KOALA Team
KOALA is developed by the KOALA team in the Parallel and Distributed Systems Group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology. The members of the KOALA team are:
Staff members
PhD Students
- Bogdan Ghit: Scheduling MapReduce frameworks
- Alexey Ilyuskin: Online scheduling of workflows
- Aleksandra Kuzmanovska (TU/e): Scheduling heterogeneous frameworks
Previous Post-docs
- Catalin Dumitrescu (CoreGRID fellow): Grid scheduling and higher-order components
- Hashim Mohamed: Main developer of KOALA
Previous PhD Students
- Hashim Mohamed: The design and implementation of the KOALA grid resource management system (2007)
- Alexandru Iosup: A framework for the study of grid inter-operation mechanisms (2009)
- Ozan Sonmez: Application-Oriented Scheduling in Multicluster Grids (2010)
- Nezih Yigitbasi: Understanding and Improving the Performance Consistency of Distributed Computing Systems (2012)
Previous MSc. Students
- Lipu Fei: KOALA-C: A Scheduler for Integrated Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Environments (2013)
- Bart Grundeken: Adding Cycle Scavenging Support to the Koala Grid Resource Manager (2009)
- Shanny Anoep: Trace-based performance analysis of scheduling bags of tasks in grids (2008)
- Mark van Ameijden: Connecting Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Visualisation in a Grid
- Wouter Lammers: Adding Support for New Application Types to the KOALA Grid Scheduler (2005)
- Steven Banen: Design of a Grid Submission Toolkit for Seismic Applications
- Jove Sinaga: A Dynamic Co-Allocation Service in Multicluster Systems
KOALA News
- January 2013: MR-Runner upgraded! Now the MR-Runner deploys Hadoop-1.0.0 clusters, compatible with Pig-0.10.0.
- December 2012: KOALA 2.1 released! Deploy MapReduce clusters on DAS-4 with the Koala MR-Runner.
- November 2012: Best Paper Award at MTAGS12 workshop (co-located with SC12) with work on MapReduce!
- November 2009: KOALA 2.0 released! You can now run Parameter sweep applications (PSAs) with KOALA CSRunner.
- April 2008: New KOALA runner! The OMRunner enables DRMAA and OpenMPI job submissions.
- July 2007: Paper accepted at Grid07 conference with work on scheduling malleable jobs in KOALA.
- May 2007: KOALA has now been ported successfully to DAS-3. All the KOALA runners are operational apart from the DRunner.
- April 2007: The KOALA IRunner has been updated to include recommendations made by the Ibis group .
