Eugen Feller

Ph.D. Student                                              

INRIA / University of Rennes 1

Advisor: Christine Morin

Contact Details

Research Interests

• Large-scale dynamic distributed systems
  
• Cluster computing, Cloud computing, Green computing
  
• Virtualization, Scheduling algorithms
  
• Scalabiltiy, Fault tolerance, High availability

Current Research Activities

• PhD Thesis, 3rd Year: "Scalable, Autonomic, and Energy-Aware Management of Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructures"
• Scalable, autonomic, and energy-aware virtual machine (VM) management framework based on a self-organizing 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

• 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.
• 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 Conferences
• 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 2012), Ottawa, Canada, May 2012. (Acceptance rate: 27.5%).
  
• 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-2011), 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-2010), 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-2010), Hangzhou, China, December 2010. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
• 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 2012 PhD Forum), Shanghai, China, May 2012. (in submission)
• Full list of publications here
  

Attended Workshops and Meetings

• COST IC0804 workshop, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2011
• COST IC0804 workshop, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011
• Journée Thématique Emergente (JTE), EDF Clamart, France, January 2011
  
• COST IC0804 workshop, Choimbra, Portugal, November 2010
  
• DataCloud@Work INRIA associated team workshop, Rennes, France, September 2010
• SER-OS INRIA associated team workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, May 2010
• COST IC0804 workshop, Passau, Germany, April 2010
  
• SER-OS INRIA associated team workshop, Rennes, France, May 2009
• CominLabs meeting, Rennes, France, October 2011
  
• GreenDays meeting, Paris, France, June 2011
• General technical meeting of XtreemOS, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, March 2009