People formerly involved in the openlab
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Gyorgy Balazs
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openlab technical student, CERN technical student - 01.03.2008 -
31.12.2008 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Gyorgy Balazs joined openlab in March
2008 as a Technical Student. He studies computer engineering
in Hungary at the John von Neumann Faculty of Budapest Tech
and preparing his BSc thesis at CERN. His project at openlab
revolves around comparing different benchmarking methods and
measuring power consumption and power efficiency on
different computer setups for identifying possible
opportunities of power saving. |
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Ian Bird |
LHC Computing Grid Project Leader - 2007 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Ian Bird is the LHC Computing Grid Project Leader and has
line management responsibility in the CERN IT Department for
Physics Computing activities. Dr Bird joined CERN in 2002 to
participate in the WLCG project as Grid Deployment Area
Manager, with responsibility for building up and deploying
the LHC Computing Grid service. When the Enabling Grids for
E-sciencE (EGEE) project began in 2004, he also took on the
role of EGEE Operations Manager, responsible for deploying,
operating and supporting the EGEE grid infrastructure. Prior
to joining CERN, he spent six years at Jefferson Lab in
Virginia, U.S., where he was head of the computing group and
responsible for all aspects of computing for the laboratory.
His background and PhD are in particle physics, having spent
many years coordinating the software and computing for the
CERN muon experiments studying nucleon structure functions
and later in the Nomad neutrino experiment. |
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Havard
Bjerke
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner Intel 2005 - 2009 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Havard Bjerke holds an MSc in computer science from the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in
Trondheim. In the summer of 2004 he worked as a Summer
Student in the openlab and, in January 2005, he re-joined
CERN as a Technical Student in the IT-ADC group, again
working in the openlab. |
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Axel Busch |
openlab technical student, CERN technical student - 01.04.2009 -
30.09.2009 |
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Bio as of his
openlab time
Axel Busch entered openlab in April
2009 as a Technical Student. At CERN, he prepares his BSc.
thesis for his computer science studies at the University of
Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern/Germany. In the openlab, he
evaluates the energy consumption, efficiency and performance
of Intels Nehalem architecture using benchmarks as SPEC
CPU2006 or applications like the CERNs ALICE framework. The
evaluation of the performance gain that Simultaneous
Multithreading (SMT) provides is also one of the major
tasks. |
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Max Boehm
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Senior technical personnel, from EDS contributor 2007 - 2009 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Max Boehm is an
EDS senior systems engineer and architect working in a
joint project
of EDS and CERN openlab since April 2007. Boehm received his
masters degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker)
from the University of Dortmund in 1990 and his doctors
degree (Dr.rer.nat.) from the University of Cologne in 1996.
From 1990 to 1999 he was a research and teaching assistant
at the Universities Dusseldorf and Cologne. Since 1999 Boehm
is with EDS where he has worked in different architect and
technical leadership roles, across multiple industries, with
responsibilities for software and system architectures, new
technologies, and technical governance at an EMEA level.
Boehm has given lectures in Computer Science and is author or
co-author of more than 20 research papers and 1 patent. His
main research interests are parallel and distributed
computing and efficient algorithms and data structures.
Boehm is a member
of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. |
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Charlotte-Anais Cornaton
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openlab intern, from 16/02/2009 to 27/03/2009 |
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Bio as of her openlab time
Charlotte-Anais studied English, German,
Spanish and Romanian at Saint Etienne university (France)
and at Bucharest university (Romania). She actually also
speaks a bit of Russian and Italian. She came to CERN for 6 weeks as part
of the third year of her
curriculum and was extremely successful in supporting us in
tracking the openlab press articles from Eastern countries.
Charlotte-Anais also did some translation work for the team
and worked on a quote repository. |
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Jose Dana Perez |
openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner EDS 2006 - 2009 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Jose Miguel Dana studied at University of Almeria (Spain)
where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and
worked for the "Computer Architecture and Electronics"
department for the last two years of his degree. Moreover,
he is member of the "Supercomputing: Algorithms" research
group of his University since 2004. During his collaboration
he has written several papers about scalable image and video
coding. He was a CERN Summer Student in 2005 and he worked
in compiler optimization related tasks (in CERN openlab).In
October 2006 he re-joined CERN openlab as a Fellow working
this time in Grid deployment and virtualization subjects.
