Henri Casanova

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Education

• Ph.D. 1998, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• M.S. 1994, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France
• B.S. 1993, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse, France

Research Interests

High performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, parallel application scheduling, simulation of distributed applications and platforms

Honors/Awards

• PI,”Collaborative Research: Simulation-driven runtime resource management for distributed workflow applications”, National Science Foundation (NSF Grant 2103489″ data-wplink-url-error=”true”>NSF Grand 2103489), $284,973 2021-2024.
• PI, “Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Simulation-driven runtime resource management for distributed workflow applications,” National Science Foundation (NSF Grant 2106059), $279,988.00, 2021-2024.
• PI, “Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities,” National Science Foundation (NSF Grant 1923539), $238,707 2019-2022.
• Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching, UH Mānoa, 2018

Recent Publications

• Beyond Binary Search: Parallel In-place Construction of Implicit Search Tree Layouts, K. Berney, H. Casanova, B. Karsin, N. Sitchinava, in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021
• Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts in Simulation with WRENCH, H. Casanova, R. Tanaka, W. Koch, R. Ferreira da Silva, in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 156, 53-63, 2021
• GLUME: A Strategy for Reducing Workflow Execution Times on Batch-Scheduled Platforms, E. Hataishi, P.-F. Dutot, R. Ferreira da Silva, H. Casanova, in Proc. of the 24th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP), May 2021.
• WfChef: Automated Generation of Accurate Scientific Workflow Generators, T. Coleman, H. Casanova, Ferreira da Silva, in Proc. IEEE International eScience Conference, 2021.
• Developing Accurate and Scalable Simulators of Production Workflow Management Systems with WRENCH, H. Casanova, R. Ferreira da Silva, R. Tanaka, S. Pandey, G. Jethwani, W. Koch, S. Albrecht, J. Oeth, F. Suter, in Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 112, 162-175, 2020.

Courses

• Fall 2021
  • ICS 312 Machine-Level and Systems Programming
  • ICS 632 Principles of High Performance Computing
• Spring 2021
  • ICS 312 Machine-Level and Systems Programming

Service

• Director: Concurrency Research Group (CoRG)
• ABET-accreditation lead (2015-2020)
• Department Associate Chair (2015)
• ICS Department Graduate Chair (2009-2013, Fall 2018)

Professional Activities

• Algorithms Track Chair, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2020
• Subject Area Editor for Parallel Computing (2012-2016)
• Local Arrangements Co-Chair, IEEE Computing Cluster Conference, 2017
• Co-organizer: INRIA Workshop on Scheduling Algorithms for Exascale, Dagstuhl Schloss, Germany, Sep. 2013.