Academics

Associate Professor at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) assigned to the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB).

Current Courses:

1. •Computer Networks (XC-grau) [2011- currently]
   

2. •Centres de Processament de Dades (CPD) [2012- currently]
   

Former:

1. •Operating Systems (SO) [2003-2004]
   

2. •Computer Networks and Applications (XCA)  [2004-2012]
   

3. •System Performance Evaluation (CARS) (lab sessions can be found here) [2004- 2012]
   

Research

My current research work focuses on the challenges posed by next generation data centers, both in terms of Hardware and Software. I'm a member of the High Performance Computing Group at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) in the UPC. I'm also an associate researcher at the Autonomic Systems and eBusiness Platforms research line in the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC). The line's goal is to understand and to create the core of future large-scale Autonomic Middleware.

Research focus

1. •Multi-tier Web Services: QoS management, dynamic placement, service virtualization, multi-tier architectures
   

2. •MapReduce Workloads: QoS, workload management, energy and performance tradeoff
   

3. •NoSQL systems: high-level data management, data placement
   

4. •Computer architectures: hybrid data centers, hardware accelerators, dedicated architectures, interconnection networks, new uses for HPC systems
   

5. •More information can be found at www.bsc.es/autonomic.
   

Projects

1. •COMPOSE: Collaborative Open Market to Place Objects at your Service. Nov. 2012 - Oct. 2015. (link)
   

2. •BGAS joint research project (BSC - IBM) with the Scalable Data-centric Computing department at IBM TJ Watson research lab (Yorktown, NY)
   

3. •Adaptive Systems joint research project (BSC - IBM) with the Service management middleware department at IBM TJ Watson research lab (Hawthorne, NY)
   

Community Services

1. • Information Officer for the IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Sustainable Computing (link)
   

Conference organization

• Served as Program Committee for IEEE BigData 2013 (link)
• Served as Program Committee for ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2012 - Industrial Track (link)
• Served as Program Committee for IEEE Cloud 2012 (link)
• Served as Program Committee for IEEE WWW 2012 (link)
• Served as Program Committee for IEEE Cloud 2011 (link)
• Served as Program Committee for SIMULTECH 2011 (link)
• Served as Research/Industry Chair for IARA Emerging 2010 (link)
• Served as Program Committee for IARA Emerging 2009 (link)

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (link)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) (link)
• IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) (link)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) (link)
• Elsevier Information Processing Letters (IPL) (link)
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) (link)
• Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) (link)

David Carrera received the MS degree at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2002 and his PhD from the same university in 2008. He is an associate professor at the Computer Architecture Department of the UPC. He is also an associate researcher in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) within the “Autonomic Systems and eBusiness Platforms” research line.

His research interests are focused on the performance management of data center workloads. He was a summer intern at IBM Watson (Hawthorne, NY) in 2006, and a Visiting Research Scholar at IBM Watson (Yorktown, NY) in 2012. He has been involved in several EU and industrial research projects. He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2010. He is an IEEE member.

Students

Current:

1. •Jordà Polo (link)
   

2. •Juan Luis Pérez (link)
   

3. •Nicolas Poggi (link)
   

Former:

1. •Waheed Iqbal (Asian Insitute of Technology) (link) - Graduated September 2012
   

Visitors

Last modified: 17 February 2013

Publications (Full list of publications)

1. •Jordà Polo, Yolanda Becerra, David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé. Deadline-based MapReduce Workload Management. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). ISSN 1932-4537. vol. PP, no.99, pp.1-14. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2012.122112.110163.
   

2. •Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Ricard Gavaldà and Eduard Ayguadé. A Methodology for the Evaluation of High Response Time on E-commerce Users and Sales. International Systems Frontiers (ISF). ISSN: 1387-3326. doi: 10.1007/s10796-012-9387-4
   

3. •David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres, and Eduard Ayguadé. Autonomic placement of mixed batch and transactional workloads. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), February 2012 (vol. 23 no. 2), Pages 219-231. ISSN: 1045-9219
   

4. •Waheed Iqbal, Matthew Dailey, David Carrera, and Paul Janecek Adaptive resource provisioning for read intensive multi-tier applications in the cloud. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Vol. 27(6), pp. 871-879, June 2011. ISSN: 0167-739X
   

5. •Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Ricard Gavaldà and Eduard Ayguadé. Non-intrusive Estimation of QoS Degradation Impact on E-commerce User Satisfaction. In the The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2011). Cambridge, MA. 25 - 27 August 2011