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Dr. Jens Simon

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Dr. Jens Simon

Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2)

Member - Research Associate - Head of HPC Operation

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Dr. Jens Simon
1992

Curriculum Vitae

Jens Simon graduated with a diploma in computer science 1992 and in 1999 he received his PhD - both from the Paderborn University. From 1992 til 1999, he worked at the Paderborn Center of Parallel Computing (PC²) at the University of Paderborn. From 1999 til 2001, he was the head of the Computer Science Research Group at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB). Since 2001, Jens Simon is a senior research scientist and the head of IT at the PC².

He has presented several articles on national and international conferences and journals targetting optimal process mapping, benchmarking of parallel computers, performance optimization, and performance prediction.

Jens Simon worked as a referee for some international journals and conferences like ICS, SPAA, IRREGULAR, HPCN, PPL. He was a program committee member of the SCI-Europe, ParCo and a local chair of the Euro-Par in Paderborn. He was an invited speaker of some national and international workshops.
Veröffentlichungen

2012

Oliver Niehörster, Jens Simon, André Binkmann, Axel Keller, Jens Krüger
Cost-aware and SLO Fulfilling Software as a Service
Journal of Grid Computing, 2012, Volume 10, Number 3, 553 -- 577

2011

Oliver Niehörster, Jens Simon, André Binkmann, Alexaner Krieger
Autonomic Resource Management with Support Vector Machines
Grid 2011, 12th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Grid Computig, Lyon, 2011

Georg Birkenheuer, André Brinkmann, Hubert Dömer, Sascha Effert, Christoph Konersmann, Oliver Niehörster, Jens Simon
Virtualized HPC: A Contradiction in Terms?
Software - Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, 2011

2010

Oliver Niehörster, André Brinkmann, Gregor Fels, Jens Krüger,  Jens Simon
Enforcing SLAs in Scientific Clouds
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2010 (Cluster2010), 2010

2008

Georg Birkenheuer, André Brinkmann, Hubert Dömer, Sascha Effert, Christopher Konersmann, Oliver Niehörster, Jens Simon
Virtual Supercomputer for HPC and HTC
GI/ITG Virtualization Workshop at LMU/LRZ, Germany, Garching, 2008

2002

Jesús Labarta, Barton P. Miller, Florian Schintke, Jens Simon
Performance Evaluation, Analysis and Optimization
Lecture Notes In Computer Science, Vol. 2400, Springer-Verlag, London, UK

2001

Alexander Reinefeld, Florian Schintke, Jens Simon
A Cache Simulator for Shared Memory Systems
Proc. of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2001). Springer-Verlag. 2001, LNCS 2074

2000

Jens Simon
Werkzeugunterstützte effiziente Nutzung von Hochleistungsrechnern
ISBN 3-934445-03-9, Blunk-Verlag, Berlin, Feb. 2000

1999

Oliver Heinz, Alexander Reinefeld, Jens Simon
Large-Scale SCI-Clusters in Practice: Architecture and Performance in SCI
Scalable Coherent Interface. Architecture and Software for High-Performance Compute Clusters, Springer LNCS 1734, 1999

Jens Simon
Werkzeugunterstützte effiziente Nutzung von Hochleistungsrechnern
Dissertation, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität-GH Paderborn, 1999

1998

Jens-Michael Wierum, Jens Simon
The Latency-of-Data-Access Model for Analysing Parallel Computation
Information Processing Letters - Special Issue on Models of Computation, vol. 66/5, June 1998, pp. 255-261

1997

Markus Fischer, Jens Simon
Embedding SCI into PVM
EuroPVM-MPI 97, Nov. 1997

Oliver Heinz, Jens Simon
SCI multiprocessor PC cluster in a WindowsNT environment
SuperComputer Journal, vol. XIII-2, 1997

Ranieri Baraglia, Thomas Decker, Jörn Gehring, Domenico Laforenza, Friedhelm Ramme, Alexander Reinefeld, Jens Simon, Thomas Römke
The MOL Project: An Open Extensible Metacomputer
Proc. Heterogenous Computing Workshop HCW 97, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp. 17-31

Jens Simon, Reinhold Weicker, Marco Vieth
Workload Analysis of Computation Intensive Tasks: Case Study on SPEC CPU95 Benchmarks
Euro-Par 97, Passau, Germany, August 26-29 1997

Oliver Heinz, Jens Simon
Experiences with a SCI Multiprocessor Workstation Cluster
ARCS 97, September 1997

