Konstantinos I.

Karantasis
Computer Engineering & Informatics Department University of Patras

Education
2007present 20032006 19982003

PhD in Parallel and Distributed Runtime Systems, CEID , University of Patras. MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, CEID, University of Patras.
Thesis: Implementation of Portable Distributed Shared Memory.

Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics (5-year degree), CEID, University of Patras.
Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Resource Manager for Computanional Grids.

Research Interests
High performance runtime systems, middleware for clusters and grids, multithreading on multi-cores, graphical processors (GPUs), and embedded systems, software transactional memory.

Research Grants
2007-2010

Karantheodori Grant no C141, supported by the University of Patras

Publications
A. Antoniou, K. Karantasis, E. Polychronopoulos, and J. Ekaterinaris. Acceleration of a nitedierence weno scheme for large-scale simulations on many-core architectures. 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 2010 (to appear). Konstantinos I. Karantasis and Eleftherios D. Polychronopoulos. Is shared memory programming attainable on clusters of embedded processors? In 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy, May 23-29, 2009, volume 0, pages 17, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2009. IEEE Computer Society. Konstantinos I. Karantasis and Eleftherios D. Polychronopoulos. Pleiad: a cross-environment middleware providing ecient multithreading on clusters. In CF 09: Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computing frontiers, Ischia, Italy, pages 109116, New York, NY, USA, 2009. ACM. Konstantinos I. Karantasis and Eleftherios D. Polychronopoulos. Enabling execution of multithreaded applications on top of non-uniform distributed platforms. In Proceedings of the 11th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI), Patras, Greece, May 2007.

CEID - Computer Engineering and Informatics Department at the University of Patras, Greece

Pythagoras str, Building B, University Campus 26500 Rio Patras T +30 2610 996966 B karantas@ceid.upatras.gr http://pdsgroup.hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr/kik.html

Publication Review
2009 2008 2007 2006 2006

International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 09) International International International International Conference Conference Conference Conference on on on on Supercomputing (ICS 08) Supercomputing (ICS 07) Supercomputing (ICS 06) Parallel Processing (ICPP 06)

Academic Experience
2004-2009 2003-2009 2003-2005

High Performance Systems (540), Fall. Parallel Processing (440), Spring. Software Programming Lab (131E), Fall. Teaching assistance on the afore-mentioned cources includes tutorials, support and correction of assignmentsm and writing notes.

Professional Experience
2003-2006 1999-2003 1999-2002

Administrator on Linux/Microsft Windows server facilities at the High Performance Computing Lab, University of Patras Administrator/System Programmer at the Unix Group of the Computer Center of CEID Introductory seminars on Unix/Linux Operating Systems at CEID

Technical Skills
Programming: C, C++, Java, assembly, Lisp, PHP, HTML/CSS. Scripting Languages: Perl, Bash, Tcsh. Parallel Programming: MPI, OpenMP, DSM, Multithreading (Pthreads, NanoThreads, Java threads), STM, PGAS. Scientic Tools: MATLAB, LEDA. Operating System Management: Linux, MacOS X, Microsoft Windows, *BSD, Solaris. Familiar with Linux Kernel Programming, Database programming (mySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle), P2P systems, Unix/Network Programming (Sockets, IPC). Strong theoretical background on parallel and distributed algorithms, operating system and computer architecture concepts, scientic computation, computational complexity, probability and game theory.

Languages
Greek, Native English, Certicate of Prociency in English, University of Cambridge Spanish, Diploma de Espaol (Nivel Intermedio), Instituto Cervantes

Pythagoras str, Building B, University Campus 26500 Rio Patras T +30 2610 996966 B karantas@ceid.upatras.gr http://pdsgroup.hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr/kik.html