Publication List

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1989-1998: AUTOMATIC PARALLELIZATION OF PROGRAMS
Code Parallelization for Shared Memory Multiprocessors:

  • E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta, J. Torres, J. M. Llabería y M. Valero , “Nested Loops for SMM“, Primeras Jornadas de Paralelismo, 1990.
  • Ayguadé E., Labarta J., Torres J. and Borensztejn P. “GTS: Parallelization and Vectorization of Tight Recurrences“, pp 531-539, Proceedings of Supercomputing’89, ACM SIGARCH and IEEE Computer Society, November 1989, Reno-Nevada , USA . ISBN: 0-89791-341-8.
  • E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta, J. Torres, J. M. Llabería y M. Valero , “Nested-Loops for Shared-memory Multiprocessor Systems“, 2n International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Machines (LCPC’90), pp 377-385, París, 1990.
  • E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta, J. Torres, J. M. Llabería y M. Valero , Chapter 11 “Parallelism Evaluation and Partitioning of Nested Loops for Shared Memory Multiprocessors“. pp 298-312, Advances in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Processing, Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing,  A. Nicolau, D. Gelernter, T. Gross and D. Padua (Eds.), Pitman/MIT-Press, 1991. ISBN: 0-262-64028-7.
  • J. Labarta, E. Ayguadé, J. Torres, M. Valero y J. M. Llabería, Chapter 19 “Balanced Loop Partitioning using GTS“, pp 220-242,  Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Fourth International Workshop Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 589,  U. Banerjee, D. Gelernter, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1993.  ISBN: 0-387-55422-X.
  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta y J. Llosa “Parallel Execution of Loops with Conditional Statements“. 11th IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics, Francia, 1993. pp 37-40, 11th  IASTED International Conference Applied Informatics. Annecy (France). May 1993. A Publication of The International Association of Science and Technology for  Development-IASTED, M. H. Hamza Ed. ISBN: 0-88986-175-7.

Code Parallelization for Distributed Memory Multiprocessors:

  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé , J. Labarta, M. Valero y J. M. Llabería, “A Technique for Data and Task Partitioning of Nested Loops for Distributed-Memory Parallel Computers“, Segundas Jornadas de Paralelismo, 1991
  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé , J. Labarta, M. Valero y J. M. Llabería, “Partitioning the Iteration Space for Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors“, pp 683-692  Parallel Computing and Transputer Applications Part II, IOS Press.  Barcelona (Spain). September, 1992. ISBN: 90-5199-096-0
  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta, J. M. Llabería and M. Valero ,”Automatic Data-Mapping for Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor“, pp  109-115.  International Journal of Mini and Microcomputers, vol. 15, no. 3, 1993. Acta Press Ed.  ISSN: 0702-0481.
  • Torres J., Ayguadé E., Labarta J., Llaberia J.M. and Valero M. “On Automatic Loop Data-Mapping for Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors“, pp 173-182, Distributed Memory Computing, 2nd. European Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 487, Arndt Bode Ed. Springer-Verlag. 1991 ISBN: 0-387-53951-4.
  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, “Compilers for Supercomputers“, Butlletí de les societats catalanes de física, química, matemàtica i tecnología, IEC, Vol. XIV, núm. 2, 1994
  • Ayguadé E., Garcia J., Gironés M., Labarta J., Torres J. and Valero M. “Detecting and Using Affinity in an Automatic Data Distributin Tool“, Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 7th International Workshop pp 61-75. K. Pingali et al. (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 892, Springer-Verlag, 1995. ISBN: 3-540-58868-X.
  • Gavaldà R., Ayguadé E., Torres J. “Obtaining Synchronization-Free Code with Maximum Parallelism“, Departament de LLenguatges i sistemes informàtics, UPC, Report 96-23-R, 1996.
  • R. H. Perrott, E. Ayguadé, J. Garcia, J. Torres. “Data parallel languages implementations: a survey“, Scientific Programming, pp. 243-248, vol 6, January 1997.  ISSN 1058-9244.

