Dr Violeta Holmesv.holmes@hud.ac.uk | 01484 473588
Dr Violeta Holmes leads the High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Group at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests and expertise are in the areas of HPC systems infrastructure, computer clusters, grids, cloud computing, intelligent agents, smart grids, and embedded systems. She was awarded the status of Chartered Engineer and Fellowship of Higher Education Academy and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS).
She joined the School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Huddersfield in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer in Embedded Systems. She lectures in parallel computer architectures, computer clusters and grid, embedded system, digital signal processing and virtual instrumentation. She is a Course Leader for MSc Embedded Systems Engineering and MSc Electronic and Communication Engineering, and a postgraduate tutor in the School of Computing and Engineering.
In 2010 she became a Subject Leader for Electronic and Electrical Engineering. She also co-founded the HPC Research Group which aims to promote the links between high performance computer users, developers and researchers across various research groups and institutes at the University of Huddersfield, and throughout the UK and internationally. Under her leadership, the HPC Research Group has established links with the UK National e-Infrastructure Service (NES) as an affiliate member, and was instrumental in establishing collaboration between the University of Huddersfield and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory. She is currently working with 3M Business and Innovation Centre at the University of Huddersfield helping industry to access HPC research and design facilities.
Dr Violeta Holmes obtained her degree in Electronics and Physics from the ETF Electronic and Technical Physics Faculty, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She worked as a Systems Engineer in Smederevo Steel Mill Yugoslavia, gaining industrial experience in computer control of hot and cold steel rolling mills. She continued her postgraduate studies in the UK and completed an MSc in Control Engineering from Bradford University, followed by a PhD from the University of Huddersfield in the application of artificial intelligence in distributed computer control. Her career in Higher Education, as a researcher and lecturer in computing and engineering, spans over 20 years.
Dr Holmes took part as a mentee in the Athena Project, established in 1999 by the UK higher education funding councils, supporting women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET). She participated in The North West Universities Mentoring Scheme for women in SET(MENWU) as a mentor in 2004/2005. As a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IET and BCS she continues to support the advancement and promotion of the careers of women in science, engineering and technology in Higher Education and research.
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Project Leader: Violeta Holmes
Research Student: Katrinna MacFarlane
Duration: October 2008 - September 2014
The Internet plays a significant role in the lives of children today. It provides excellent educational opportunities, access to a huge range of information and can be fun. However, it can also be used as a tool to enable abuse of children in a variety of ways. Hence, there is a need to automate the process of monitoring information exchange when children chat on-line.
The aim of this project is to study how an agent mediated autonomous system can be used to automatically block the transmission of personal data, such as addresses and telephone numbers to other users, if such data is detected in a message; and to detect and prevent attempts by users to arrange meetings with other users. The overall aim of the this project is to make it safer for children to chat online.
Bonner, S., Holmes, V., James, Y., Kureshi, I. and Brennan, J. (2013) ‘Delivering a Teaching Environment For Cloud Computing Using OPenStack’. In: Workshop on Cloud Computing Issues and Trends, 7-9 October 2013, London, UK
Holmes, V. and Kureshi, I. (2013) ‘Creating an HE ICT Infrastructure Fit for the 21st Century’. In: Higher Education Show 2013, 25 April 2013, London, UK
Brennan, J., Paprzycki, M., Holmes, V., Ganzha, M., Kureshi, I., Drozdowicz, M. and Wasielewska, K. (2013) ‘Scaling Campus Grids: Implementing a modified ontology based EMI-WMS on Campus Grids’. In: The EGI Community Forum 2013, 8-12 April 2013, Manchester, UK , pp. 27-27
Arif, S. and Holmes, V. (2013) ‘Electronic Braille Document Reader ’. In: Proceedings First International Conference on Technology for Helping People with Special Needs. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, . pp. 16-21.
Assairi, B. and Holmes, V. (2013) ‘iShoes for blind and visually impaired people ’. In: Proceedings First International Conference on Technology for Helping People with Special Needs. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. pp. 10-15.
