Nicolas Poggi's Academic Homepage / Computer Architecture Dept. / UPC

NICOLAS POGGI
Academic Homepage

Email: NPoggi AT ac.upc.edu

Nicolas Poggi received his PhD at the Computer Architecture Department (DAC) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC - BarcelonaTech), with David Carrera as thesis advisor. And with the previous collaboration of Ricard Gavaldà and Jordi Torres. The thesis can be downloaded below.

Currently, at Databricks (Amsterdam) building the new benchmarking and monitoring infrastructure to ensure the performance and reliability of new Apache Spark releases in our cloud solution. Previously, as research lead in a on upcoming architectures for intensive data processing at the Barcelona Super Computing Center (BSC) and Microsoft Research joint centre. Also, part of the High Performance Computing (CAP) research group at DAC.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Peformance and scalability of Data intensive applications; benchmark design; Big Data; Machine Learning; Cloud and Green computing; Benchmarking and Profiling of applications; Human-Computer interaction.

ORCID 0000-0001-6212-8016

PHD THESIS:

"AUGURES, Profit-Aware Web Infrastructure Management". Presented May 2014. SLIDES

PUBLICATION LIST:

Nicolas Poggi, Victor Cuevas-Vicenttin, Josep Lluis Berral, Thomas Fenech, Gonzalo Gomez, Davide Brini, Alejandro Montero, David Carrera Umar Farooq Minhas, Jose A. Blakeley, Donald Kossmann, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Clemens Szyperski."Benchmarking Elastic Cloud Big Data Services under SLA Constraints". 11th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2019 (VLDB collocated), Los Angeles, USA, Aug. 2019. Paper SLIDES

Nicolas Poggi. Book chapter: "Microbenchmarks in big data" . Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer, March, 2018.

Nicolas Poggi, Alejandro Montero, David Carrera. "Characterizing BigBench queries, Hive, and Spark in multi-cloud environments". 9th TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2017 (VLDB collocated), Munich, Germany, Aug. 2017.

Nicolas Poggi, Josep Ll. Berral, Thomas Fenech, David Carrera, Jose Blakeley, Umar Farooq Minhas, and Nikola Vujic. "The state of SQL-on-Hadoop in the Cloud". The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016), Washington DC, USA, Oct. 07-Dec. 2016.

Nicolas Poggi, Josep Ll. Berral, David Carrera, Aaron Call, Rob Reinauer, Nikola Vujic, Daron Green, José Blakeley, Fabrizio Gagliardi. "From Performance Profiling to Predictive Analytics while Evaluating Hadoop Cost-Efficiency in ALOJA". The IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2015), Santa Clara (CA), USA, Oct. 29-Nov. 1 2015. Pages 1220-1229.

Josep Ll. Berral, Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Aaron Call, Rob Reinauer, Daron Green. "ALOJA: A Framework for Benchmarking and Predictive Analytics in Big Data Deployments". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (Volume:PP , Issue: 99 ). 30 October 2015. ISSN : 2168-6750

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera. "Evaluating the impact of SSDs and InfiniBand in Hadoop cluster performance and costs". BSC White paper (Sandisk collaboration). Barcelona, Spain. Oct 10 2015.

Todor Ivanov, Tilmann Rabl, Meikel Poess, Anna Queralt, John Poelman, Nicolas Poggi, and Jeffrey Buell. "Big Data Benchmark Compendium". In 7th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2015), 31 August, 2015, Kohala Coast, Hawai
Published on: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: Traditional to Big Data to Internet of Things. Volume 9508 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Pages 135-155.

Nicolas Poggi, Josep Ll. Berral, David Carrera. "ALOJA: a Benchmarking and Predictive Platform for Big Data Performance Analysis". The Sixth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (6th WBDB). June 16-17, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Josep Ll. Berral, Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Aaron Call, Rob Reinauer, Daron Green. "ALOJA-ML: A Framework for Automating Characterization and Knowledge Discovery in Hadoop Deployments". The 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015), Sydney, Australia, August 10-13 2015.

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Aaron Call, Rob Reinauer, Nikola Vujic, Daron Green and Jose Blakeley, et al. "ALOJA: a Systematic Study of Hadoop Deployment Variables to Enable Automated Characterization of Cost-Effectiveness". IEEE BigData 2014. 27-30 Oct. 2014. Washington DC, USA.

