC 2014; 16% acceptance rate

• Ke Wang, Xiaobing Zhou, Hao Chen, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. “Next Generation Job Management Systems for Extreme Scale Ensemble Computing”, ACM HPDC 2014; 24% acceptance rate

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu, Lavanya Ramakrishnan. "Scalable State Management for Scientific Applications in the Cloud", IEEE BigData 2014; 19% acceptance rate

• Iman Sadooghi, Sandeep Palur, Ajay Anthony, Isha Kapur, Karthik Belagodu, Pankaj Purandare, Kiran Ramamurty, Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "Achieving Efficient Distributed Scheduling with Message Queues in the Cloud for Many-Task Computing and High-Performance Computing", 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2014; 19% acceptance rate

• Dongfang Zhao, Kan Qiao, Ioan Raicu. “HyCache+: Towards Scalable High-Performance Caching Middleware for Parallel File Systems”, 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2014; 19% acceptance rate

• Tiago Pais Pitta de Lacerda Ruivo, Gerard Bernabeu Altayo, Gabriele Garzoglio, Steven Timm, Hyun Woo Kim, Seo-Young Noh, Ioan Raicu. "Exploring Infiniband Hardware Virtualization in OpenNebula towards Efficient High-Performance Computing", 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2014 -- SCALE Challenge 2014

• Dharmit Patel, Faraj Khasib, Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "Towards In-Order and Exactly-Once Delivery using Hierarchical Distributed Message Queues", 1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'14) at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "A Convergence of NoSQL Storage Systems from Clouds to Supercomputers", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014 

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Next Generation Resource Management at Extreme-Scales", Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "Towards Supporting Data-Intensive Scientific Applications on Extreme-Scale High-Performance Computing Systems," Illinois Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2014

2013

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "CloudKon: a Cloud enabled Distributed tasK executiON framework", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2013

• Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu. "GEMTC: GPU Enabled Many-Task Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2013

• Dongfang Zhao, Jian Yin, Ioan Raicu. “Improving the I/O Throughput for Data-Intensive Scientific Applications with Efficient Compression Mechanisms”, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013

• Dongfang Zhao, Chen Shou, Tanu Malik, Ioan Raicu. “Distributed Data Provenance for Large-Scale Data-Intensive Computing”, IEEE Cluster 2013; 31% acceptance rate

• Dongfang Zhao, Kent Burlingame, Corentin Debains, Pedro Alvarez-Tabio, Ioan Raicu. “Towards High-Performance and Cost-Effective Distributed Storage Systems with Information Dispersal Algorithms”, IEEE Cluster 2013; 31% acceptance rate

• Ke Wang, Abhishek Kulkarni, Michael Lang, Dorian Arnold, Ioan Raicu. “Using Simulation to Explore Distributed Key-Value Stores for Extreme-Scale Systems Services”, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2013; 20% acceptance rate

• Anupam Rajendran, Parag Mhashilkar, Hyunwoo Kim, Dave Dykstra, Gabriele Garzoglio, Ioan Raicu. “Optimizing Large Data Transfers over 100Gbps Wide Area Networks”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2013; 22% acceptance rate

• Tonglin Li, Xiaobing Zhou, Kevin Brandstatter, Dongfang Zhao, Ke Wang, Anupam Rajendran, Zhao Zhang, Ioan Raicu. “ZHT: A Light-weight Reliable Persistent Dynamic Scalable Zero-hop Distributed Hash Table”, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2013; 21% acceptance rate

• Dongfang Zhao, Da Zhang, Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. “Exploring Reliability of Exascale Systems through Simulations”, ACM HPC 2013

• Ke Wang, Kevin Brandstatter, Ioan Raicu. “SimMatrix: Simulator for MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales”, ACM HPC 2013

• Chen Shou, Dongfang Zhao, Tanu Malik, Ioan Raicu. “Towards a Provenance-Aware a Distributed File System”, USENIX TaPP13

• Ke Wang, Zhangjie Ma, Ioan Raicu. “Modelling Many-Task Computing Workloads on a Petaflop IBM BlueGene/P Supercomputer”, IEEE CloudFlow 2013

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. “HyCache: A User-Level Caching Middleware for Distributed File Systems”, IEEE HPDIC 2013

• Benjamin Grimmer, Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu. "Enabling Dynamic Memory Management Support for MTC on NVIDIA GPUs", EuroSys 2013 (poster)

• Anupam Rajendran, Ioan Raicu. "MATRIX: Many-Task Computing Execution Fabric for Extreme Scales", Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, MS Thesis, 2013

• Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu. "GEMTC: GPU Enabled Many-Task Computing", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2013

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. "CloudKon: a Cloud enabled Distributed tasK executiON framework", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2013

