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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, and important announcements:

REU BigDataX: from theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales, applications due 03/17/2015
Glenview teen breaking down barriers for women in computing, January 13th, 2015
IIT Team Among Winners of 48-Hour Student Cluster Competition, December 10th, 2014
IIT Undergraduate Students compete in the Student Cluster Challenge at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2014 conference, November 25th, 2014
Towards Big Data Computing at Extreme-Scales, CRA/CCC News Article, October 15th, 2014
Raicu Receives TCSC Young Achiever Award in Scalable Computing
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

Active Funding

- NSF CAREER: Avoiding Achilles’ Heel in Exascale Computing with Distributed File Systems [NSF, ACI, $590K, 2011-2015]
- NSF REU: BigDataX: From theory to practice in Big Data computing at eXtreme scales [NSF, CNS, $288K, 2015-2018, pending final approval]
- DOE: Investigation of Distributed Systems for HPC System Services [DOE, LANL, $165K, 2013-2015]
- DOE: Networking and Distributed Systems in High-Energy Physics [DOE, FNAL, $113K, 2011-2015]

Recent Publications (2014)

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”, 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

High Impact Publications

Over the past decade, I have co-authored over 100 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, books, theses, and dissertations, which received 4593 citations. My H-index is 27 and my M-Index is 2.25; these metrics are often used as useful indexes to characterize the scientific output of researchers. My full list of publications can be found at http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/publications/. Non-peer reviewed articles can be found at http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/reports/ and http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/research/reports/. My Google Scholar Profile which includes all the latest citation information can be found at http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jE73HYAAAAAJ. Below is the list of my high-impact publications contributing to my H-Index, ordered by citation counts.

Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Shiyong Lu. “Cloud Computing and Grid Computing 360-Degree Compared”, IEEE Grid Computing Environments (GCE08) 2008 (1807 cites)
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 (467 cites)
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 (293 cites)
Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde. “Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing/SC, 2007 (261 cites)
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 (200 cites)
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 (185 cites)
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 (109 cites)
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 (76 cites)
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 (65 cites)
Sherali Zeadally, Ioan Raicu. “Evaluating IPV6 on Windows and Solaris”, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 7, Issue 3, May June 2003, pp 51 – 57 (62 cites)
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster. "DiPerF: an automated DIstributed PERformance testing Framework", IEEE/ACM GRID04, 2004 (61 cites)
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 (55 cites)
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 (52 cites)
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 (42 cites)
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 International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC09), 2009 (41 cites)
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 (39 cites)
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 cites)
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 (35 cites)
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 (33 cites)
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 (32 cites)
Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu. “The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications”, NSF Workflow Workshop 2006 (32 cites)
Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang, Alex Szalay, Kamil Iskra, Pete Beckman, Yong Zhao, 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 (30 cites)
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 (30 cites)
Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay, Gabriela Turcu. “AstroPortal: A Science Gateway for Large-scale Astronomy Data Analysis”, TeraGrid Conference 2006, June 2006 (29 cites)
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Experiences in Running Workloads over Grid3”, The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC) 2005 (28 cites)
Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Many-Task Computing: Bridging the Gap between High Throughput Computing and High Performance Computing", Computer Science Dept., University of Chicago, Doctorate Dissertation, March 2009 (28 cites)
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 (27 cites)