Linear Loop Transformations

  • Ayguadé E. and Torres J. “Partitioning the Statement per Iteration Space Using Non-singular Matrices“, pp 407-415, Proceedings of 7th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Tokyo ( Japan ). July 1993. ISBN:0-89791-600-X.
  • Torres J., Ayguadé E., Labarta J. and Valero M. “ALIGN and DISTRIBUTE-based Linear Loop Transformations“, pp 321-329, Language and Compiler for Parallel Computing, 6th International Workshop Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 768, U. Banerjee, D. Gelernter, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua (Eds.), Springer-Verlag. 1993. ISBN: 0-387-57659-2.
  • J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, J. Labarta, M. Valero.”Revisiting Framework of Linear Loop Transformations“, pp 187-199, 5th. International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, Málaga (Spain), 1995.
  • P. Knijnenburg, E. Ayguadé and J. Torres. “Multi-transformations: Code Generation and Validity“. Department of Computer Science, Leiden University (The Netherland) . Technical Report 95-12,1995.
  • E. Ayguadé, P. Knijnenburg and  J. Torres. “Multi-transformations: Definition and Usefulness“, XV Int. Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, (SCCC’95)  pp 37-47, 1-3 October 1995, Arica- Chile.
  • Torres J., Ayguadé E., Labarta J., and Valero M. “Loop Parallelization: Revisiting Framework of Unimodular Transformations“, pp 420-427, Proceedings of the Fourth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IEEE Computer Society, Braga ( Portugal ). January 1996. ISBN: 0-8186-7376-1.

Others

  • J. Torres. “Extracting parallelism in numerical sequential programs “, Departamento de Arquitectura de Computadores, Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Octubre de 1993. Versión microfichada por Edicions de la UPC, ISBN 84-7653-390-X.
  • Vila-Sallent J. , Sole-Pareta J. , Torres J. and Jové T. “Performance Comparison of Parallel Algorithm on Different Communication Architectures“. Ninth IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 120-123, October 1997. ISBN: 0-88986-240-0

1999-2002: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN JAVA

  • Jordi Guitart , Jordi Torres , Eduard Ayguadé , José Oliver and Jesús Labarta , “Java Instrumentation Suite: Accurate Analysis of Java Threaded Applications“, 2nd Annual Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing (part of the 14th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing ICS’00), pp. 15-25, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. May 7, 2000.
  • Jordi Guitart , Jordi Torres , Eduard Ayguadé , José Oliver and Jesús Labarta , “Instrumentation Environment for Java Threaded Applications“, XI Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 89-94, Granada, Spain. September 11-13, 2000
  • Jordi Guitart , Jordi Torres , Eduard Ayguadé and Mark Bull,”Performance Analysis of Parallel Java Applications on Shared-memory Systems“, 30th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’01). Valencia , Spain . September 2001.ISBN: 0-7695-1257-7.
  • José Oliver, Jordi Guitart, Eduard Ayguadé, Nacho Navarro and Jordi Torres, “Strategies for Efficient Exploitation of Loop-Level Parallelism in Java“, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Java Grande 2000 Special Issue), Vol.13 (8-9), pp. 663-680. ISSN 1532-0634, July 2001.
  • Jordi Guitart , Xavier Martorell , Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé ,”Application/Kernel Cooperation Towards the Efficient Execution of Shared-memory Parallel Java Codes“, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). Nice, France . April 2003. ISBN: 0-7695-1926-1.
  • Jordi Guitart , Xavier Martorell , Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé , “Efficient Execution of Parallel Java Applications“, 3rd Annual Workshop on Java for High Performance Computing (part of the 15th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing ICS’01), pp. 31-35, Sorrento, Italy. June 17, 2001.

