Phd Activity of Alessio Merlo

Leave of Absence

PhD Courses and Credits

1. Laurea Specialistica Courses at DISI
   • Sistemi Distribuiti Peer to peer
     responsabile: Prof. Giovanni Chiola, Dipartimento di Informatica,University of Genoa, Italy
   ESAME: SOSTENUTO
   • Intelligenza Artificale II
     responsabile: Prof. Maurizio Martelli, Dipartimento di Informatica,University of Genoa, Italy
   ESAME: DA SOSTENERE
   
   
2. PhD Courses at University of Genoa
   • GRID Computing and JAVA Middleware
     responsabile: Prof. Mauro Migliardi, Faculty of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Italy. Esame: SOSTENUTO
   
   
3. Summer Schools
   • 4th International Summer School on Grid Computing
     responsabile: Prof. Almerigo Murli, University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy. Esame: SOSTENUTO

Teaching Assistant Activity

• 2006
• Teaching Assistant in Sistemi Operativi 3 (a.a. 2006/07) course: 12 hours of lesson on Grid Computing & Condor
• Sistemi Distribuiti e P2P (a.a. 2006/07): Seminar on hiding protocols in hybrid P2P systems.
• 2007
• Teaching Assistant in Sistemi Operativi 2 (a.a. 2006/07) course: 48 hours of lesson in labs and in lecturehall

Research Activity

• Supervisors: Dott. Andrea Clematis, Ing. Angelo Corana, Prof. Vittoria Gianuzzi
• Research interests: GRID Computing, Parallel and Cluster Computing, Quantum Cryptography, Classical Crytography and Network Security.

Pubblications

• 2006
• A. Merlo, A. Clematis, V. Gianuzzi, A. Corana, D. D'Agostino,
  Resource selection and application execution in a grid: a migration experience from GT2 to GT4, Lecture Notes in Computer Science n. 4276, 'On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA and ODBASE', R. Meersmann, Z. Tari et al. (Eds.), pages 1132-1142, Springer, Berlin, 2006.
• 2007
• A. Merlo, A. Clematis, V. Gianuzzi, A. Corana, D. D'Agostino,
  Grid services for 3d data analysis in virtual laboratories., Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Instrumenting the Grid (INGRID 2007).
• 2008
• A. Merlo, A. Clematis, V. Gianuzzi, A. Corana, D. D'Agostino, A. Quarati
  A distributed apporach for structured resource discovery on grid., CISIS International Conference 2008 on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, March 4-7, 2008.

Conferences, Seminars, Short Visits

• International Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing and Grids, Cetraro (Italy), July 3-6, 2006.

• International Symposium on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA), Montpellier (France), November 2-3, 2006.

Annual Reports

• 2006
In this first year of PhD. activity I focused my studies on Grid Computing and its issues. In the first part of the year I studied deeply Grid middlewares and standards while, in the second part, I started to consider the Grid scheduling problem: after examining the open issues and the current state of art, I began to think at a possible idea to improve the quality of such metascheduler for classes of application with predictability constraints like Soft Real Time ones: I'm studying a possible architectural solution based on Agent technology.

• 2007
In this second year, I focused my studies in the definition of an architecture (SoRTGrid) that constitutes a Grid Framework granting the management of time constraints over common Grid scenarios. More specifically, it offers services at the resource owner's side for sharing resources and a discovery system to retrieve resources within a deadline at user's side. At present, the main architectural design is complete, main interactions among different parts of the architecture are modeled and some communication and discovery protocols have been defined.