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Niels Drost

Niels Drost

Postdoc

   Dr. Niels Drost
Faculty of Sciences
Department of Computer Science
VU University
De Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Room: U4.21
Tel: +31 20 598 5849
Email: niels AT cs.vu.nl
Fax: +31 20 598 7653
 

Welcome to my homepage. I am a Postdoc in the HPDC group, which is part of the Computer Systems group at the VU University, Amsterdam. The goal of my research is to make any compute resource (Cluster, Grid, Cloud, or otherwise) easily accessible for non-experts in high-performance and distributed computing. I perform my research within the Ibis project.

Publications

Theses

Journals

  • N. Drost, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, J. Maassen, F.J. Seinstra, and H.E. Bal. ”Zorilla: Real-World Distributed Supercomputing". Submitted for publication.
  • N. Drost, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, J. Maassen, F.J. Seinstra, and H.E. Bal. ”JEL: Unified Resource Tracking for Parallel and Distributed Applications”. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 23(1): 17-37, January 2011.
  • H.E. Bal, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, N. Drost, N. Palmer, G. Wrzesinska, T. Kielmann, K. van Reeuwijk, F.J. Seinstra, C. Jacobs, R. Kemp, and K. Verstoep. ”Real- World Distributed Computing with Ibis”. IEEE Computer, 43(8): 54-62, August 2010.

International Conferences

  • T. van Kessel, N. Drost, and F.J. Seinstra. ”User Transparent Task Parallel Multimedia Content Analysis”. Submitted for publication.
  • R. Kemp, N. Palmer, T. Kielmann, F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, J. Maassen, and H.E. Bal. ”eyeDentify: Multimedia Cyber Foraging from a Smartphone”. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009), San Diego, California, December 2009.
  • H.E. Bal, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J.Maassen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, C. van Reeuwijk, and F.J. Seinstra. ”Ibis: Real-world problem solving using real-world grids”. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), HPGC workshop, Rome, Italy, May 2009.
  • H.E. Bal, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, T. Kielmann, N. Drost, C. Jacobs, F.J. Seinstra, R. Kemp, and K. Verstoep. ”The Ibis Project: Simplifying Grid Programming and Deployment”. European Projects Showcase, special track at the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, 19-22 May, 2008.
  • Niels Drost, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, and Henri E. Bal. Resource Tracking in Parallel and Distributed Applications. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2008, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Niels Drost, Elth Ogston, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, and Henri E. Bal. ARRG: Real-World Gossiping. Proceeding of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2007, Monterey, CA, USA.
  • Niels Drost, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, and Henri E. Bal. Simple locality-aware co-allocation in peer-to-peer supercomputing. GP2P: Sixth International Workshop on Global and Peer-2-Peer Computing, May 2006, Singapore.

Live Demonstrations

  • J. Urbani, S. Kotoulas, J. Maassen, N. Drost, F.J. Seinstra, F. van Harmelen, and H.E. Bal. ”WebPIE: A Web-Scale Parallel Inference Engine”. In 3rd IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2010), held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) , Selected as Finalist, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, May 17-20, 2010.
  • G. Anadiotis, S. Kotoulas, E. Oren, R. Siebes, F. van Harmelen, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, F.J. Seinstra, and H.E. Bal. ”MaRVIN: A Distributed Platform for Massive RDF Inference” Semantic Web Challenge 2008, held in conjunction with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), Third Prize Winner in the Billion Triples Track, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008.
  • F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal. ”Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing with Ibis”. In the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), Boston, Ma, USA, June 23-27, 2008.
  • F.J. Seinstra, N. Drost, R. Kemp, J. Maassen, R.V. van Nieuwpoort, K. Verstoep, and H.E. Bal. ”Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing”. In 1st IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2008), held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, May 2008.