2002-2006: ADAPTIVE MIDDLEWARE
Systems Monitoring and Analysis

  • J. Guitart, D. Carrera, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé and J. Labarta, “Tuning Dynamic Web Applications using Fine-Grain Analysis“, 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP’05),  Lugano, Switzerland. February 9-11, 2005. ISBN: 0-7695-2280-7.
  • D. Carrera, D. García, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé and J. Labarta, “WAS Control Center : An Autonomic Performance-Triggered Tracing Environment for WebSphere“, 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing. Lugano , Switzerland , February 9-11 2005. ISBN: 0-7695-2280-7
  • David Carrera , Jordi Guitart , Jordi Torres , Eduard Ayguadé and Jesus Labarta ,”Complete Instrumentation Requirements for Performance Analysis of Web based Technologies“, IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS).pp 166-175. Austin , USA . March 2003. ISBN: 0-7803-7756-7.
  • D. Carrera, J. Guitart, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé and J. Labarta.”An Instrumentation Tool for Threaded Java Application Servers“, XIII Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp. 205-210. Lleida , Spain . September 2002.
  • R. Nou, F. Julià, D. Carrera, K. Hogan, J. Labarta, J. Torres. “Monitoring and Analysis Framework for Grid Middlewares“. 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP’07) pp 129-133. Naples , Italy , February 7-9, 2007, February 2007.

Self-managed Systems

  • J. Alonso, J. Guitart and J. Torres. “Scheduling Connections using System-Level Thread Priorities in Web Applications“. XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo Albacete, Spain, September 18-20, 2006.
  • J. Guitart, V. Beltran, D. Carrera, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé. “Session-Based Adaptative Overload Control for Secure Dynamic Web Application“, The 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-05). pp 341-349. Oslo , Norway June 14-17, 2005. ISBN 0-7695-2380. ISSN 0190-3918.
  • J Guitart, V. Beltran,D. Carrera, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé. “Characterizing Secure Dynamic Web Applications Scalability“, 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. (IPDPPS 2005). pp 108-117). Denver , Colorado ( USA ). April 4-8, 2005. ISBN: 0-7695-2312-9.
  • V. Beltran, J. Guitart, D. Carrera, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé and J. Labarta, “Performance Impact of Using SSL on Dynamic Web Applications“, XV Jornadas de Paralelismo, pp.471-476. Almeria, Spain. September 15-17, 2004.
  • J. Alonso, J. Guitart and J. Torres. “Differentiated Quality of Service for e-Commerce Applications through Connection Scheduling based on System-Level Thread Priorities“. 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP’07) pp 72-76. Naples , Italy , February 7-9, 2007.

Internal Systems Architecture redefinition

  • V. Beltran, D. Carrera, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé. “A Hybrid Web Server Architecture for Secure e-Business Web Applications“. The 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 05) September 21-24, 2005, Naples , Italy . ISBN 3-540-29031-1.
  • D. Carrera, V. Beltran, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé. “A Hybrid Web Server Architecture for e-Commerce Applications“, The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005)  pp. 182-188. July 20 - 22, 2005, Fukuoka , Japan . ISBN ~ ISSN:1521-9097 , 0-7695-2281-5-01.
  • V. Beltran, D. Carrera, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé , “Evaluating the Scalability of Java Event-Driven Web Servers“, 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’04). pp.134-142. Montreal , Quebec , Canada . 15-18 August, 2004. ISBN: 0-7695-2197-5.
  • David Carrera , Vicenc¸ Veltran, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “A Hybrid Connector for Efficient Web Servers“, Special Issue on High Performance Computing in Parallel and Distributed Systems of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN). Issue 5/6 of 2007, Vol. 5. ISSN (Print): 1740-0562.

Systems modelling

  • R. Nou, J. Guitart, V. Beltran, D. Carrera, L. Montero, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé. “Simulating complex systems with a low-detail model” Jornadas de Paralelismo. pp. 301-308. Granada , September, 2005 . ISBN: 84-9732-430-7
  • R. Nou, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. “Simulating and Modeling Secure e-Business Applications“. Sixth International Conference in Computer Science (ICCS06). SIAM conference. May 2006. Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 3991, pp. 84-91. ISBN: 3-540-34379-2, ISSN: 0302-9743 .
  • Ramon Nou , Jordi Guitart , David Carrera , Jordi Torres. “Experiences with Simulations - A Light and Fast Model for Secure Web Applications“. pp. 177-186, 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 1 (ICPADS’06), 2006., Volume: 1, On page(s): 177- 186, July 2006. ISSN: 1521-9097, ISBN: 0-7695-2612-8

