Rutger Hofman
Research Programmer in the Computer Systems Group of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
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Current projects
In the group of Henri Bal:
- GreenClouds -- energy-aware cluster computing, on both CPUs and GPUs.
Previous projects (an incomplete list, for sure)
In the group of Andy Tanenbaum:
-
The RFID Guardian project: a
handheld device to protect the bearer against unwarranted RFID queries.
A hardware prototype has been developed commercially. It has a BlackFin
CPU, an FPGA, analog hardware, and is extensible.
Software:
- Real-Time OS eCos,
extended for BlackFin BF54x series;
- device drivers for the RFID devices, NAND flash, FPGA
communication via UrJTAG, BlueTooth communication and some more;
- implementation of the ISO15693, ISO14443, Mifare protocol stacks;
- ACL tuned for speedy lookup of ranges of RFID UIDs;
- command language over serial or network connection
-
The Mansion project:
Secure distributed multi-agent system.
In the group of Henri Bal:
- The Ibis project:
fast communication and serialization, done entirely in Java.
Ibis also runs over Myrinet, calling into native (C) code.
- 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
My software page contains some contributions to eCos, some in really alpha stage; and
some private projects, like my package to do web management for a music group
(for now, completely in Dutch) or a converter from niff to lilypond.
Publications
Personal
Address
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer
Science
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1081A, Room P4:54
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Email
rutger@cs.vu.nl
Telephone
+31 20 598 7759
Rutger Hofman, home page / Rutger Hofman / rutger@cs.vu.nl
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