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Mrs. Dana Petcu

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Professor - UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

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Director - INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (Romania)

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Manager

Dana Petcu (Mrs., PhD) is Professor at Computer Science Department of West University of Timisoara, and Director of Institute for Advanced Environmental Research and of the research spin-off Institute e-Austria Timisoara . Her interest in distributed and parallel computing is reflected in more than two hundred papers about Cloud, Grid, Cluster or HPC computing. She is and was involved in several projects funded by European Commission and other research funding agencies, as coordinator, scientific coordinator, or local team leader. She is chief editor of the open-access journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience.

Web of Science ResearcherID: C-2889-2011

Curriculum Vitae (14/05/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Adaptivity in cloud-to-edge COntinuum COmputing Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie, 2020
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-0407 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://coco.hpc.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

The main scientific objective of COCO is to enable cloud-to-edge continuum computing. To achieve this objective, COCO intends to couple federated learning and intelligent resource discovery to achieve an adaptive hosting environment capable of running both on cloud and close to the edge. A proof-of-concept open-source platform is expected to be the tangible result of COCO.

Distributed Stream Processing on Fog and Edge Systems via Transprecise Computing Call name: P 3 - SP 3.2 - Proiecte ERA.NET
ERANET-CHISTERA3-DiPET 2020 - 2023

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO); Queen’s University Belfast (GB); Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (GR); Université de Rennes 1 (FR); Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya — BarcelonaTech (ES)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://dipet.hpc.uvt.ro/

Abstract:

The DiPET project investigates models and techniques that enable distributed stream processing applications to seamlessly span and redistribute across fog and edge computing systems. The goal is to utilize devices dispersed through the network that are geographically closer to users to reduce network latency and to increase the available network bandwidth. However, the network that user devices are connected to is dynamic. For example, mobile devices connect to different base stations as they roam, and fog devices may be intermittently

unavailable for computing. In order to maximally leverage the heterogeneous compute and network resources present in these dynamic networks, the DiPET project pursues a bold approach based on transprecise computing. Transprecise computing states that computation need not always be exact and proposes a disciplined trade-off of precision against accuracy, which impacts on computational effort, energy efficiency, memory usage and communication bandwidth and latency. Transprecise computing allows to dynamically adapt the precision of computation depending on the context and available resources. This creates new dimensions to the problem of scheduling distributed stream applications in fog and edge computing environments and will lead to schedules with superior performance, energy efficiency and user experience. The DiPET project will demonstrate the feasibility of this unique approach by developing a transprecise stream processing application framework and transprecision-aware middleware. Use cases in video analytics and network intrusion detection will guide the research and underpin technology demonstrators.

Big Data Science Call name:
PN-III-P1-1.2-PFE-2018-0352 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Project website: http://bid.hpc.uvt.ro

Abstract:

ASPIDE: exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data procEssing Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-215834-801091 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID

Project partners: UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (ES); INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO); INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PL); SERVICIO MADRILENO DE SALUD (ES); BULL SAS (FR); INTEGRIS SOCIETA PER AZIONI (IT); UNIVERSITAET KLAGENFURT (AT); UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA (IT)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://www.aspide-project.eu

Abstract:

High-performance Computing for Effective Innovation in the Danube Region Call name:
DTP1-1-260-1.1 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: FACULTY OF INFORMATION STUDIES IN NOVO MESTO

Project partners: FACULTY OF INFORMATION STUDIES IN NOVO MESTO (RO); UNITATEA EXECUTIVA PENTRU FINANTAREA INVATAMANTULUI SUPERIOR, A CERCETARII, DEZVOLTARII SI INOVARII (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/innohpc

Abstract:

High performance computing (HPC) is an emerging general-purpose technology. It can improve framework conditions for innovations by drastically increasing effectiveness of innovations and reducing product development time. The main objective of InnoHPC is to create transnational HPC laboratory for co-designing knowledge-intensive innovative products with high value-added in transnational value-chains. Key outputs are transnational InnoHPC Lab pooling regional HPC infrastructure and competencies, web platform providing HPC access, integrated services and capacity building tools, and sustainability toolkit, to support durability of InnoHPC Lab beyond the project. InnoHPC targets SMEs and clusters, providing the opportunity to increase efficiency of innovations and join transnational value-chains in the Danube region. Higher education and research institutions with HPC will get access to exciting real-life cases and opportunities to exploit their entrepreneurial potential. Policy-makers and business support organizations will receive a valuable institutional support for their policies and initiatives.

VRE for regional Interdisciplinary communities in Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Call name:
2015 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: GREEK RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK S.A.