Autonomic Grid Middleware

  • D. Carrera, J Guitart, V. Beltran, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé. “Performance Impact of the Grid Middleware“, Ingineering the Grid: Status and Perspective, chapter 15. pp 220-242, B.DiMartino, J. Dongarra, A. Hoisie, L. Yang and H. Zima Eds, Nova Science Publisher, 2005. ISBN:1-58883-038-1.
  • R. Nou, F. Julià, D. Carrera, K. Hogan, J. Caubet, J. Labarta, and J. Torres. “Monitoring and analysing a grid middleware node“. Proc. 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing 2006, GRID 2006, Barcelona , Spain , September 2006.  ISBN 1-4244-0344-8
  • J. Caubet, K. Hogan, R. Nou, J. Labarta and J. Torres. “Supporting the Introduction of Autonomic Computing in Middleware”. Hursley , England . Engineering Conference VII, IBM Academy of Technology Conference IBM, October 2006.

2003-2005 :TEACHING INNOVATION

  • M. Anton, M. Vall.llosera, J. Torres, J. Romeu, L. Jofre, F. Solé, F. Marqués, F. Sabaté, J. Berenguer. “Collaborative Network Space: Infrastructure and Learning Application“, The IEEE International Conference on Computer as Tool (EUROCON2005), November 21-24, 2005, Belgrade , Serbia and Montenegro , Yugoslavia . ISBN 1-4244-0050-3.
  • Lluís Jofre; Francesc Solé; Ferran Sabaté ; Ferran Marquès; Jordi Romeu ; Jordi Torres “Una enginyeria per a la societat del coneixement” II Congrés d’Enginyeria en Llengua Catalana. Andorra , 19-21 Noviembre 2004.
  • Jordi Torres and Rubén Barrio “Personal Server Lab” en Jornadas “El Espacio profesional y la red, más allá del 2005″ . Publica Telefónica, Depósito Legal B-16.613-2004. 2003.
  • Jordi Torres and Marc Vall-llosera Ferran. “Knowledge Insfrastructure Lab” en Jornadas “El profesional Innovador y la Red”. 14 de julio del 2004. Publica Telefónica. Depósito Legal B-51.252-2004

