Dr. Rainer Schmidt
 rainer@-N+O+S+P+A+M-sciserver.at

About me

I am a computer scientist affiliated with the Austrian Institute of Technology. From 2002-2007, I was a member of the Institute of Scientific Computing (ISC) and the Research Lab Computational Technologies and Applications (CTA) at the University of Vienna. My research interests are focused around programming models, architectures, and workflow management for parallel and distributed systems. I have been working on projects in the area of HPC and grid computing, e-science, and scalable data management and analytics. I am a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Austrian Standards Institute.

 R&D Projects

•	E-ARK - European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation (CIP-ICT-PSP.2013.2.5) [2014-current]
•	SCAPE - Scalable Preservation Environments, European Commission (ICT-2009-4-1 270137) [2011-2015]
•	PLANETS - Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, European Commission (IST-033789) [2007-2010]
•	RS-DME - Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering, Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) [2008-2011]
•	Aurora - Advanced Models, Applications and Software Systems for High Performance Computing, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [2002-2007]
•	GEMSS - Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Services (GEMSS), European Commission (IST-2001-37153) [2002-2005]

 Publications

[1]	S. Benkner, A. Dimitrov, G. Engelbrecht, R. Schmidt, N. Terziev "Medical Image Reconstruction in a Grid Environment", Proceedings of Cracow Grid Workshop '02, CGW02, Cracow, Poland, Dec. 2002. [Bibtex]
[2]	S. Benkner, A.Dimitrov, G.Engelbrecht, R. Schmidt, N. Terziev. A Service-Oriented Framework for Parallel Medical Image Reconstruction. Proceedings International Conference on Computational Science, June 2 - 4, 2003, Melbourne, Australia, LNCS 2659, pp. 612-621, Springer Verlag. [Bibtex]
[3]	S. Benkner, G. Engelbrecht, W. Backfrieder, G. Berti, J. Fingberg, G. Kohring, R. Schmidt, S.E. Middleton, D. Jones, J. Fenner. Numerical Simulation for eHealth: Grid-enabled Medical Simulation Services, PARCO2003, Parallel Computing 2003, Dresden, Germany. In G.R. Joubert, W.E. Nagel, F.J. Peters, W.V. Walter (Eds.) Parallel Computing: Software Technology, Algorithms, Architectures and Applications, included in series: Advances in Parallel Computing Elsevier,The Netherland, 2004. [Bibtex]
[4]	S. Benkner, I. Brandic, A. Dimitrov, G. Engelbrecht, R. Schmidt, N. Terziev. Performance of Java Web Services Implementations. Proceedings International Conference on Web Services. CSREA Press, Las Vegas, USA, June 2003. [Bibtex]
[5]	S. Benkner, G. Berti, G. Engelbrecht, J. Fingberg, G. Kohring, S..E. Middleton, and R. Schmidt. GEMSS: Grid-infrastructure for Medical Service Provision. In Proceedings of HealthGRID 2004 , Clermont-Ferrand, France. January 2004. [Bibtex]
[6]	S. Benkner, I. Brandic, G. Engelbrecht, R. Schmidt. VGE - A Service-Oriented Grid Environment for On-Demand Supercomputing. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2004. [Bibtex]
[7]	S. Benkner, I. Brandic, G. Engelbrecht, S.E. Middleton, R. Schmidt. Application-Level QoS Support for a Medical Grid Infrastructure. Life Sciences Grid Workshop, Grid Asia, Singapore, 2005. [Bibtex]
[8]	R. Schmidt, S. Benkner, I. Brandic, G. Engelbrecht. Component based Applications Programming within a Service-Oriented Grid Environment. Workshop on Component Models and Frameworks in High Performance Computing (Compframe 2005), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 2005.  [Bibtex]
[9]	S. Benkner, I. Brandic, G. Engelbrecht, R. Schmidt. VGE - A QoS-Enabled Grid Computing Environment. 1st Austrian Grid Symposium. Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, December 2005, OCG Verlag. [Bibtex]
[10]	I. Brandic, S. Benkner, G. Engelbrecht, and R. Schmidt. QoS Support for Time-Critical Grid Workflow Applications. Proceedings 1st IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Computing, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005. [Bibtex]
[11]	I. Brandic, S. Benkner, G. Engelbrecht, and R. Schmidt. Towards Quality of Service Support for Grid Workflows. Proceedings of the European Grid Conference 2005 (EGC2005), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2005. [Bibtex]
[12]	R. Schmidt, S. Benkner, I. Brandic, G. Engelbrecht. Applying a Component Model to Grid Application Services. Tenth International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming (WCOP 2005), European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005), Glasgow, Scotland, July 2005.  [Bibtex]
[13]	Rainer Schmidt, Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael J. Lewis, Siegfried Benkner. Design and Implementation Choices for Implementing Distributed CCA Frameworks. Joint Workshop on HPC Grid programming Environments and Components and Component Frameworks for High Performance Computing (HPC-GECO/CompFrame 2006), Paris, France, June 2006. In conjunction with HPDC-15.  [Bibtex]
[14]	Rainer Schmidt, Siegfried Benkner, and Maria Lucka. A Component Plugin Mechanism and Framework for Application Web Services. Thierry Priol, Marco Vanneschi: Towards Next Generation Grids. Proceedings of the CoreGRID Symposium 2007, August 27-28, Rennes, France, Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-72497-3, pp.108-116. [Bibtex]
[15]	Rainer Schmidt, Christian Sadilek, Ross King. Scalable Services for Digital Preservation. Proceedings of Cracow Grid Workshop'08 (CGW08), Cracow, Poland, Oct. 2008. [Bibtex]
