DATE: Thursday, May 5, 2005
TIME: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
PLACE: Scaife Hall 125
SPEAKER:
John Howard
Sun Microsystems
TITLE:
Sun's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) Research Program
ABSTRACT:
Sun's HPCS program is exploring technologies to enable the development
of a peta-scale computing system with high performance, reliability,
and ease of use. This talk will give an overview of the program and
some of the technical results achieved thus far.
BIO:
John Howard received a S.B. in Mathematics from MIT in 1965, and a
Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1970 from the University of Texas at
Austin, where he developed a clustered timesharing system for CDC
6600/6400's and consulted on the architecture of the DEMOS operating
system for the Cray-1 at Los Alamos.
At IBM Research in San Jose in the 1980's he helped develop and
applied a VM/370 based virtual time emulator to system database, disk
cache performance, and system scaling studies, and built a storage
architecture research group.
In 1982 he joined the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon
University, where he led development of the Andrew File System,
participated in other projects, and eventually became Director of the
ITC.
After moving to Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in the 1990's
he explored topics in mobile file systems and system support for a
high speed network interface. In 1999 he joined Sun Microsystems as a
Distinguished Engineer to work on network storage systems
architecture. He is currently leads System Software Architecture for
Sun's High Productivity Computer Systems (HPCS) project.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/