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Andrey Y. SHEVEL
Name: Andrey Y. Shevel
Education: University degree (master) in 1973 at Leningrad Politechnical
Institute (Russia) (after five years education from 1967 autumn to
early spring 1973). Major by education: "Electronic Computing
Machines".
Diploma thesis: ‘Program simulation for conveyer computer systems’
Nationality: Russian Federation
Born: 22 January 1950 in city Saratov, Russian Federation
Current working addresses:
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
Gatchina, Leningrad district
188300, Russian Federation
and
ITMO University
49 Kronverksky Pr.
St. Petersburg, 197101
Russian Federation
Mobile phone: +7 921 353 9421
E-mail: Andrey.Shevel@pnpi.spb.ru, shevel_a_y@niuitmo.ru
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Current positions: department head (4+ senior engineers) at Petersburg Nuclear
Physics Institute and senior lecturer at University of Information Technology,
Mechanics, and Optics. Lecture course is “Computing clusters, Computing Grids,
and Computing Clusters”. I have prepared and read the course + practice each year
from 2012 for Russian speaking students and English speaking students who are
looking for Master and/or PhD degree.
Current tasks/responsibilities: development, deployment, tuning, support
computing infrastructure for High Energy Physics (400+ hosts including centralized
HTTP server, proxy server), centralized Petersburg Nuclear physics Institute mail
server, etc. + a range of network routers and switches, small virtualized computing
cluster, electric and peripheral equipment UPSs, UDPs, tape drives, etc.). As a
senior lecturer I am responsible for the course at the University entitled “Computing
clusters, grid, and cloud architectures in communications”. Also I take participation
in the University research http://sdn.ifmo.ru/.
Current professional interests: Computing Clouds, Virtualization, Computing
clusters, Linux distributions, Software Defined Networks, Software Defined Storage,
Big Data.
Professional organizations membership: I am professional member of IEEE and
ACM.
Publication Hirsh level = 23 (Scopus)
Main positions at PNPI
o 1992-up to now : Computing Systems Department head ( 400+ active
users) ( see http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/CSD);
o 1986 : the institute computer centre head (several hundreds of users);
o 1976 : team (15 persons) leader (about 70 users).
Areas of work:
? Development and support the computing/networking infrastructure for High
Energy Physics experiments.
? Experience as production manager, as responsible person for large program
deployment.
? Grid deployment and development, computing cluster development and
deployment.
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? Teaching in computing infrastructures for students who are looking Master
and/or PhD degree.
? Author of one book on computing (in Russian).
Participation in International and national
research programs:
? NSF grant NSF 01-149 (2002-2005) “Computing Grid for analysis of data
from PHENIX at RHIC”
? INTAS 93-56 (I was responsible for the implementation of the satellite IP
channel PNPI - DESY);
? collaboration HERMES at DESY (http://hermes.desy.de).
? Collaboration PHENIX at BNL (http://www.phenix.bnl.gov).
? Collaboration ALICE at CERN (http://aliceinfo.cern.ch)
Professional activity:
? Until now I am at PNPI and at the same time from November 2012 I am
senior lecturer at the St.Petersburg National Research University of
Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics, Department of Information
and Communication technologies, research in area of Software Defined
Networks (SDN), Software Defined Storage (SDS)
? 2006/2007 working at CERN (ALICE, project DAQ) as CERN associated
project member
o ~ 200 machines cluster + ~50 desktops;
o ~ 200 TB of disk storage.
? 2005/2002: I (as visiting fellow) develop/run cluster (development, planning,
purchase, installation, maintenance hardware and software including
Globus/Grid infrastructure – everything alone with minor help from students).
o Software and hardware deployment and tuning on the computing cluster
? 35+ machines;
? 6 TB RAID;
? 3 TB tape library.
o Globus/Grid infrastructure in flavor Grid3 has been deployed by myself
on the cluster. It was tested collaborative work (jobs) on several clusters:
SUNYSB, RCF (BNL), HPC at University of New Mexico, HPC at
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IN2P3 (France), ACCRE at University of Vanderbilt. This work was
done in collaboration with many colleagues: physicists, local and remote
managers, etc.
o Several Grid developments for collaborations PHENIX and STAR.
? 2001: Deploying Globus distributed system with several institutes:
o PNPI (www.pnpi.spb.ru),
o HPC&DB (www.csa.ru),
o SUNYSB cluster RAM (https://sites.google.com/site/ramdata2009/).