2007-2009 : AUTONOMIC COMPUTING, CLOUD COMPUTING, GREEN COMPUTING

  • R. Nou, F. Julià and J. Torres. “Should the grid middleware look to self-managing capabilities?“. The 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2007). IEEE and IFIP. Sedona, Arizona, USA. March 2007.
  • R. Nou, F. Julià and J. Torres. “The need for self-managed access nodes in grid environments“. 4th Annual IEEE International workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2007). Tucson, Arizona, USA. March 26th-29th, 2007
  • N.Poggi, T. Moreno, J. Berral, R. Gavalda, J. Torres. “Web Customer Modeling for Automated Session Prioritization on High Traffic Sites“. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on User Modeling. Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-540-73077-4.
  • L. Silva, J. Alonso, P. Silva, J. Torres and A. Andrzejak. “Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation“. The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and ApplicationS (NCA 2007). July, 12- 14, 2007. Boston. Best Paper award on Applications.
  • J. Alonso, J. Torres, L. Silva and P. Silva. “Dependable Grid Services: A case study with OGSA-DAI“. Towards Next Generation Grids, pp. 292-300, Springer ISBN: 978-0-387-72498-0.
  • T. Püschel, N. Borissov, D. Neumann, M. Macías, J. Guitart, J. Torres, J. Stößer “Extended Resource management using client classification and economic enhancements“. 17th  eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition. October 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands. 2007. Also published in Expanding the knowledge economy; Issues, Applications, Case Studies; Part 1, pp.65-72. IOS press, 2009.
  • Toni Moreno, Nicolas Poggi, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres. “Policy-based autonomous bidding for overload management in eCommerce websites“. Group Decision and Negotiation Meeting - GDN Section of INFORMS. Montreal, Canada, May 14-17, 2007
  • R. Nou, F. Julià, J. Guitart, J. Torres. “Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Self-Adaptive Heterogeneous Workloads in SMP Hosting Platforms“. ICE-B 2007, the International Conference on E-business. ( IEEE Systems and ACM SIGMIS) Barcelona, Spain. July 2007.
  • Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Jordi Torres, and Eduard Ayguadé. “Designing an Overload Control Strategy for Secure e-Commerce Applications Computer Networks“. Computer Networking, Vol. 51 (15), pp. 4492-4510, October 2007 ISSN: 1389-1286
  • J. Alonso, J. Torres and L. Silva. “Carrying the Crash-only software concept to the legacy application servers“. Published on Springer Book “Making Grids Work”, pp. 165-174, ISBN:978-0-387-78447-2.
  • J. Alonso, L. Silva, A. Andrzejak, P. Silva and J. Torres “High-Availability Grid Services through the use of Virtualized Clustering“. The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID 2007). September 19-21, 2007, Austin, Texas, USA. (63-13)
  • S. Kounev, R. Nou and J. Torres. “Autonomic QoS-Aware Resource Management in Grid Computing using Online Performance Models” 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2007) Nantes, France, October 23th-25th, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-59593-819-0
  • R. Nou, S. Kounev, J. Torres. “Building Online Performance Models of Grid Middleware with Fine-Grained Load-Balancing: A Globus Toolkit Case Study” 4th European Engineering Performance Workshop. (EPEW 2007). 27-28 September 2007, Berlin, Germany. Also published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 125-140, vol. 4748. 2008.
  • M. Macías, G. Smith, O. F. Rana, J. Guitart, J. Torres “Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager“, Workshop on Economic Models and Algorithms for Grid Systems 2007 (EMAGS 2007). In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007) Austin, Texas, USA. September 2007.
  • T. Puschel, N. Borissov, M. Macias, D. Neumann, J. Guitart, J. Torres “Economically Enhanced Resource Management for Internet Service Utilities“, The 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE2007, Nancy, France. 3-7th December, 2007. Also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp. 335-348, vol. 4831. 2008.
  • V.Beltran, J. Torres and E. Ayguade “Improving Disk Bandwidth-Bound Applications Through Main Memory Compression” MEDEA Workshop MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architecture. Brasov, Romania. Held in conjunction with PACT 2007 Conference Sept. 15-19. 2007
  • N. Poggi, J.L. Berral, T. Moreno, R. Gavaldà, J. Torres. “Automatic Detection and Banning of Content Stealing Bots for E-commerce“. NIPS 2007 Workshop on Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments for Computer Security. December 8, 2007. British Columbia, Canada.
  • David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “Utility-based Placement of Dynamic Web Applications with Fairness Goals“. In 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), April 7-11, 2008.
  • Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Kevin Hogan, Ricard Gavaldà, Vicenç Beltran and Nicolas Poggi. “Reducing wasted resources to help achieve green data centers“. In The Fourth Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC 2008), April 14, 2008.
  • Jordi Torres, David Carrera, Vicenç Beltran, Nicolás Poggi, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Eduard Ayguadé, Toni Moreno, Jordi Guitart. “Tailoring resources: Energy efficient consolidation strategy goes beyond virtualization“. Proceedings of ICAC 2008, The IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, poster session. pp. 197-198. Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3175-5.
  • J. Guitart, D. Carrera, V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé. “Dynamic CPU Provisioning for Self-Managed Secure Web Applications in SMP Hosting Platforms“.  Computer Networks , Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1390-1409, May 2008. ISSN: 1389-1286
  • David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “Managing SLAs of heterogeneous workloads using dynamic application placement“. 7th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008). An extended version is available as Technical Report RC24469, IBM Research, Jan. 2008.
  • J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, J. Torres, and R. Badia “Using Semantic Technologies for Resource Allocation in Computing Service Providers“. 5th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008). pp. 583-587. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 8-11, 2008, pp. 583-587. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3283-7.
  • Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Rean Griffith, Gail Kaiser and Luis Silva. “Towards Self-Adaptable monitoring framework for Self-healing “. Procs. 3rd CoreGrid Workshop on Middleware, Barcelona, Spain. June 5-6, 2008. Also published on Springer Book “Grid and Services Evolution”, CoreGrid Series Vol n.11. pp 133-142.
  • Josep L. Berral, Nicolas Poggi, Javier Alonso, Ricard Gavalda, Jordi Torres and Manish Parashar. “Adaptive Distributed Mechanism Against Flooding Network Attacks Based on Machine Learning“. ACM Workshop on Articifial Intelligence on Security 2008, pp 43-49. October 27th, 2008, Virginia (USA). ISBN: 978-1-60558-287-0.
