Ignacio Martín Llorente (born July 1, 1969) is a Spanish entrepreneur, researcher, and educator specializing in

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and

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. He is the director of

OpenNebula OpenNebula is an open source cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous data center, public cloud and edge computing infrastructure resources. OpenNebula manages on-premises and remote virtualization, virtual infrastructure to build priv ...

, a

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, and a full professor at the UCM (UCM). Llorente is an

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(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the UCM and an Executive MBA from

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in Madrid.

Education and academic career

Llorente graduated with a degree in physics, majoring in computer science, in 1992. He earned his

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in physics, with a specialty in computer science, from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1995. In 2003, he received an

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from

. Following his Ph.D. research on efficient execution of scientific applications on

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, he worked on parallel systems with various scaling models. Llorente was promoted to

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at the Complutense University of

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in 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he held consultancy positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at the

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, where he conducted research on multi-grid methods, their application to computational

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, and their parallel implementation. Since 2002, Llorente has led the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group, focusing on large-scale distributed infrastructures,

virtualization In computing, virtualization (abbreviated v12n) is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s wit ...

technologies, distributed computing, and resource provision platforms. He supported projects including the EU-funded RESERVOIR project. His research has focused on architectures, meta-scheduling, and benchmarking for

grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve many files. Grid computing is distinguished fro ...

, as well as

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s and

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. This work has contributed to several

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technologies, including Globus, GridWay, and

. In 2010, he co-founded C12G Labs, a cloud computing technology startup that leads OpenNebula development. Llorente became a full professor in 2006. From 2002 to 2007, he also served as a senior researcher in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (a CSIC/

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center associated with the

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). In 2009, he co-founded and co-chaired the

Open Grid Forum The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors for standardization of grid computing. It was formed in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The OGF models its process on the In ...

Working Group on the

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. Since 2009, he has participated in the European Cloud Computing Group of Experts.

Awards

Llorente received the ARITMEL Award for Computer Science in 2020 for his contributions to cloud computing.

References

External links

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CloudBook Profile of Ignacio M. Llorente

The Next Generation of Cloud Computing Platforms, An Interview with Ignacio M. Llorente
, Science, Technology and Innovation Projects, August 2010.

HPC in the Cloud, May 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Llorente, Ignacio M. Living people Researchers in distributed computing Spanish computer scientists 1969 births Complutense University of Madrid alumni