Currently working on:

LQCD Workflow Management

Provenance

Fault Tolerance

Scheduling

Past projects:

Grid Harvest Service (GHS)

Integration of the GHS resouces information with Globus Toolkit (GT4)

Education:

M.Sc. in Computer Science (Feb. 1999)

Instituto de Informatica (INF) of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Thesis: Segmentacao e Classificacao de Imagens Ecocardiograficas Utilizando Redes Neurais - [Segmentation and Classification of Echocardiographic Images Using Neural Networks]. (report in Portuguese)

B.Sc. in Computer Science (Feb. 1997)

Department de Informatica e Estatistica (INE) of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Thesis: Um Gerente de Memoria Baseado em Paginacao para o Intel 486 - [A Memory Manager for the Intel 486 Based on Paging]. (report in Portuguese)

Publications:

L. Piccoli, J. Simone, J. Kowalkowski, et. al., Tracking LQCD Workflows, Lattice 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, July 2008. (poster)

L. Piccoli, X-H. Sun, J. Simone, et. al., The LQCD Workflow Experience: What We Have Learned, SuperComputing 2007 (SC07), Reno, Nevada, November 2007. (poster)

L. Piccoli, D. Zhang and M. Votava, The New Tevatron Beam Position Monitor Front-End Software, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol 53, issue 3, part 1, page 963-969, June 2006. (paper)

L. Piccoli, S. Foulkes, M. Votava and C. Briegel, The Main Injector Beam Position Monitor Front-End Sof tware, in 12th Beam Instrumentation Workshop, Batavia, IL, May 1-4 2006. (paper, poster)

L. Piccoli, M. Votava and D. Zhang, The New Tevatron Beam Position Monitor Front-End Software, in 14th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005. (paper)

L. Piccoli, M. Votava and J. Kowalkowski, Evaluation of RTES Components in a Large Scale DAQ, in 13th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2003. (paper)

L. Piccoli, A. Dahmer, J. Scharcanski and P. O. A. Navaux, Fetal Echocardiographic Image Segmentation Using Neural Networks, in 7th IEE International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications, Manchester, UK, July 1999, p.507-511. (paper)

A. Dahmer, L. Piccoli, M. L. Siqueira and P. O. A. Navaux, Aplicacao de Duas Abordagens Neurais na Segmentacao de Imagens Echocardiograficas, in Encontro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ENIA'99), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 1999.

L. Piccoli, C. V. Gasperin and P. O. A. Navaux, Segmentacao e Classificacao de Imagens Ecocardiograficas Utilizando Redes Neurais, in 4th Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computacion (CACIC'98), Neuquen, Argentina, October 1998, p.57-66. (paper)

J. P. S. de Oliveira, L. Piccoli, R. B. Avila and A. A. Frohlich, Abstracting Devices Using the Client-Server Model, in proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1997, p.56-59, ISBN 0-921836-54-6. (paper)

L. Piccoli, R. B. Avila, F. J. Gomes, A. H. Bruciapaglia, H. Simas and A. A. R. Coelho, Implementation of an Education Floor Level Network Using Microcontrolled Nodes, in 4th Symposium on Advances in Control Education, Istambul, Turkey, 1997.

A. A. Frohlic, L. Piccoli, R. B. Avila and H. Savietto, A Concurrent Programming Environment for the i486, in 5th International Symposium on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, Orlando, USA, July 1996. (paper)

Coursework at IIT:

Spring 2008

CS535 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Fall 2007

CS691 - Research and Thesis (6 credits)

Spring 2007

CS430 - Introduction to Algorithms

Fall 2006

CS597 - Read/Special Problems

Spring 2006

CS570 - Advanced Computer Architecture

Fall 2005

CS545 - Distributed Computing Landscape

CS550 - Advanced Operating Systems

Summer 2005

CS551 - Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Spring 2005

CS546 - Parallel and Distributed Processing

CS536 - Science of Programming

Spring 2002

CS487 - Software Engineering I

CS447 - Distributed Objects

Working full time at Fermilab. (work page)