Publications

Theses

  1. Ioan Raicu.  “Harnessing Grid Resources with Data-Centric Task Farms”, University of Chicago, Computer Science Department, PhD Proposal, December 2007, Chicago, Illinois.

  2. Ioan Raicu.  “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, May 2005, Chicago, Illinois.

  3. Ioan Raicu.  “An Empirical Analysis of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)”, Wayne State University, Computer Science Department, MS Thesis, May 2002, Detroit, Michigan.

Funded Proposals

  1. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets: Year 2 Status and Year 3 Proposal”, GSRP, Ames Research Center, NASA, March 2008 -- Award funded 10/1/08 - 9/30/09.

  2. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets: Year 1 Status and Year 2 Proposal”, GSRP, Ames Research Center, NASA, February 2007 -- Award funded 10/1/07 - 9/30/08.

  3. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets”, GSRP, Ames Research Center, NASA, February 2006 -- Award funded 10/1/06 - 9/30/07.

Journals / Book Chapters

  1. Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Mihael Hategan, Veronika Nefedova, Mike Wilde.  “Realizing Fast, Scalable and Reliable Scientific Computations in Grid Environments”, to appear as a book chapter in Grid Computing Research Progress, ISBN: 978-1-60456-404-4, Nova Publisher 2008.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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; 25% acceptance rate.

  5. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Usage SLA-based Scheduling in Grids”, Journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2006.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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

Conferences / Workshops

  1. Ioan Raicu, Zhao Zhang, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster, Pete Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Ben Clifford. “Towards Loosely-Coupled Programming on Petascale Systems”, to appear at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2008.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay. “A Data Diffusion Approach to Large Scale Scientific Exploration”, Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2007.

  7. 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.

  8. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde.  “Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework”, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2007.

  9. Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster.  “Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Grid Environments”, TeraGrid Conference 2007.

  10. 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.

  11. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay.  “Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets”, poster presentation, IEEE/ACM SuperComputing 2006.

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

  13. Alex Szalay, Julian Bunn, Jim Gray, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu.  “The Importance of Data Locality in Distributed Computing Applications”, NSF Workflow Workshop 2006.

  14. 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); 11% acceptance rate

  15. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "DI-GRUBER: A Distributed Approach for Grid Resource Brokering", IEEE/ACM Super Computing 2005 (SC 2005); 22% acceptance rate.

  16. 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; 22% acceptance rate.

  17. 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), Melbourne, Australia, December 2004; top 10% of conference papers, extended version published in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2005.

  18. 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; 22% acceptance rate

  19. 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, Tahiti Papeete, French Polynesia; 35% acceptance rate.

  20. 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, Tahiti Papeete, French Polynesia; 35% acceptance rate.

  21. 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.

  22. Ioan Raicu.  “Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks” Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002, GHC2002, 2002, British Columbia, Canada.

  23. 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, San Francisco, CA, 2002.

Papers/Proposals Under Review

  1. Marlon Pierce, Ioan Raicu, Ruth Pordes, John McGee, Dick Repasky. “Megajobs BOF: How to Run 1 Million Jobs”, under review for BOF Session at IEEE/ACM SC08.

  2. Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Mihael Hategan, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster.  “Swift: Realizing Fast, Reliable, Large Scale Scientific Computation”, under preparation.

Unpublished Documents / Technical Reports

  1. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay. "Data Diffusion: Dynamic Resource Provision and Data-Aware Scheduling for Data Intensive Applications", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2008.

  2. Ioan Raicu, Zhao Zhang, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster. “Enabling Loosely-Coupled Serial Job Execution on the IBM BlueGene/P Supercomputer and the SiCortex SC5832”, Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, April 2008.

  3. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster and Mike Wilde. “Falkon: A Proposal for Project Globus Incubation”, Globus Incubation Management Project, 2007 – Proposal accepted 11/10/07.

  4. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Mike Wilde. “Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Grid Environments”, Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2007.

  5. Ioan Raicu.  "Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework", User Guide, University of Chicago, 2007.

  6. Ioan Raicu.  "Falkon", Handout, University of Chicago, 2007.

  7. Ioan Raicu, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay.  "Data Diffusion Delivers Dynamic Digging", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2007.

  8. Ioan Raicu.  "GPFS/Local Disk Access Performance Model", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2007.  

  9. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. "Data Caching vs. GPFS", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2007.  

  10. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “SkyServer Web Service”, Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006.