1996

Jens Simon, Jens-Michael Wierum 1996
Accurate Performance Prediction for Massively Parallel Systems and its Applications
Euro-Par 96, France, Lion, Springer, LNCS, vol. 1124, August 27-29 1996

Jens Simon, Jens-Michael Wierum
Performance Prediction of Benchmark Programs for Massively Parallel Architectures
10th Annual Intl. Conf. on High-Performance Computers, HPCS 96, Ottawa, Canada, June 5-7 1996
 

Jens Simon, Jens-Michael Wierum
Sequential Performance versus Scalability: Optimizing Parallel LU-Decomposition
HPCN Europe 96, Belgium, Brussel, Springer, LNCS, vol. 1067, April 15-19 1996

1995

Stephan Blazy, Uwe Dralle, Jens Simon
Parallel CG Poisson Solver for PowerPC 601
PowerXplorer User Report - Applications and Projects on the Parsytec PowerXplorer Parallel Computer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, May 1995, pp. 101-105

Thomas Römke, Markus Röttger, Ulf-Peter Schroeder, Jens Simon
On Efficient Embeddings of Grids into Grids in PARIX
Procs. of the 1st International Conference on Parallel Processing EURO-PAR 95, Seif Haridi, Khayri Ali, Peter Magnusson, Springer, LNCS, vol. 966, August 1995, pp. 181-192

Markus Röttger, Ulf-Peter Schroeder, Jens Simon
Implementation of a Parallel and Distributed Mapping Kernel for Parix
Proc. of the Intern. Conferencce on High-Performance Computing and Networking, 1995, pp. 781-786

Thomas Römke, Markus Röttger, Ulf-Peter Schroeder, Jens Simon
An Efficient Mapping Library for Parix
Proceedings ZEUS 95, IOS Press, 1995, pp. 275-284

1994

Jens Simon
Leistung eines Parallelrechners auf Basis des PowerPC-Prozessors
Parallele Datenverarbeitung aktuell: TAT 94 - Parallelrechner Grundlagen und Anwendungen, IOS Press, 1994

1993

Ralf Diekmann, Jens Simon
Problem Independent Distributed Simulated Annealing and its Applications
Applied Simulated Annealing, R.V.V. Vidal, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical System, vol. 396, 1993, pp. 17 - 44

Markus Röttger, Jens Simon, Ulf-Peter Schroeder
Virtual Topology Library for PARIX
Technical Report PC², vol. TR-005-93, 1993

Ralf Diekmann, Reinhard Lüling, Jens Simon
Problem Independent Distributed Simulated Annealing and its Applications
Technical Report PC², vol. TR-003-93, 1993

1992

Ralf Diekmann, Reinhard Lüling, Jens Simon
A General Purpose Distributed Implementation of Simulated Annealing
Proc. of the 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics, 1992

Ralf Diekmann, Jens Simon
Leistungssteigerung paralleler Systeme durch virtuelle Topologien
Abstraktband des 4. bundesweiten Transputer-Anwender-Treffens (TAT 92), 1992

Ralf Diekmann, Reinhard Lüling, Jens Simon
A General Purpose Distributed Implementation of Simulated Annealing
Proc. of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP 92), 1992, pp. 94-101

1991

Ralf Diekmann, Reinhard Lüling, Burkhard Monien, Jens Simon
Implementierung von Simulated Annealing auf Transputer-Systemen
Parallele Datenverarbeitung mit den Transputer (TAT 91), Springer, Informatik aktuell, 1991, pp. 361-268

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Universität Paderborn
Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing 
Warburgerstr. 100 
D-33098 Paderborn

office O2.161 (Building O, Pohlweg 51)
phone +49 5251 60 1731
secretary +49 5251 60 1735
fax +49 5251 60 1714
e-mail simon(at)uni-paderborn.de

