Fecha de nacimiento: 1-06-1979
 

[1998 - 2004]        Ingeniería Superior Informática. Facultat d’informàtica de Barcelona. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.   
Especializado en las ramas de Sistemas Operativos, Bases de Datos, Redes y Gráficos.

[2003 - 2004] Proyecto Final de Carrera : “Diseño y implementación de Web Services entre PocketPC, PC y dispositivos J2ME”, obtención de Matrícula de honor.

[2004 - 2008] Estudiante de doctorado en Arquitectura de Computadores. (UPC - DAC)

[Octubre 2008] Doctor por la UPC (Sobresaliente Cum Laude) con la Tesis: "Aplicación de la simulación en tiempo real para mejora la calidad de servicio del Middleware"

[2018] Master Universitario en Bioinformatica y Bioestadistica at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Hardware de PC (Montaje / Reparación / Configuración).
Conocimientos de Sistemas MSDOS / Windows / Unix / Linux, Redes, Ofimática.
Programación de videojuegos. Programación sobre teléfonos móviles (J2ME) y PocketPC.
Lenguajes: Ensamblador (x86, MIPS, vectorial R5900-EE), Pascal, C, C++, Java (J2SE, J2ME),  Visual Basic, Visual C++, WEB (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XML).
Servidores de aplicaciones: Tomcat, Web Services (Apache Axis).
Librerías Gráficas: DirectX, OpenGl.
Bases de Datos: Informix, Oracle, Sql-Server, MySql.
Grid: Globus, Unicore

Inglés: Mid-Intermediate
Catalán y castellano: maternas.
Japonés: Nivel B1 Europeo.

[April 2024 - ] Group Leader of the Data Centric Computing Team at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Participating in projects like CLOUDSTARS, NEARDATA, VITAMIN-V and SECURED.

[Marzo 2013 - April 2024] Senior Researcher en el Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), trabajando en los proyectos europeos MontBlanc, IOStack, NextGENIO, BigStorage y PRACE.

[Enero 2010 - Marzo 2013] Senior Researcher en el proyecto europeo IOLanes en el Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

[Junio 2008 - Enero 2010] WP Leader/Ayudante en el proyecto europeo XtreemOS en el Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

[2007 - 2008] Soporte a la docencia del laboratorio de XCA (UPC-DAC-FIB)

[2006 - 2008] Researcher en el Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), área Autonomic and e-business y en el proyecto europeo SORMA

[Septiembre 2005 - Diciembre 2008 ]  Becario FPI en el departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores de la UPC

[Junio 2004 – Agosto 2005] Programador Senior, en la empresa American & British Academy realizando una plataforma de enseñanza on-line.

[2004 - 2008 ] Codirector de Proyectos Final de Carrera en la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya junto al Prof. Jordi Torres.

[2004] Soporte a la docencia de la asignatura de Libre Elección “Reptes de Programació” en la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

[2003] Reproductor de ficheros OGG Vorbis para la consola Playstation 2, con soporte de red, optimizado para la arquitectura.

[2002 - 2003] Iniciación y programación (en un equipo de 3 personas) de un reproductor de archivos MPEG4/ISO utilizando herramientas y software libre para la consola Playstation 2.

• Simulating complex systems with a low-detail model
  R. Nou, J. Guitart, V. Beltran, D. Carrera, L. Montero, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé.. Jornadas de Paralelismo, Granada, September, 2005

• Simulating and Modeling Secure Web Applications
  R. Nou, J. Guitart and J. Torres
  Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 3991, pp. 84-91
  ISBN: 3-540-34379-2, ISSN: 0302-9743
  6th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'06)
  University of Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006

• Experiences with Simulations - a Light and Fast Model for Secure Web Applications
  R. Nou, J. Guitart, D. Carrera and J. Torres
  12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'06)
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 12-15, 2006
   
