Research Area on Infrastructures for Distributed Computing

Research Area on Infrastructures for Distributed Computing was created in 2007 after our research laboratory had already dedicated more than three years work to the field of grid computing. The name of the area was chosen focusing both on the computing infrastructures, and the technologies related to them, and the holistic vision of NESSI towards a service-based economy. Grid computing and its evolutions (cloud computing) are considered interesting solutions and their characteristics merge well with the market trends and the future commercial perspective of our company. Today the market tends towards service-based architectures which require infrastructures able to manage dynamic contexts. Any competing service-based economy needs to leverage on adaptive service-oriented utility infrastructures to better exploit service-based applications. Grid based infrastructures fit well in this vision of the near future. Moreover the digital convergence between content and infrastructures is creating a huge amount of data which needs to be stored and processed, grid already solves these issues in the scientific domain and some commercial contexts can be now considered ready for this technology.

Team

Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj

has a Bachelor of Computer science Engineering degree from the University of Madras, India followed by an International Master in IT from Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa,Italy . She has been working for Engineering group since October 2009 in the R&D laboratory. Her research interests are Identity and Access management, Federated Identity Management, SOA Security, Single-sign-solutions for Portals and Security policy design. Currently, she is working in the D4science project on user management and ABAC based authorization and VISION project on policy management and federation as a software developer.

Lucia Bonelli

gratuated in Computer Science at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1998 and she joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica R&D laboratory in the same year, where she was software engineer in Information Security projects concerning the integration of cryptographic functionalities in web applications. She also performed short consulting activities in public administration projects. At the end of 2000 she joined Schumberger Worldwide, where she worked both as project manager and project engineer on projects related to SIM Card application, providing also technical support to customers distributed along the South Europe and Paris. At 2003 she moved to Security Consultants group of SchlumbergerSema (now Engineering.it, belonging to Engineering group) and at 2006 she was appointed as Technical Responsible of “Digital Signature” framework of the Public Administration “Regione Siciliana – PiattaformaTelematica Integrata” Project. In October 2009 she joined again the R&D lab of Engineering group, where she's team leader in research projects dealing with security on distributed Infrastructures.

Paolo Fabriani

received his University Degree in Computer Science in July 2000 at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. After a one-year collaboration with the same University and CNR, he joined the R&D Laboratory of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. Since 2001 he has been involved in different research projects (ArchWare, ECOLNET, Diligent) and other initiatives (design and development of JDuck, a set of graphic libraries for web applications). Recently, he led the Engineering team in ETICS/ETICS2 projects and was responsible, in D4Science project, for the integration and build activity based on the Etics System. He is currenly responsible for the design and implementation of the accounting and billing system in Venus-C project.

Ciro Formisano

received his degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2005 at University of Naples Federico II. In the same year he joined the Computers for Interaction and Communications (COMICS) research group where he worked on RFID technology. In 2006 he got the Cisco Certified Network Associated (CCNA) certification, renewed in 2009. In 2006 he joined the Research and Innovation Division of Engineering in Torre Annunziata where he took part in several research projects about next generation services on mobile devices. One of these projects was RIST, in collaboration with the University of Naples and co-financed by the Italian University Ministry. In 2008 he started to work on web technology for private and public customers, and assumed the technical responsibility of some projects for Italian Local Governments. In 2010 he returned in the research world joining the R&D Lab in Rome in order to work on Cloud Computing projects. In the new group he had the responsibility for the design and implementation of the security infrastructure in D4Science, till the successful conclusion of the project, on November 2011. Currently he is working on Authentication, Authorization and Identity Federation topics for Cloud environment. He is responsible for the design of Policy Based Security Facilities in IMarine project and of the Identity Federation infrastructure in Vision Cloud project.

