Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Startup Company

Creation of the Ryax company (http://ryax-technologies.com/) by two former PhD students, Yiannis Georgiou, David Glesser. Ryax Technologies builds software to enable the seamless execution of Big Data and IoT applications upon Hybrid computing infrastructures, distributed across Edge, Fog and Cloud environments. The core software named Ryax is a new generation resource manager.

Best Paper Nominee

Danilo Carastan-Santos, DataMove, Univ ABC, Brazil, was nominated for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper at Supercomputing 2017 for his paper Obtaining Dynamic Scheduling Policies with Simulation and Machine Learning [11].