David Carrera

Personal information

 

NAME:

DAVID CARRERA PÉREZ

 

DATE OF BIRTH:

05/15/1979

 

NATIONALITY:

Spanish

 

AFFILIATION:

·          Collaborator professor at the School of Informatics of Barcelona (FIB), in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

·          Research member of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Modul D6, Despatx 112.

E08034, BARCELONA, SPAIN

 

CONTACT:

Phone: +34 93 405 40 62

e-mail: david.carrera at bsc.es

Education

 

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

Ph.D. in Computer Science (in course)

2002/09 -

Thesis: “Resource-aware Self-managing J2EE Application Servers”

 

M.A. in Computer Science

1997/09 - 2002/09

Honors Thesis: “Improving Tomcat 4.0 for multiprocessors”

Teaching Experience

 

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

 

Collaborator professor – “Computer Networks and Applications”

2004/09 -

Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
Responsible for a B.A course

Collaboratori professor – “Operating Systems ”

2003/09 – 2004/06

Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
Lecturer in a M.A. course

Open University of Catalonia (UOC) (distance learning University)

Consultant –  “Computer Networks”  

2003/09 -

Consultant tasks in a virtual classroom for a M.A. course

LANGUAGES

 

 

·        Spanish – native language

·        English – speak, read, and write with advanced competence.

 

 

R&D Experience

 

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Researcher

Research member of the “Complex Systems &  eBusiness Platforms” line in the BSC (http://www.bsc.es).
 
As a member of the BSC, I’m assigned to the “Adaptive Systems” area, focused on the relations with IBM research groups.

My research activity is about resource management on adaptive J2EE application servers.

2005/01 -

CEPBA-IBM Research Institute (CIRI)

R&D

Research tasks in the eDragon group in the area of “Performance of the J2EE Application Servers in Parallel and Distributed Platforms”.

My work on the CIRI was about the research and development of a fine-grain instrumentation tool for J2EE environments, with performance analysis purposes.

2002/08 – 2004/12

European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA)

Undergraduate Researcher

Research support tasks in the area of “Performance tools for Java”.

2001/10 – 2002/07

Computer Architecture Department, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

Developer

Development of a collaborative learning software for schools

2001/05 – 2001/05

BellMoore Consulting

IT Consultant

Development of Web applications

2000/08 – 2001/04

selected Publications

 

 

Book Chapters

·          David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Vicenç Beltran , Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Performance Impact of the Grid Middleware. In Engineering the Grid: Status and Perspective, American Scientific Publishers, September 2005.

Journals

·          Vicenç Beltran , David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. A Hybrid Web Server Architecture for Secure e-Business Web Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 366-377, vol. 3726, no. 3726, September 2005.

·          David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé, A HybridWeb Server Architecture for e-Commerce Applications, Special Issue on High Performance Computing in Parallel and Distributed Systems of IJHPCN Journal. To be published.

 

 

 

International Conferences

·          Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, David Chess, David Carrera, Ilona Gaweda. “Server virtualization in autonomic management of heterogeneous workloads”. 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007). May 2007.

·          Experiences with simulations - a light and fast model for secureWeb applications. Ramon Nou, Jordi Guitart, David Carrera and Jordi Torres. In 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'06). July 2006.

·          David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. A Hybrid Web Server Architecture for e-Commerce Applications. In 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'05), pp. 182-188, July 2005.

·          Jordi Guitart, Vicenç Beltran, David Carrera, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Characterizing Secure Dynamic Web Applications Scalability. 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05). April 4-8, 2005

·          David Carrera, David García, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. WAS Control Center: An Autonomic Performance-Triggered Tracing Environment for WebSphere. In 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP'05), pp. 26-32, February 2005.

·          Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. Tuning Dynamic Web Applications using Fine-Grain Analysis. In 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP'05), pp. 84-91, February 2005. 

·          Jordi Guitart, Vicenç Beltran , David Carrera, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Characterizing Secure Dynamic Web Applications Scalability. In IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC-2005), April 2005.

·          Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran , Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Session-Based Adaptive Overload Control for Secure Dynamic Web Applications. In The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP05), pp. 341-349, June 2005.

·          Vicenç Beltran , David Carrera, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Evaluating the Scalability of Java Event-Driven Web Servers. In 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'04), pp. 134-142, August 2004.

·          David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. Complete Instrumentation Requirements for Performance Analysis of Web Based Technologies. In 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2003), pp. 166-175, March 2003.

Local Workshops

·          Ramon Nou Castell, Jordi Guitart, Vicenç Beltran , David Carrera, Lidia Montero, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. Simulating Complex Systems with a low-detail model. In Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 301-308, September 2005.

·          Vicenç Beltran , Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. Performance Impact of Using SSL on Dynamic Web Applications. In XV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 471-476, 2004.

·          David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé and Jesús Labarta. An Instrumentation Tool for Threaded Java Application Servers. In XIII Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 205-210, September 2002.

PARTICIPATION IN R&D projects

 

Local projects:

·          High Performance Computing III. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. 2002-2004. Researcher.

·          High Performance Computing IV. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. 2004-2007. Researcher.

·          “Uso eficiente de multiprocesadores jerarquicos en entornos multiusuario”. Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and IBM. 2001-2004.

 


Barcelona,  January 2007