  • V. Beltran, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé. “Understanding tuning complexity in multithreaded and hybrid web servers“. In IPDPS ‘08: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, pages 56-64, Miami, FL, USA, 14-18 April 2008.
  • M. Macías, O. Rana, G. Smith, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. “Maximising Revenue in Grid Markets using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager“. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2008. ISSN: 1532-0634.
  • Josep L. Berral, Javier Alonso, Nicolas Poggi, Ricard Gavaldà, Manish Parashar, Jordi Torres, “Distributed Learning Mechanism Against Flooding Network Attacks.”XIX Jornadas de Paralelismo, Castelló, Spain, 17-19 of September, 2008.  ISBN: 978-84-8021-676-0
  • Nicolas Poggi, Toni Moreno, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres,”Self-Adaptive Utility-Based Web Session Management.” pp.1712-1721. Computer Networks Journal, , vol 53, no. 10. 2008. ISSN: 1389-1286.
  • David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “Enabling resource sharing between transactional and batch workloads using dynamic application placement“. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2008) pp. 203-222, Leuven (Belgium), December 2008.
  • Vicenc¸ Beltran, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé.”Improving Web Server Performance Through Main Memory Compression“.  ICPADS 2008.The 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’08) Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. 8th-10th December, 2008.
  • J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, R. Badia, and J. Torres. “SLA-Driven Semantically-Enhanced Dynamic Resource Allocator for Virtualized Service Providers“. 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008). Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008.
  • Ada Casanovas, Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres and Artur Andrzejak. “Work in Progress: Building a Distributed Generic Stress Tool for Server Performance and Behavior Analysis“. The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, ICAS 2009. pp 342-345. April 20-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain.
  • Javier Alonso, Ricard Gavaldà and Jordi Torres. “Predicting web server crashes: A case study in comparing prediction algorithms“. The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, ICAS 2009. pp. 264-269. April 20-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain.
  • M. Macías, G. Smith, O. Rana, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. “Enforcing Service Level Agreements using an Economically Enhanced Resource Manager” Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems Autonomic Systems Series, Part I, Chapter 6, pp. 109-128. Birkhäuser-Springer, February 2009. ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6
  • R. Nou, S. Kounev and J. Torres. “Autonomic QoS control in enterprise Grid environments using online simulation“. Journal of Systems and Software 82 (2009) 486-502. vol 82, no. 3. ISSN: 0164-1212. 2009.
  • R. Nou, J. Torres. “Heterogeneous QoS Resource Manager with Prediction“.  The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems. (ICAS 2009)  pp.69-74. April 20-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain
  • Iñigo Goiri, Ferran Julia, Jorge Ejarque, Marc de Palol, Rosa M. Badia, Jordi Guitart, and Jordi Torres. “Introducing Virtual Execution Environments for Application Lifecycle Management and SLA-Driven Resource Distribution within Service Providers“. The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA’09) pp. 211-218. Cambridge, MA, USA, July 9-11, 2009
  • Vicenç Beltran, Xavier Martorell, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “Accelerating Software Memory Compression on the Cell/B.E.“. First Workshop on Accelerators for High-performance Architectures. In conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Supercomputing June 8-12, 2009. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • Yolanda Becerra, Vicenç Beltran, David Carrera, Marc González, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. “Speeding Up Distributed MapReduce Applications Using Hardware Accelerators“. To appear in the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP).  Vienna, Austria. September 2009
  • J. Ejarque, M. de Palol, I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, J. Torres, and R. Badia. Exploiting Semantics and Virtualization for SLA-driven Resource Allocation in Service Providers. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. XX (XX), pp. XX-XX, 2009 ISSN: 1532-0634
  • I. Goiri, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. Elastic Management of Tasks in Virtualized Environments. XX Jornadas de Paralelismo (JP 2009) pp. 671-676. A Coruña, Spain, September 16-18, 2009.
  • J. Polo, D. Nadal, D. Carrera, Y. Becerra, V. Beltran, J. Torres and E. Ayguadé. Adaptive Task Scheduling for Multi-Job MapReduce Environments. XX Jornadas de Paralelismo (JP 2009). pp 96-101 A Coruña, Spain, September 16-18, (pp96) 2009.
  • Vicenç Beltran, David Carrera, Jordi Torres and Eduard Ayguadé. CellMT: A Cooperative Multithreading Library for the Cell/B.E.  To appear in the proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC’09). Cochin, India. December 2009.
  • Luis Moura Silva, Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres. Using Virtualization to Improve Software Rejuvenation. IEEE Transactions on Computers. November 2009 (Vol. 58, No. 11) pp. 1441-1443.
  • T. Püschel, N. Borissov, D. Neumann, M. Macías, J. Guitart, and J. Torres, “Economically Extended Resource Management“. Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems. D. Neumann, M. Baker, J. Altmann, O.F. Rana (Eds.). Autonomic Systems Series, book Chapter. Part II: Service Level Agreements, Chapter 7, pp. 129-142. Birkhäuser-Springer, December 2009. ISBN: 978-3-7643-8896-6
  • J. Guitart, J. Torres, and E. Ayguadé. A Survey on Performance Management for Internet Applications. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 22 (1), pp. 68-106, January 2010. ISSN: 1532-0634.
  • I. Goiri, F. Julià, J. Guitart, and J. Torres. Checkpoint-based Fault-tolerant Infrastructure for Virtualized Service Providers. 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS’10). Osaka, Japan, April 19-23, 2010.
  • J. Polo, D. Carrera, Y. Becerra, J. Torres, E. Ayguadé, M. Steinder, I. Whalley. Performance-Driven Task Co-Scheduling for MapReduce Environments. 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS’10). Osaka, Japan, April 19-23, 2010.
  • J. Alonso, J. L. Berral, J. Torres and R. Gavaldà, “J2EE Instrumentation for software aging root cause application component determination with AspectJ” 15th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel Distributed and Network Centric Systems  - DPDNS’2010 -  April, 2010  Ohio State University, USA.
  • J. Ll Berral, I. Goiri, R. Nou, F. Julia, J. Guitart, R. Gavalda and J. Torres, “Towards energy-aware scheduling in data center using machine learning“. 1st Int’l Conf. on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking (e-Energy 2010).  University of Passau, Germany. April 13-15, 2010.

