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2004
- Final Degree Project - "Disseny i implementacióde Web Services
mitjançant Java i .NET entre Pocket PC, PC i clients J2ME."
2005
- Simulating Complex Systems with a Low-Detail Model
R. Nou, J. Guitart, V. Beltran, D. Carrera, L. Montero and J. Torres
XVI Jornadas de Paralelismo
Granada, Spain, September 13-16, 2005, pp. 301-308
ISBN: 84-9732-430-7
- Simulating and Modeling Secure e-Business Applications
R. Nou, J. Guitart and J. Torres
Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2005-59, December 2005
- Sorting backlog queue, impact over Tomcat
R. Nou
Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2005-58 , December 2005
2006
- 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) (CORE: A, 2008)
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) (CORE: B,
2008)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, July 12-15, 2006, pp. 177-184
ISBN: 0-7695-2612-8, ISSN: 1521-9097
- Monitoring and analysing a grid middleware node
R. Nou, F. Julià, D. Carrera, K. Hogan, J. Caubet, J. Labarta, and J. Torres. .
Proc. 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid
Computing 2006, GRID 2006 (CORE: A, 2008)
Barcelona , Spain , September 2006.
ISBN 1-4244-0344-8
- Supporting the Introduction of Autonomic Computing in
Middleware
J.Caubet, K. Hogan, R. Nou, J. Labarta and J. Torres.
Engineering Conference VII, IBM Academy of Technology Conference
IBM
Hursley , England , October 2006.
- Monitoring and Analysis Framework for Java Middlewares
Ramon Nou, Ferran Julià, David Carrera, Kevin Hogan, Jordi Caubet, Jesús Labarta,
Jordi Torres
Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2006-33 ,October 2006
2007
- 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) (CORE:
C, 2008)
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) (CORE: C,
2008)
Sedona, Arizona, March 2007 ISBN 978-0-7695-2804-5 . pp 113-120
- 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 ISBN 978-0-7695-2809-0, pp 5-13
- Dynamic resource provisioning for self-adaptive heterogeneous workloads in SMP
hosting platforms
R. Nou, F. Julià, Jordi Guitart and J. Torres
ICE-B 2007, the International Conference on E-business (2nd) (CORE: B, 2008)
Barcelona, Spain, July 28th-31th, 2007
- Using QPN to add QOS to Grid middleware
Samuel Kounev, Ramon Nou, Jordi Torres
Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2007-13 ,April 2007
- Sharing Resources dynamically in SMP Platforms: Self-Adaptive Tomcat &
GRID Workloads
Ramon Nou, Ferran Julià, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres
Research Report number: UPC-DAC-RR-2007-19 ,May 2007
- Unicore - Globus Overhead comparison
R. Nou
Research Report number:UPC-DAC-RR-2007-36 ,July 2007
- Preliminary analysis of Globus Toolkit 4 to create prediction
models
Ramon Nou, Samuel Kounev
Research Report number:UPC-DAC-RR-2007-37 ,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
2008
- Aplicacion de la simulacion en tiempo real para mejorar la calidad de servicio
del Middleware
Ramon Nou
Thesis, UPC, October 2008
2009
- 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
2010
- 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 Intl 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. (CORE: A, 2008)
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). (Core: A, 2008)
Heraklion, Crete, Greece. September 20-24, 2010.
- 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.
2011
- 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
2012
- 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
- 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
- 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.
2013
- 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
2014
- 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).
2015
- Performance Impacts with Reliable Parallel File Systems at Exascale
Level,
Nou, R., Miranda, A., Cortes, T.
Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing, 277-288
2016
- IOStack: Software-Defined Object Storage
R. Gracia-Tinedo, P. García-López, M. Sanchez-Artigas, J. Sampé, Y Moatti, R. Nou, et al.
IEEE, 2016
2017
- 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
2018
- 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)
2019
- 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)
- Adaptive Request Scheduling for the I/O Forwarding Layer
JL Bez, FZ Boito, R. Nou, A. Miranda, T. Cortes, P. Navaux
Preprint/Working Paper, 2019
2020
- 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
2021
- 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)
2022
- 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
2023
- 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
2024
- 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
2025
- Enabling the syscall_intercept library for RISC-V
P. Andrić, R. Nou, A. Call, G. Senabre
Proceedings of the SC'25 Workshops (International Conference for High Performance Computing,
Networking, Storage and Analysis), 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
- Mobility Usecase: Intelligent Service Migration in Cloud-Edge
Continuum
P. Liu, JO Torra, M. Palacín, M. Dalgitsis, MA Serrano, E. Datsika, et al.
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
- ETP4HPC SRA 6 White Paper - I/O and Storage
S. Neuwirth, P. Deniel, JT Acquaviva, M. Golasowski, M. Hennecke, et al.
Zenodo, 2025
2026
- 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
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