CSLab – (ICCS-NTUA)
Profile
The National
Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is the leading and most prestigious Technical University
in Greece.
The Computing Systems Laboratory (CSLab - www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr) is one of the largest research laboratories
in the Computer Science Department of the School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, NTUA. The lab is also a member of the Institute of Communication and Computer
Systems (ICCS) of NTUA. It employs experienced staff in
administration, training, consulting and development covering aspects of high performance computing and networking, which are most willing to offer their specialised services
to the academic research community and to external customers seeking
computational power. The lab has large involvement and participation in several
national and European research projects.
CSLab possesses a strong expertise in parallel
& distributed systems, mainly grid based systems. It has over 10 year
experience with clusters and is involved in the design, assembly and operation
of large systems for several Grid projects. Moreover, due to its large
involvement in research for grid infrastructures and software, CSLab
contributes in P2P approaches for grid level data management and P2P algorithms
for load balancing and scheduling of distributed applications to run on GRID
infrastructure. CSLab operates the largest Grid node in Athens
– Democritus Research Centre (64 CPUs/10 TB) for GRNET (the Greek NREN) in EGEE
IST Project (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe),
a project that aims to integrate national, regional and thematic Grid efforts,
in order to create a seamless European Grid infrastructure for the support of
the ERA. CSLab is one of the key initiators of the HellasGrid Task Force, with
main target the development of a Grid National Strategy and coordination of
local communities, applications activities and management actions. CSLab
together with GRNET designed the implementation plan for HellasGrid, which will
eventually build a large distributed grid infrastructure comprising of over 800
CPUs and 30TB storage distributed in 6 site installations around Greece.
CSLab’s computing infrastructure comprises
several high-end computer systems, two quad SMP architectures (Sun HPC 450) and
various Linux clusters from off-the-shelf nodes with high performance
interconnects. Specifically, in CSLab there are several Linux Clusters with the
following configurations: 16 x PIII@500 with SCI, 8 x dual PIII@800, 4 x dual
PIII@1266, 12 x Athlon@1600, 8 x dual (EM64T) Xeon@2800. Supported interconnects include: Gigabit
Ethernet, Scalable Coherent Interface (1GB/sec - 32 NICs) and Myrinet
(2+2GB/sec - 12 NICs). CSLab’s storage systems include two SATA RAID-5 Arrays
with 1,5TB capacity each. The aforementioned equipment constitutes a test bed platform for research in code optimization for HPC applications (earth
& life sciences), communication architectures’ middleware for clusters,
data & storage management for large scale distributed systems (GRID, P2P)
etc.
The laboratory has a strong research background
concerning advanced computing architectures. Laboratory members have an
academic record of more than 300 research publications in the field in
international journals and conferences. CSLab activities span both research and academic/teaching areas, mainly
focusing on the following research fields:
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Large Scale Computing &
Storage Systems
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Scalable High Speed
Interconnects for Cluster Computing
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Interaction between
Compilers, Operating Systems and Architectures
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Advanced Microprocessor
Architectures
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Embedded (Networking) Systems
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High Level Hardware
Design Automation
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High Performance
Medical Applications
CSLab (www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr)
comprises the Parallel and Distributed
Systems Group (pdsg.cslab.ece.ntua.gr) focusing
on research in the fields of Cluster Computing with advanced communication architectures.
The group elaborates on system software for
communication architectures for clusters and on interaction between compilers
and computer architectures, mainly code optimization techniques for modern
processors. It also investigates advanced OS and application scheduling techniques
to avoid memory bottlenecks and exploit novel network interfaces features from
the user’s perspective. Finally, the group works on data and storage management
for large scale systems, i.e. seamless and ubiquitous data provisioning from distributed
storage devices over GRID and P2P systems.
