Hiroshi Horii

Hiroshi Horii I am a researcher in the Infrastructure Software Group in IBM Research, Tokyo. This group studies transaction processing technologies for business applications. Lately I have been working on the SonicShare Project that focuses on the non-stop key/value store processing with continuously availability.

• High Performance Transaction Processing:
  We have built the transactional cache for high performance transaction processing. In current web-based systems, one of the greatest obstacles for performance is database processing. By using our transactional cache, transactions are processed with few database processing.
• Distributed Computing
  I studied distributed computing at university. The main topics were performance estimation methods for MPI programs. Hopefully this knowledge will be applied to my current projects.

Aside from my research, I have a great passion for Japanese sweets and tennis.

• My current favorites are Dorayaki from Ueno Usagiya, Daifuku from Okano Eisen Toranomon and Ann-Pann (Japanese red bean filled bun) from Matoba!! If you are in Japan, I strongly recommend to try them all!!!
• Tennis is very exciting sports. Many people of this lab. play tennis. Of course I am one of them. I like playing tennis and recently watching professional games. My dream is to watch all tournaments of the Grand Slam on each spot.

• Hiroshi Horii
• IBM Research - Tokyo
• 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan 242-8502