Right now, he is combining his work in CERN openlab with his
PhD studies. |
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Eva Dafonte Perez
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner Oracle 2007 - 2009 |
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Bio as of her openlab time
Eva Dafonte
Perez studied Computer Science Engineering at the ESEI,
University of Vigo (Spain). She holds the Best
Academic Record for the School of Computer Science and Engineering. During her
University Scholarship Technical Computer and Network Service at the ESEI,
she was researching on data exchange about university
information with standardization purposes. She obtained the highest grade possible in
her Final Year Thesis Project Automatic Database Migration
Tool. After finishing her degree, she joined the openlab.
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J. Franco-Turner |
openlab Administrative Assistant 2004-2005 |
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Bio as of her openlab time
Jackie was a Senior
Administrative Assistant and had been working at CERN since
1970. She previously worked at IOS, Ferney-Voltaire, the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva, and the UN (UNCTAD),
Geneva. On joining CERN in 1970, she was first Group
Secretary in the Scientific Information Group of DD (now
IT), then moved to the DD Secretariat in 1972 becoming Head
of the Secretariat and in 1987 the tasks of Divisional
Administrative Officer and provisional Secretary to the
Division Leader were also added. In 1990 she became
Secretary to the Division Leader and in 1994 also took over
the job of Administrator of the
CERN Schools of Computing.
Her task as Secretary to the Division Leader came to an end
in December 2003, but she continued as Administrator of the
CERN Schools of Computing and took on a new task of
Administrative Assistant to the CERN openlab in 2004. She
retired in November 2005. |
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Maria Girone
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Staff |
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Bio as of her openlab time
Maria Girone studied
physics at the University of Bari, Italy. She obtained her Ph.D in High Energy Physics in 1993, on the CERN OMEGA/WA76
experiment. She then joined CERN as a research fellow in the
ALEPH experiment and later worked at Imperial College,
London, as a research associate. In 2001, Maria joined the LHCb collaboration, where she worked in the development of
photon detectors for the RICH system. Maria moved to the LCG
project in 2002 and has been a member of the Data Base group
of the CERN-IT department since 2003. She currently works on
the LCG POOL project and is responsible for the database and
related services that the group offers to the physics
community. |
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Xavier Grehant
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner HP - 15.01.06 - 15.01.09 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Born in 1982,
Xavier Grehant studied in France and worked as research
associate in biometrics at Arizona State University in 2004.
In 2005 he was assigned the research for the launch of a
start-up company and wrote a new algorithm and prototype for
face fiducial points extraction. He obtained a MSc at
Telecom-Paris (ENST) in 2005, where his latest work
pertained to real-time adaptive noise cancellation. Since
2006 he is employed at CERN openlab, funded by HP Labs and
working on a PhD in the field of high-throughput computing. |
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Francois Grey |
openlab Communications 2003- 2008 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Since
2002, Francois Grey has been based at CERN, in charge of
developing the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications and
supporting the openlab's communication activities. He
developed the CERN openlab student programme, which brought
11 undergraduate students from seven countries to CERN in
2003, to work on Grid technology. He hosted First Tuesday
events on Grid-related technologies for industry and
investors at CERN, attracting several hundred participants
(see www.rezonance.ch
archives). He has published widely on the Grid [The
Economist, Public Service Review: European Union, CERN
Courier] and was on the Editorial Board of the EGEE project
proposal, which made the successful bid to build Europe's
Grid Infrastructure. Recently, he helped develop the Grid
Caf website, an educational site hosted by CERN (see
www.gridcafe.org ). |
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Denise Heagerty
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openlab Liaison person with contributor Stonesoft, 2006-2007 |
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Andreas Hirstius
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner Intel - 2003-2008 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Andreas Hirstius has a background in experimental particle
physics. For his M.Sc. thesis at the Humboldt University
Berlin he analysed data from the L3-Experiment at LEP. Later
he joined the NA48 collaboration and changed to the Johannes
Gutenberg University Mainz, from which he holds a Ph.D.
