Ioan Raicu

Illinois Institute of Technology

Argonne National Laboratory

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science (CS) at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), as well as a guest research faculty in the Math and Computer Science Division (MCS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). I am also the founder and director of the Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory (DataSys) at IIT. My research work and interests are in the general area of distributed systems.

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Recent Publications (2013)

High Impact Publications

Over the past decade, I have co-authored many dozens of peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books, theses, and dissertations, which received 3062 citations. My Hirsch index (H-index) is 22; the index h is “defined as the number of papers with citation number ≥h”, and is often used “as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher” [J. E. Hirsch 2005]. My publications can be found at http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/research/publications/index.html, and my Google Scholar Profile which includes all citation information can be found at http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jE73HYAAAAAJ.

Below is a list of my most significant publications contributing to my H-index of 22 (as of 04-11-2013), in order of impact.  

  1. Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu. “Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared”, IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008; (1063 citations)

  2. William Allcock, John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael Link, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, "The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server," IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC, 2005; (400 citations)

  3. Yong Zhao, Mihael Hategan, Ben Clifford, Ian Foster, Gregor von Laszewski, Ioan Raicu, Tibi Stef-Praun, Mike Wilde. “Swift: Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation”, IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF07) 2007; (222 citations)

  4. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde. “Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC, 2007; (193 citations)

  5. Jennifer M. Schopf, Ioan Raicu, Laura Pearlman, Neill Miller, Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, Mike D’Arcy. "Monitoring and Discovery in a Web Services Framework: Functionality and Performance of Globus Toolkit MDS4", Technical Report, Argonne National Laboratory, MCS Preprint #ANL/MCS-P1315-0106, January 2006. (172 citations)

  6. 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; (117 citations)

  7. Ioan Raicu, Zhao Zhang, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster, Pete Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Ben Clifford. “Towards Loosely-Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems”, IEEE/ACM SC 2008; (65 citations)

  8. 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; (55 citations)

  9. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster. "DiPerF: an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", IEEE/ACM GRID04, 2004; (54 citations)

  10. Sherali Zeadally, Ioan Raicu. “Evaluating IPV6 on Windows and Solaris”, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 7, Issue 3, May June 2003, pp 51 – 57; (54 citations)

  11. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "DI-GRUBER: A Distributed Approach for Grid Resource Brokering", IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SuperComputing/SC05), 2005; (50 citations)

  12. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay. “Accelerating Large-scale Data Exploration through Data Diffusion”, IEEE International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC08) 2008; (47 citations)

  13. Ioan Raicu, Sherali Zeadally.  “Evaluating IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Mechanisms” , IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2003, ICT'2003, Volume 2, pp 1091 – 1098, Feb 2003; (37 citations)

  14. 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 (SWF08) 2008; (36 citations)

  15. 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; (31 citations)

  16. 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; (30 citations)

  17. 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; (28 citations)

  18. Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu. “The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications”, NSF Workflow Workshop 2006; (23 citations)

  19. 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 HPDC 2009; (22 citations)

  20. 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; (21 citations)

  21. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay, Gabriela Turcu.  “AstroPortal: A Science Gateway for Large-scale Astronomy Data Analysis”, TeraGrid Conference 2006, June 2006; (21 citations)

  22.  Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  “Experiences in Running Workloads over Grid3”, The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2005); (20 citations)

News

Workshop: April 9th, 2013: The 6th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2013

Workshop: The 4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Data-Intensive Computing in the Clouds

Class Fall 2013: CS554 Data-Intensive Computing

Workshop: 2nd Greater Chicago Area System Research Workshop (GCASR) 2013

Presentation: Supporting Data-Intensive Computing at Extreme Scales

Workshop: 4th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud) 2013, at ACM HPDC 2013

New Journal: Journal of Cloud Computing

Presentation: GeMTC: GPU enabled Many-Task Computing

Presentation: Data-Intensive Computing at the Intersection of Cloud Computing and Supercomputing

Workshop: 5th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012, at IEEE/ACM SC12

Workshop: Third International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud) 2012, at IEEE/ACM SC12

Presentation: Challenges and Opportunities in Large-Scale Storage Systems

Presentation: Introduction to Computer Science, the What, How, and Why of CS

Presentation: Distributed and Cloud Computing Specialization at IIT

Presentation: An Overview of Distributed Systems

Presentation: Challenges and Opportunities in Large-Scale Storage Systems

New Course: CS553, Cloud Computing

August 21st, 2011: New Software Release: CiteSearcher v1.0

News Story in HPCinTheCloud: Cloud, Exascale Challenges Converge

Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud-SC11) 2011, co-located at Supercomputing/SC 2011, November 14th, 2011

Workshop: 4th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2011, co-located at Supercomputing/SC 2011, November 14th, 2011

Journal: Deadline Extension for the Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds Springer Journal of Grid Computing

Mailing List: New mailing list on Distributed Computing

New Specialization at IIT: Master Of Computer Science With a Specialization in Distributed and Cloud Computing

Presentation: Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascales, Scalable Computing Software Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, June 17th, 2011

Presentation: Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascales, Invited Talk, Third Workshop on Large-Scale System and Application Performance (LSAP), June 8th, 2011

Paper: “Exploring Distributed Hash Tables in High-End Computing”, ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), 2012

Presentation: CCGrid 2014 Proposal, CCGrid 2011 Steering Committee Meeting, May 25th, 2011

Presentation: Common Challenges between Exascales and Cloud Computing, IEEE DataCloud 2011, May 16th, 2011

Presentation: Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascales, University of Chicago, May 13th, 2011

New Journal: JoCCASA: Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications (Springer)

Presentation: Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascales, Indiana University, April 27th, 2011

Presentation: DataSys: Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory Overview, Research Forum, Illinois Institute of Technology, March 22nd, 2011

In the News: Breaking Down the Storage-Performance Wall, April 1st, 2011

Presentation: Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared, Computer Science Department, Loyola University, March 17th, 2011

Editorial: Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Many-Task Computing 

Jobs: Job Announcement: Research Assistantships available in Distributed Systems

Video: Illinois Institute of Technology: A Vibrant Campus in a Global City

DataSys Lab: Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory is founded

Award: NSF CAREER Award, January 24th, 2011

Presentation: Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared, IEEE Fox Valley South Section, Illinois Institute of Technology, January 26th, 2011

Presentation: Avoiding Achilles’ Heel in Exascale Computing with Distributed File Systems, DLS Seminar, January 14th, 2011

CRA Rankings: IIT ranks 82 out of 126 in the latest CRA Computer Science Graduate Program Rankings (Summary HTML, Summary XLS, Full CRA Report)

Workshop: Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud2011), co-located with ACM HPDC 2011

CFP: Scientific Programming Journal, Special Issue on Science-driven Cloud Computing

Workshop: The First International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud) 2011, co-located with IEEE IPDPS 2011