Selected talks by Henri Bal

  • Networking with Cees, 9 December 2022, University of Amsterdam, symposium ‘From Systems and Networks to Complex Cyber Infrastructures’ , in honor of the retirement of Professor Cees de Laat and the appointment of Professor Leon Gommans (.pdf)
  • 25 Years of Parallel and Distributed Computing Research in ASCI, keynote lecture at CompSys 2022 conference, 8 June 2022, Putten, The Netherlands (.pdf)
  • High Performance Computing for Distributed Sensing Applications, keynote lecture at 18th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC-2019), Amsterdam, 5 June 2019 (.pptx)
  • Research Challenges for Distributed Sensing Applications, Grid’5000-FIT school 4 April 2018, Antibes, France ( .pptx )
  • Research Challenges for Distributed Sensing Applications, INRIA Research Centre Bordeaux, Interfaces colloquium, 22 September 2017, Bordeaux, France ( .pptx )
  • DAS: A Medium-Scale Distributed System for Computer Science Research – Infrastructure for the Long Term, Thalia Symposium 2017 “Parallel Computations”, 10 February 2017, Nijmegen ( .pptx )
  • Developments in Sensor Technology – A Journey with SWAN, i3B (ICT for Brain, Body & Behavior) Annual Symposium 2016, November 24, 2016, Ede, NL ( .pdf )
  • Scalable Overlapping Community Detection, The 5th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics, May 27, 2016, Chicago, USA (Best paper award) ( .pdf )
  • DAS-5: Harnessing the Diversity of Complex e-Infrastructures, keynote lecture at IEEE HPCS 2015 (Amsterdam, 23 July 2015) ( .ppt )
  • Big Data: Big Challenges for Computer Science, Meeting of the Dutch members of the Academia Europeana (Amsterdam, 7 Nov 2014) ( .ppt )
  • GPU Programming: eScience or Engineering?, keynote lecture at IEEE SBAC-PAD 2014 (Paris, 24 October 2014) ( .ppt )
  • Going Dutch: How to Share a Dedicated Distributed Infrastructure for Computer Science Research, keynote lecture at Euro-Par 2014 (Porto, 28 August 2014) ( .ppt )
  • High Performance Computing Platform, NWO Programme Information meeting Human Brain Project, The Hague, Jan 24 2014 ( .pdf )
  • The first 16 years of the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (TU Delft, Febr 13, 2013) ( .ppt )
  • The Ibis e-Science Software Framework, CONTRAIL Summerschool, Almere, 25 July 2012 ( .ppt )
  • Interdroid: a platform for distributed smartphone applications, Workshop on Trends in High-Performance Distributed Computing, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, March 14, 2012) ( .ppt )
  • The Ibis e-Science Software Framework, (Almende, Rotterdam, 20 January 2012) ( .pptx , .ppt )
  • Distributed Computing with Ibis, Workshop on Modeling and Observing Dense Stellar Systems (Lorentz Center, Leiden, 14 December 2011) ( .ppt )
  • DAS 1-4: 14 years of experience with the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer, ComplexHPC Spring School 2011 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10 May 2011) ( .ppt , .pdf )
  • Ibis: A Programming System for Real-World Distributed Computing , Euro-Par 2009 (Delft, The Netherlands, 25-28 Aug 2009) (.ppt)
    (for the movies, see the Ibis web site)
  • Real-World Distributed Computing with Ibis, CLADE 2009 (HPDC workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments June 2009, Munich, Germany) (.ppt)
  • The Ibis model as a paradigm for programming distributed systems (from Grids and Clouds to Smartphones), ERC 2009 ERC Symposium Andy Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, April 28, 2009 (.ppt)
  • Efficient Large-Scale Model Checking, DMCD 2009 (Dutch Model Checking Day, 2 April 2009, University of Twente) (.ppt)
  • The Ibis Project: simplifying Grid Programming & Deployment, CCGrid 2008 (8th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 18-22 May 2008, Lyon, France), European Projects Showcase session (.ppt)
  • The Ibis Project: simplifying Grid Programming & Deployment, PCGRID08 (2nd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems, 18 April 2008, Miami, Florida) keynote talk (.ppt)
  • Large-Scale Parallel Computing on Grids, PDMC 2008 (7th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Methods in VerifiCation), 29 March 2008, Budapest, Hungary, keynote talk (.ppt)
  • The DAS-3 Project, SIREN 2006 , Utrecht, 12 October 2006 (.ppt)
  • Round table (panel) on “Which experimental platform for HPDC research?”, EXPGRID (workshop on Experimental Grid testbeds for the assessment of large-scale distributed applications and tools) , June 19, 2006, Paris (with HPDC-15) (.ppt)
  • Distributed supercomputing on DAS, GridLab, and Grid’5000, SENVA Meeting on Parallel and Distributed Verification , April 3, 2006, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (.ppt)
  • Grid Adventures on DAS, GridLab and Grid’5000, Workshop on Trends in High-Performance Distributed Computing , March 17, 2006, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (.ppt)
  • Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e), University of Nice (invited talk) , July 8, 2005, University of Nice – INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France (.ppt)
  • The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) project, Bsik ICT-congres , Juli 5, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (.ppt)
  • Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e), European Grid Conference , February 14 -16 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (.ppt)
  • The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) project, GRIDs@Large workshop , Aug 29th-30th, Lisboa, Portugal (with Euro-Par 2005) (.ppt)
  • Ibis: A Java-Centric Programming Environment for Computational Grids, Distinguished lecture at University of Alberta , March 30, 2005, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (.ppt) Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e), SURFnet Relatiedagen , Utrecht, 8 en 9 december 2004 (.ppt)
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