Status: Completed
General Objective: Study the resolution of coordination problems within distributed systems that support cloud computing. For this we are going to focus on presenting the state of the art and the main advances related to aspects such as: Consensus, Fault detectors.
Participants:
- UTPL
- EPN
Link: Distributed Systems
Speaker – Ernesto Jiménez Merino
PhD in Computer Science
Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
Ernesto Jiménez was born in Madrid, Spain, on February 18, 1965. He is currently a University Professor in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology (ATC), at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. He has extensive teaching experience at the university (since 1989). He has also worked in IT at two private companies. He obtained a higher degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1992.
He obtained his PhD in computer science in 2004 from the Rey Juan Carlos University. She belongs to the Distributed Systems Laboratory (LSD) research group of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He was a visiting researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), USA, 2005; at INRIA in Rennes, France, 2006; and at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, 2012. His main areas of research interest are: distributed computing (oriented towards fault tolerance), and distributed shared memory. He regularly participates in European, Spanish and Latin American research projects since 1995.
