Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wesner

Responsibilities

• Deputy Director of HLRS
• Head of Department Application & Visualization
• Coordination of research projects acquisition, execution and realization
• Coordination of the research activities in distributed systems (Grid Computing, Cloud Computing) and collaborative working environment

Projects

Distributed computing and Grids

• Technical Coordinator of the Integrated Project BREIN merging the concepts of Multi Agent Systems, Semantics and Grid Computing towards really useable Grids.
• Principal Investigator for HLRS in BEinGrid (please visit also Gridipedia) the largest ICT project currently funded (to my knowledge please proof me wrong) with almost hundred project partners.
• Principal Investigator for HLRS in IRMOS project aiming to bring Realtime to SOA based solutions realising a real end-to-end QoS
• Member of Challengers where I contributed to the roadmap how "Grids" (or whatever they will be called by this time) may look like in 2020

High Performance Computing

• Principal Investigator for HLRS of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) bringing together the major computing centre in Europe to build the ground for HPC of the future
• Coordinator of the national research project Tools for Intelligent System Management for Very Large Computing Systems (TIMaCS) realizing knowledge based management tools for next generation computing systems.
• Coordinator of the national research project IMEMO

Knowledge Management and Engineering

• Principal Investigator for HLRS in the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC) bringing semantic reasoning to the next level
• Principal Investigator for HLRS for plugIT (starting soon)

Scientific Interests

• Developing Service Based Grids towards an Internet of Services where the boundary of network, middleware and applications are blurred and the traditional layered concept is finally disappearing
• Collaborative Working Environments integrating the user in distributed business processes with many different type of devices in an Ambient Intelligence Fashion as successfully started in the Akogrimo project
• Applying Software Engineering Methods for the development of High Performance Computing Applications
• Realisation of Service Level Agreement based Services for High Performance Computing and their intelligent enactment using highly scalable Monitoring tools, knowledge and policy based management solutions and their steering based on business goals

Lectures

The lecture Software Engineering for technical Systems (Softwareentwurf für technische Systeme) is split into the following parts:

• Overview of selected technologies such as Database Systems, Service Oriented Architectures
• Fundamentals of Project Management
• Iterative and Agile Development Methods, selected UML Diagrams applied in a Case Study

Location and time can be found here.

The internal workspace of WS2008/2009 where you can find the presented slides and additional material can be accessed here.

If you look for the material of previous years please contact me as I highly recommend to use the material of the current year for the preparation as I adapt the lecture material every year.

Publications