Ioan Raicu

Illinois Institute of Technology

Argonne National Laboratory

I am an associate 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. My work has been primarly funded by the NSF and the DOE (see my grants page). I am currently on sabbatical leave for the 2016-2017 academic year at Northwestern University. I will return at IIT in the summer 2017.

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Recent Publications (2016)

These are a select few of my latest publications from 2016/2017 (including defended dissertations and thesis):

  1. 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

  2. Alexandru Iulian Orhean, Florin Pop, Ioan Raicu. “New Scheduling Approach using Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems”, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2017

  3. 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

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

 

High Impact Publications

My publications have appeared in over 100 peer-reviewed articles, which received 8356 citations (according to Google Scholar). My H-index is 38 and my M-Index is 2.5; these metrics are often used as useful indexes to characterize the scientific output of researchers. My high impact publications can be found at http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/research/publications/,  a complete list of my publications can be found at http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/publications/, 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 the list of my top 10 papers based on citation counts: 

  1. Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu. “Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared”, IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008; (3044 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; (575 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; (391 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; (352 citations)
  5. 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; (292 citations)
  6. 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; (232 citations)
  7. 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; (141 citations)
  8. 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; (141 citations)
  9. 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; (100 citations)
  10. 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; (92 citations)

 

Rising Start Papers

Since citations take time to accumulate, I think its interesting to also look at my top papers based on citations per year, which puts some of my more recent work on even ground with some of my early work in terms of judging their potential impact. My top 10 papers based on citations/year are  (not including the top 10 papers above based on citations alone):

  1. 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 (44 citations/year)
  2. 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 (33 citations/year)
  3. 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 (28 citations/year)
  4. 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 (26 citations/year)
  5. Ke Wang, Xiaobing Zhou, Hao Chen, Michael Lang, Ioan Raicu. “Next Generation Job Management Systems for Extreme Scale Ensemble Computing”, ACM HPDC 2014 (25 citations/year)
  6. 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 (22 citations/year)
  7. 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 citations/year)
  8. Tonglin Li, Kate Keahey, Ke Wang, Dongfang Zhao, Ioan Raicu. "A Dynamically Scalable Cloud Data Infrastructure for Sensor Networks", Invited Paper, ACM ScienceCloud 2015 (16 citations/year)
  9. 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) 2015 (16 citations/year)
  10. 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 (14 citations/year)