About our Benoit Hudzia :
Benoit Hudzia is Chief AIOPS at Huawei. He is leading a team of engineers, data scientists, and
researchers that help bring artificial intelligence to cloud operations.
He also provides world-class solutions and intellectual property advisory services via his bespoke
boutique company Blopeur
Ltd. He has charted more than 50 Evidence of Use charts that generated multi millions dollars in
licensing revenue.
He also helped succefully fend off aggressive licensing company by successfully unearthing key prior art
proof
Biography
Qualifications
Social Links
Patents
Publications
Book Chapters
Talks
Benoit Hudzia on the interwebs
Biography
Benoit Hudzia is Chief AIOPS at Huawei. He is leading a team of engineers, data scientists, and
researchers that help bring artificial intelligence to cloud operations.
He also manage a boutique consulting company specialised in Intellectual property services.
Before Huawei, he was a Managing Director at Statestreet where he lead the EMEA SRE team for the
custodian bank public cloud operations.
Previously he was working as a Senior Researcher - Architect for SAP on
HANA
enterprise Cloud.
He use to be working on designing the next generation cloud technology as well as runing the Irish
operations for Stratoscale.
Benoit has authored more than 20 Academic publications and book
chapters and also is the holder of numerous patents in the domain of virtualization, OS, cloud,
distributed system, etc.. His code and ideas are included in various SAP commercial solutions as well as
Open source solutions such as Qemu/KVM Hypervisor, Linux Kernel,
Openstack.
His past research focused on bringing together the flexibility of virtualization, cloud and high
performance computing ( A.K.A the "Lego cloud"). This framework aims at providing memory, I/O and
CPU resource disagregation of physical server while enabling dynamic management and aggregation
capabilities to Linux native application as well as to Linux/KVM VMs using commodity hardware.
Qualifications
- MBA - 2014 : [Business] Trinity College Dublin
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PhD - 2007 : [Comp Sci] University College Dublin
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Master of Science - 2003 : [Comp Sci] University of Paris 6
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Master of Engineering - 2002 : [EECS] Ecole d’ingenieur EFREI
Social Links
My Blog : Reflections of the Void
My Medium blog where I host my short and long posts
Patents
- Published Patents Lists
04/07/16 - 20160098302 - Resilient post-copy live
migration
using eviction to shared storage in a global memory architecture
A method includes, in a
computing system that includes at least first and second compute nodes, running on the first compute
node a
workload that uses memory pages. The memory pages used by the workload are classified into at least
active
pages and inactive pages, and the inactive memory pages...
Inventors: Muli
Ben-yehuda, Rom Frieman, Abel
Gordon, Benoit Hudzia, Maor Vanmak (Strato
Scale Ltd.)
01/01/15 - 20150007172 - Cloud-enabled, distributed and
high-availability system with virtual machine checkpointing
A checkpoint trigger
initiating
a synchronization of a first virtual machine with a second virtual machine may be received, the first
virtual machine being executed with at least a first virtual processor and a second virtual processor.
The
first virtual processor may be paused, while the first virtual machine is...
Inventors: Benoit
Hudzia,
Steve
Walsh, Roei Tell, Aidan
Shribman, Peter Izsak (Sap
Ag)
04/10/14
- 20140101397 - Remote
redundant array of inexpensive memory
A method for retrieving stored information from a
storage node includes operating a computing device to generate a memory access request comprising a
virtual
memory address that identifies a first storage node and at least a second storage node based on the
virtual
memory address. The method further includes operating...
Inventors: Aidan
Shribman, Peter Izsak, Benoit Hudzia, Roei
Tell (Sap Ag)
03/27/14 - 20140089539 - Lockless spin buffer
Implementations
of the present disclosure are directed to enabling data transfer between data producers and data
consumers.
Implementations include generating a data structure, the data structure including a lockless spin buffer
(LLSB), the LLSB including two or more lockless components, each of the two or more lockless components
including a...
Inventors: Benoit Hudzia, Jonathan
Stewart, Jonathan Sinclair, Jean-noel Gonzalez De Linares (Sap
Ag)
06/27/13 - 20130166576 - Dynamic, hierarchical bloom
filters
for network routing
A system may include an address manager configured to map a data
item
including a plurality of attributes to a blocked Bloom filter (BBF) of a plurality of blocked Bloom
filters.
The system also may include a blocked Bloom filter (BBF) generator configured to map each attribute of
the
plurality...
Inventors: Benoit Hudzia, Eoghan
O'neill (Sap Ag)
05/23/13 - 20130132560 - Dynamic adaptations for network
delays during complex event processing
A message handler may receive a plurality of
messages
associated with a plurality of events, the events having a temporal relationship to one another. A
header
inspector may extract latency information from the plurality of messages, the latency information
characterizing a transmission duration experienced by each message in traveling from...
Inventors:
Benoit Hudzia, Stephen Dawson, Alan
Hay (Sap Ag)
04/28/11 - 20110099318 - Leveraging memory similarity
during
live migrations
A page scanner may be configured to identify, during a live migration of
a
virtual machine including a transfer of a plurality of memory pages from source hardware resources to
destination hardware resources, a candidate memory page of the plurality of memory pages to include in
the
transfer while at...
Inventors: Benoit Hudzia, Stuart Hacking (Sap Ag)
10/01/09
-
20090249488 - Flexible
appliance hosting with coordination of deployment, licensing and configuration
Operating
parameters of one or more software appliances may be set at a configuration manager. Compliance of the
one
or more software appliances with license terms may be maintained at a license manager. Communications
may be
executed between the license manager and the configuration manager to maintain compliance of the...
