Team members
Resident
Ramon Nou, Ph.D.
Data Centric Computing Group Leaderramon.nou ( #! ) bsc.es
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0000-0003-0464-1473
Ramon Nou has been working on the Autonomic System and e-Business Platforms group of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) until 2008 when he switched to the Storage-system group since 2009 as a researcher. In 2008, he obtained his Ph.D. with the topic ”Using online simulation to improve QoS on middleware”. Ramon has a wide view on all computer levels, with expertise in optimization, performance measurements and simulation/modeling of complex systems. It has been co-leader of the Storage Systems for Extreme Computing research group since January 2019, and moved the line inside Data Centric Computing group in 2024, acting as group leader.
Alberto Miranda, Ph.D.
SSEC Research Group Co-Leadalberto.miranda ( #! ) bsc.es
@amiranda_hpc
alberto-miranda
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0000-0002-1386-628X
Dr. Eng. Alberto Miranda is a Senior Researcher in advanced storage systems in the Computer Science Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and co-leader of the Storage Systems Research Group since 2019. Dr. Eng. Miranda received a diploma in Computer Engineering (2004), a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (2006) and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Architectures, Networks and Systems (2008) from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTech). He later received a Ph.D. degree Cum Laude in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia in 2014 with his thesis “Scalability in Extensible and Heterogeneous Storage Systems”.
His current research interests include efficient file and storage systems, operating systems, distributed system architectures, as well as information retrieval systems. Since he started his work at BSC in 2007, he has published 14 papers in international conferences and journals, as well as 5 white papers and technical reports and 1 book chapter. Dr. Eng. Miranda is currently involved in several European and national research projects and has participated in competitively funded EU projects XtreemOS, IOLanes, Prace2IP, IOStack, Mont-Blanc 2, EUDAT2020, Mont-Blanc 3, and NEXTGenIO.
Alberto is working now in Seqera labs, since November 2023.
External Collaborators
Marc-Andre Vef, Ph.D.
Associate professorvef ( #! ) uni-mainz.de
https://research.zdv.uni-mainz.de/people/marc-andre-vef/
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0000-0001-7398-3034
Marc-André Vef is a postdoctoral researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He started his Ph.D. in 2016 after receiving his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His master’s thesis was in cooperation with IBM Research about analyzing file create performance in the IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system (formerly GPFS).
During his Ph.D., he has worked on several projects focusing on file system tracing (in collaboration with IBM Research) and distributed file systems, among others. Most notably, he designed two ad-hoc distributed file systems: DelveFS (in collaboration with OpenIO), which won the Best Paper in its category, and GekkoFS (in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center). GekkoFS placed fourth in its first entry in the 10-node challenge of the IO500 benchmark. The file system is actively developed in the scope of the EuroHPC ADMIRE project. He finished his Ph.D. in July 2023.
His research interests focus on file systems and system analytics.