Presenter

Raül Sirvent has a PhD. degree in Computer Science at the Computer Architecture Department (UPC, 2009). He was involved in research activities at the European Center of Parallelism of Barcelona (CEPBA) from 2002 to 2005. Since year 2005 he holds a permanent position at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center inside the Computer Sciences department, Workflows and Distributed Computing group. He also acts as Strategy Advisor at the Qbeast BSC spin-off company, which he helped to create.

His main research interests are related to High Performance Computing programming models, deployment, dynamic resource management and scheduling, as well as Grid and Cloud programming models and tools, automatic workflow generation, fault tolerance mechanisms and provenance. He has been involved in a number of european and spanish research projects; and he is one of the founders of the GRID superscalar project (the root of the COMPSs Programming Model).