Eugen Feller

Ph.D. Student                                              

INRIA / University of Rennes 1

Advisor: Christine Morin

Contact Details

Research Interests

• Large-scale dynamic distributed systems
  
• Cluster computing, Grid computing, Cloud computing
• Energy-aware resource management
  
• Virtualization, Scheduling algorithms
  
• Scalabiltiy, Fault tolerance, High availability

Current Research Activities

• PhD Thesis, 3rd Year: "Autonomic and Energy-Aware Management of Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructures"
• Autonomic and energy-aware virtual machine (VM) management framework based on a self-organizing and healing hierarchical architecture called Snooze
  
• Nature-inspired energy-aware VM consolidation algorithms

Research Projects

• ECO-GRAPPE: Design an operating system which is able to automatically manage the energy consumption of a cluster
• COST IC0804: Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems

• Co-organizer of the focus group "Energy and QoS-aware Workload Manangent in Clouds"
  

Short Biography

From winter 2005 to fall 2009 I studied computer science at the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany. During my studies I focused on operating and distributed systems. In particular, fault tolerance techniques for distributed applications. From late 2007 until early 2009 I worked as a research assistant at the department for operating and distributed systems where I have contributed to the grid checkpointing service of XtreemOS and the Kerrighed kernel-level checkpointer.

From march 2009 till august 2009 I joined the INRIA MYRIADS research team at Rennes, France for an internship in the area of checkpointing and recovery for grids. I have finished my master studies in november 2009.

Since december 2009 I am a PhD student at the INRIA MYRIADS research team.

Publications

• Book Chapter
• Eugen Feller, Louis Rilling, and Christine Morin. "Towards Energy-Efficient, Scalable and Resilient IaaS Clouds". In Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice, IGI Global, May 2012.
• International Journal
• Eugen Feller, John Mehnert-Spahn, Michael Schöttner, and Christine Morin. "Independent Checkpointing in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment", Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 163-170 , January 2012.
• International Conferences
• Eugen Feller, Cyril Rohr, David Margery, and Christine Morin. "Energy Management in IaaS Clouds: A Holistic Approach". The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 2012.
  
• Eugen Feller, Louis Rilling, and Christine Morin. "Snooze: A Scalable and Autonomic Virtual Machine Management Framework for Private Clouds". The 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012.
  
• Eugen Feller, Louis Rilling, and Christine Morin. “Energy-Aware Ant Colony Based Workload Placement in Clouds”. The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID), Lyon, France, September 2011.
• Eugen Feller, John Mehnert-Spahn, Michael Schöttner, and Christine Morin. "Independent Checkpointing in a Heterogeneous Grid Environment". The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Chennai, India, December 2010.
  
• Eugen Feller, Louis Rilling, Christine Morin, Renaud Lottiaux, and Daniel Leprince. "Snooze: A Scalable, Fault-Tolerant and Distributed Consolidation Manager for Large-Scale Clusters", The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Hangzhou, China, December 2010.
• John Mehnert-Spahn, Eugen Feller, and Michael Schöttner. "Incremental Checkpointing for Grids", Linux Symposium 2009, Montreal, Canada, May 2009.
• Poster
• Eugen Feller and Christine Morin. "Autonomous and Energy-Aware Management of Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructures". PhD Forum of the 26th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS PhD Forum), Shanghai, China, May 2012.
• COST action proceedings
• Eugen Feller and Ivona Brandic. Focus Group "Energy and QoS-Aware Workload Management in Clouds" 2011 Foreword. Proceedings of the COST Action IC0804 on Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, 2nd Year, J. Pierson, H. Hlavacs (Ed.), COST Office 2011, p. 117.
• Theses
• Master's thesis: "Independent checkpointing in a heterogeneous grid environment". Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf, Germany, November 2009. Advisors: Michael Schöttner and Christine Morin
  

• Bachelor's thesis:"Performance evaluation of a Linux-based cluster checkpointer". Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf, Germany, March 2008. Advisor: Michael Schöttner

• Full list of publications here
  

Presentations and Demos

• "Energy Management in IaaS Clouds: A Holistic Approach" at the EDF R&D SINETICS department, Paris, France, April 2012
  
• "Scalable, Autonomic, and Energy-Aware Management of Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructures" at the ASCOLA/Myriads joint meeting, Nantes, France, March 2012
  
• "Snooze : un système auto-organisant pour la gestion de l'énergie dans les clouds" demo at the "Sciences Numériques et efficacité énergétique" INRIA industrie meeting, Grenoble, France, March 2012

• "Energy-Aware Ant Colony Based Workload Placement in Clouds" and focus group "Energy and QoS-aware Workload Management in Clouds" introduction at COST IC0804 workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2011

• "Green computing research directions overview" at the CominLabs meeting, Rennes, France, October 2011

• "Towards Agent-Based Energy-Aware Workload Consolidation in Clouds" at the GreenDays meeting, Paris, France, June 2011

• Focus group "Energy and QoS-aware Workload Management in Clouds" introduction at the COST IC0804 workshop, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011

• "Introduction to the ECOGRAPPE project and results" at the Journée Thématique Emergente (JTE), EDF Clamart, France, January 2011

• "Snooze: A Scalable, Fault-Tolerant and Distributed Consolidation Manager for Large-Scale Cluster" and focus group "From theory to practice: Energy and QoS-aware workload placement for clusters/clouds" proposal at the COST IC0804 workshop, Choimbra, Portugal, November 2010

• "EcoGrappe - Energy Consumption Management in Clusters" at the DataCloud@Work INRIA associated team workshop, Rennes, France, September 2010

• "Independent checkpointing in a grid environment" and "EcoGrappe - Energy Consumption Management in Clusters" at the SER-OS INRIA associated team workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, May 2010

• "EcoGrappe - Energy Consumption Management in Clusters" at the COST IC0804 workshop. Passau, Germany, April 2010
  

• "Checkpointing applications in LinuxSSI" at the SER-OS INRIA associated team workshop, Rennes, France, May 2009