[16]	Rainer Schmidt, Christian Sadilek, Ross King. A Service for Data-Intensive Computations on Virtual Clusters. Proceedings of The First International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE 2009), Valencia, Spain, April 2009. [Bibtex]
[17]	Ross King, Rainer Schmidt, Andrew N. Jackson, Carl Wilson and Fabian Steeg. The Planets Interoperability Framework. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL09), Corfu, Greece, 2009.[Bibtex]
[18]	Rainer Schmidt, Ross King, Andrew N. Jackson, Carl Wilson, Fabian Steeg and Peter Melms. A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres09), San Francisco, USA, 2009, and the International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 5, No 1, 2010.  [Bibtex]
[19]	Rainer Schmidt, Andrew Lindley, Andrew N. Jackson, Carl Wilson, Fabian Steeg and Ross King. The Planets IF - A Framework for Integrated Access to Preservation Tools. In: First IEEE International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework (DPIF) Symposium, April 21-23, 2010, Dresden, Germany. (In Press)   [Bibtex]
[20]	Rainer Schmidt and Matthias Rella. Considering Data Locality for Parallel Video Processing, ERCIM News, Special Theme on Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications, Vol. 83, 2010. [Bibtex]
[21]	Rainer Schmidt and Matthias Rella. An Approach for Processing Large and Non-Uniform Media Objects on MapReduce-based Clusters.Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2011), Beijing, China, Oct 24-27, 2011. LNCS. [Bibtex]
[22]	Ross King, Rainer Schmidt, Christoph Becker and Sven Schlarb. SCAPE: Big Data Meets Digital Preservation. ERCIM News, Special Theme on Big Data, Vol. 89, 2012. [Bibtex]
[23]	Rainer Schmidt. An Architectural Overview of the SCAPE Preservation Platform. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres12), Toronto, Canada, 2012. [Bibtex]
[24]	Rainer Schmidt, Matthias Rella and Sven Schlarb. ToMaR -A Data Generator for Large Volumes of Content. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid2014 (SCALE Challenge), Chicago, USA, 2014 . [Bibtex]
[25]	Rainer Schmidt, Matthias Rella and Sven Schlarb. Constructing Scalable Data-Flows on Hadoop with Legacy Components. IEEE 11th International Conference on eScience (e-Science 2015), Munich, Germany, 2015 .
[26]	Sven Schlarb, Rainer Schmidt, Roman Karl, Mihai Bartha, Jan Rörden, Janet Delve and Kuldar Aas. An OAIS-oriented System for Fast Package Creation, Search, and Access. 13th International Conference on digital Preservation, Bern, Switzerland, 2016 .
Journal Articles
[1]	S. Benkner, G. Berti, G. Engelbrecht, J. Fingberg, G. Kohring, S.E. Middleton, R. Schmidt. GEMSS: Grid Infrastructure for Medical Service Provision. Journal of Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 44, 2005. [Bibtex]
[2]	R. Schmidt, S. Benkner, I. Brandic and G. Engelbrecht. Component-Oriented Application Construction for a Web Service Based Grid. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 19(5):637 - 650, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey, USA, 2007. [Bibtex]
[3]	S. Benkner, G. Engelbrecht, S.E. Middleton, I. Brandic, R. Schmidt. End-to-End QoS Support for a Medical Grid Service Infrastructure. New Generation Computing, Computing Paradigms and Computational Intelligence, Special Issue on Life Science Grid Computing, Ohmsha, Ltd. and Springer, Vol.25, No.4, 2007. [Bibtex]
[4]	Rainer Schmidt, Christian Sadilek, Ross King. A Workflow System for Data Processing on Virtual Resources. International Journal on Advances in Software, IARIA, issn 1942-2628, Vol. 2, No.2&3, 2009.   [Bibtex]
Books
[1]	R. Schmidt. An Architecture and Programming Model for Component-based Grid Applications, Dissertation, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, June 2007. [Bibtex]
[2]	A chapter on processing video content using the mapReduce paradigm has been published in: Furht, Borko; Escalante, Armando (Eds.) Handbook of Data Intensive Computing, 1st Edition, Springer, 2011 [Bibtex].
Program Committee Memberships
[1]	HPC-GECO/CompFrame 2007, 21-22 October 2007, Montreal, Canada.
[2]	CBHPC 2008 (Component-Based High Performance Computing), 14-17 October, 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.
[3]	2009 Workshop on Component-Based High-Performance Computing (CBHPC2009), 15-16 November, 2009 Portland, Oregon, USA. Collocated with the 22nd Supercomputing Conference (SC09)
[4]	The Second International Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE 2010) March 7-13, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico.
[5]	The 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2010), September 1-3, 2010 - Melbourne, Australia.
[6]	The 2010 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2010), 25-29 October, 2010 - Brussels, Belgium. Collocated with Grid 2010
[7]	The Third International Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE 2011) May 22-27, 2011 - Venice, Italy.
[8]	The Fourth International Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE 2012) March 25-30, 2012 - St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.
[9]	The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP 2013) September 29 - October 3, 2013 - Porto, Portugal.
[10]	International Journal On Advances in Software, editorial board member.
[11]	The Scientific World Journal, editorial board member (computer science).
Awards
[1]	Our paper A Service for Data-Intensive Computations on Virtual Clusters won the "Best Papers" Award at INTENSIVE 2009.