Henri Casanova

Assistant Research Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego VGrADS Activities: Co-PI, working on Execution System (Design, Scheduling) and EOL Application casanova@cs.ucsd.edu http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/casanova/

Professional Preparation

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998
• M.S. Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1994
• B.S., Computer Science, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse, France, 1993

Appointments

• Adjunct Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univeristy of California, San Diego, 7/02-present
• Assistant Research Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, 7/01-present
• Project Scientist, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UC, San Diego, 12/98-6/01
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computer Science Dept., U Tennessee, Knoxville, 11/98-3/98
• Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., U of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1/95-2/98
• Computer System Advisor, French Ministry of Defense, 11/93-11/94
• Trainee, IRIT (France), 9/92-10/93

Synergistic Activities

• His work on the APST project has generated new scheduling methodologies as well as software that is currently used by over 20 application groups world-wide.
• His work has generated software to schedule and deploy a critical neuroscience application (MCell) at unprecedented scale, thereby generating new domain science results.
• He was the main designer and developer of the NetSolve project, which had a large impact on the establishment of Grid computing and is still extremely active.
• His work has led to many new scheduling algorithms that have been implemented for real applications and have contributed to advancing practical distributed application scheduling.
• He has served on over 20 international conference program committees, and has reviewed over 50 articles for high-quality journals and conferences.

VGrADS and Other Significant Publications

• Berman, F, Casanova, H, Chien, A, Cooper, K, Dail, H, Dasgupta, A, Deng, W, Dongarra, J, Johnsson, L, Kennedy, K, Koelbel, C, Liu, B, Liu, X, Mandal, A, Marin, G, Mazina, M, Mellor-Crummey, J, Mendes, C, Olugbile, A, Patel, M, Reed, D, Shi, Z, Sievert, O, Xia, H, and YarKhan, A. “New Grid Scheduling and Rescheduling Methods in the GrADS Project,” International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). (To appear 2005).
• Chien, A, Casanova, H, Kee, Y, and Huang, R. The Virtual Grid Description Language: vgDL, University of California San Diego, UCSD Technical Report (CS2005-0817). (2005).
• Kee, Y, Logothetis, D, Huang, R, Casanova, H, and Chien, A. “Efficient Resource Description and High Quality Selection for Virtual Grids,” In: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), Cardiff, U.K. IEEE. (2005).
• Kee, Y, Casanova, H, and Chien, A. “Realistic Modeling and Synthesis of Resources for Computational Grids,” In: ACM Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking (SC2004). ACM Press. (2004).
• Kondo, D, Taufer, M, Brooks, III, CL, Casanova, H, and Chien, A. “Characterizing and Evaluating Desktop Grids: An Empirical Study,” In: Proceedings of International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004). IEEE Press. (2004).
• Xia, H, Dail, H, Casanova, H, and Chien, A. “The MicroGrid: Using Emulation to Predict Application Performance in Diverse Grid Network Environments,” In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE’04). IEEE Press. (2004).
• H. Dail, H. Casanova, F. Berman, “A decoupled scheduling approach for Grid application development environments,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 63, No. 5, May 2003, 505-524.
• H. Dail, H. Casanova, F. Berman, “A Decoupled Scheduling Approach for the GrADS Environment,” in Proceedings of Supercomputing 2002 (SC ’02), best student paper finalist, Baltimore, November 2002.
• S. Smallen, H. Casanova, F. Berman “Tunable On-line Parallel Tomography,” Scientific Programming, 2002, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p271, 19p; Also in Proceedings of Supercomputing ’01, Best Student Paper Award, Denver, November 2001.
• D. Kondo, H. Casanova, E Wing, F. Berman, “Models and SchedulingMechanisms for Global Computing Applications,” in Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’02), Fort Lauderdale, April 2002.
• H. Casanova, “Simgrid: A Toolkit for the Simulation of Application Scheduling,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid’01), May 2001, Brisbane, Australia, pp 430–437.
• H. Casanova, G. Obertelli, F. Berman, and R. Wolski, “The AppLeS Parameter Sweep Template: User-Level Middleware for the Grid,” Scientific Programming , 2000, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p111, 16p; Also in Proceedings of Supercomputing ’00, best paper finalist, Portland, November 2000.
• H. Casanova, A. Legrand, D. Zagorodnov, and F. Berman, “Heuristics for Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications in Grid Environments,” in Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2000), Cancun, Mexico, pp 349–363, May 2000.
• H. Casanova, M. Thomason, and J. Dongarra “Stochastic Performance Prediction for Iterative Algorithms in Distributed Environments,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 58, Number 1, July 1999, pp 68-91.
• J. Dongarra, H. Casanova, C. Johnson, and M. Miller, “Application-Specific Tools” chapter, in Computational Grids: The Future of High-Performance Distributed Computing, edited by I. Foster and C. Kesselman, M. Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1998.
• H. Casanova and J. Dongarra , “NetSolve: A Network-Enabled Server for Solving Computational Science Problems,” in The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing, Volume 11, Number 3, pp 212-223, Fall 1997. Also in Proceedings of Supercomputing ’96.