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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.

More information can be found at:

DataSys: Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu
Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ
Microsoft: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/1827122/ioan-raicu
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ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ioan_Raicu/
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5477-439X

In the News

This is a list of news articles that reference my work and achievements:

Prof. Raicu Co-Chairs ACM MTAGS13 workshop at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2013
GeMTC in the news in HPCWire -- A Path to Many-Task Computing on the Xeon Phi, October 24th, 2013
Scott Krieder receives 50 for the Future Award, October 18th, 2013
Lauren Ribordy receives the 2013 Illinois Affiliate Award Runner-Up Award at the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing, April 2nd, 2013
"Prof. Raicu Co-Chairs MTAGS11 and DataCloud-SC11 Workshops at Supercomputing 2011", Computer Science News, IIT, January 5th, 2012
"Cloud, Exascale Challenges Converge", HPCinTheCloud, August 4th, 2011
"Raicu Co-Chairs DataCloud2011 and ScienceCloud2011 Workshops", Computer Science News, IIT, June 7th, 2011
"Raicu is a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and for Scientific Computing", Computer Science News, IIT, June 7th, 2011
"Computer Science Assistant Professor Ioan Raicu Receives NSF CAREER Award", IIT Today, February 3rd, 2011
"Raicu Receives NSF CAREER Award", Computer Science News, IIT, January 28th, 2011
"Assistant Professor Raicu Co-Chairs MTAGS10 Workshop at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2010", Computer Science News, IIT, November 22nd, 2010
"Turbocharge your job submissions", International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), March 4th, 2009
"Many Task Computing: Bridging the performance-throughput gap", International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), January 28th, 2009
"How to run a million jobs", International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), December 3rd, 2008

Active Funding

CAREER: Avoiding Achilles’ Heel in Exascale Computing with Distributed File Systems
- Institution: NSF, OCI

Recent Publications (2013~2014)

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”, IEEE/ACM 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
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. “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)

High Impact Publications

OOver the past decade, I have co-authored many dozens of peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books, theses, and dissertations, which received 3758 citations. My H-index is 23 and my M-Index is 2.1; these metrics are often used as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of researchers. 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 23 (as of 11-07-2013), in order of impact.

Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu. “Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared”, IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008; (1446 citations)
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; (435 citations)
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; (268 citations)
Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde. “Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC, 2007; (236 citations)
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. (184 citations)
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; (162 citations)
Ioan Raicu, Zhao Zhang, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster, Pete Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Ben Clifford. “Toward Loosely-Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems”, IEEE/ACM SC 2008; (98 citations)
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; (70 citations)
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; (61 citations)
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster. "DiPerF: an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", IEEE/ACM GRID04, 2004; (57 citations)
Sherali Zeadally, Ioan Raicu. “Evaluating IPV6 on Windows and Solaris”, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 7, Issue 3, May June 2003, pp 51 – 57; (56 citations)
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; (52 citations)
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; (41 citations)
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; (38 citations)
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; (36 citations)
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; (34 citations)
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)
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; (31 citations)
Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu. “The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications”, NSF Workflow Workshop 2006; (29 citations)
Ioan Raicu, Pete Beckman, Ian Foster. “Making a Case for Distributed File Systems at Exascale”, Invited Paper, ACM Workshop on Large-scale System and Application Performance (LSAP), 2011; (27 citations)
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; (26 citations)
Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay, Gabriela Turcu. “AstroPortal: A Science Gateway for Large-scale Astronomy Data Analysis”, TeraGrid Conference 2006, June 2006; (26 citations)
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Experiences in Running Workloads over Grid3”, The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2005); (26 citations)