Javier Alonso

Assistant Professor and Researcher

Associated UPC Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Computer Architecture Department (DAC)

alonso at ac.upc.edu

Contact: UPC, Dept. AC
Campus Nord, Mod C6 - 207
C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3. E-08034 Barcelona
Tel. +34 93 405 40 49

DAC

TEACHING

Full time assistant professor at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) assigned to the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB).

Course 2007/2008

More information can be found at Teaching of Javier Alonso .

   
     
CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY    

I'm a member of the High Performance Computing Group at DAC. My current research work focuses on the area of Autonomic Computing, which requires cross-disciplinary studies. Also, I am a associated UPC researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

We are also working and collaborating with other research groups:

  • Darmstadt University of Technology, Database and Distributed Systems group
  • Universida de Coimbra, Dependable System group
  • Columbia University. Department of Computer Science.
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, High Volumne web Serving department
  • Technical University of Catalonia, Theorical Computier Science section at dep. of Software
  • Zuse-Institute Berlin, Computer Science Research department

More information about my research work can be found at Personal Research Area .

   
CURRENT PROJECTS INVOLVED    

SORMA Project: Self-Organizing ICT Resource Management STREP Project for FP6-2005-IST-5 Call with contract 034286. European Partners: Cardiff University, Correlation Systems, Hebrew University, Research Center at the BFM Bayreuth, Research Center for Information Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, TXT e-Solutions, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, University of Reading, University of New South Wales, Barcelona Supercomputing Center. (2006-2008).

More information can be found at http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sorma/.

  Sorma Project

BREIN project: Business objective driven REliable and Intelligent Grids for real BusiNess. Integrated Project for FP6-2005-IST-5 IP. Our grup participate in the adaptive resorce management part. European partners: Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum der Universität Stuttgart HLRS, University of Manchester, ADEI Consultoria S.L., Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH ,ANSYS ,BOC Asset Management ,Barcelona Supercomputing Center , Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata, DATAMAT S.p.A., IT Innovation Centre, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, University of Hohenheim. (2006-2008).

More information can be found at http://www.eu-brein.com/.

  Brein Project

More information about research projects can be found at Former Projects.

   
Last update: 23/09/2008