Volume: 26 issue: 2,
page(s): 125-135
Patrick G Bridges, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA Email: bridges@cs.unm.edu
Patrick Bridges is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. He received his BSc in Computer Science from MIssissippi State University and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. His overall research interests are in in system software for large-scale computing systems, particularly large parallel and distributed systems. His recent research in this area has focused on techniques for leveraging virtualization for large-scale systems and on fault tolerance and resilience issues in next-generation supercomputing systems.
Dorian Arnold is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Regis University, a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on high-performance computing (HPC) and extreme-scale distributed systems including scalable software infrastructures, fault-tolerance and scalable tools and services for HPC systems.
Kevin T Pedretti is a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers, techniques for improving resilience to hardware faults, and high-performance networking. Pedretti has a BSc and an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa.
Madhav Suresh is an undergraduate at Northwestern University majoring in Computer Science, expecting to graduate in June 2013. His current research interests are in virtualization, operating systems, and HPC.
Feng Lu received a BE degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She is currently working toward the PhD degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. Her research involves design and innovation for reliability-aware computer architecture and high performance architectural simulations.
Peter Dinda is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, and head of its Computer Engineering and Systems division, which includes 17 faculty members. He holds a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He works in experimental computer systems, particularly parallel and distributed systems. His research currently involves virtualization for distributed and parallel computing, programming languages for parallel computing, programming languages for sensor networks, and empathic systems for bridging individual user satisfaction and systems-level decision-making. You can find out more about him at pdinda.org.
Russ Joseph is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a BSc with majors in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research interest is in computer architecture. His work focuses on the design and implementation of power-aware and reliability-aware computer systems. Some of his recent work has examined microprocessor design for reliability and variability tolerance, microarchitecture and compiler technologies to support circuit-level timing speculation, and on-line power management for multi-core systems.
Jack Lange is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, he received a BSc, MSc and PhD in Computer Science as well as a BSc in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. His research specializes in HPC and operating systems, as well as networking, virtualization and distributed systems. His current focus lies in the area of specialized operating systems for supercomputing environments, as well as user-centric data management systems.