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Teaching books:

  • J.R. Herrero, X. Martorell and J. Torres. “Conceptos Avanzados de Sistemas Operativos“. Ed. Edicions UPC, 2000 . ISBN 84-8301-439-4 (Link)
  • “Execution Environments for Distributed Computing” (EEDC’07). J. Torres, J. Sanjuas and I. Goiri Editors. Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2007, pp. 17-24. ISBN: 978-1-84799-878-1. 68 pages. Lulu Ed. 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84799-878-1 http://books.google.com/books?id=jes6CecbM1EC
  • “CLOUD COMPUTING: Execution Environments for Distributed Computation Issues”. J. Torres, I. Goiri and M. Macias Editors. Lulu.com publisher, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-4092-1787-9. http://www.lulu.com/content/3077784
  • J. Torres. “A glance at SYSTEM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS“. Ed. Lulu Interprises, London. ISBN 978-1-4092-2916-2. 2008.
  • “A resource  book on Execution Environments for Distributed Systems“. J. Torres. Ed Lulu Interprises, London. ISBN 978-1-4092-8215-0. 2009.
  • “CLOUD COMPUTING: una visión desde una aula de la UPC“. I. Gómez, X. Pegenaute, G. Reig, J. Torres Editores. Luli.com publisher, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-4452-0171-9.
  • “System Performance Analysis Basics“. J. Torres. Ed. Lulu Interprises, London. ISBN 978-1-4452-1213-5. Novembre 2009.

