Ioan Gabriel Bucur

openlab Summer Student, IT/GT, from 18/07/11 to 09/09/11

Ioan Gabriel Bucur has recently completed his undergraduate studies, having graduated from the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara with a degree (BEng) in Computers and Information Technology. His main interests include computational science, statistical programming and parallel computing. During his participation in the openlab Summer Student Programme, he is working as part of the IT-GT-TOM group. His main responsibility is to monitor the behaviour of the Central Data Warehouse at CERN, which stores the metric output from the EGI (European Grid Initiative) and the OSG (Open Science Grid). The monitoring process consists of writing stress tests, detecting deficiencies in the Central Data Warehouse, notifying the service managers in an automated way and implementing solutions to correct the problems.