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.

Ruggero Caravita

openlab Summer Student, IT/DI, from 20/06/11 to 12/08/11

 I got my graduation in physics on 2010 at Università degli Studi di Milano, and I'm currently following my master studying particle physics in the same University. Aside physics, I have been having a really long term interest in computer science and specifically in graphic video devices since first years of high school, self-learning this new way of programming with a close friend currently student at Politecnio di Milano, Andrea Bartezzaghi. Together we took our first experiments in general purpose GPU programming, at the time only in assembly with Shader Model 1.0. This long term interest pushed me in the direction of CUDA (in my bachelor thesis) and parallel programming techniques, that finally lead to the openlab project I worked on: increasing performance of the parallel ROOT fit package prototype (called MLFit) by adding MPI support. The project also includes tests on different hardware (from a single node to a small cluster) and a detailed study of a new research chip from IntelCorporation: Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC).

Goran Cetusic

openlab Summer Student, IT/PES, from 12/07/11 to 02/09/11

Before arriving at CERN I studied Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of Zagreb, working on projects, lecturing Linux courses and also passing exams from time to time. As an Openlab summer student I was developing an application for lxbatch process accounting using psacct that should help monitor user activity for security audits. A geek at heart, I try to spend my free time contributing to open source projects and reading massive amounts of books. Occasionally, I find the deepest forest available and try to get lost in it.

Dana Dorneanu

openlab Summer Student, PH/UCM from 18/07/11 to 16/09/11

My name is Dana Dorneanu, and I am currently following a double degree master program at both Politecnico di Milano and Polytechnic University of Bucharest. I am interested in Distributed Computing in general, and more specifically in Cloud Computing technology and Volunteer Computing. I am enjoying the project that I am working on this summer at CERN, researching existing Cloud and Grid technologies and stakeholders, and getting in contact with the main developers and officials of these technologies. Furthermore, following this research I shall propose a possible strategy for implementing a Volunteer Computing @ CERN Initiative as a business idea.

Joao Faria

openlab Summer Student, IT/UDS, from 04/07/11 to 26/08/11

Joao Faria is currently attending the Faculty of Engineering at University of Porto, Portugal.  After earning a B.Sc. in Informatics and Computer Engineering, he felt the need to continue his education by pursuing a M.Sc. Next year, he will attend Cranfield University expecting to reach this objective. Although appreciating computing in general, his main interests are image processing and parallel computing. During his stay at CERN, he is building a web platform that will allow CERN users to follow the status of several internal services. Besides his academic
work, his other interests include music, cinema and sports.

Urs Fassler

openlab Summer Student, IT/DI, from 04/07/11 to 02/09/11

Urs Fässler is a M.Sc. student in Computer Science at ETH in Zürich, Switzerland. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur (Switzerland) where he focused on Embedded Systems. Before that he worked several years in industry and did an apprenticeship as an electronics technician.His interests are in Compilers where he is designing a new programming language, Embedded Systems with Linux and bare metal microcontroller programming.Besides the technical interests he is president of theAlternative, a student organization for digital sustainability, and also fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Martin Hellmich

openlab Summer Student, IT/GT, from 20/06/11 to 12/08/11

My name is Martin Hellmich and I am currently finishing the MSc in Distributed Scientific Computing at the University of Edinburgh. I obtained my Bachelor degree from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg Germany in Computer Science and wrote my Bachelor thesis at the Julius-Maximilians University in Wurzburg, where I joined the department of communication networks for the summer to conduct a performance evaluation of OpenFlow.
My interests lie in distributed and data-intensive computing, performance measurement and natural language processing. In the openlab program at CERN, I designed and conducted performance measurements and on the Disk Pool Manager (DPM), a widely used grid storage solution."

Jiri Kuncar

openlab Summer Student, IT/UDS, from 04/07/11 to 26/08/11

Jiři Kunčar is a M.Sc. student at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where he also got the Bachelor degree in Computer Science. In 2010, he became a student at the Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden and he has recently graduated with a Master degree in Software Engineering there. During his stay at CERN he was part of the ID-UDS department, working on Automatic deployment of Invenio configurations.

Hallgeir Lien

openlab Summer Student, IT/DSS, from 27/06/11 to 19/08/11

Hallgeir Lien is a master student from Norway about to begin the last year in Computer Science, attending the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He spent one year abroad at University of California, San Diego, focusing on parallel computing. For his master's project he plans to focus on this field. At CERN Openlab he worked in the IT-DSS group, developing a daemon for integrity checking of files for the file servers at CERN, as well as monitoring tools for the output from the daemon in form of a Django web interface as well as integration with the Lemon monitoring system.

Jurand Nogiec

openlab Summer Student, IT/UDS, from 20/06/11 to 12/08/11

 Jurand Nogiec, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be entering his final year of his Master of Computer Science degree after this summer. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science at the same university in 2010. During his time at CERN, in the IT-UDS department, he worked with database replication systems for the Indico project as part of the openlab summer student program.

Wojciech Ozga

openlab Summer Student, IT/DB, from 06/06/11 to 29/07/11

Wojciech Ozga, a Polish student at University of Science And Technology (Krakow, Poland), is currently attending the last year of his engineer degree in Computer Science.During his stay at CERN he is working on designing and preparing a unified tool for visualizing and managing information about Oracle Databases and Application Servers infrastructure.

Arsalaan Shaikh

openlab Summer Student, EN/ICE, from 18/07/11 to 09/09/11

My name is Arsalaan Ahmed Shaikh. I graduated from NED University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science & Information Technology in 2007. During under graduation one of my major interest was digital signal processing, I linked up with a media content and advertisement monitoring agency to work on algorithms for automatic advertisement detection. Currently I am a student at School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science a constituent college of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan as a MSIT student. At NUST I am working with Semantic Systems Research Group and Cloud Computing Group on projects such as cloud based HL7 compliant EMR and image processing with Map Reduce. Here at CERN I am working on building a private cloud infrastructure using Opennebula and VMWare ESXi.

Sonia Stan

openlab Summer Student, IT/DB, from 04/07/11 to 26/08/11

Sonia Stan is a first year Masters student at "Politehnica" University of Bucharest in Romania, studying Advanced Software Systems. During her internship at CERN, she worked in the IT-DB departament. Her project focused on data mining for root cause analysis on logfiles generated by Oracle Enterprise Manager(EM) and evaluating 3rd party analysis tools like Splunk, Logstash and VCenter Operations that can be easily integrated with the EM application.

Grace Young

openlab Summer Student, IT/DI, from 27/06/11 to 19/08/11

Grace Young is an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her previous experience includes researching quantum computing at The Joint Quantum Institute (a partnership between the United States National Institute for Standards & Technology and the University of Maryland), studying electrical properties of carbon-nanotubes at the Johns Hopkins Center for Applied Physics, and developing software for the Harvard-MIT Cybernetics Laboratory. At MIT, she is Vice President of the Undergraduate Women in Physics, contributing writer for the MIT Entrepreneurship Review, and member of the MIT varsity sailing team. She is a Siemens Scholar and Intel ISEF Award winner for her research in physics, and has won various awards in robotics. At CERN, Grace is developing a new software package for ROOT.

Georgi Zlatkov

openlab Summer Student, IT/GT, from 14/06/11 to 05/08/11

Georgi Zlatkov is an undergraduate student in Computer Science at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. As an openlab summer student at CERN he was part of the IT-GT group. His project involved deploying and evaluating the IT system management Tool 'Puppet' in a test environment for large-scale system configuration and management at CERN and on the WLCG.