Popular science:

  • “Creating Power-Aware Middleware for Energy-Efficient Data Centres“. Eduard Ayguadé and Jordi Torres. ERCIM News, number 79, October 2009. ISSN 0926-4981. (link) (pag 27-28)
  • “EMOTIVE: the BSC’s engine for Cloud solutions” by Iñigo Goiri, Jordi Guitart, Mario Macias, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé, Jorge Ejarque, Raul Sirvent, Daniele Lezzi, Rosa M. Badia. Zero-in magazine, October 2009. ( pdf link) (link)

PhD Thesis:

  • Jordi Guitart. Performance Improvement of Multithreaded Java Applications Execution on Multiprocessor Systems. Co-advisor with Eduard Ayguadé. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2005.
  • Ramon Nou. Introducing real-time simulation for self-managed grid middleware. Advisor. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2007.
  • David Carrera. Adaptive Execution Environments for Application Servers. Co-advisor with Eduard Ayguadé. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2008.
  • Vicenç Beltran. Improving Web Server Efficiency on Commodity Hardware. Co-advisor with Eduard Ayguadé. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 2008.

Demo Show Cases:

  • Demo Exhibit at International Conference on Autonomic Computing. “The BSC monitoring and analysis environment: supporting the introduction of autonomic computing in systems“. Ramon Nou, Ferran Julià, Kevin Hogan, Jordi Caubet, Jordi Torres and Jesús Labarta. Dublin, Ireland, June 2006.
  • CoreGRID Industrial ShowCase - In conjunction with Open Grid Forum 23. “VM-Rejuvenation: A cheap and easy self-rejuvenation technique for legacy application servers “, Javier Alonso, Luís Silva and Jordi Torres. Barcelona, Spain, June, 2008.
  • Demo Exhibit at International Conference on Autonomic Computing. “EMOTIVE CLOUD : The BSC Engine for Cloud Solutions“, Jordi Guitart, Íñigo Goiri, Ferran Julià, Mario Macías, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Vicenç Beltran, Jordà Polo, David de Nadal, Uday Kiran, J. Oriol Fitó, Gemma Reig, Rosa M. Badia, Jorge Ejarque, Eduard Ayguadè, Javier Alonso, Josep Lluís Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Nico Poggi, Jordi Torres. Barcelona, June 2009.

Recent invited Talks and Panels:

  • Talk” Green Computing: the next wave in computing“. Aules Empresa FIB. February 2010.
  • Talk “Barcelona Middleware Power-aware Research at a glance“. Cost IC 0804 meeting, WG3. Toulouse - November 9, 2009.
  • Panel “Resource Management for Distributed Systems”. Google EMEA Faculty Summit, 10-12 February 2009, Zurich.
  • Talk “Application-centric resource tailoring with energy efficiency goals”. Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (October 22th, 2007).
  • Panel “Green Computing: costos i oportunitats”. Jornada de divulgació tecnològica: El paper de les TIC en la revolució energètica. 19 de novembre de 2009, Auditori del Cibernàrium - Parc Tecnològic Barcelona Nord. Barcelona Activa - Ajuntament de Barcelona.
  • Panel “Cloud Computing and Private Computing“. Cloud Computing y la transformación del data center. Organizado por AST. 9 de Julio 2009. Barcelona.
  • Panel “Trends in Cloud Computing“. Dia de l’emprenedor”. May 21th, 2009.  Barcelona.
  • Panel “Cloud Computing“. Organizado por Google. 14 de mayo 2009. Barcelona

Press:

Personal:

  • J.Bellalta, S.Coll, A. Diaz, J. A. Framis, I. Font, J. Nogueras, P. Padrós, J. Parera, J.M. Parera, V. Puig, C. Rodrigo, P. Ros, J. Torres, J. Viñals. “LES FONTS D´ARGENTONA“. Ed. Ajuntament d’Argentona, 1982 (reedició 1994) ISBN 84-88568-11-8
  • Map-hiking guidebook “Argentona y el seu entorn“. A. Alonso, Ll. Asla, M. Banchs, A. Carbonell, S. Casas, J. Famadas, D. Farell, C. Hervàs, J. Lladó, F. Lladó, P. Padrós, P. Pannon, J.M. Parera, X. Petit, LL. Serra, E. Subiñà, J. Torres . Editorial Alpina SL, 2006. ISBN: 84-8090-193-4 (link)
  • Map-hiking brochures “Les fonts d’Argentona“, Ll. Serra, A. Carbonell, P. Padrós, C. Hervás, J. Torres. Ed. Ajuntament de Argentona, 2006.