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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING LABFirst Workshop, June 15th 2012
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Outline
• 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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Agenda10:30 Patrizio Dazzi, A potpourri of distributed computing researches11:00 Claudio Lucchese, On Frequent Chatters Mining
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Gabriele Tolomei, You’re not Asking Me to Find Something, You’re Asking Me to Get Things Done!12:30 Rossano Venturini, Data Structures + Data Compression: A love story since 198913:00 Massimo Coppola, Issues and Opportunities of Cloud Federations
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Franco Maria Nardini, On Enhancing the User Experience in Search Engines15:30 Ranieri Baraglia, Building of P2P Overlay Networks via Voronoi and Gossip
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Nicola Tonellotto, Response Times in Web Search Architectures17:00 Fabrizio Silvestri, The Impact of Social Groups on News Recommendations
17:30 Open discussion
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Dinner @ La Locanda Sant’Agata
At 20:30
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SHORT PRESENTATION OF THE RESEARCH GROUPFirst Workshop, June 15th 2012
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HPC Lab peopleResearchers
PhD fellows
Research associates
Admin. supp.
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PhD students
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http://hpc.isti.cnr.it
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, ...• ….
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Papers in journals and Conferences
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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 2012Project 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 50000VISITO 2009/2011 REGIONE TOSCANA 90000
InGeoClouds 2012/2014 EC PSP STREP 120000NESSOS 2010/2014 EC, FP7 NOE 16000
MIDAS 2012/2015 EC FP7 STREP 130000
TOTALE 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, Agenda10:30 Patrizio Dazzi, A potpourri of distributed computing researches11:00 Claudio Lucchese, On Frequent Chatters Mining
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Gabriele Tolomei, You’re not Asking Me to Find Something, You’re Asking Me to Get Things Done!12:30 Rossano Venturini, Data Structures + Data Compression: A love story since 198913:00 Massimo Coppola, Issues and Opportunities of Cloud Federations
13:30 Lunch Break
15:00 Franco Maria Nardini, On Enhancing the User Experience in Search Engines15:30 Ranieri Baraglia, Building of P2P Overlay Networks via Voronoi and Gossip
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Nicola Tonellotto, Response Times in Web Search Architectures17:00 Fabrizio Silvestri, The Impact of Social Groups on News Recommendations
17:30 Open discussion
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