? 1999: Development of regional computing infrastructure for LHC at
St.Petersburg (Russia) region (see http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/RRCF).
? 1998: Development and implementation the computing cluster based on PC for
general purpose batch computing (see
http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/pcfarm/).
? 1997: Maintenance/improvements in collaboration HERMES (DESY,
Hamburg, Germany) in production PC farm and working 1/2 year as the
production manager.
? 1995: the implementation of satellite IP channel for PNPI (PNPI-DESY) and
local tcp/ip network infrastructure.
? 1991: development and implementation of transputer computing farm at
PNPI.
? 1990: PNPI computer centre modernization (responsible person for planning
and deployment of equipment and system software).
? 1986: Development and implementation of software technology: so called
metaprogramming (full text in Russian at
http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/CSD/CSDPublications/Meta.pdf).
? 1985: Development and implementation multi-terminal multi-computer system
at PNPI (full text in Russian
http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/CSD/CSDPublications/TerciaPaper.pdf).
? 1976: Development and implementation of interactive system on the base of
mainframe computer to gather and analyze the data in HEP experiments at
PNPI.
Personal experience in computer software:
? Operating systems:
o Unix/Linux.
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o IBM OS VS1.
o MS Windows.
o IBM VM/CP/CMS.
o PDP-11 [RT,RSX].
? Programming languages and related stuff:
o Fortran, C, Rexx, Unix shells, Perl, Python, Java, HTML, XML, etc.
? Various systems (deployment and use in developments):
o ROOT (application system);
o CVS;
o Oracle, Postgres, MySql;
o AFS;
o PBS, SGE, Condor;
o Globus toolkit;
o backup system ‘Legato Networker’;
o Openstack;
o ceph (distributed storage system);
o many other systems.
? Successfully performed roles/tasks:
o program developer;
o computer system architecture development;
o department head (from several to many tens of employee);
o report, proposals, book preparing;
o system manager with many tens/hundreds of users with great variety of
levels (including demands) in environment of several OSes, applications
sets:
? offline data analysis;
? online data taking on accelerators.
o planning person for computer infrastructure on department and institute
level;
o deployment of middle range computing clusters (from hardware, OS, Grid
middleware, to applications for HEP).
o distributed (in scale of several cluster sites) computing platform for High
Energy Physics research (Grid-like);
o production manager in experimental collaboration.
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Communication languages:
o Russian - mother language;
o English - business level;
o Deutsch – understanding to some extent.
Working in international research centers:
o CERN, Switzerland (many times 1979, 1986, 1991, 2006);
o DESY, Germany - (in total more than two years: 1993-1997);
o BNL, SUNYSB USA - (in total more than 4 years in period 2000-2005,
2007).
Private interests
I like to walk on open air, visiting museums (like Russian Museum and Hermitage in
St.Petersburg, Metropolitan in NY, etc), reading something interesting from history
(memoirs, etc.), hearing symphonic music, etc. An outdoor jogging and swimming in
pool are also in my list.
I am married and we (with wife) have two adult children and three grandchildren.
Shevel’s Publication list
(This publication list does contain only topics where I was key or main author. In
according to Scopus.com I have publication Hirsh level around 23. My conference
presentations are available at http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/CSD/CSDPublications.shtml)
? 2016: Sergey Khoruzhnikov, Vladimir Grudinin, Oleg Sadov, Andrey Shevel,
Stefanos Georgiou, and Arsen Kairkanov
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o “Environment for Data Transfer Measurement”, Data Mining and Big
Data, First International Conference, DMBD 2016, Bali, Indonesia, June
25–30, 2016, Proceedings, pp 416–421. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40973-
3_42
? 2015: Khoruzhnikov S.E., Grudinin V.A., Sadov O.L., Shevel A.Y. ,
Kairkanov A.B.
o “Transfer of large volume data over Internet
with parallel data links and SDN”, The 6th international conference on
swarm intelligence ICSI-2015, Beijing, China, 25-28 June, 2015,
Proceedings, Part III, pp. 463-471, ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 978-3-319-
20468-0.
? 2014: A.Y Shevel
o “The role of micro size computing clusters for small physics groups”,
20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear
Physics (CHEP2013) IOP Publishing, Journal of Physics: Conference
Series 513 (2014) 062045 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062045
iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/513/6/062045 (2013 Impact Factor = 0.619).