During his studies he has been always involved with
computing. First he was a system administrator at the
computing center of the Physics dept. of the Humboldt
University. In 2000 and 2001 he was responsible for the
third level trigger and the central data recording of the
NA48 experiment. His current field of interest is more
hardware related and includes testing of 10GB networking
hardware and the Storage Tank SAN filesystem. He was also
involved in the 10GB WAN PHY long haul test and the latest
DataTAG measurements. |
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Svetozar Kapusta
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner Oracle - 01.11.2008 - 31.10.2010 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Svetozar graduated at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics
and Informatics at the Comenius University in Bratislava in
2003 obtaining a Mgr degree in Physics. His collaboration
with CERN started in 2001 when he joined the ALICE Silicon
Pixel Detector group as a summer student. Since 2004 he has
been supporting the ALICE online physics community as a
member of the ALICE Detector Control System team mainly in
the field of schema and application design, optimization and
data management. He joined the CERN openlab recently and is
testing the Real-Time Query Capability of Physical Standby
Databases. |
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Chris Lambert
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Staff |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Chris Lambert has been working as an
Oracle Database Administrator at CERN since 2003, after
starting work as a DBA in New Zealand in 2001. He has
experience in RDBMS administration (8i - 11g), RMAN,
Real Application Clusters, security, monitoring, and
E-Business Suite (including outsourcing to Oracle
OnDemand).
He is responsible for the administrative
databases at CERN, along with the Enterprise Manager 10g
installation used by the IT-DES and DM groups,
and the DES group 'security service'. He
holds a BSc (Hons) Information Systems from the
Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), and is
currently studying towards the MSc Strategic Business
Information Technology from the University of Portsmouth
(UK).
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Ildefons Magrans de Abril
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS 02.2009 -
12.2009 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Ildefons Magrans de Abril
studied
at University Autonomous of Barcelona where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in
Computer Science (1998), a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (2001) and
a PhD in Electronic Engineering (2008). He started his professional career
In October 2000, in the Synchrotron Laboratory of Barcelona, implementing a
data acquisition system for a multi-wire proportional counter. Since august
2002 he has been working in the CMS experiment at CERN, in the context of
the Trigger and Data Acquisition Project. Since August 2004 until January
2009, he was coordinating the design and development of the control and
monitoring system of CMS Level-1 Trigger. Ildefons was the main responsible
of the conceptual design, development and sub-systems integration
coordination. His technical contribution to the CMS experiment was
acknowledged by the CMS Collaboration with an exceptional PhD thesis award,
which the CMS Thesis Award Committee granted for the first time to an
engineer. |
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Anton Topurov
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle 2006
- 2009 |
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Bio as of his
openlab time
Anton graduated
with excellence from the Master of Computer Science of
the Technical University of Sofia. As an ERASMUS
exchange student, he participated in the software
development project at the Universit de Nice Sophia
Antipolis. He got international exposure as a BEST-Sofia
board member (Board of European Students of Technology),
where he organized and participated in numerous BEST
European courses, workshops and assemblies. During the
last year of his studies he was awarded the Bulgarian
Telecommunication Company's excellence scholarship and
further joined the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company's
IT department. In February 2005, he joined the Atlas
Trigger and Data Acquisition project at CERN as a part
of the networking team and, afterwards, the system
administration team. Since April 2006, he has been a
part of the openlab, working on testing, evaluation and
deployment of new Oracle technologies at CERN. |
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Dawid
Wojcik |
openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle 2006-2008 |
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Bio as of his openlab time
Dawid graduated Warsaw University of
Technology in 2006 obtaining MSc degree in Computer
Engineering. During the studies his main interest were
databases and Decision Support Systems, especially
optimization algorithms and applications of mathematical
programming. He participated also in some commercial
projects in electronics and computer engineering. In 2002 he
started collaboration with ALICE experiment working on
Detector Construction Data Base (DCDB) together with other
students of his faculty and people from Faculty of Physics
at Warsaw University of Technology. He was a technical
student in 2005-2006 working on Oracle security and rejoined
CERN as an openlab Fellow in 2006 working on high
availability solutions in databases. |
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