  11. Mugurel Ionut Andreica, Nicolae Tapus, Catalin Dumitrescu, Alexandru Iosup, Dick Epema, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Matei Ripeanu.  “Towards ServMark, an Architecture for Testing Grid Services”, CoreGRID Technical Report Number TR-0062, Institute on Resource Management and Scheduling, November 29, 2006.

  12. Alexandru Iosup, Catalin L. Dumitrescu, Dick Epema, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Matei Ripeanu.  "ServMark (DiPerF+GrenchMark): A Proposal for Project Globus Incubation", 2006 – Proposal accepted 06/22/06.

  13. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster. “Extending a Distributed Usage SLA Resource Broker to Support Dynamic Grid Environments”, Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, March 2006.

  14. I. Raicu, I. Foster. “Storage and Compute Resource Management via DYRE, 3DcacheGrid, and CompuStore”, Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006.

  15. I. Raicu, , I. Foster. “Characterizing the SDSS DR4 Dataset and the SkyServer Workloads,” Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006

  16. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster.  "DRP: Dynamic Resource Provisioning", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006.

  17. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay.  "AstroPortal", Handout, University of Chicago, 2006.

  18. Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Alex Szalay.  "Harnessing Grid Resources to Enable the Dynamic Analysis of Large Astronomy Datasets", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006.

  19. Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster.  "pre-WS MDS and WS-MDS Performance Study", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2006.

  20. 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.

  21. I. Raicu, , I. Foster. “Characterizing Storage Resources Performance in Accessing the SDSS Dataset,” Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2005

  22. Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster.  "A Performance Analysis of the Globus Toolkit’s Job Submission, GRAM", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2005.

  23. Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster.  "A Performance Evaluation of WS-MDS in the Globus Toolkit", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2005.

  24. Ioan Raicu, Catalin Dumitrescu.  "GridFTP Scalability and Performance Results", Technical Report, University of Chicago, 2005.

  25. Ioan Raicu. “Decreasing End-to-End Job Execution Times by Increasing Resource Utilization using Predictive Scheduling in the Grid”, Technical Report, Grid Computing Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, March 2005.

  26. Catalin Dumitrescu, Ian Foster, Ioan Raicu. "A Scalability and Performance Evaluation of a distributed Usage SLA-based Broker in Large Grid Environments", GriPhyN/iVDGL Technical Report, March 2005.

  27. John Bresnahan, Ioan Raicu, Gohar Margaryan. "A Study between Networks and General Purpose Systems for High Bandwidth Applications."  University of Chicago, CS Dept., Computer Architecture, 2004.

  28. Ioan Raicu.  “Searching Large Image Databases using Color Information”, University of Chicago, CS Dept., Artificial Intelligence, 2004.

  29. Ioan Raicu.  "Internship Progress Report: NEON", Sun Microsystems Labs, 2003. 

  30. Ioan Raicu.  "Internship Progress Report: Mobile IPv6", Sun Microsystems Labs, 2003. 

  31. Ioan Raicu.  "Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks: e3D Diffusion vs. Clustering", Peer-to-Peer Networks Seminar, 2002. 

  32. Ioan Raicu.  "A Performance Evaluation of IPv4 vs. IPv6 Forwarding using the Agere Network Processor."  Purdue University, CS Dept., Networks Processors Seminar, 2002.

  33. Ioan Raicu.  "MicroElectroMechanical Systems: MEMS Technology Overview and Limitations", Seminar in Artificial Intelligence, 2002.

  34. Ioan Raicu, Ahmad Naveed.  "Tunneling: A Transition Mechanism to Deploy IPv6 Networks", Seminar in High Performance Networks, 2001.

  35. Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ioan Raicu, Davis Ford, Liqiang Zhang.  "Causal Multicast over a Reliable Point-to-Point Protocol", Distributed Systems II Course, Wayne State University, 2001.

  36. Ioan Raicu.  "A Simple & Reliable File Transfer Protocol over UDP using Winsock 2.2", Broadband Network Architectures Course, Wayne State University, 2001.

  37. Ioan Raicu.  "Wireless Internet: The Future is Here", Broadband Network Architectures Course, Wayne State University, 2001.

  38. Ioan Raicu.  "IPv6 Performance Results", Broadband Network Architectures Course, Wayne State University, 2001.

  39. Ioan Raicu.  "Internship Progress Report", Accenture Technology Labs, 2001.

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