Inventors:
Philip Robinson, Benoit Hudzia (Sap
Ag)
Strato Scale Ltd., Sap Ag
Publications
- Hudzia, Benoit; Kechadi, M-T; Ottewill, Adrian; Treep: A tree based p2p network architecture
2005
Link
- Hudzia, Benoit; McDermott, Liam; Illahi, TN; Kechadi, M Tahar; Entity based peer-to-peer in a
data
grid environment 2006 Link
- Ellahi, Tariq N; Hudzia, Benoit; McDermott, Liam; Kechadi, T; Transparent Migration of
multi-threaded applications on a java based grid 2006
Link
- Ellahi, Tariq N; Hudzia, Benoit; Mcdermott, Liam; Kechadi, T; Security framework for P2P based
grid
systems 2006 Link
- Hudzia, Benoit; Ellahi, Tariq N; McDermott, Liam; Kechadi, T; A java based architecture of
p2p-grid
middleware 2006 Link
- Hudzia, Benoit; Petiton, Serge; Reliable multicast fault tolerant MPI in the Grid environment
2006
Link
- Ellahi, TN; Hudzia, B; McDermott, L; Kechadi, T; Entity management and security in p2p grid
framework
Link
- Hudzia, Benoit; Kechadi, Tahar; THON: A Tessellation-based Hierarchical Overlay Network for
DGET
Grid Middleware 2007
Link
- Hudzia, Benoit; Hierarchical Topology for P2P Based Grid Middleware 2008
Link
- Hacking, Stuart; Hudzia, Benoît; Improving the live migration process of large enterprise
applications 2009 Link
- Svard, Petter; Tordsson, Johan; Hudzia, Benoit; Elmroth, Erik; High performance live migration
through dynamic page transfer reordering and compression 2011 Link
- Sinclair, Jonathan; Hudzia, Benoit; Lindner, Maik; Stewart, Alan; Harmer, Terry; Stewart, John;
Compliance Auditing in Future Web-based Infrastructures 2011 Link
- Svard, Petter; Hudzia, Benoit; Tordsson, Johan; Elmroth, Erik; Evaluation of Delta Compression
Techniques for Efficient Live Migration of Large Virtual Machines 2011 Link
- Ferrer, Ana Juan; Hernández, Francisco; Tordsson, Johan; Elmroth, Erik; Ali-Eldin, Ahmed;
Zsigri,
Csilla; Sirvent, Raül; Guitart, Jordi; Badia, Rosa M; Djemame, Karim; OPTIMIS: A holistic
approach
to cloud service provisioning 2012 Link
- Jonathan Sinclair, Benoit Hudzia, Maik Lindner, Alan Stewart and Terry Harmer; rchitecture for
compliance analysis of distributed service based system 2011
Link
- Jonathan Sinclair, Benoit Hudzia, Maik Lindner, Alan Stewart and Terry Harmer; Compliance
Auditing
in Future Web-based Infrastructures 2011 Link
- Badia, Rosa M; Corrales, Marcelo; Dimitrakos, Theo; Djemame, Karim; Elmroth, Erik; Ferrer, Ana
Juan; Forgó, Nikolaus; Guitart, Jordi; Hernández, Francisco; Hudzia, Benoit; Demonstration of
the
OPTIMIS toolkit for cloud service provisioning 2011 Link
- Kübert, Roland; Koller, Bastian; Sirvent, Raül; Ziegler, Wolfgang; Hudzia, Benoit; Analysis of
Existing solutions and Requirements for SLAs
Link
- Villari, Massimo; Brandic, Ivona; Tusa, Francesco; Celesti, Antonio; Kecskemeti, Gabor;
Calcavecchia, Nicolò Maria; Di Nitto, Elisabetta; Mikkilineni, Rao; Morana, Giovanni; Seyler,
Ian;
Achieving Federated and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice 2012
Link
- Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Juan, Ana; Hernández, Francisco; Tordsson, Johan; Elmroth, Erik;
Ali-Eldin,
Ahmed; Zsigri, Csilla; Sirvent Pardell, Raül; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Wesner, Stefan; OPTIMIS:
A
holistic approach to cloud service provisioning 2012 Link
- Shribman, Aidan; Hudzia, Benoit; Pre-Copy and post-copy VM live migration for memory intensive
applications 2013
Link---- Slides
- Benoit Hudzia, Roei Tell, Peter Izsak, Aidan Shribman, Steve Walsh ; Leveraging Memory
Mirroring
for Transparent Memory Scale-Out with Zero-Downtime Failover of Remote Hosts 2013 Link---- Slides
Book Chapters
- Benoit Hudzia (SAP, UK), Jonathan Sinclair (SAP, UK) and Maik Lindner (SAP, UK); Deploying and
Running Enterprise Grade Applications in a Federated Cloud
Link
- Benoit Hudzia (SAP, UK), Jonathan Sinclair (SAP, UK) and Maik Lindner (SAP, UK);Achieving
Federated
and Self-Manageable Cloud Infrastructures: Theory and Practice Link
- Ellahi, Tariq; Hudzia, Benoit; Li, Hui; Lindner, Maik; Robinson, Philip; The Enterprise Cloud
Computing Paradigm 2011
Link
Talks
Benoit Hudzia on the interwebs
