Rutger Hofman

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Current projects

• The RFID Guardian project: help develop a nice handheld, to protect the bearer against unwarranted RFID queries. Currently, hardware is developed commercially. It has a BlackFin CPU, an FPGA, analog hardware, and is extensible. Previously, we used an XScale development board to make a prototype and custom hardware.
  Software:
  • the Real-Time OS is an eCos port;
  • the BlackFin eCos port is extended to the BF54x series;
  • device drivers for the RFID devices, NAND flash, FPGA communication, BlueTooth communication and some more;
  • implementation of the ISO15693, ISO14443, Mifare protocol stacks; DesFire is under development;
  • ACL tuned for speedy lookup of ranges of RFID UIDs;
  • command language over a connection, with stub compiler to C and Java;
  • standard cryptography for authentication and encryption. To Decide: will we go for OpenSSL or for GnuTLS?

Previous projects (an incomplete list, for sure)

• The Mansion project: Secure distributed multi-agent system.

• The Ibis project: fast communication and serialization, done entirely in Java. Ibis also runs over Myrinet, but then it uses native (C) code, of course. Ibis + TCP and HOT>> Myrinet <<HOT now also runs on Windows XP! (Who would ever have thought that our group would do Windows work...)
• Fast network layers on the DAS-2 cluster. These include LFC-GM, an implementation of the LFC interface on top of Myricom's GM.
  The portability layer Panda is also maintained by me.
• The Jackal project: A Java DSM implementation. This is part of the Manta Project
• The Manta project: A Java implementation with a native compiler and very fast RMI.
• The Albatross project: Wide Area parallel computing on the DAS cluster
• Fast network layers for Orca and Panda on the DAS cluster
• Blindingly fast MPI on the DAS cluster
• Blindingly fast PVM on the DAS cluster
• Runtime support system for Orca on Unix platforms
• Trace package and analysis tools for Orca programs
• Port of Panda and Orca towards the Parix platforms T800 (transputer machine) and PowerExplorer (PowerPC machine)

Software

Publications

Papers

Personal

• Some of my music interests, insofar as they may be of any use to others:
  • Concert diary
  • a converter from NIFF to Lilypond
  • the Bach Cantatas that contain flute parts;
  • my list of "Must-Have" classical CDs;
  • unsorted stuff
• Orkest Barock Sommer (Simonade)
• VU-Kamerorkest (Nederlands)
• Flehite Sinfonietta (Nederlands)
• Bookmarks
• VU Web mail
• VU Web calendar
• VU leave
• VU mail filter

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