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Publications


Open list in Research Information System

2012

Cost-aware and SLO Fulfilling Software as a Service

O. Niehörster, J. Simon, A. Brinkmann, A. Keller, J. Krüger, Journal of Grid Computing (2012), 10(3), pp. 553-577

Abstract
DOI

Virtualization technology makes data centers more dynamic and easier to administrate. Today, cloud providers offer customers access to complex applications running on virtualized hardware. Nevertheless, big virtualized data centers become stochastic environments and the simplification on the user side leads to many challenges for the provider. He has to find cost-efficient configurations and has to deal with dynamic environments to ensure service level objectives (SLOs). We introduce a software solution that reduces the degree of human intervention to manage clouds. It is designed as a multi-agent system (MAS) and placed on top of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer. Worker agents allocate resources, configure applications, check the feasibility of requests, and generate cost estimates. They are equipped with application specific knowledge allowing it to estimate the type and number of necessary resources. During runtime, a worker agent monitors the job and adapts its resources to ensure the specified quality of service—even in noisy clouds where the job instances are influenced by other jobs. They interact with a scheduler agent, which takes care of limited resources and does a cost-aware scheduling by assigning jobs to times with low costs. The whole architecture is self-optimizing and able to use public or private clouds. Building a private cloud needs to face the challenge to find a mapping of virtual machines (VMs) to hosts. We present a rule-based mapping algorithm for VMs. It offers an interface where policies can be defined and combined in a generic way. The algorithm performs the initial mapping at request time as well as a remapping during runtime. It deals with policy and infrastructure changes. An energy-aware scheduler and the availability of cheap resources provided by a spot market are analyzed. We evaluated our approach by building up an SaaS stack, which assigns resources in consideration of an energy function and that ensures SLOs of two different applications, a brokerage system and a high-performance computing software. Experiments were done on a real cloud system and by simulations.


2011

Autonomic Resource Management with Support Vector Machines

O. Niehörster, J. Simon, A. Brinkmann, A. Krieger, in: Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Grid Computing (GRID), IEEE Computer Society, 2011, pp. 157-164

DOI


Virtualized HPC: a contradiction in terms?

G. Birkenheuer, A. Brinkmann, J. Kaiser, A. Keller, M. Keller, C. Kleineweber, C. Konersmann, O. Niehörster, T. Schäfer, J. Simon, M. Wilhelm, Software: Practice and Experience (2011)

Abstract
DOI

System virtualization has become the enabling technology to manage the increasing number of different applications inside data centers. The abstraction from the underlying hardware and the provision of multiple virtual machines (VM) on a single physical server have led to a consolidation and more efficient usage of physical servers. The abstraction from the hardware also eases the provision of applications on different data centers, as applied in several cloud computing environments. In this case, the application need not adapt to the environment of the cloud computing provider, but can travel around with its own VM image, including its own operating system and libraries. System virtualization and cloud computing could also be very attractive in the context of high‐performance computing (HPC). Today, HPC centers have to cope with both, the management of the infrastructure and also the applications. Virtualization technology would enable these centers to focus on the infrastructure, while the users, collaborating inside their virtual organizations (VOs), would be able to provide the software. Nevertheless, there seems to be a contradiction between HPC and cloud computing, as there are very few successful approaches to virtualize HPC centers. This work discusses the underlying reasons, including the management and performance, and presents solutions to overcome the contradiction, including a set of new libraries. The viability of the presented approach is shown based on evaluating a selected parallel, scientific application in a virtualized HPC environment.


2010

Enforcing SLAs in Scientific Clouds

O. Niehörster, A. Brinkmann, G. Fels, J. Krüger, J. Simon, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), IEEE, 2010, pp. 178-187

DOI


2008

Virtual Supercomputer for HPC and HTC

G. Birkenheuer, A. Brinkmann, H. Dömer, S. Effert, C. Konersmann, O. Niehörster, J. Simon, in: Proc. Gemeinsamer Workshop der GI/ITG Fachgruppen "Betriebssysteme" und "KuVS": Virtualized IT infrastructures and their management, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, 2008, pp. 37-49


2002

Performance Evaluation, Analysis and Optimization

B. P. Miller, J. Labarta, F. Schintke, J. Simon, in: Proc. European Conf. on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par), Springer, 2002, pp. 131

DOI


2001

A Cache Simulator for Shared Memory Systems

F. Schintke, J. Simon, A. Reinefeld, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Computational Science (ICCS), Springer, 2001, pp. 569-578

DOI


2000

Werkzeugunterstützte effiziente Nutzung von Hochleistungsrechnern

J. Simon, Dr. Dirk Blunk Verlag, 2000


1999

Large-Scale SCI Clusters in Practice: Architecture and Performance in SCI

J. Simon, A. Reinefeld, O. Heinz, in: SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface. Architecture and Software for High-Performance Compute Clusters, Springer, 1999, pp. 367-381

