Almudena MONTIEL

GSI, Darmstadt - Germany

I studied BSc Computing Engineer at the University of Seville, Spain. I got my MSc in Grid Computing and e-Engineering at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK, in 2008. After my studies, I have been working in small projects related to Databases, Data Mining and Web development. I am currently working as a research member for the Spanish Ministry of Innovation. My project is located in GSI Darmstadt, Germany. I work developing for AliEn. AliEn is a Grid middleware tool developed as single entry point to the Grid for ALICE experiment at CERN. This middleware is going to be adapted for the new facility at GSI-FAIR, Germany. Currently this middleware is integrated only with MySQL RDBMS. My goal is to develop an interface for this middleware to be open to any RDBMS, specifically Oracle RDBMS. As an intern at GSI, I also have the chance to keep learning. I just attended the International Winter School for Grid Computing 2010, where the following technologies were taught: Condor, UNICORE, Globus and gLite. Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, MacOSx, Windows. Programming Languages: Java, C++, C, Perl.