• Monitoring and analyzing a Grid Middleware Node, R. Nou, F. Julià, D. Carrera, K. Hogan, J. Caubet, J. Labarta, J. Torres. GRID 2006, Barcelona September 2006
• Monitoring and Analysis Framework for Grid Middlewares
  R. Nou, F. Julià, D. Carrera, K. Hogan, J. Labarta, J. Torres.
  15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP'07)
  Naples , Italy , February 7-9, 2007
• Should the grid middleware look to self-managing capabilities?
  R. Nou, F. Julià and J. Torres
  The 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2007)
  Sedona, Arizona, March 2007
• The need for self-managed access nodes in grid environments
  R. Nou, F. Julià and J. Torres
  4th IEEE Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2007)
  Tucson, Arizona, March 26th-29th, 2007
• Dynamic resource provisioning for self-adaptive heterogeneous workloads in SMP hosting platforms PDF
  R. Nou, F. Julià, Jordi Guitart and J. Torres
  ICE-B 2007, the International Conference on E-business (2nd) Barcelona, Spain, 28th-31th July, 2007
• Autonomic QoS-Aware Resource Management in Grid Computing using Online Performance Models
  S. Kounev, R. Nou and J. Torres
  2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2007)
  Nantes, France, October 23th-25th, 2007
  ISBN: 978-1-59593-819-0
• Building Online Performance Models of Grid Middleware with Fine-Grained Load-Balancing: A Globus Toolkit Case Study
  R. Nou, S. Kounev and J. Torres
  4th European Engineering Performance Workshop (EPEW 2007)
  27th-28th September, Berlin, Germany, 2007
• Autonomic QoS control in enterprise Grid environments using online simulation
  R. Nou, S. Kounev, F. Julià and J. Torres
  Journal of Systems and Software 82 (2009) 486-502. vol 82, no. 3. ISSN: 0164-1212. 2009.
• Heterogeneous QoS Resource Manager with Prediction
  R. Nou, J. Torres.
  The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. (ICAS 2009) pp.69-74.
  April 20-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain
• Towards energy-aware scheduling in data center using machine learning
  J. Ll Berral, I. Goiri, R. Nou, F. Julia, J. Guitart, R. Gavalda and J. Torres.
  1st Int'l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (e-Energy 2010).
  University of Passau, Germany. April 13-15, 2010.
• Grid-aware applications for mobile phones
  S. Prieto , A. Martínez , R. Afonso, N. Gallego , J.M.Peribáñez , T. Cortes , R. Nou , J. Giralt
  Eurosys 2010.
  April 13-16, 2010, Paris, France
• XtreemOS-MD: Grid computing from mobile devices
  A.Martinez, S. Prieto, N. Gallego, R. Nou, J. Giralt, T. Cortes
  Mobilware 2010
  June 30-July 2, 2010. Chicago, USA. 
• Energy-aware Scheduling in Virtualized Datacenters
  I. Goiri, F. Julia, R. Nou, J. Ll Berral, J. Guitart and J. Torres. 
  IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2010). 
  Heraklion, Crete, Greece. September 20-24, 2010.


• XtreemOS - Aplication Execution Management Tutorial
  XtreemOS Summer School 2010
  Günzburg, Germany, July 2010
• Energy-efficient and Multifaceted Resource Management for Profit-driven Virtualized Data Centers Goiri, Í, Berral, JL, Fitó, O, Julià, F, Nou, R, Guitart, J, Gavalda, R, Torres, J
  Future Generation Computer Systems
  Volume 28, Issue 5, 2012-05-01, Pages 718-731
• XtreemOS Application Execution Management: A scalable approach R. Nou, J. Giralt, J. Corbalan, E. Tejedor, J.O. Fitó, J.M. Perez, T. Cortes
  GRID 2010. (CORE A: 2008)
  Brussels, Belgium, October 25-29, 2010. 
• Multifaceted Resource Management for Dealing with Heterogeneous Workloads in Virtualized Data Centers I. Goiri, J. Oriol Fitó, F. Julià, R. Nou, J. Ll. Berral, J. Guitar and J. Torres.
  GRID 2010. (CORE A: 2008)
  Brussels, Belgium, October 25-29, 2010. 
• Path to achieving a self-managed grid middleware R. Nou, F. Julia, K.Hogan and J. Torres.
  Future Generation Computer Systems
  Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 10-19
• Resilience Assessment and Evaluation of Computing Systems
  Juiz, C, Kounev, S, Gilly, K, Brosig, F, Nou, R
  Book Chapter :　Online prediction: Four case studies
  Editor: Wolter, K, Avritzer, A, Vieira, M, van Moorsel, A
  ISBN: 978-3-642-29031-2 - 2012
• Automatic I/O scheduler selection through online workload analysis R. Nou, J. Giralt, T. Cortes
  The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2012)
  Fukuoka, Japan, September 4-9, 2012. 
• DYON: Managing a New Scheduling Class to Improve System Performance in Multicore Systems
  Ramon Nou, Jacobo Giralt, Toni Cortes
  1st Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era (ROME 2013) - Europar'13 - Best Paper Award
• Book Chapter : Multi/Many cores, Nou, R., Cortes, T., Mavridis, S., Sfakianakis, Y. & Bilas, A.
   High Performance Parallel I/O
  Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series #22, (Taylor & Francis, 2014). 