DOI


1998

The Latency-of-Data-Access model for Analyzing Parallel Computation

J. Simon, J. Wierum, Information Processing Letters - Special Issue on Models of Computation (1998), 66(5), pp. 255-261

DOI


1997

Embedding SCI into PVM

M. Fischer, J. Simon, in: Proc. European Parallel Virtual Machine / Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting (EuroPVM/MPI), Springer, 1997, pp. 175-184

DOI


Experiences with a SCI Multiprocessor Workstation Cluster

O. Heinz, J. Simon, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), VDE Verlag, 1997


SCI multiprocessor PC cluster in a WindowsNT environment

J. Simon, O. Heinz, in: Proc. Workshops im Rahmen der 14. ITG/GI-Fachtagung Architektur von Rechensystemen, 1997, pp. 189-199


The MOL Project: An Open, Extensible Metacomputer

A. Reinefeld, R. Baraglia, T. Decker, J. Gehring, D. Laforenza, F. Ramme, T. Römke, J. Simon, in: Proc. Heterogenous Computing Workshop (HCW), IEEE Computer Society, 1997, pp. 17-31

DOI


Workload Analysis of Computation Intensive Tasks: Case Study on SPEC CPU95 Benchmarks

J. Simon, R. Weicker, M. Vieth, in: Proc. European Conf. on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par), Springer, 1997, pp. 971-984

DOI


1996

Accurate Performance Prediction for Massively Parallel Systems and its Applications

J. Simon, J. Wierum, in: Proc. European Conf. on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par), Springer, 1996, pp. 675-688

DOI


On Accurate Performance Prediction for Massively Parallel Systems and its Applications

J. Simon, J. Wierum, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, 1996


Performance Prediction of Benchmark Programs for Massively Parallel Architectures

J. Simon, J. Wierum, in: Proc. Annual Int. Conf. on High-Performance Computers (HPCS), 1996


Sequential Performance versus Scalability: Optimizing Parallel LU-Decomposition

J. Simon, J. Wierum, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe), Springer, 1996, pp. 627-632

DOI


1995

An Efficient Mapping Library for Parix

T. Römke, M. Röttger, U. Schroeder, J. Simon, in: Proc. ZEUS Workshop on Par. Programming and Computation, IOS Press, 1995


Implementation of a Parallel and Distributed Mapping Kernel for PARIX

M. Röttger, U. Schroeder, J. Simon, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on High-Performance Computing and Networking, Springer, 1995, pp. 781-786

DOI


On Efficient Embeddings of Grids into Grids in PARIX

T. Römke, M. Röttger, U. Schroeder, J. Simon, in: Proc. European Conf. on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par), Springer, 1995, pp. 179-192

DOI


Parallel CG Poisson Solver for PowerPC 601

S. Blazy, U. Dralle, J. Simon, in: PowerXplorer User Report - Applications and Projects on the Parsytec PowerXplorer Parallel Computer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 1995


SparcStation SCI-Interface

J. Gehring, J. Simon, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, 1995


1994

Leistung eines Parallelrechners auf Basis des PowerPC-Prozessors

J. Simon, in: Parallele Datenverarbeitung aktuell: TAT '94, IOS Press, 1994, pp. 38-45


1993

Benutzung virtueller Topologien unter PARIX

J. Simon, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, 1993


Problem Independent Distributed Simulated Annealing and its Applications

R. Diekmann, R. Lüling, J. Simon, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, 1993


Problem Independent Distributed Simulated Annealing and its Applications

R. Diekmann, J. Simon, in: Applied Simulated Annealing, Springer, 1993, pp. 17-44

DOI


Virtual Topology Library for PARIX

M. Röttger, J. Simon, U. Schroeder, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, 1993


1992

A General Purpose Distributed Implementation of Simulated Annealing

R. Diekmann, R. Lüling, J. Simon, in: Proc. 13th IMACS World Congress on Computation and Applied Mathematics, 1992


A General Purpose Distributed Implementation of Simulated Annealing

R. Diekmann, R. Lüling, J. Simon, in: Proc. IEEE Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP), IEEE, 1992, pp. 94-101

DOI


Implementierung von Simulated Annealing auf Transputer-Systemen

R. Diekmann, R. Lüling, B. Monien, J. Simon, in: Parallele Datenverarbeitung mit dem Transputer, Springer, 1992, pp. 361-368

DOI


Leistungssteigerung paralleler Systeme durch virtuelle Topologien

R. Diekmann, J. Simon, in: Abstraktband des 4. bundesweiten Transputer-Anwender-Treffens (TAT 92), 1992


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