Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor

Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California

Research Lead
Science Automation Technologies (SciTech)
USC Information Sciences Institute

Contact
Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D.
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001
     Marina del Rey, CA, USA 90292
Office: 310-448-8352
rafsilva@isi.edu
rafaelfe@usc.edu

Research Interests

Modeling and Simulation of parallel and distributed computing systems
Scientific Workflows scheduling, optimization, fault-tolerance, and energy-efficiency
Distributed Computing on clouds, grids, and HPC clusters
Featured Research Projects:

The WRENCH project is a simulation framework that makes it possible to implement scalable and accurate simulators of complex cyberinfrastructure systems quickly and easily.

The WorkflowHub project is a community framework that enables scientific workflow research and development by providing tools for analyzing workflow execution traces and generating synthetic traces.

Recent News

WorkflowHub: Community Framework for Enabling Scientific Workflow Research and Development

15th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science – WORKS 2020 @SC20

SIAM PP20 – The Many Faces of Simulation for HPC Minisymposium

Bridging Concepts and Practice in eScience via Simulation-driven Engineering

Measuring the Impact of Burst Buffers on Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows

Accurately Simulating Energy Consumption of I/O-intensive Scientific Workflows