Project partners: GREEK RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK S.A. (); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Project website: https://vi-seem.eu/

Abstract:

In the last decade, a number of initiatives were crucial for enabling high-quality research - by providing e-

Infrastructure resources, application support and training - in both South East Europe (SEE) and Eastern

Mediterranean (EM). They helped reduce the digital divide and brain drain in Europe, by ensuring access to regional

e-Infrastructures to new member states, states on path to ascension, and states in European Neighborhood Policy area

– in total 14 countries in SEE and 6 in EM. This VI-SEEM proposal brings together these e-Infrastructures to build

capacity and better utilize synergies, for an improved service provision within a unified Virtual Research Environment

(VRE) for the inter-disciplinary scientific user communities in the combined SEE and EM regions (SEEM).The

overall objective is to provide user-friendly integrated e-Infrastructure platform for regional cross-border Scientific

Communities in Climatology, Life Sciences, and Cultural Heritage for the SEEM region; by linking compute, data,

and visualization resources, as well as services, models, software and tools. This VRE will provide the scientists and

researchers with the support in full lifecycle of collaborative research: accessing and sharing relevant research data,

using it with provided codes and tools to carry out new experiments and simulations on large-scale e-Infrastructures,

and producing new knowledge and data - which can be stored and shared in the same VRE. Climatology and Life

Science communities are directly relevant for Societal Challenges.The driving ambition of this proposal is to maintain

leadership in enabling e-Infrastructure based research and innovation in the region for the 3 strategic regional user

communities: supporting multidisciplinary solutions, advancing their research, and bridging the development gap with

the rest of Europe. The VI-SEEM consortium brings together e-Infrastructure operators and Scientific Communities in

a common endeavor

Developing Data-Intensive Cloud Applications with Iterative Quality Enhancements Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-194256-644869 2015 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Project partners: IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE (UK); ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI BIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS (EL); UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA (ES); XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO (SI); INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO); PRODEVELOP (ES); NETFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY SA (FR); FLEXIANT LIMITED (UK); FLEXIOPS LIMITED (UK); POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: http://www.dice-h2020.eu

Abstract:

Self-Organising, Self-Managing Heterogeneous Cloud Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-194118-643946 2015 - 2018

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Project partners: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK (IE); ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (EL); DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (IE); INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO); DIMOKRITIO PANEPISTIMIO THRAKIS (EL); INTEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IRELAND LIMITED (IE); MAXELER TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (UK); NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU (NO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: http://www.cloudlightning.eu

Abstract:

Self-Organising, Self-Managing Heterogeneous Cloud Call name: P 3 - SP 3.6 - Premierea participării în Orizont 2020
PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2016-0005 2016 - 2018

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://www.ieat.ro/research/projects/cloudlightning-plus/

Abstract:

The evolutionary complexity of the Cloud ecosystem will eventually make traditional Cloud inefficient management systems. Self-organization and self-management are powerful complexity management techniques. Some of our initial simulation results using self-organization and self-optimization indicate that they can be used as a basis for a new Cloud management and delivery model capable of effectively solving large-scale problems. Our preliminary work has focused on promoting access to power efficient heterogeneous resources by transferring the deployment and optimization effort from the consumer to the stack of software running on the cloud infrastructure. At CloudLightning (www.scloudlightning.eu), we aim to expand this direction and build a Cloud Management and Delivery Infrastructure based on these principles.

CloudLightning + offers the opportunity to expand the activities of the Timisorene team involved in CloudLightning to include the knowledge gained within AMICAS in activities related to self-organizing mechanisms that are not currently in charge of the Timisoara team but the coordinator.

Developing Data-Intensive Cloud Applications with Iterative Quality Enhancements Call name: P 3 - SP 3.6 - Premierea participării în Orizont 2020
PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2016-0007 2016 - 2018

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: https://www.ieat.ro/research/projects/dice-plus/

Abstract:

Within the action of H2020-ICT DICE (www.dice-h2020.eu), the Romanian partner, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, coordinates the work of the WP4 package: iterative improvement of quality.

DICE+ offers the opportunity to extend the WP4 work package to include the knowledge gained in SPECS in the WP4 monitoring and deployment activities, as well as the security of Big Data applications (not foreseen in the DICE proposal).