2012

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "HyCache: A Hybrid User-Level File System with SSD Caching", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "SimMatrix: SIMulator for MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales", , Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "ZHT: a Zero-hop DHT for High-End Computing Environment", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Hui Jin, Xi Yang, Xian-He Sun, Ioan Raicu. “ADAPT: Availability-aware MapReduce Data Placement in Non-Dedicated Distributed Computing Environment”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2012

• Ke Wang, Anupam Rajendran, Kevin Brandstatter, Zhao Zhang, Ioan Raicu. “Paving the Road to Exascale with Many-Task Computing”, Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2012 (poster)

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. “Distributed File Systems for Exascale Computing”, Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2012 (poster)

• Iman Sadooghi, Ioan Raicu. “Towards Scalable and Efficient Scientific Cloud Computing”, Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2012 (poster)

• Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu. “Towards the Support for Many-Task Computing on Many-Core Computing Platforms”, Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2012 (poster)

• Scott Krieder, Ben Grimmer, Ioan Raicu. “Early Experiences in running Many-Task Computing workloads on GPGPUs”, XSEDE 2012 (poster)

• Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. "ZHT: a Zero-hop DHT for High-End Computing Environment", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Ke Wang, Ioan Raicu. "SimMatrix: SIMulator for MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales", , Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "HyCache: A Hybrid User-Level File System with SSD Caching", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 2012

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Alex Szalay, Philip Little, Christopher M. Moretti, Amitabh Chaudhary, Douglas Thain. "Towards Data Intensive Many-Task Computing", book chapter in "Data Intensive Distributed Computing: Challenges and Solutions for Large-Scale Information Management", IGI Global Publishers, 2012

2011

• Y. Zhao, I. Raicu, S. Lu, X. Fei. "Opportunities and Challenges in Running Scientific Workflows on the Cloud", IEEE International Conference on Network-based Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC) 2011

• I. Raicu, P. Beckman, I. Foster. “Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascale”, ACM Workshop on Large-scale System and Application Performance (LSAP), 2011

• Tonglin Li, Raman Verma, Xi Duan, Hui Jin, Ioan Raicu. “Exploring Distributed Hash Tables in High-End Computing”, ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), 2011

• Hui Jin, Xi Yang, Xian-He Sun, Ioan Raicu. “An Empirical Evaluation of MapReduce under Interruptions“, Cloud Computing and its Applications (CCA) 2011

2010

• Michael Wilde, Ian Foster, Pete Beckman, Ioan Raicu. Scalable Parallel Scripting for Scientific Computing, SciDAC Review, pp 38-53, Spring 2010

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang, Kamil Iskra, Pete Beckman, Yong Zhao, Alex Szalay, Alok Choudhary, Philip Little, Christopher Moretti, Amitabh Chaudhary, Douglas Thain. "Middleware Support for Many-Task Computing", Cluster Computing, The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, 2010

2009

• Ioan Raicu. "Many-Task Computing: Bridging the Gap between High Throughput Computing and High Performance Computing", Computer Science Department, University of Chicago, Doctorate Dissertation, March 2009

• Michael Wilde, Ian Foster, Kamil Iskra, Pete Beckman, Zhao Zhang, Allan Espinosa, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ioan Raicu. "Parallel Scripting for Applications at the Petascale and Beyond", IEEE Computer Nov. 2009 Special Issue on Extreme Scale Computing, 2009

• Ioan Raicu. "Many-Task Computing: Bridging the Gap between High Throughput Computing and High Performance Computing", ISBN: 978-3-639-15614-0, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Publisher, 2009

• Michael Wilde, Ioan Raicu, Allan Espinosa, Zhao Zhang, Ben Clifford, Mihael Hategan, Kamil Iskra, Pete Beckman, Ian Foster. "Extreme-scale scripting: Opportunities for large task-parallel applications on petascale computers", Poster Presentation, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Conference (SciDAC09) 2009

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Philip Little, Christopher Moretti, Amitabh Chaudhary, Douglas Thain. "The Quest for Scalable Support of Data Intensive Workloads in Distributed Systems", ACM HPDC09

2008

• Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Mihael Hategan, Veronika Nefedova, Mike Wilde.  "Realizing Fast, Scalable and Reliable Scientific Computations in Grid Environments", book chapter in Grid Computing Research Progress, ISBN: 978-1-60456-404-4, Nova Publisher 2008.

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao. "Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers", Invited Paper, IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS08), 2008, co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2008.

• Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu. "Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared", IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008, co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2008.

• Zhao Zhang, Allan Espinosa, Kamil Iskra, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Michael Wilde. "Design and Evaluation of a Collective I/O Model for Loosely-coupled Petascale Programming", IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS08) 2008, co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2008.

• Ioan Raicu, Zhao Zhang, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster, Pete Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Ben Clifford. "Toward Loosely Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems", IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2008.