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé. "Profit-Aware Cloud Resource Provisioner for Ecommerce". IEEE Cluster 2014. 22-26 Sep. 2014. Madrid, Spain.

Nicolas Poggi, Vinod Muthusamy, David Carrera, Rania Khalaf. "Business Process Mining from E-commerce Web Logs". Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013, Beijing, China, August 26-30. ISBN 978-3-642-40175-6. Pages 65-80.

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Ricard Gavaldà, Eduard Ayguadé, Jordi Torres. "A Methodology for the Evaluation of High Response Time on E-commerce Users and Sales". Information Systems Frontiers Jounal. Springer US, 2012.

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Ricard Gavaldà, Eduard Ayguadé. "Non-intrusive Estimation of QoS Degradation Impact on E-commerce User Satisfaction". The 10th IEEE Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2011), Cambridge (USA), August 2011.

Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé. "Characterization of Workload and Resource Consumption for an Online Travel and Booking Site". Workload Characterization (IISWC), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on. 2-4 Dec. 2010. Atlanta, GA, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4244-9297-8.

Nicolas Poggi, Toni Moreno, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres. "Self-Adaptive Utility-Based Web Session Management". Special Issue on Autonomic and Self-Organising Systems. Computer Networks Journal. Volume 53, Issue 10, 14 July 2009. ISSN: 1389-1286. Pages 1712-1721.

Josep L. Berral, Nicolas Poggi, Javier Alonso, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres and Manish Parashar. "Adaptive Distributed Mechanism Against Flooding Network Attacks Based on Machine Learning". ACM Workshop on Articifial Intelligence on Security 2008, October 27th, 2008, Virginia (USA). ISBN: 978-1-60558-291-7. Pages 43-50.

Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Nicolas Poggi, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Eduard Ayguadé, Toni Moreno, Jordi Guitart. "Tailoring resources: Energy efficient consolidation strategy goes beyond virtualization". Proceedings of ICAC 2008, The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, poster session. Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3175-5. Pages: 197-198.

Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Kevin Hogan, Ricard Gavaldà, Vicenç Beltran and Nicolas Poggi. "Reducing Wasted Resources to Help Achieve Green Data Centers". In The Fourth Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC 2008), April 14, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4244-1693-6. Pages: 1-8.

Nicolas Poggi, Toni Moreno, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres. "Automatic Detection and Banning of Content Stealing Bots for E-commerce". NIPS 2007 Workshop on Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments for Computer Security. December 8, 2007. British Columbia, Canada.

Toni Moreno, Nicolas Poggi, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres. "Policy-based autonomous bidding for overload management in eCommerce websites". Group Decision and Negotiation Meeting - Group Decision and Negotiation, INFORMS (Proceedings of the Group Decision and Negotiation 2007). Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2007. Pages 162-166)

Nicolas Poggi, Toni Moreno, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres. "Web Customer Modeling for Automated Session Prioritization on High Traffic Sites". Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on User Modeling. Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-540-73077-4. Pages 450-454.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS:

Nicolas Poggi "From performance profiling to Predictive Analytics while evaluating Hadoop cost-effectiveness using ALOJA". The Sixth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (6th WBDB). June 16-17, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Josep Berral, Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera "A Case of Study on Hadoop Benchmark Behavior Modeling Using ALOJA-ML". The Sixth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (6th WBDB). June 16-17, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Aaron Call, Nicolas Poggi, David Carrera "ALOJA-HDI: A characterization of cost-effectiveness of PaaS Hadoop on the Azure Cloud". The Sixth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (6th WBDB). June 16-17, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

DEMO SHOW CASES:

Demo Exhibit at CloudScape: "ALOJA, Cost-Effective Big Data deployments in the Cloud", Nicolas Poggi. Brussels, 5 Feb 2015.

Demo Exhibit at International Conference on Autonomic Computing. "EMOTIVE CLOUD : The BSC Engine for Cloud Solutions", Jordi Guitart, Íñigo Goiri, Ferran Julià, Mario Macías, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Vicenç Beltran, Jordà Polo, David de Nadal, Uday Kiran, J. Oriol Fitó, Gemma Reig, Rosa M. Badia, Jorge Ejarque, Eduard Ayguadè, Javier Alonso, Josep Lluís Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Nicolas Poggi, Jordi Torres. Barcelona, June 2009.

E-mail: NPoggi AT ac.upc.edu Address: UPC, Campus Nord, Modul C6 - 101 C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3. E-08034
Barcelona, Spain.

Last update: 2019/09/03