• IOStack: Software-Defined Object Storage
  R. Gracia-Tinedo, P. García-López, M. Sanchez-Artigas, J. Sampé, Y Moatti, R. Nou, et al.
  IEEE, 2016
• Improving openstack swift interaction with the i/o stack to enable software defined storage
  R. Nou, A. Miranda, M. Siquier, T. Cortes
  2017 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2)
• Hetfs: A heterogeneous file system for everyone
  G. Koloventzos, R. Nou, A. Miranda, T. Cortes
  International Conference on High Performance Computing, pp. 691-700, 2017
• Gekkofs-a temporary distributed file system for hpc applications
  MA Vef, N Moti, T Süß, T Tocci, R Nou, A Miranda, T Cortes, A Brinkmann
  2018 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), pp. 319-324, 2018
• echofs: A Scheduler-guided Temporary Filesystem to leverage Node-local NVMs
  A. Miranda, R. Nou, T. Cortes
  2018 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD)
• Freezing time: a new approach for emulating fast storage devices using VM
  LCE Bona, A Elias, AP Ziviani, T Cortes, R. Nou, MAZ Alves
  2018 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)
• NORNS: extending Slurm to support data-driven workflows through asynchronous data staging
  A. Miranda, A. Jackson, T. Tocci, I. Panourgias, R. Nou
  2019 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), pp. 1-12, 2019
• YOLO: Speeding up VM and Docker Boot Time by reducing I/O operations
  TL Nguyen, R. Nou, A. Lebre
  European Conference on Parallel Processing, pp. 273-287, 2019
• On server-side file access pattern matching
  FZ Boito, R. Nou, LL Pilla, JL Bez, JF Méhaut, T. Cortes, POA Navaux
  2019 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS)
• GekkoFS—A temporary burst buffer file system for HPC applications
  MA Vef, N Moti, T Süß, M Tacke, T Tocci, R. Nou, A. Miranda, T. Cortes, et al.
  Journal of Computer Science and Technology 35 (1), pp. 72-91, 2020
• Towards on-demand I/O forwarding in HPC platforms
  JL Bez, FZ Boito, A. Miranda, R. Nou, T. Cortes, POA Navaux
  2020 IEEE/ACM Fifth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW), pp. 7-14, 2020
• Freezing time emulating new and faster devices with virtual machines
  LCE Bona, A Elias, AP Ziviani, R. Nou, T. Cortes, MAZ Alves
  CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing 2 (1), pp. 3-15, 2020
• Streamlining distributed Deep Learning I/O with ad hoc file systems
  F. Schimmelpfennig, MA Vef, R. Salkhordeh, A. Miranda, R. Nou, et al.
  2021 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), pp. 169-180, 2021
• Arbitration policies for on-demand user-level I/O forwarding on HPC platforms
  JL Bez, A. Miranda, R. Nou, FZ Boito, T. Cortes, P. Navaux
  2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
• ETP4HPC's SRA 5 strategic research agenda for High-Performance Computing in Europe 2022
  PM Carpenter, M. Casas, OS Unsal, P. Radojkovic, X. Martorell Bofill, et al., 2022
• Adaptive multi-tier intelligent data manager for Exascale
  J. Carretero Pérez, FJ García Blas, M. Aldinucci, JB Besnard, JT Acquaviva, et al.
  ACM DL (Computing Frontiers), 2023
• From static to malleable: improving flexibility and compatibility in burst buffer file systems
  MA Vef, A. Miranda, R. Nou, A. Brinkmann
  International Conference on High Performance Computing, pp. 3-15, 2023
• Data-connector: An agent-based framework for autonomous ml-based smart management in cloud-edge continuum
  P. Liu, JO Torra, M. Palacín, J. Guitart, JL Berral, R. Nou
  2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 1-6, 2024
• Enabling an OpenStack-based cloud on top of RISC-V hardware
  D. Marrón, A. Call, JL Berral, R. Nou
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.12008, 2024
• Cloudskin: ML-based smart management for the cloud-edge continuum
  P. Liu, AM Nestorov, M. Palacín, R. Nou, J. Guitart, JL Berral
  3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for IoT (DL4IoT-2024), 2024
• Enhancing HPC with serverless computing: Lithops on MareNostrum5
  A. Benavides Arévalo, D. Coll Tejeda, A. Call Barreiro, P. Garcia López, et al.
  2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2024
• Enabling the syscall_intercept library for RISC-V
  P. Andrić, R. Nou, A. Call, G. Senabre
  Proceedings of the SC'25 Workshops, 2025
• Integrating Reliability into Intent-Driven Orchestration on Kubernetes-based Edge Nodes
  JL Berral, D. Aguilera-Luzón, P. Liu, R. Nou, M. Serrano, A. Antonopoulos
  2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 1-6, 2025
• Open Challenges for a Production-ready Cloud Environment on top of RISC-V hardware
  A. Call, R. Nou, G. Senabre
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02650, 2025
• Intelligent orchestration mechanisms for image workload placement
  JL Berral-García, MA Serrano, P. Liu, JO Torra, GB Rocca, MP Marfil, et al.
  Advances in Image Processing, Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 59-91, 2026

Otros datos de interés

[2003] Finalista del primer concurso de programación de la UPC, representando a la universidad en el equipo UPC-2 en la final europea del SWERC  organizado por la ACM y IBM. Clasificado a la fase europea en la posición 32.

[1998] Participación en la fase final de la olimpíada Informática Española (OIE).