• Quan T. Pham, Atilla S. Balkir, Jing Tie, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde, Ioan Raicu. "Data Intensive Scalable Computing on TeraGrid: A Comparison of MapReduce and Swift", Poster Presentation, TeraGrid Conference 2008 (poster).

• Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang, Ben Clifford, Mihael Hategan, Sarah Kenny. "Managing and Executing Loosely Coupled Large Scale Applications on Clusters, Grids, and Supercomputers", GlobusWorld08, part of Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference 2008.

• Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Scientific Workflow Systems for 21st Century e-Science, New Bottle or New Wine?", Invited Paper, IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows 2008.

• Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay. "Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion", International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing 2008, co-locate with ACM/IEEE International Symposium High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2008.

2007

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  "Harnessing Grid Resources with Data-Centric Task Farms", University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 2007

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Jan Dünnweber, Philipp Lüdeking, Sergei Gorlatch, Ioan Raicu and Ian Foster. Simplifying Grid Application Programming Using Web-Enabled Code Transfer Tools. Toward Next Generation Grids, Chapter 6, Springer Verlag, 2007.

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "The Design, Usage, and Performance of GRUBER: A Grid uSLA-based Brokering Infrastructure", International Journal of Grid Computing, 2007.

• Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay. "A Data Diffusion Approach to Large Scale Scientific Exploration", Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2007.

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Alexandru Iosup, H. Mohamed, Dick H.J. Epema, Matei Ripeanu, Nicolae Tapus, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  "ServMark: A Framework for Testing Grids Services", IEEE Grid 2007 (poster)

• Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde.  "Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework", IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2007.

• Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster.  "Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Grid Environments", TeraGrid Conference 2007 (poster)

• Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian Foster, Gregor von Laszewski, Ioan Raicu, Tiberiu Stef-Praun, Mike Wilde.  "Swift: Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation", IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows 2007.

2006

• Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster. "The Design, Performance, and Use of DiPerF: An automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", International Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2006.

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Usage SLA-based Scheduling in Grids", Journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2006.

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay.  "Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets", IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2006 (poster).

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay, Gabriela Turcu.  "AstroPortal: A Science Gateway for Large-scale Astronomy Data Analysis", TeraGrid Conference 2006, June 2006.

• Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu.  "The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications", NSF Workflow Workshop 2006.

2005

• Ioan Raicu, Loren Schwiebert, Scott Fowler, Sandeep K.S. Gupta. "Local Load Balancing for Globally Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 1: 163–185, 2005.

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  "Experiences in Running Workloads over Grid3", The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2005)

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "DI-GRUBER: A Distributed Approach for Grid Resource Brokering", IEEE/ACM Super Computing 2005 (SC 2005).

• William Allcock, John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael Link, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, "The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server," sc, p. 54,  ACM/IEEE SC 2005 Conference (SC'05),  2005.

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  "A Performance Study of the Globus Toolkit® and Grid Services via DiPerF, an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, MS Thesis, 2005

2004

• Ioan Raicu, Loren Schwiebert, Scott Fowler, Sandeep K.S. Gupta. "e3D: An Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE ISSNIP 2004 (The International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing), 2004.

• Sheralli Zeadally, R. Wasseem, Ioan Raicu, "Comparison of End-System IPv6 Protocol Stacks", IEE Proceedings Communications, Special issue on Internet Protocols, Technology and Applications (VoIP), Vol. 151, No. 3, June 2004.

• Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster.  "DiPerF: an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", IEEE/ACM GRID2004, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2004, pp 289 - 296

2003

• Sherali Zeadally, Ioan Raicu. "Evaluating IPV6 on Windows and Solaris", IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 7, Issue 3, May June 2003, pp 51 – 57.

• Ioan Raicu, Sherali Zeadally.  "Impact of IPv6 on End-User Applications", IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2003, ICT'2003, Volume 2, Feb 2003, pp 973 - 980.

• Ioan Raicu, Sherali Zeadally.  "Evaluating IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Mechanisms" , IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2003, ICT'2003, Volume 2, Feb 2003, pp 1091 - 1098.

• Ioan Raicu. "Efficient Even Distribution of Power Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks", ISCA 18th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2003, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

2002

• Ioan Raicu.  "Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002, GHC2002, 2002.

• Ioan Raicu, Owen Richter, Loren Schwiebert, Sherali Zeadally.  "Using Wireless Sensor Networks to Narrow the Gap between Low-Level Information and Context-Awareness", Proceedings of the ISCA 17th International Conference, Computers and their Applications, 2002.

• Ioan Raicu, Sherali Zeadally.  "An Empirical Analysis of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", Wayne State University, Computer Science Department, MS Thesis, 2002

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