? 2013: A.Y. Shevel
o Computing facilities for small physics analysis group // poster on
CHEP2013
? 2010: D. Reynolds, A.Y. Shevel
o Computing facilities for small physics analysis group - PHENIX
Technical Note, 18 Apr 2011
[http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/phenix/WWW/publish/shevel/tech-reports/ClusterPaper-2011-04-
11.pdf]
? 2010: A.Shevel
o Estimations of the speedup of large data set analysis with geographically
distributed computing facilities – the presentation on the conference “GRID-2010”
(http://grid2010.jinr.ru).
o Brief review of the HEPiX2010 spring workshop – the presentation on the HEPD
seminar 18 May 2010
? 2009: A. Shevel
o Brief review of the conference “Computing in high energy and nuclear physics –
CHEP2009” – the presentation on the HEPD seminar 28 April 2009.
? 2008: A. Shevel
“Computing Grid and Data in Grid”
journal 'Linux Format' (Russian), Nov 2008, #11, pp. 92-95 and Dec 2008, #12, pp 78-81.
? 2007: A. Lodkin, A. Oreshkin, A. Shevel, T. Serebrova
Architecture of small computing clusters in High Energy
Physics
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Proceedings "PNPI High Energy Physics Division Main scientific activities in
2002-2006", Gatchina, 2007, pp 329-333 [photo copy PDF].
? 2007: Andrey Y Shevel
Review of the HEPIX 2007 (Spring) workshop {entitled 'Computing clusters:
problems and tendencies' (Rus)}
'Open Systems'; photo copy from the journal PDF , pp 14-19.
? 2006: A. Shevel, R. Lacey
o Midrange computing cluster architectures for data analysis in High
Energy Physics
? Poster presentation on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear
Physics 13-17 February 2006, T.I.F.R. Mumbai, India
o Benchmarking the LDCs for Point 2 (Supermicro X6 and X7)
o Presentation on ALICE DAQ Meeting (please see
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=6722, 10 October
2006)
? 2005: A. Shevel, R. Lacey
o Initial experience with use of cluster Teragrid for High Energy Physics
research
? Presentation on GlobusWorld-2005 (presenter A. Shevel)
? 2004: A. Shevel, B. Jacak, R. Lacey, D. Morrison, M. Reuter, I. Sourikova, T.
Thomas, A. Withers
o PHENIX job monitoring/submission in transition to Grid infrastructure.
? Presentation on CHEP-2004 (presenter A. Shevel)
? 2003: A. Shevel
o Visualization of states of computing clusters
? Open Systems/Russia, number 1, 2003.
o B. Jacak, R. Lacey, S. Mioduszewski, D. Morrison, A. Shevel, I. Sourikova
o Data management for physics analysis in PHENIX (BNL,RHIC)
? Presentation on CHEP-2003 (presenter A. Shevel)
? 2001: A. Shevel
o Next revolution in computing: Grid Technology
? Open Systems/Russia, number 2, 2001.
o A. Shevel, V. Korkhov
Deployment of Globus in St.Petersburg region
Open Systems/ Russia, number 3, 2001.
o A. Shevel
Simple text conversion in Linux
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? Book, Piter-Press/Russia, 350 pages.
? 2000: A. Shevel
o Russian Regional Computing Facility for LHC
? BYTE/Russia, number 2, 2000, (Russian)
? 1999: A. Shevel
o Mass computing on PC clusters
? BYTE/Russia, number 9, 1999, pp.74-81 (Russian).
? 1998: A.Chevel, A.Lodkin, A.Oreshkin, V.Barashko
o The Status of PNPI centralized Networking
? PNPI Research Report 1996-1997, Gatchina, 1998, pp. 387-389
o A.Chevel, A.Lodkin, A.Oreshkin, V.Barashko, T.Serebrova
o Batch Computing Facility based on PC (project BCFpc)
? PNPI Research Report 1996-1997, Gatchina, 1998, pp. 390-391
? 1997: Andrei Chevel, Alexander Lodkin, Anatoly Oreshkin, Victor Barashko
o Tendencies in Centralized Computing and Networks in relatively small
Physics Laboratory: Case of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
? NATO ADVANCED NETWORKING WORKSHOP (ANW) May
20-24, 1997 Yerevan Physics Institute, Nor Amberd Conference
Center, Armenia. The text is available in
"http://dbserv.pnpi.spb.ru/~oreshkin/".
? 1996: A. Chevel, S.Kulikov, V.Leontiev, A.Lodkin, S.Nikolaev, A.Oreshkin
o The Process of an Integration of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
into the World Wide Information Space
? PNPI Research Report 1994-1995, Gatchina 1996, p.300-301.