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The group has published,
in the last five years, over 80 papers in various IEEE and ACM conferences
(CC-Grid, IPDPS, ICPP, HPCA etc) and international referred journals (IEEE
TPDS, JPDC, JSC etc) in the areas of parallel computing. Members of the lab
have received the prestigious 2001 best paper award in IEEE/ACM IPDPS Conf, San Francisco, Calif.,
April 2001. CSLab organized the 18th
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special Track on Parallel and Distributed
Systems and Networking, held in Melbourne, Florida, USA, March 9 - 12, 2003, the 19th ACM Symposium
on Applied Computing Special Track on Parallel and Systems, held in
Nicosia, Cyprus, March
14-17, 2004 and the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special
Track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing, held in Santa Fe, USA, March 2005. Finally, CSLab hosts the IEEE Computer Society Greek Chapter.
Selected publications
can be found in: www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/publications
page, or in www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~nkoziris/publications.html
CSLab is largely involved in the academic
curricula of NTUA's School
of Electrical and
Computer Engineering. Many of the mandatory and optional courses and lab sessions
of the Computer Science stream of courses are conducted under the supervision
of CSLab. Some of the courses offered by the lab members are Computer Organization,
Operating Systems, Advanced Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing Systems
and Computing Systems Lab.
The lab has 3 faculty
members, over 15 graduate students pursuing their PhD and 10 undergraduates. Its
Alumni comprises more than 30 members, now faculty members in various universities,
or research personnel in Greek and European IT industry.
Projects related to
HPC domain:
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SMART-PIV: “Development
of an Interactive Integrated P.I.V System based on Miniaturised Optical Sensor Technology
for Implantable Biomedical Devices Design,” FP5 IST-2002-37548 (started June
2002).
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AMICA: “Assembling Data and Knowledge at the Point of Care
To Improve Medical Decision Making And Prevent Errors,” FP6 IST-2004-607048,
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TOPCARE:
“Implementation of a telematic homecare platform in cooperative health care
provider networks,” FP5 IST-2000-25068.
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EGEE: “Enabling Grids
for E-science in Europe”, FP6 Research Infrastructures,
INFSO-RI 508833, 3-rd Party under
GRNET.
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INCO-DC: “PEACE by High
Performance Computing,” INCO-950895-ÅU.
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TetraMED: “Technology
Transfer in HPCN in the Mediterranean Countries,” HPCN-III/98/028-EU.
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WEBCLUSTER: “A Cluster
Computing System Architecture as a High Performance Web Server –
WEBCLUSTER,” PEPER-2003, GSRT.
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VELOS: “Advanced CAD Applications in Aircraft and
Vehicle Design using High Performance Computing Architectures,” GSRT-EKBAN.
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PENED–91/663:
“Automated Synthesis of VLSI Architectures for Special Purpose Applications”,
Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology-GSRT, Ministry of Development.
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PENED-95/1405:
“Automatic Parallelization of Sequential Algorithms”, Greek Secretariat for
Research and Technology” - GSRT, Ministry of Development.
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AMBULANCE: “Mobile Unit for Health Care Provision via Telematics
Support.” (EU/Telematics – Health Care).
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NIKA: “A generalised
system for medical image management,” GSRT-EKBAN-504.
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HILDE: “Hypermedia Intelligent
Learning Design Environment,” GSRT-EPET-2.
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MODULATES MM-1018: “Multimedia Organisation for Developing the
Understanding and Learning of Advanced Technology in European Schools,”
EU-Educational Multimedia Taskforce.
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ARTEMIS: “Greek Distributed Digital Library for Grey
Literature,” EPEAEK.
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DIALOGOS: “Development of the Greek language and speech industry,”
GSRT-EKBAN (parallel computing platform for Greek speech recognition).
