João Luís Ferreira Sobral


Professor at:
Departamento de Informática
Universidade do Minho

Phone: +351 253 604484 (ext. 4484)
(Laboratório de Investigação de Arquitectura de Computadores)

News

·         R. Gonçalves, J. Sobral, Pluggable Parallelisation, 17th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Munich, Germany, © ACM, 2009, http://portal.acm.org/, PDF (© ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution)


Teaching

Recent

·         Arquitectura de Computadores – LEI 2ºAno (09/10, 08/09)

·         Laboratórios Integrados III – LEI 2ºAno (08/09)

·         Paradigmas de Computação Paralela – MI/MEI (08/09)

·         Sistemas de Computação e Desempenho – MI/MEI (08/09)

Older

·         Opção - Visão por Computador - LESI/LMCC 5º Ano (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Opção - Arquitecturas Paralelas I - LESI 4º Ano (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Visão por Computador - MICEI (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Sistemas Digitais I – LESI 2º Ano (06/07)

·         Conceitos de Sistemas Informáticos – LESI 1º Ano (05/06)

·         Laboratórios Integrados III - LECOM 2ºAno (05/06)

·         Arquitectura de Computadores II - LESI 3º Ano (04/05, 03/04, 02/03, 01/02, 00/01)

·         Opção - Arquitecturas Paralelas II - LESI 5º Ano (04/05)

·         Computação Paralela - MICEI (04/05)


Areas of Interest

·         Parallel Computing (design of scalable applications, run-time systems, GRID computing, skeletons)

·         Object oriented programming and aspect-oriented programming (object and aspect design patterns)

·         Computer Architecture (super-scalar architectures, multi-core, multithread support, virtual machine support)

·         Computer Vision (wavelet processing for inline automatic inspection)


Funded projects (current)

·         Pria: Parallel Programming Refinements for Irregular Applications (2009 – 2011)
Project leader, funded by FCT, 95 K€, UTAustin/CA/0056/2008

·         AspectGrid: Pluggable Grid Aspects for Scientific Applications (2007 – 2010) http://gec.di.uminho.pt/aspectgrid
Project leader, funded by FCT, 138 K€, GRID/GRI/81880/2006

·         P-found: GRID computing and distributed data warehousing of protein folding and unfolding simulations (2007 - 2010)
Researcher, funded by FCT, 166 K€,
GRID/GRI/81809/2006.

Projects (old)

·         SeARCH: Services and Advanced Research Computing with HTC/HPC clusters (2004 – 2008) http://www.di.uminho.pt/search
Researcher, Project funded by FCT, 240 K€, CONC-REEQ/443/EEI/2005

·         PPC-VM: Parallel Computing Based on Virtual Machines (2004 - 2007) http://gec.di.uminho.pt/ppc-vm
Project leader, funded by FCT, 74 K€, POSI/CHS/47158/2002

·         AUTOMAP: Automatic System for the Mapping of Existing Defects on Tanned Leather (2003 - 2004)
Scientific consulter - PSEC funded by IDITE-Minho

·         SIGMA: SIstema de Geo-referenciação Móvel Assistido por Imagem (2003 - 2005)
Researcher - Project funded by ADI (POCTI - Medida 2.3 [POSI – Medida 1.3])

·         ViAr - Arqueologia Virtual e Acessível com Computação Adaptativa em Cluster (2002 - 2005)
Researcher - Project funded by FCT, 63 K€, POSI/42041/CHS/2001

·         SETNA Ambientes Escaláveis, Ferramentas e Algoritmos Numéricos (1997 - 2000),
Researcher, PRAXIS XXI,


Publications (selection)

Full list of publications

R. Gonçalves, J. Sobral, Pluggable Parallelisation, 17th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Munich, Germany, © ACM, 2009, http://portal.acm.org/, PDF (© ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution)

E. Sousa, R. Gonçalves, D. Neves, J. Sobral. Non-Invasive Gridification through an Aspect-Oriented Approach , 2nd Iberian Grid Infrastrucutre Conference (Ibergrid 2008), Porto, Portugal, May 2008 (Best student paper award), PDF

J. Sobral, Pluggable Grid Services, 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, Texas, September 2007, © IEEE Computer Society, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org, PDF

J. Sobral. Incrementally Developing Parallel Applications with AspectJ, 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'06), Greece, Rhodes, April 2006, © IEEE Computer Society, 2006. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF, presentation

C. Cunha, J. Sobral, M. Monteiro, Reusable Aspect-Oriented Implementation of Concurrency Patterns and Mechanisms, Fifth ACM International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD'06), Bonn, Germany, March 2006. http://portal.acm.org/, PDF (© ACM, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution)

J. Sobral. Optimised Filters for Texture Defect Detection, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'05), Genova, Italy, September 2005, © IEEE Computer Society, 2005. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF


Recent talks

·         Pluggable Parallelisation, 17th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC’09), Munich, Germany, June 2009.

·         A Domain-Specific Language for Parallel and Grid Computing, 3th Workshop on Domain Specific Languages (DSAL 2008), Brussels, Belgium, March 2008

·         Pluggable Grid Services, 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, Texas, September 2007

·         Enabling JaSkel Skeletons for Clusters and Computational Grids, IEEE Cluster (Cluster 2007), Austin, Texas, September 2007


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