Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory

Illinois Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science

Publications

2013

• 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. “RXSim: 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)

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

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

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

• T. Kosar, I. Raicu. "Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue on Data-Intensive Computing in the Clouds", Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds, 2012

• Kevin Brandstatter, Ioan Raicu. “CiteSearcher: A Google Scholar frontend for Mobile Devices", Illinois Institute of Technology Research Day, 2012 (Poster)

• 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

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. “FusionFS: a Distributed File System for Exascale Computing”, Doctoral Showcase, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2012

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

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

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

• Ioan Raicu. “Building Blocks for Scalable Distributed Storage Systems”, NSF CyberBridges Workshop, 2012

• Tonglin Li, Hui Jin, Antonio Perez De Tejada, Kevin Brandstatter, Zhao Zhang, Ioan Raicu. “ZHT: Zero-Hop Distributed Hash Table”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Ke Wang, Kevin Brandstatter, Ioan Raicu. “SimMatrix: Simulator for MAny-Task computing execution fabRIc at eXascales”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Corentin Debains, Pedro Manuel Alvarez-tabio Togores, Ioan Raicu. “Evaluating Information Dispersal Algorithms”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. “HyCache: A Hybrid User-Level File System with SSD Caching”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Iman Sadooghi, Dongfang Zhao, Tonglin Li, Ioan Raicu. “Understanding the Cost of Cloud Computing and Storage”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Da Zhang, Ioan Raicu. "SimHEC: Simulator for High-End Computing Systems”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Scott Krieder, Ioan Raicu. "An Overview of Current and Future Computing Accelerator Architectures”, 1st Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop, 2012

• Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu (advisor). "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 (advisor). "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 (advisor). "ZHT: a Zero-hop DHT for High-End Computing Environment", Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, PhD Oral Qualifier, 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. Brandic, E. Deelman, I. Raicu. "Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue on Science-driven Cloud Computing", Scientific Programming Journal, Special Issue on Science-driven Cloud Computing, 2011

• I. Raicu, I. Foster, Y. Zhao. "Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Many-Task Computing", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Special Issue on Many-Task Computing, 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, Yong Zhao, Alex Szalay, Pete Beckman, Kamil Iskra, 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 App lications 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

• 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, 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", to appear at 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", to appear at 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", to appear at 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.

• 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", to appear at 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, to appear at IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows 2008.

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster (advisor).  "Harnessing Grid Resources with Data-Centric Task Farms", University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, 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", poster presentation, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2006.

• 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.  "Performance Measurements in Running Workloads over a Grid", 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 (advisor).  "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 (advisor).  "An Empirical Analysis of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", Wayne State University, Computer Science Department, MS Thesis, 2002

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