Holmes, V (2013) ‘High Performance Computing: Enabling Businesses and Researchers Access To World-Class, Secure Technology’. In: Research Information Management: The Challenges and Opportunities of Open Access , 24th January 2013, London, UK
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V. and Cooke, D. (2013) ‘Profiling CFD and MD Algorithms in Different HPC Environments’ Journal of Cloud Computing . ISSN 2192-113X
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V. and Cooke, D. (2013) ‘HPC Applications and System Performance Profiling: Open-framework Benchmarking Suit’ International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing . ISSN 2005-4262
Brennan, J., Holmes, V., Kureshi, I., Paprzycki, M., Drozdowicz, M. and Ganzha, M. (2013) ‘Scaling Campus Grids: Implementing a modified ontology based EMI-WMS on Campus Grids’. In: The 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013), 13-15 November 2013, Zhangjiajie, China
Liang, S., Holmes, V. and Kureshi, I. (2012) ‘Hybrid Computer Cluster with High Flexibility’. In: IEEE Cluster 2012, 24-28 September 2012, Beijing, China
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V. and Cooke, D. (2012) ‘Robust Mouldable Scheduling Using Application Benchmarking For Elastic Enviornments’. In: Local Proceedings of BCI 2012 5th Balkan Conference in Informatics. Novi Sad, Serbia: University of Novi Sad, Serbia. pp. 51-57.
Gubb, D., Holmes, V., Kureshi, I., Liang, S. and James, Y. (2012) ‘Implementing a Condor pool using a Green-IT policy’. In: Digital Research 2012, 10-12 September 2012, Oxford, UK
James, Y., Holmes, V., Kureshi, I., Gubb, D. and Liang, S. (2012) ‘Design of a new network infrastructure using RPC for the University of Huddersfield campus grid’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Feradyan, A. and Holmes, V. (2012) ‘Autonomous wireless sensor for building energy management with energy harvesting feasibility’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V., Liang, S. and Cooke, D. (2012) ‘Optimising multi-user and multi-application HPC system utilisation using effective queue management’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Jimoh, F. and Holmes, V. (2012) ‘Design of a wireless patient diagnosis system’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. pp. 69-74. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V., Gubb, D., Liang, S., Bonner, S. and Cooke, D. (2012) ‘Providing laaS using a private cloud in an HE environment’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Gubb, D., Holmes, V., Kureshi, I. and James, Y. (2012) ‘Implementing a Condor pool using a Green-IT policy’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V., Liang, S., Gubb, D. and Cooke, D. (2012) ‘High performance distributed computing resources to enable e-science research’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V., Cooke, D., Allan, R., Liang, S. and Gubb, D. (2012) ‘Robust mouldable intelligent scheduling using application benchmarking for elastic environments’. In: Proceedings of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers’ Conference 2012: CEARC’12. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-86218-106-9
Berberkic, S., Mather, P., Holmes, V. and Sibley, M. (2011) ‘Design of a Monitoring and Test system for PV based Renewable Energy Systems’. In: International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'11), 13-15 April 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Berberkic, S., Mather, P. and Holmes, V. (2010) ‘A Low Cost Electronic Load for Renewable Energy Systems ’. In: Future Technologies in Computing and Engineering: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2010: CEARC’10. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. p. 187. ISBN 9781862180932
Holmes, V. and Kureshi, I. (2010) ‘Huddersfield University Campus Grid: QGG of OSCAR Clusters’ Journal of Physics: conference series , 256 (1), p. 012022. ISSN 1742-6596
Kureshi, I., Holmes, V. and Liang, S. (2010) ‘Hybrid HPC – Establishing a Bi-Stable Dual Boot Cluster for Linux with OSCAR middleware and Windows HPC 2008 R2’. In: UK eScience All-Hands Meeting, 13-16 September 2010, Cardiff, Wales
Alaiwi, A., Sibley, M., Mather, P. and Holmes, V. (2009) ‘Extremely low frequency based communication link’. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2009: CEARC’09. Huddersfield: University of Huddersfield. pp. 105-110. ISBN 9781862180857
MacFarlane, K. and Holmes, V. (2009) ‘Agent-Mediated Information Exchange: Child Safety Online’. In: 2009 International Conference on Management and Service Science. : IEEE. pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781424446384
Holmes, V. and MacFarlane, K. (2009) ‘Agent Mediated Information Exchange ’. In: University of Huddersfield Research Festival, 23rd March - 2nd April 2009, University of Huddersfield
Holmes, V (2008) ‘Grid enabled E-Learning’. In: VIPSI-2008 PISA: Knowledge Engineering, Tutorials and Brainstormings, 10-13 July, Pisa, Italy , pp. 13-13
