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Short Bio

Antony Chazapis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Lab, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH-ICS/CARV) and a visiting instructor at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete. He works on distributed, large-scale platforms for both compute and storage that span the whole computing continuum, from the Cloud to the Edge. Before joining FORTH-ICS, he was engineering solutions and leading software development teams in the industry, creating innovative products targeting both the data center and the end user. His experience and interests also include acceleration technologies for Machine Learning/AI in both HPC and the Cloud, optimization of Big Data processing frameworks, Cloud-native software architectures, as well as DevOps and MLOps practices. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the National Technical University of Athens. Since 2019, he participates in European research projects that aim to bridge the technologies used in Cloud and HPC, in the context of building the software components targeting the next generation of European supercomputers and the European Cloud. Creator of and contributor to various open source projects.

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Selected Publications

  • Running Kubernetes Workloads on HPC, Antony Chazapis, Fotis Nikolaidis, Manolis Marazakis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Converged Computing (WOCC’23), Hamburg, Germany, May 2023. [pdf]
  • Event-Driven End-to-End Testing For Containerized Applications, Fotis Nikolaidis, Antony Chazapis, Manolis Marazakis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC’23), Hamburg, Germany, May 2023.
  • Arax: A Runtime Framework for Decoupling Applications from Heterogeneous Accelerators, Manos Pavlidakis, Stelios Mavridis, Antony Chazapis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’22), San Francisco, CA, USA, November 2022.
  • Interactive, Cloud-Native Workflows on HPC Using KNoC, Evangelos Maliaroudakis, Antony Chazapis, Alexandros Kanterakis, Manolis Marazakis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing (InteractiveHPC 2022), Hamburg, Germany, June 2022.
  • Virtual Clusters: Isolated, Containerized HPC Environments in Kubernetes, George Zervas, Antony Chazapis, Yannis Sfakianakis, Christos Kozanitis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC’22), Hamburg, Germany, June 2022.
  • H3: An Application-Level, Low-Overhead Object Store, Antony Chazapis, Efstratios Politis, Giorgos Kalaentzis, Christos Kozanitis, and Angelos Bilas, Proceedings of the HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop 2021 (HPC-IODC 2021), Virtual Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2021.
  • XOROS: A mutable Distributed Hash Table, Antony Chazapis and Nectarios Koziris, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.

Courses

  • CS-548: Cloud-native Software Architectures: Postgraduate course, which explores the structure of large-scale Internet services and focuses on the techniques and tools used to build and deploy modern-day applications in Cloud platforms. Includes: (i) specifications of both large-scale applications and the Cloud environment, (ii) techniques and tools for writing applications (DevOps practices), managing library requirements, and integrating them into containers, (iii) the design and implementation of micro-service architectures and the utilization of Cloud service offerings, such as serverless functions, and (iv) the advanced use of a modern cloud orchestration application platform, such as Kubernetes, through the understanding of its internal structure. All information and material available at the website and code repository.