Supercomputing Expertise for SmAll and Medium Enterprise Network Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-194966-654416 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: ARCTUR RACUNALNISKI INZENIRING DOO

Project partners: ARCTUR RACUNALNISKI INZENIRING DOO (SI); VSB - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA (CZ); FUNDACION PUBLICA GALLEGA CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE SUPERCOMPUTACION DE GALICIA (ES); NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY (IE); INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (BG); FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (DE); NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (EL); MEO-SERVICOS DE COMUNICACOES E MULTIMEDIA SA (PT); INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PL); VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS (LT); HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING WALES (UK); YOTTA ADVANCED COMPUTING DOO ZA ISTRAZIVANJE I USLUGE (HR); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO); BANGOR UNIVERSITY (UK); FONDS VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK-VLAANDEREN (BE); RUDER BOSKOVIC INSTITUTE (HR)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: http://www.sesamenet.eu

Abstract:

Automated Management in Cloud and Sky Computing Environments Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0260 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara

Project partners: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara (RO)

Affiliation: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara (RO)

Project website: http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro

Abstract:

Cloud computing emerged four years ago as a new paradigm for distributed computing is currently on the hype due to its promises to free the users from the need of infrastructure investments, the providers from loosing computing cycles and non-using storage capacity, and the developers from the hardware issues and human interactions in setting computing and storage environments. The current practice shows a low level of expectation fulfillment and research activities should focus to fill the technological gaps. The automation of the development, deployment and provisioning of Cloud related products can provide a step forward to achieve the Cloud vision. In this context, we propose to enhance the automatic management, dynamic load balancing, scheduling and self-management techniques for Cloud computing environments. Moreover, the project targets the emerging concept of Sky computing as new paradigm for clustering Clouds in a similar way as Grids have been conceived as clusters of clusters. The complexity of the problems in Sky computing management is higher than in the Grid case due to new parameters like cost constraints. Agent technologies and natural computing will be used to solve these difficult problems. The outputs of the project will consist in architectural views and proof-of-the-concept software prototypes. Other actions like workshops, mobilities, or cooperation with other initiatives will support the research activities to ensure their impact in the community.

Secure Provisioning of Cloud Services based on SLA Management Call name:
2014 - 2016

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: CeRICT

Project partners: CeRICT (); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Project website: http://www.specs-project.eu

Abstract:

MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds Call name:
FP7-ICT-2011-8-318484 2012 - 2015

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Project partners: POLITECNICO DI MILANO (); INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E - AUSTRIA TIMISOARA ()

Project website:

Abstract:

High Performance Computing Service Centre Call name:
2012 - 2014

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST TIMISOARA ()

Project website:

Abstract:

Scalable Preservation Environments Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-97458-270137 2011 - 2014

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Project partners: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (AT); UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 (FR); TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (AT); WIELKOPOLSKIE CENTRUM PULMONOLOGIII TORAKOCHIRURGII IM. EUGENII I JANUSZA ZEYLANDOW (PL); THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (GB); EX LIBRIS LTD. (IL); KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK (NL); INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PL); VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE (CZ); TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (DE); KEEP SOLUTIONS LDA (PT); SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (GB); STICHTING INTERNET MEMORY FOUNDATION (NL); FIZ KARLSRUHE - LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR INFORMATIONSINFRASTRUKTUR GMBH (DE); OSTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK (AT); THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD (GB); Open Planets Foundation (GB); MICROSOFT RESEARCH LIMITED (GB); CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (FR); UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO); STATSBIBLIOTEKET (DK)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website: http://www.scape-project.eu

Abstract:

Strengthening the Participation of Romania at European R&D in Software Services Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-93741-246839 2019 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

Digital Environment Home Energy Management System Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-87608-224609 2019 -

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL

Project partners: MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL (UK); COVENTRY UNIVERSITY (UK); BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL (UK); CLICKS AND LINKS LTD (UK); INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO); THE CENTRE SA (BE); CORINEX COMMUNICATIONS AS (SK); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO); EDELMAN PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE SA (BE); HILDEBRAND TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (UK); UNIVERSITY OF RUSE ANGEL KANCHEV (BG); THE UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD (UK); BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL (UK); OBSHTINA IVANOVO (BG); ENERGY AGENCY OF PLOVDIV ASSOCIATION (BG)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

Open-Source API and Platform for Multiple Clouds Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-95471-256910 2019 -

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI

Project partners: UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI (IT); AITIA INTERNATIONAL INFORMATIKAI ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RT (HU); FUNDACION FATRONIK. (ES); XLAB RAZVOJ PROGRAMSKE OPREME IN SVETOVANJE DOO (SI); FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (ES); INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO); VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE (CZ); EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (FR); TERRADUE SRL (IT); UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (SI)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL E-AUSTRIA TIMISOARA (RO)

Project website:

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