Hermes Senger, PhD

Assistant Professor
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
Departamento de Computação
Rod. Washington Luís, Km 235
Caixa Postal 676
13565-905 São Carlos-SP, Brazil
Phone: +55 (16) 3351-8593 Fax: (16) 3351-8233
email: hermes [at] dc [dot] ufscar [dot] br
 
Hermes Senger received the BS in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) in 1989, and the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1996 and 2002, respectively. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science (Departamento de Computação) of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). He has served as reviewer for the following scientific journals: Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET), Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture (IJHPSA) e Concurrency and Computaion: Practice and Experience. His main research interests include high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, performance evaluation, resource scheduling, scalability analysis, fault tolerance, security, and applications. He is a CNPq fellow since march, 2010.

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected publications

A full version of my curriculum is available here (the Lattes brazilian curriculum system).

Journal papers

Senger, H., Silva, F.A.B. Bounds on the Scalability of Bag-of-Tasks Applications Running on Master-Slave Platforms. Parallel Processing Letters (to appear), 2012.

Silva, F.A.B., Senger H, Scalability Limits of Bag-of-Tasks Applications Running on Hierarchical Platforms. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 71, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 788-801, 2011. Preprint available here. DOI.

Silva, F.A.B., Senger H, Improving scalability of Bag-of-Tasks applications running on master-slave platforms. Parallel Computing, v. 35, p. 57-71, Elsevier, 2009. DOI

Senger, H., Hruschka, E.R., Silva, F.A.B., Sato, L.M., Bianchini, C.P., Jerocsh, B.F., Exploiting Idle Cycles to Execute Data Mining Applications on Clusters of PCs, Journal of Systems and Software, v. 80, 778-790, Elsevier, 2007. DOI

Book chapters

Senger, H., Rondini R.A., Stanzani, S.L. Uma Introdução ao Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Para Grades Computacionais Baseadas no Padrão OGSA. In: Mini-cursos do Workshop em Sistemas de Computacionais de Alto Desempenho edited by Gerson Geraldo Cavalheiro and Mario Dantas, 2006. (In portuguese).

Silva, F.A.B., Senger, H., The Grid: an Enabling Infrastructure for Future e-business, e-commerce and e-government Applications. In: Digital Communities in a Networked Society: eCommerce, eGovernment and eBusiness edited by Manuel Mendes, Carlos Passos, Reima Suomi, ,p. 253-266. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Sato L.M., Midorikawa, E.T., Senger, H., Introdução à Programação Paralela e Distribuída.. In: JAI 1996 - Jornada de Atualização em Informática, Anais do XVI Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - Edited by the Depto. de Informática - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Recife / UFPE: DI-UFPE, 1996. (In portuguese)

Conference papers

Silva, F. A. B., Senger, H., Scalability Analysis of Embarassingly Parallel Applications on Large Clusters. Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services SMTPS 2010. In: Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Workshops and Phd Forum, 2010. DOI

Pedrino, E.C., Saito, J.H., Senger, H. Roda, V.O., Marinho, M. An FPGA-Based Region-Growing Architecture for Binary Images. In: International Workshop on Systems_Signals and Image Processing, 2010, Rio de Janeiro.  EdUFF - Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2010. v. 1. p. 73-76.

Pedrino, E.C., Saito, J.H., Senger, H. Roda, V.O.,  Color Mathematical Morphology in a FPGA. In: International Workshop on Systems_Signals and Image Processing, 2010, Rio de Janeiro. EdUFF - Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2010. v. 1. p. 130-133.

Senger, H., Silva F.A.B., Miranda Filho, L. J., Escalabilidade de aplicações Bag-of-Tasks em plataformas Master/Slave. In: XI Simpósio de Sistemas Computacionais (WSCAD-SSC), 2010, Petrópolis. v. 1. p. 1-8.

Senger, H., Nakahara Jr, J., Applying Computational Grids for Enhancing Intrusion Detection Systems. In: The 2008 International Symposium on Scientific and Engineering Computing (SEC-08). IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering Workshops, 2008. p. 149-156.

Senger, H., Silva, F.A.B., Nascimento, W.M., Hierarchical Scheduling of Independent Tasks with Shared Files. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CGRIDW06), 2006. p. 51-56.

Rondini, R.A., Senger, H., Farias, C.R.G., Desenvolvimento de Aplicações de Democracia Eletrônica em Larga Escala Utilizando Grades Computacionais. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, 2006, Natal,. Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Colaborativos, 2006. (In portuguese only).

Senger, H., Silva, F.A.B., Mendes, M.J., Farias, C.R.G., Rondini, R.A., Grid Platforms for e-Democracy Applications. In: IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2006), Pula-Cagliari. 2006. p. 334-339.

Rosatelli M.C., Senger, H., Silva, F.A.B., Nunes, C., Stanzani, S.L., Supporting the Collaborative Construction of Learning Objects Using the Grid. In: Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006), 2006, Singapore, 2006.

Senger, H., E. R. Hruschka, F. A. B. Silva et al.. 2004. Inhambu: Data Mining Using Idle Cycles in Clusters of PCs In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3222 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2004) Wuhan 2004 3222 213-220 Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Silva, F. A. B., S. Carvalho, H. Senger et al.. 2004. Running Data Mining Applications on the Grid: a Bag-of-Tasks Approach In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 3044) The 2004 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2004) Assisi (Perugia, Italy), p. 168-177 Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Senger, H., Sato, L.M., Load Distribution for Heterogeneous and Non-Dedicated Clusters Based on Dynamic Monitoring and Differentiated Services. In: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2003), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, 2003.

Former academic positions

Assistant Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica de Santos (Unisantos).
 

 

Projects

For a detailed list see my CV here (the Lattes brazilian curriculum system).

Project:      Improving scalability of computational grids.
Period:       2010-2013
Funding:     CNPQ - Proces # 301647/2009-7.
 

Project:     Scalability analysis of parallel and distributed applications
Period:      2010-2012
Funding:    FAPESP - Proces # 2009/09847-0
 

Project:     SAMPA - Scalability Analysis of MaPreduce Applications
Period:      2011-2012
Funding:    FAPESP / CNRS - Proces # 2010/52355-9
 

Project:     JiT Clouds: Just-in-time Clouds / GreenCloud - An energy aware infrastructure for cloud computing
Period:      2011-2012
Funding:    RNP
 

Other service activities

I have worked as reviewer for some international journals: Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), Journal of Distance Education and Technology (JDET), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).

I have served as member of program comittees for the following conferences: WSCAD-SSC 2010, WWW/Internet 2010, WSCAD-SSC 2009, WWW/Internet 2009, WWW/Intenernet 2008, WSCAD-CTD 2007, WWW/Internet 2007, PhDOOS 2002.

I have also worked as reviewer for some international conferences: CISIM 2009, SBAC-PAD 2009, The 3rd International Conference on Inteligent Computing 2007, IEEE/CCGrid 2007, IEEE/SAINT 2005, SBAC-PAD 2004, SBAC-PAD 2003.

Last update:  November 15th, 2011.