Key personnel:
George Papakonstantinou, Professor (Head of the Lab) received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering
from the National Technical University of Athens in 1964, the P.I.I. Diploma in
Electronic Engineering from Philips Int. Inst in 1966, and his M.Sc. in
Electronic Engineering from N.U.F.F.I.C. Netherlands in 1967. In 1971 he
received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the National Technical
University of Athens. He has worked as a Research Scientist at the Greek Atomic
Energy Commission/Computer Division (1969-1984), as Director of the Computer
Division at the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (1981-1984). From 1984 he serves
as a Professor of Computer Science at the National Technical University of
Athens. His research interests include Knowledge Engineering, Syntactic Pattern
Recognition, Multimedia Technology as well as Parallel Architectures and
Languages. He has published over than 70 papers in international referred
journals, over than 175 papers in proceedings of international conferences. He
has also published 8 Greek textbooks and contributed 4 chapters to English
textbooks on computer engineering. He has taught several undergraduate and
graduate courses at NTUA, supervised many diploma and Ph.D. theses, and has been
reviewer in International Journals, Conferences, and research project
proposals. He has participated (as project leader or member) in about 20 Greek
and European R&D projects.
Panayiotis Tsanakas, Professor, received his Diploma in Electrical
engineering from the University of Thessaloniki (1982), his M.Sc. in Computer
Engineering from Ohio
University (1985), and
his PhD in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of
Athens (1988). He is now serving as Professor at the School of Electrical
and Computing Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His
research interests include high performance architectures, and distributed
applications in medicine and education. He co-authored six textbooks (in
Greek): Operating System Principles, Introduction to Computer Architecture, The
Operating System EMPIX, Parallel Computing Systems, Mapping Algorithms into
Parallel Processing Architectures, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems.
He has published more than 15 papers in refereed scientific journals, and more
than 40 papers in the proceedings of international conferences and workshops.
He has served as reviewer for several International Journals and Conferences,
and as evaluator for research project proposals. Prof. Tsanakas is the Chair for the Greek Research and Education
Network (GRNET-Greek NREN, www.grnet.gr).
Nectarios Koziris, Assistant Professor, received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from
the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and his Ph.D. in Computer
Engineering from NTUA (1997). He joined the Computer Science Department, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
the National Technical University of Athens in 1998, where he currently serves
as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include Computer Architecture,
Parallel Processing, Parallel Architectures (OS and Compiler Support, Loop
Compilation Techniques, Automatic Algorithm Mapping and Partitioning) and
Communication Architectures for Clusters. He has published more than 60
research papers in international refereed journals and in the proceedings of
international conferences and workshops. He has also published two Greek
textbooks ''Mapping Algorithms into Parallel Processing Architectures'', and
''Computer Architecture and Operating Systems''. Nectarios Koziris is a
recipient of the IEEE IPDPS 2001 best paper award for the paper ''Minimising
Completion Time for Loop Tiling with Computation and Communication Overlapping''
(held at San Francisco, California). He serves as a reviewer in International
Journals and various HPC Conferences (IPDPS, ICPP etc). He served as a Program
Committee member in HiPC-2002 & ICPP-2005 conferences, CAC03 & CAC04 workshops
(organized with IPDPS), and Program Committee co-Chair for the ACM SAC03-PDS,
SAC04-PDSN and SAC05-DSGC Tracks. He is a project leader in several EU (FP5
& FP6) and national Research Programmes. He is a member of IEEE Computer
Society, member of IEEE-CS TCPP and TCCA (Technical Committees on Parallel Processing
and Computer Architecture), ACM and chairs the Greek IEEE Chapter Computer
Society. He also serves as a Board Member and Deputy Vice-Chair for the Greek
Research and Education Network (GRNET-Greek NREN, www.grnet.gr).
Contact Info:
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Computing Systems Laboratory
(Institute of Computer
and Communication Systems)
National Technical
University of Athens
Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Polytechneioypolis
Zografou, 15773 Athens,
Greece
e-mail: nkoziris@cslab.ece.ntua.gr, nkoziris@cs.ntua.gr
Tel:+30-210-7721531, Fax:+30-210-7721292
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www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr
pdsg.cslab.ece.ntua.gr
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