First Workshop, June 15th 2012
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING LAB
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Outline
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Welcome
Why a HPC Lab Workshop
Agenda
Short Presentation of the research group
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Welcome to
• Gabriella, Paolo, Roi, Gianni, Aris, Domenico,
Roberto, Mimmo, Claudio, Fausto, Maurizio
• Thanks to Nicola and Rossano
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Why a HPC Lab Workshop?
Answer #1
Nicola and Rossano were willing to organize a
workshop, and all their attempts to have a
workshop proposal accepted at a top conference
were rejected
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Where do we come from? What are
we? Where are we going?
P. Gauguin, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
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Why are we here (today)?
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Agenda
10:30
11:00
Patrizio Dazzi,
Claudio Lucchese,
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
12:30
13:00
Gabriele Tolomei,
Rossano Venturini,
Massimo Coppola,
13:30
Lunch
15:00
15:30
Franco Maria Nardini,
Ranieri Baraglia,
16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
17:00
Nicola Tonellotto,
Fabrizio Silvestri,
17:30
Open discussion
A potpourri of distributed computing researches
On Frequent Chatters Mining
You’re not Asking Me to Find Something, You’re Asking Me to Get Things Done!
Data Structures + Data Compression: A love story since 1989
Issues and Opportunities of Cloud Federations
On Enhancing the User Experience in Search Engines
Building of P2P Overlay Networks via Voronoi and Gossip
Response Times in Web Search Architectures
The Impact of Social Groups on News Recommendations
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Dinner @ La Locanda Sant’Agata
At 20:30
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First Workshop, June 15th 2012
SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE
RESEARCH GROUP
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HPC Lab people
Researchers
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Research associates
PhD fellows
Admin. supp. PhD students
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Expertise
• Data structures, algorithms and models for huge data, ...
• Clustering, classification, similarity, compression, indexing,
ranking, matching, ...
• Query logs analysis, user modeling, behavior prediction, ...
• Graph mining, modeling, social network analysis, random
walks, ...
• P2P overlays for information diffusion and querying, ...
• Cloud computing, PaaS and SaaS solutions, SLA
management, cloud federations, ...
• ….
http://hpc.isti.cnr.it
Papers in journals and Conferences
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2010
2009
25
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2011
2008
15
10
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Series2
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27
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30
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Tag-cloud from paper titles 2009-2010
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Tag-cloud from paper titles 2011
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Achievements
• Highly-motivated group of (mostly ) young
researchers
• Papers accepted in the last two years at top
conferences and journals such as:
– WWW, VLDB, ACM SIGIR, ACM PODS, ACM KDD, ACM
CIKM, ACM WSDM, IEEE ICDM, IEEE P2P, SDM, EDBT,
ECIR,
– VLDBJ, ACM TOIS, FTIR, JCSS, IP&M, FGCS
• 3 full papers and 2 posters at SIGIR 2012
– submissions to TOIS, TWEB, P2P, CIKM, …
• Good portfolio of projects
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Achievements
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Running Projects
– S-CUBE (FP7 NOE): Software Services and Systems Network
(2008-2012)
– ASSETS project (CIP PSP-BPN): Advanced Search Service
and Enhanced Technological Solutions for the Europeana
Digital Library (2010-2012)
– Contrail (FP7- IP): Open Computing infrastructures for
elastic services (2010-2013)
– Nessos (FP7 NOE): Engineering Secure Future Internet
Software Services and Systems
– InGeoClouds (CIP PSP Pilot B): INspired GEOdata CLOUD
Services (2012-2014)
– MIDAS (FP7 STREP): Model and Inference Driven –
Automated testing of Service architectures (2012-2015)
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Funds 2012
Project
S/E
Agency
2012
S-CUBE
2008/2012
EC, FP7 NOE
50000
CONTRAIL
2010/2013
EC, FP7 IP
54000
ASSETS
2010/2012
EC PSP IP
50000
VISITO
InGeoClouds
2009/2011
2012/2014
REGIONE TOSCANA
EC PSP STREP
90000
120000
NESSOS
2010/2014
EC, FP7 NOE
16000
MIDAS
2012/2015
TOTALE
EC FP7 STREP
130000
500000
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Main collaborations
• Yahoo! Research (E, ISR, US)
– Continuous exchanges, many joint papers
• Tiscali (I)
– Collaboration on Web Search and Cloud projects
• Univ. of Pisa, Univ. of Venice, IMT, SNS
– Teaching, projects, PhDs
• Glasgow University (UK)
– Visits of researchers w/ joint papers and projects with the Terrier group
• IBM Research (ISR), INRIA (F), Dortmund University (D)
– Long history of project partnership
• New York University, Georgetown University (US)
– Heads of the IR groups visiting HPC Lab in the summers of 2009 and 2010
• La Coruna University (E), Deri (IRL), Dortmund University (D)
– Exchange of PhD students
• Google (US, CH), Mendeley (UK)
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HPC Lab workshop, Agenda
10:30
11:00
Patrizio Dazzi,
Claudio Lucchese,
11:30
Coffee Break
12:00
12:30
13:00
Gabriele Tolomei,
Rossano Venturini,
Massimo Coppola,
13:30
Lunch Break
15:00
15:30
Franco Maria Nardini,
Ranieri Baraglia,
16:00
Coffee Break
16:30
17:00
Nicola Tonellotto,
Fabrizio Silvestri,
17:30
Open discussion
A potpourri of distributed computing researches
On Frequent Chatters Mining
You’re not Asking Me to Find Something, You’re Asking Me to Get Things Done!
Data Structures + Data Compression: A love story since 1989
Issues and Opportunities of Cloud Federations
On Enhancing the User Experience in Search Engines
Building of P2P Overlay Networks via Voronoi and Gossip
Response Times in Web Search Architectures
The Impact of Social Groups on News Recommendations
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