Ignacio Martín Llorente (born July 1, 1969) is a Spanish entrepreneur, researcher, and educator specializing in cloud and distributed computing. He is the director of OpenNebula, a visiting scholar at Harvard University,FAS Research Computing - Harvard University listing and a full professor at the UCM (UCM).School of Computer Science - Complutense University listing Llorente is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the UCM and an Executive MBA from IE Business School in Madrid.

Education and academic career Llorente graduated with a degree in physics, majoring in computer science, in 1992. He earned his Ph.D. in physics, with a specialty in computer science, from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1995. In 2003, he received an Executive MBA from IE Business School. Following his Ph.D. research on efficient execution of scientific applications on parallel computers,I. M. Llorente, F. Tirado, L. Vázquez. "Some Aspects about the Scalability of Scientific Applications on Parallel Computers", Parallel Computing, Vol. 22, pp. 1169-1195, 1996 he worked on parallel systems with various scaling models.I. M. Llorente, F. Tirado. "Relationships between Efficiency and Execution Time of Full Multigrid Methods on Parallel Computers", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 8, Nº 6, pp. 562-573, 1997M. Prieto, I. M. Llorente, F. Tirado. "Data Locality Exploitation in the Decomposition of Regular Domain Problems", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 11, Nº 11, pp. 1141-1150, 2000.

Llorente was promoted to associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he held consultancy positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at the NASA Langley Research Center,NASA Langley Technical Reports by Ignacio M. Llorente where he conducted research on multi-grid methods,I. M. Llorente, B. Diskin, N. D. Nelson. "Alternating Plane Smoothers for Multiblock Grids", SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol. 22, Nº 1, pp. 218-242, 2000 their application to computational fluid dynamics,R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente, M. D. Salas. "Robust Multigrid Algorithms for the Navier-Stokes Equations", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 173 pp. 412-432, 2001 and their parallel implementation.I. M. Llorente, M. Prieto-Matias, B. Diskin. "A Parallel Multigrid Solver for 3-D Convection and Convection-Diffusion Problems", Parallel Computing, Vol. 27, Nº 13, pp. 1715-1741, 2001

Since 2002, Llorente has led the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group, focusing on large-scale distributed infrastructures, virtualization technologies, distributed computing, and resource provision platforms. He supported projects including the EU-funded RESERVOIR project.RESERVOIR Seed Team with I. M. Llorente. "RESERVOIR - An ICT Infrastructure for Reliable and Effective Delivery of Services as Utilities", IBM Technical Report, H-0262 (H0810-009) February 1, 2008 His research has focused on architectures,Ignacio M. Llorente, Rubén S. Montero, Eduardo Huedo. "A Loosely Coupled Vision for Computational Grids", IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 6, Nº 5, 2005. meta-scheduling,E. Huedo, R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente. "A Framework for Adaptive Execution on Grids", Journal of Software -- Practice and Experience, Vol. 34, pp. 631-651, 2004 and benchmarkingR. S. Montero, E. Huedo, I. M. Llorente. "Benchmarking of High Throughput Computing Applications on Grids", Parallel Computing, Vol. 32, Nº 4, pp. 267-279, 2006 for grid computing, as well as cloud computing architecturesB. Rochwerger, J. Caceres, R.S. Montero, D. Breitgand, E. Elmroth, A. Galis, E. Levy, I.M. Llorente, K. Nagin, Y. Wolfsthal, E. Elmroth, J. Caceres, M. Ben-Yehuda, W. Emmerich, F. Galan. "The RESERVOIR Model and Architecture for Open Federated Cloud Computing", IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 53, No. 4. (2009) and federation.R. Moreno-Vozmediano, R.S. Montero, I.M. Llorente. "Multi-Cloud Deployment of Computing Clusters for Loosely-Coupled MTC Applications", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2011. This work has contributed to several open-source technologies, including Globus, GridWay,E. Huedo, R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente. "Grid Architecture from a Metascheduling Perspective", IEEE Computer, Vol. 43, Nº 7, pp. 51-56, 2010. and OpenNebula.B. Sotomayor, R. S. Montero, I. M. Llorente, I. Foster. "Virtual Infrastructure Management in Private and Hybrid Clouds", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 14-22, Sep./Oct. 2009. In 2010, he co-founded C12G Labs, a cloud computing technology startup that leads OpenNebula development.

Llorente became a full professor in 2006. From 2002 to 2007, he also served as a senior researcher in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (a CSIC/INTA center associated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute). In 2009, he co-founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on the Open Cloud Computing Interface."Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) WG Charter" , March 2009. Since 2009, he has participated in the European Cloud Computing Group of Experts.European Commission Expert Group Report. "The Future of Cloud Computing"

Awards Llorente received the ARITMEL Award for Computer Science in 2020 for his contributions to cloud computing.

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CloudBook Profile of Ignacio M. Llorente The Next Generation of Cloud Computing Platforms, An Interview with Ignacio M. Llorente , Science, Technology and Innovation Projects, August 2010. Cloudview: An Interview with Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, HPC in the Cloud, May 2010