Gabriele Giammatteo

graduated (in 2009) in Computer Engineering at the Università degli studi di Roma Tre on Secure Storage in distributed environments. He is currently employed in Engineering's R&D Lab as software engineer with expertise in the set up and management of distributed infrastructures in particular in grid and cloud computational and/or data management systems. He has been involved in some FP7 projects (namely ETICS2, D4ScienceEcosystem) and he is currently working on TEFIS project as WP leader of Work Package 5 in charge of the definition, the design and the implementation of connectors

Maria Antonietta Di Girolamo

graduated in Computer Science in 2001, started her carrier in 2001 with the role of system administrator. She was involved in different IT projects (in public and private organization) with a technical role. In 2010 she started working in Engineering R&D lab. Here she was involved in different research projects co-funded by the European Commission, Erina4Africa, Aristotele , Venus-C. Her main interests include the study of semantic languages and (operational,denotational and axiomatic) and sematinc models (as web or analysis semantic) for distributed and parallel systems and multicore systems. She is currently on maternity leave.

Luisa Giudicianni

graduated in Mathematics at University of Naples "Federico II" in 1999, she has been working for Engineering group since May 2000. She is a solution developer, her activity has interested especially web applications in their functional, development and presentation aspects. Currently, she is collaborating with the Passive project team approaching Cloud compliance aspects.

Angelo Immediata

has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno. He has been working for Engineering group since 2004. He has contributed in planning and developing several web oriented solutions. In 2004 he worked as solution architect in PMM project which used a SOA approach for supply public administrations services to citizens. In 2005 he worked as solution architect in SUA project which offered to the Naples Municipality a system for single sign on in all the municipality systems. In 2007 he worked as solution architect in IDEP system which was used for election results for the city of Palermo and region Sicily. In 2008 he was solution architect for Intranet of Rimini Municipality. In 2009 he worked as solution architect for SAUSSC project which offered to citizens of Puglia several e-Health services. Currently he is working in PASSIVE project by studying compliance and privacy aspects. His technical competences are on Spring, Hibernate, Cocoon, Liferay, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Portal, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Tomcat

Gian Uberto Lauri

has a master degree in Electronic Engineering. He has collected experiences as systems administrator since he was a uiversity student. He worked as junior systems administrator at the University of Padova before joining Engineering in 1998. In Engineering he worked as developer of client/server and J2EE applications with some other task bound to Unix, C/C++ and Free/Open Source Software. In 2008 he started his experience in the reaseach field wotking in the DEWS team. Since November 2010 he has been cooperating with Engineering R&D team working on Distibuted Computing. He is in charge of the management of the infrastructure mostly to support the GAMES and Venus-C projects.

Diego Leone

gratuated in Computer Science at the University of Genoa in 2006. Few month after the degree, he joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A, where he was software analyst in the domain of the eGoverment. In the 2007 he worked in ERINA study project ( http://www.erinastudy.eu/ ) as part of the team, in particular with the focus to analyze the use of the e-Infrastructure in the eGovernment domain. After this experience, he joined the Document Management Area in the LPA (Local Public Administration) domain until 2011. In this period he acquired skills in the open source domain (J2EE, Spring framework, Liferay portal, etc.) because of their use in some products like E-grammata (http://www.eng.it/web/eng_en/e-grammata). In the last period, his interest in the cloud technology grows so he became the assistant supervisors of a thesis with the title “Project of a SDP prototype for Public Administrations and private networks” developed at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Genoa. In Januarys 2012 he joined the R&D lab of Engineering group, where he's the deputy of the project coordinator of the ERINA+ research project.

Antonio Luzzi

graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno. He is a solution architect with ten years experience in SOA projects. In the past, he has designed the architecture for projects involved in various domains, such as a research project RIST on IMS (Ip multimedia SubSystem)in the Telecom domain, a research project FoodSys in BPM(Business Process Management) domain and an internal project focused on open solution of Scada system. He is the technical responsible for "Porta di Dominio" in Egov Context for Engineering S.p.A. He is a Sun certified Java developer(SCJP 1.6 ) and JBoss certified advanced j2ee developer

Andrea Manieri

graduated in Computer Science 1998, with a master thesis on object oriented lambda calculus with prof. Emeritus C.Boehm. In 2000 he joined EU projects as Technical Manager in the ECOLNET, then in 2002 he was appointed as RTD Coordinator in Engisanità Spa, an Engineering Group company on HealthCare market. On April 2003 he joined again the Engineering labs as responsible of development of new business on Grid Technology establishing a specific unit and contributing to several project in FP6/FP7 project. He was Exploitation Manager of Diligent project, and Project manager of and EC study (www.erina-study.eu). He is currently Project Director of VENUS-C project (FP7 INFRA-261556) and ERINA+ support Action (FP7 INFRA-261550). His current research interests involve Open Source Cloud management tools and parallel and multicore programming.

