Jordi Torres

Current

• Professor - Catedràtic - Catedrático at UPC
• Research Manager at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Past

• Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Member of board of managers at CEPBA-IBM Research Institute
• Vice-dean at Computer Science School in Barcelona - Technical University of Catalonia

Education

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Jordi Torres’s Summary

Jordi Torres has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, 1988) and also holds a Ph. D. from the same institution. Currently he is a full professor in the Computer Architecture Department at UPC and is a manager for the Autonomic Systems and eBusiness Platforms research line in Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). At this moment in time his research centres on making IT resources more efficient, and focuses on the resource management needs of modern systems in this new era of global computation, as imposed by new paradigms such as web 2.0 or cloud computing. Currently he is actively working to combine the research from different research areas such as autonomic computing, parallel and distributed systems, performance modelling, virtualization, machine learning, amongst others, to reasonably stem the difficulties to obtain more sustainable IT (Green Computing). He has worked in a number of EU and industrial research and development projects. He has around a hundred publications and was involved in several conferences in the area. He has been Vice-dean of Institutional Relations at the Computer Science School, and a he has also participated in numerous academic management activities and institutional representation.

Jordi Torres’s Specialties:

Cloud Computing, Autonomic Computing, Green Computing

Jordi Torres’s Experience

• Professor - Catedràtic - Catedrático

  UPC

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UPCOY; Telecommunications industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Computer Architecture Department (AC)
  Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)

• Research Manager

  Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  Autonomic Systems and eBusiness Platforms Research Line
  BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

Additional Information

Jordi Torres’s Groups:

•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
•    Open Source Cloud Computing & Virtualization
•    Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    Cloud Computing
•    GreenIT
•    Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona
•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Performance Specialists
•    green TI
•    Professionals Catalans de les TIC
•    CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
•    IT Executives Catalunya
•    UPC alumni
•    Green Computing & Data Center Network
•    CoreGRID
•    INES - Iniciativa Española de Software y Servicios
•    Cloud Computing España
•    Dia de l'Emprenedor Barcelona
•    Open Cloud Manifesto
•    Cloud Hosting & Service Providers Forum
•    HPCcloud
•    OpenNebula Community
•    TransFICS Knowledge and Innovation Community

Jordi Torres’s Honors:

IBM Faculty Award, 2008.
Best paper Award at NCA conference, 2007.
Best UPC Computer Science Thesis Award 1993-94.