Andrea Righi

PhD student
Department of Information Engineering
Università degli Studi di Siena
Via Roma, 56 - 53100 Siena (Italy)

About me

Specialized in operating systems, HPC clusters and system architectures. Received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Siena on 2004. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Siena under the supervision of Prof. Roberto Giorgi. The topic of the PhD is: "Enhancing the Performance Predictability of Virtual Machines".

Research Interests

Operating systems, computer architecture, virtualization technologies, high performance computing, grid computing, cloud computing, embedded systems.

Education

Qualification to the Information Engineering profession, July 2005
Master Degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Siena, thesis "Design and automatic installation of heterogeneous clusters", October 2004 [pdf]

Publications

Conferences

A. Righi, B.E. Finley, E. Focht, B. Li, SystemImager and BitTorrent: a peer-to-peer approach to large scale OS deployment, Proceedings of LinuxTag 2007 [pdf]

Unrefereed

A. Righi, SystemImager: Configurarne uno per Configurarne cento, Notizie dal CINECA - n.61, June 2008, pp. 6-8, DOI: 10.1388/notizie-61-02 [pdf]

Didactic activities

Assistant supervisor of Master thesis at Engineering Faculty of University of Siena: "Autodiscovery e gestione delle configurazioni di una rete di sistemi distribuiti", June 2008
Co-tutoring of Master thesis at Engineering Faculty of University of Bologna: "Studio e sperimentazione del sistema Xen in ambienti di housing virtuale", June 2008
Minirighi: development and implementation of a POSIX kernel for IA-32, seminar within the Operating Systems course, Faculty of Engineering - University of Siena, March 2004

Work experiences

Sep 2008: worked as a full-time Linux kernel developer
Jan 2008 - Aug 2008: System and Technology Department at CINECA, worked as a GNU/Linux expert involved in the deployment and administration of HPC/ICT clusters, server farms and virtualization solutions
Nov 2004 - Dec 2007: High Performance System Management Group at CINECA, involved in the deployment and the administration of the main HPC clusters (all have been reported in the TOP500 list) and high performance technologies in CINECA
1998: Pramac Industriale, worked as a UNIX system administrator
1994 - 1995: Computer Service, worked as a software programmer

Speaking engagements

SystemImager and BitTorrent: a peer-to-peer approach to large scale OS deployment, LinuxTag 2007, Berlin
DEISA - easy integration of HPC-Systems with UNICORE, 1st Unicore Summit, October 2005, ETSI Headquarters, Sophia Antipolis
HPC Cluster Management with SystemImager, LinuxLab @ CINECA, January 2005

Contributions to open source projects

Linux: contributor
SystemImager: maintainer, developer
OSCAR: contributor
rsync: contributor
collectl: contributor
Minirighi: author, developer
Tabos: contributor
PyGFS: author, developer

Contact me

e-mail: righi at dii.unisi.it (GPG public key 77CEF397)
jabber: righiandr@jabber.linux.it (check the light to see if I'm online)
ICQ: 321935100

See also