TU Delft
 
Henk SIPS
Research
Parallel and Distributed Systems
EWI PDS H.SipsResearch
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Main research interests
Parallel languages and programming environments
MPSoCs
Peer-to-Peer computing: wired and wireless P2P systems.
Low power computing.

Current PhD students
Ana Lucia Varbanescu (programming and performance models for embedded systems)
Jan-David Mol (P2P systems)
Alexander van Amesfoort (Astrostream)
Michel Meulpolder (P2P systems)

Previous PhD students
Hashim Mohammed, The design and implementation of the KOALA grid resource managment system, 2007 (with Dick Epema)
Ivaylo Haratcherev, Application-oriented link adaptation for IEEE 802.11, 2006 (with Inald Lagendijk and Koen Langendoen)
Linda van Norden, Operations research based approaches for the (maximun) satisfyability problem, 2006 (with Hans van Maaren)
Roman van de Krogt, Plan repair in single-agent and multi-agent systems, 2005 (with Cees Witteveen)
Jeroen Valk, Coordination among autonomous planners, 2005 (with Cees Witteveen)
Hasjim Gautama, A probabilistic approach tp symbolic performance modelling of parallel systems (with Arjan van Gemund)
Hylke van Dijk, Democratic Processing, 2004 (with Inald Lagendijk)
Anca Bucur, Performance Analysis of Processor Co-Allocation Policies in Multicluster Systems, 2004 (with Dick Epema)
Ihor Kuz, An approach to a scalable wide-area web service, 2003, (with Maarten van Steen)
Cristina Soviany, Embedding data and task parallelism in image processing applications, 2003 (with Lucas van Vliet and Pieter Jonker.
Johan Pouwelse, Power management for portable devices, 2003 (with Koen Langendoen).
Mathijs de Weerdt, Plan merging in multi-agent systems, 2003 (with John-Jules Meyer and Cees Witteveen)
Leo Breebaart, Rule based compilation of data parallel programs, 2003
Jan de Jongh, Share Scheduling in Distributed Systems, 2002 (with Dick Epema)
Marcel van Lohuizen, Parallel Natural Language Parsing, 2001 (with Ruud Sommerhalder)
Andre Radulescu, Compile time scheduling for Distributed-memory Machines, 2001 (with Arjan van Gemund)
Will Denissen, Design of a HPF Compiler, 2000
Leon Aronson, A Theory of Routing in Parallel Computers, 1999 (with Ruud Sommerhalder)
Paul Dechering, Semantics for Compiling Data Parallelism, 1998
Hai-Xiang Lin, A Methodology for the Parallel Direct Solution of Finite Element Systems, 1993 (with Len Dekker)
Edwin Paalvast, Programming for Parallelism and Compiling for Efficiency, 1992 (with Len Dekker)
Ron Berndsen, Qualitative Reasoning in Economic Models, 1992 (with Henny Daniels)

Projects Acquired
Title Sponsor Period
Funding(PY)
Funding(M€)
Parallel FEM methods TNO 1986-1990
4
ParTool (SPIN main program) SPIN 1988- 1995
1.6
GENESIS EU/Esprit 1989-1991
4
Parallel Computing Action EU/Esprit 1990
0.13
Esprit Exploratory Action EU/Esprit 1991
0.05
PREPARE EU/Esprit 1992-1996
6
V-Cal NWO 1993-1997
8
Parallelization of Ocean Circulation Models NWO 1995-1996
2
Automap NWO 1996-2001
7
Parallel Image Processing NWO 1996-1998
1
DAS-1 (Equipment) NWO 1997
0.2
GlobeDoc St. HPCN 1997-2001
4
Ubicom TUD 1998-2002
1.36
Mobile Terminals TNO 1998-2002
4
Joses EU/Esprit 1999-2001
0.23
DAS-2 (Equipment) NWO 2000
0.2
GigaMobile Tel. Inst. 2000-2004
4
QoS in Mobile Systems Tel. Inst. 2001-2005
4
Cactus Impulse EZ/STW 2002-2006
6
Scalp STW 2004-2008
4
I-Share BSIK 2005-2008
0.42
VL-E VL-E 2005-2008
0.5
DAS-3 (Equipment) NWO 2006
0.25
P2P-Fusion EU/FP6 2006
0.5
Astrostream NWO 2006-2010
4
P2P-Next EU/FP7 2008-2012 1.9
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1996-now: Professor in Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Chair Parallel and Distributed Systems.
1994-1996: Professor in Computer Science (0.4 part-time), University of Amsterdam, Chair High Performance Computing
1986-1992: Head Department of Computer Systems Architecture (0.2 part-time), Institute for Applied Computer Science TNO (ITI-TNO).
1984-1994: Professor in Computer Science (0.2 part-time), Katholieke Universiteit Brabant.
1985-1996: Associate Professor (0.6 part-time), Research group Signal & Systems, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology.
1980-1984: Consultant (0.5 part-time), Commissie Reken- en Informatie Verwerkende Apparatuur of the Dutch Ministry of Education and Science (CRIVA).
1976-1985 Assistant Professor, Research group Signal & Systems, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology.

Program Committee / Board member of
Concurrency and Computation (Wiley)
Scientific Computing (IOS press)
Parallel Computing (Elsevier), until 2005
CWI Tracts
Program Chair of the 4-th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, December 1993, Delft.
Program Chair of the International Conference ParCo99, Delft, August 1999
ACM/SAC 2007, 2006, 2003, 2002
BICC 2008, 2006
ISPA 2006
ParCo 2006, 2003
HeteroPar 2007, 2006
EuroPar 2004, 2003, 1999, 1998
HiPC 2007, 2004
HPCN 2000, 1999, 1998
ICPP 2000, 1998, 1997
HUG 2000
ICS 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993
EuroMicroPDPN 2008, 1998, 1997
P2P 2007
ARITH 1991, 1981

Professional Activities
Chair of the Department of Software Technology, Delft University of Technology.
Section Head Computer Systems of the ASCI Research School
Member of the Board of the Council of Exact Sciences, NWO-EW (1998-2005)
Member of IFIP TC10
Member of the Science Commission of the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
Member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW, founded in 1752)
Member of the Bataafsch Genootschap (founded in 1769)
Member of the Scientific Board of TNO-TPD
Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Research School 'Advanced School for Computing and Imaging' (ASCI)
Vice-Chair of the “Stichting Informatica Onderzoek Nederland (SION)” (Part of NWO), from 1994-1997
Member ACI (Advising Board on Information Technology of the Dutch Government, until December 1994)
Member of the Science Advice Council of SION (until mid 1992)
Member of the Board of the Software Engineering Centre, SERC (March 1991 until December 1992).
Consultant for Rijkswaterstaat, RIVM, Ministry of Economic Affairs, ESA, Delft Hydraulics

 

 

 

 
     

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