Isabel Matranga

has a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Palermo. She has been working for Engineering group since 2001. Since 2006 she has worked in the field of distributed computing at Engineering R&D laboratory. She cooperates with the head of the Engineering R&D unit on ‘Infrastructures for distributed computing’ mainly taking care of the dissemination of project results, the identification of exploitation and sustainability strategies and the management of EU funded projects. She is mainly interested in the analysis of the impact of distributed computing in the research field and also in other areas (e.g. e-Health, e-Government and e-Learning) and in the spreading of knowledge of the results obtained in the area of distributed computing together with the identification of sustainability strategies which take research results beyond public funding. Currently, she is working in the VENUS-C project and ERINA+ support action as deputy of the project director and taking care of dissemination and exploitation activities.

Nadia Nardi

earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology Management from Ryerson University (2004). Her major was telecommunications management and minor in business communication. She has been with Engineering since 2006, starting in the ERP Unit as a Change Management Expert, whose role works on minimizing the negative impact due to the introduction of new technologies in the areas of organizational alignment, communication and training. She has worked on national and international projects, with customers in Slovakia and Russia. She recently joined the Research and Development Unit as a Project Manager. Currently, she is working on the VENUS-C project as deputy coordinator and is also performing a research study on the sustainability of VENUS-C. Nadia’s current interests are in the study of sustainable perspectives and sustainability strategies of scientific cloud computing, and project management knowledge areas.

Marco Palazzotti

IT architect and presale. Projects and design of IT architecture. Consultancy for open source projects, server consolidation, virtualization, storage consolidation, high availability, disaster recovery, datawarehouse and internetworking. Rewarded at the Red Hat Summit as RHCE of the year for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) is considered the best IT certification from recent indipendent survey. Red Hat is the most trusted Linux provider to the enterprise.

Laura Pucci

Graduated in Modern Foreign Literatures and Languages (English and Arabic) in 2000, she began to deepen her strong interest in Computer Science also by attending Training Courses on ITC and technologies applied in the Management of Cultural Heritage (gaining experience especially on Digital Libraries and storage of photographic Archives of large dimensions). In 2002 she got a Master as Analyst-Programmer and began to work in Engineering, firstly on development process then on the functional analysis of Web Applications. She's been working with research teams since 2008, combining her language skills with her experience on IT. During this period she has worked on the analysis and editing of documentation of architectural specifications of research projects (RIST, VaaS based on IMS and OD-CDN - Content Delivery Network On Demand, a customizable system for the delivery of web content). Since 2010 she is collaborating with the R&D Lab, supporting both project management activities and the preparation and editing of reports and documents for Research Projects co-funded by the EU (mainly ERINA + and VENUS-C).

Ermanno Travaglino

He received his Bachelor of Computer Science in 2010, at the Università degli studi di Salerno, with a thesis about design and implementation of a copyright protection software for digital images. After graduation he worked, as software engineer, on a project of a business-information web-based software for the investigation about physical and legal people. Since September 2011 he began to attend the First Level Master's degree in "Centralized Systems for Cloud Computing" at the "CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano". At the same time he joined the Engineering Ingegneria Informatica R&D laboratory. He is currently working on accounting & billing system, in particular on membership, usage-tracking and security, of Venus-C project.
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  • The March 2011 issue of eScienceTalk's GridBriefing is dedicated to Cloud Computing. Check it out
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    15 Feb 2011
  • The VENUS-C launches the Open Call: an ideal opportunity to take advantage of the Cloud in scientific settings. Read more on www.venus-c.eu
    20 Jan 2011
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    Apr 2010
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