? 1995: S.A. Kulikov, A.N. Lodkin, A.E. Shevel
o Network Activity at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
? Proceedings "Information Systems in Science-95", 10-11 January
1995.
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? 1994: A.N. Lodkin, A.A. Oreshkin, T.S. Serebrova, A.E. Shevel
o The realization of the common computing installation on the base of
PC-486
? Transaction of the International conference on the programming
and mathematical methods, Dubna, 14-19 June 1993, Dubna,
1994, JINR, P11-94-100, pp.114-116
? 1991: S.A. Kulikov, A.E. Shevel
o A method to realize backup procedure in OS VM (short message)
? USiM, 1991, number 6, pp. 133-135, Kiev, Ukraina.
? 1990: S.A. Kulikov, A.E. Shevel
o A method to realize a backup procedure on OS VM with large
amounts of the disk drives
? Preprint LNPI, number 1609, June 1990, 14 p.
o A.E. Shevel
o The features of the computing organization at LNPI at 1990 and in
nearest future
? Preprint LNPI, number 1647, October 1990, 12 p.
? 1987: S.G.Dolgobrodov, A.E. Shevel
o An measurement of the times for the operation performing in the
system REDUCE
? Preprint LNPI, Number 1320, September 1987, 14 p.
? 1986: A.E. Shevel
o The method to develop the programs and program systems (The
Meta-programming)
? Programmirovanie, 1, 1986, pp 31-37, Moscow, Russia
o A.G. Atamanchuk, V.I. Benevelski, I.I. Gracheva, N.M. Gulina,S.G.
Dolgobrodov, A.N. Lodkin, P.V. Neustroev, A.A. Oreshkin,E.M.
Orischin, T.S. Serebrova, N.A. Seregin, B. Yu. Sokolovsky, E.V.
Fotieva and A.E. Shevel
o The realization of the local terminal network
? Autometria, 4, 1986, pp 45-49, Novosibirsk, Russia
? 1985: A.N. Lodkin, B. Yu. Sokolovsky, A.E. Shevel
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o Program tools for maintaining the experiments on High Energy
Physics with RIAD computers
? Preprint LNPI, number 1063, May 1985, 30 p.
? 1983: A.E. Shevel, L.F. Shevel
o The use of the JCL procedure language in OS RIAD to support the
physical experiments
? Preprint LNPI, number 913, December 1983, 35 p.
o I.I.Gracheva, A.N.Lodkin, A.E.Shevel
o A realization of the archive on magnetic tape (OS RIAD) to keep the
programs and listings
? Preprint LNPI, number 914, December 1983, 21 p.
? 1981: M.N. Andronenko, I.I. Gracheva, A.E. Shevel
o Application software for processing the data on a magnetic tape
? Preprint LNPI, number 658, May 1981, 24 p.
o S.S. Volkov, Yu.V. Dosenko, L.G. Kudin, N.P.Kuropatkin, A.A.
Oreshkin, O.E. Prokofiev, A.E. Shevel
o The data acquisition system for 1 GeV proton quasi-free scattering
experiments
? Preprint LNPI, number 674, July 1981, 41 p.
o A.A. Oreshkin, T.S. Serebrova, A.E. Shevel
o The development of the application interactive programs to serve the
High Energy Physics experiments
? Preprint LNPI, number 705, October 1981, 15 p.
o I.I. Gracheva, A.A. Oreshkin, T.S. Serebrova, A.E. Shevel
o Interactive text editor for the middle range computers
? Preprint LNPI, number 706, October 1981, 15 p.
? 1979: I.I. Gracheva, A.A. Oreshkin, A.E. Shevel, V.A. Schegelsky
o Subroutines to work with a disk storage in operative mode under DOS
? Preprint LNPI, number 496, July 1979, 16 p.
? 1977: T.S. Serebrova, L.F. Suvorova, A.E. Shevel, S.V. Yasikova
o The interactive software for physics experiments at LNPI
synchrocyclotron
? Preprint LNPI, number 302, 1977, 34p.
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? 1975: I.I. Gracheva, A.E. Shevel
o A Software for display unit "LOGIKA-820" to show graphic and alfabetic
information
? Preprint LNPI, number 164, July 1975, 24 p.
? 1974: A.E. Shevel
o The using of the computer RIAD-1020 in physics experiments (The
work was dedicated to develop the patches for the system supervisor in
DOS IBM/360)
? Preprint LNPI, number 128, December 1974, 8 p.
= End of publication list.
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