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Adriana Iamnitchi
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
Tel: (813) 974-5357
Fax: (813) 974-5456






Teaching
Internet-Scale Distributed Systems (CIS 6930.008): Spring 2008

Graduate Operating Systems (COP 6611): Spring 2008

Federated Distributed Systems (CIS 6930.5): Fall 2006, Fall 2005

Undergraduate Operating Systems (COP 4600): Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2006


Publications


Journal/
Conferences

(refereed)
  • File Grouping for Scientific Data Management: Lessons from Experimenting with Real Traces, Shyamala Doraimani and Adriana Iamnitchi, 17th ACM/IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), Boston, MA, June 2008.  [pdf]

  • Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution? Mayur Palankar, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, Simson Garfinkel, Data-Aware Distributed Computing Workshop (DADC), Boston, MA, June 2008. [pdf] Press: Are commercial computing clouds ready for high-energy phycics? (symmetry magazine

  • Data Transfers in the Grid: Workload Analysis of Globus GridFTP. Nicolas Kourtellis, Lydia Prieto, Adriana Iamnitchi, Gustavo Zarrate, Dan Fraser, Data-Aware Distributed Computing Workshop (DADC), Boston, MA, June 2008. [pdf]

  • Content Reuse and Shared Interest in Tagging Communities, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu and Adriana Iamnitchi. AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia - Social Information Processing, Stanford, CA, March 2008. [pdf] [abstract]

  • Tracking User Attention in Collaborative Tagging Communities, Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu, and Adriana Iamnitchi, Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAMA'07), Vancouver, Canada, June 2007. [pdf]

  • Are P2P Data-Dissemination Techniques Viable in Today's Data Intensive Scientific Collaborations?, Samer Al Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Sudarshan Vazhkudai, European Conference on Parallel Computing (EuroPar), Rennes, France, August 2007. [pdf]

  • In Search of Simplicity: A Self-Organizing Group Communication Overlay, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster, Anne Rogers,  IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2007. [pdf][Technical Report]

  • Toward a Doctrine of Containtment: Grid Hosting with Adaptive Resource Control, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey S. Chase, Laura Grit, Adriana Iamnitchi, David Irwin, Aydan Yumerefendi. Supercomputing'06, Tampa, FL, November 2006. [pdf]

  • Filecules in High-Energy Physics: Characteristics and Impact on Resource Management, Adriana Iamnitchi, Shyamala Doraimani, Gabriele Garzoglio, HPDC 2006, Paris, June 2006. [pdf]

  • Interest-Aware Information Dissemination in Small-World Communities, Adriana Iamnitchi and Ian Foster, HPDC 2005, Raleigh, NC, July 2005 [pdf]

  • Small-World File-Sharing Communities. Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster, Infocom 2004, Hong Kong, March 2004.[ps

  • On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing. Ian Foster and Adriana Iamnitchi, 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'03), February 2003, Berkeley, CA. [pdf] [ps]

  • Giggle: A Framework for Constructing Scalable Replica Location Services. Ann Chervenak, Ewa Deelman, Ian Foster, Leanne Guy, Wolfgang Hoschek, Adriana Iamnitchi, Carl Kesselman, Peter Kunst, Matei Ripeanu, Robert Schwartzkopf, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, and Brian Tierney. Supercomputing 2002 (SC2002), Baltimore, MD, November 2002. [pdf]

  • Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems and Implications for System Design. Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster and Adriana Iamnitchi. IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Peer-to-Peer Networking, vol. 6(1), pages 50-57, February 2002. [ps] [pdf]

  • A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Location in Grid Environments. Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster, and Daniel C. Nurmi. Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Edinburgh, UK, August 2002 [ps] [pdf

  • Improving Data Availability through Dynamic Model-Driven Replication in Large Peer-to-Peer Communities. Kavitha Ranganathan, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Ian Foster. Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems Workshop, Berlin, Germany, May 2002. [ps] [pdf]

  • Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations. Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, and Ian Foster. 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02), Cambridge, MA, March 2002. [ps] [pdf]

  • On Fully Decentralized Resource Discovery in Grid Environments. Adriana Iamnitchi and Ian Foster. International Workshop on Grid Computing 2001, Denver, CO, November 2001.[ps] [pdf]

  • Performance Predictions for a Numerical Relativity Package in Grid Environments.  Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Ian Foster. International Journal on High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 15, Number 4, pages 375-387, Winter 2001. [ps] [pdf]

  • Cactus Application: Performance Predictions in Grid Environments. Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, and Ian Foster. EuroPar 2001, Manchester, UK, August 2001. [ps] [pdf]

  • A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems. Adriana Iamnitchi and Ian Foster. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Processing, Toronto, Canada, August 2000. [ps] [pdf]


Book chapters
  • A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Location in Grid Environments. Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster. In J. Weglarz, J. Nabrzyski, J. Schopf, and M. Stroinski eds. Grid Resource Management, Kluwer Publishing, 2003. [pdf]


Posters/
short papers
(refereed)
  • S4: A Simple Storage Service for Sciences, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) - Hot Topics Track, Monterey Bay, CA, June 2007. [pdf][slides]
  • Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?, M. Palankar, A. Onibokun, A. Iamnitchi, M. Ripeanu, poster, 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI'07), April 2007. [pdf]
  • Model-Driven Placement of Compute Tasks and Data in a Networked Utility, Piyush Shivam, Adriana Iamnitchi, Aydan Yumerefendi, and Jeff Chase, IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), July 2005. [pdf]
  • Data-Sharing Relationships in the Web, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, and Ian Foster, poster, 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW12), Budapest, Hungary, May 2003.
  • Myth and Reality: Usage Patterns in a Large Data-Intensive Physics Project. Adriana Iamnitchi and Matei Ripeanu, SC 2002, November 2002, Baltimore, MD. 


Technical Reports
  • Data Transfers in the Grid: Workload Analysis of Globus GridFTP. Nicolas Kourtellis, Lydia Prieto, Gustavo Zarrate, Adriana Iamnitchi, Dan Fraser, University of South Florida Technical Report TR-DSG-2007-02, September 2007.
  • Amazon S3 for Science Grids: A Viable Solution? Mayur Palankar, Ayodele Onibokun, Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, University of South Florida  Technical Report TR-DSG-2007-01, June 2007. [pdf]
  • Data-Sharing Relationships in the Web. Adriana Iamnitchi,  Matei Ripeanu, and Ian Foster. University of Chicago Technical  Report TR-2003-01. [pdf]
  • Myth and Reality: Usage Behavior in a Large Data-Intensive Physics Project. Adriana Iamnitchi and Matei Ripeanu. Technical Report GriPhyN 2003-4 [ps]
  • A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Grid Environments. Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian Foster, and Daniel C. Nurmi, University of Chicago TR-2002-06. [pdf]
Photos of/for friends
Climbing in France (August 2004)
In memoriam: Razvan Jigorea (August 5, 1974 - December 7, 2006)