KEYNOTE PRESENTERS

Fritz Ferstl is a director at Sun Microsystems and responsible for Sun Grid Engine as well as for HPC on Solaris. He is also the designated owner of the Grid Engine open source project. Prior to Sun, Fritz held
leading engineering management positions at Gridware and Genias and helped to godfather the technology now being known as Grid Engine.

Ian Foster, PhD is a Univa co-founder and serves as the company’s chief open source strategist. Foster also is associate director of the mathematics and computer science division of Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Foster is considered one of the founders of the international Grid community and has written many influential documents on Grid architecture and principles. He created the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne and UofC, which has pioneered key Grid concepts, developed Globus software, the most widely deployed Grid software, and led the development of successful Grid applications across the sciences. An internationally recognized and widely cited researcher, Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. With Univa Co-Founder Dr. Carl Kesselman, he co-edited The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, now in its second edition (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). Foster graduated with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College, United Kingdom.

Philip Papadopoulos, PhD is the program director of grid and cluster computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at U.C. San Diego and is involved in key research projects including BIRN (Biomedical Informatics Research Network), OptIPuter, GEON (Geosciences Network), and PRAGMA (Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly). He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from U.C. Santa Barbara. He spent five years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) development team. He is also well known for the development of the open source Rocks cluster toolkit.

Bob Porras, v ice President of Sun's Solaris Data, Availability, Scalability & HPC Group, leads a global organization that is focused on the delivery of Solaris Storage, Cluster and HPC products. This includes all storage products for NAS, SAN and Object based environments. In addition, the organization delivers key components into Solaris such as the ZFS file system, Storage Archive Management software, Sun Cluster and Sun Grid Engine.  Previous to Sun, Bob served in Vice President and Director roles at both startup and public companies including: Accolade Technology, Vitesse Semiconductor, Sycamore Networks, Compaq, Digital and Mitre. His experience spans storage, servers, intelligent optical switches, operating systems and semiconductors. Bob holds a MBA in management from Lesley College, a MS in Computer Science from Boston University and a BS in engineering from Northeastern University.

Steve Tuecke spent the first 14 years of his career in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory.  During this time he co-founded the Globus Project with Dr. Ian Foster and Dr.  Carl Kesselman, where he was responsible for managing the architecture, design, and development of the Globus software, as well as the grid and web services standards that underlie it.  In 2004 Tuecke co-founded Univa to focus on commercialization of open source grid and cluster software.  In 2002, Tuecke received Technology Review  magazine's TR100 award, which recognized him as one of the world's top  100 young innovators. The same year, he also was named to Crain's Chicago Business "Forty Under 40" and described as one of the Chicago  area's "best and brightest." In 2003, he was named (with Foster and  Kesselman), by InfoWorld magazine as one of its Top 10 Technology  Innovators of the year. Tuecke graduated summa cum laude with a BA in  mathematics and computer science from St. Olaf College.

SESSION PRESENTERS

Bjorn Andersson, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Miha Ahronovitz is the Line Product Manager, Grid Computing Software Division at Sun Microsystems. He was one of the founders of Gridware which Sun acquired in July 2000. The open source Grid Engine - and its commercial version, Sun Grid Engine - has the largest number of installations worldwide for workload management software and has received The Excellence in Cluster Technology Award at ClusterWorld 2003 and the Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Technology Award in 2004. Mr. Ahronovitz is a corporate development alumni from Lester School for Entrepreneurship UC Berkeley . He is also a member of the Product Management Executive Network from UC Berkeley Haas Business School.

Abdallah Al Zain, PhD is a research associate at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dr Al Zain received a BSc degree in computer Science from the applied science university, Jordan, in 1998 and a PhD degree from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in April 2006. His PhD research was implementing high-level parallelism in computational grids. He is currently a postdoctoral research with the EU-funded Symbolic Computation Infrastructure for Europe 9SCIEnce) project that utilizes the Grid-enabled parallel Haskell implementation (Grid-GUM), which he implemented during his PhD research.

Rachana Ananthakrishnan is a Senior Software Developer at Argonne National Laboratory and has been with the Globus group for the last five years, working on various aspects of the Globus Toolkit.  She leads the development efforts on security components of the toolkit and is the technology coordinator for Java WS Core component. She started working on distributed computing as a Research Assistant at the Extreme Computing Lab at Indiana University, where she completed her Masters in Computer Science in 2002.

Marcos Athanasoulis, PhD is the chair of the Biomedical High Performance Computing Leadership Summit and Director of Client Services and Research Information Technology for Harvard Medical School where he oversees the IT service operations for the school and leads the development of high performance computing infrastructure to support biomedical and healthcare research. During his career, Dr. Athanasoulis has worked in both the public and private sector to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare and research through information systems. Prior to joining Harvard Medical School, Dr. Athanasoulis was the Vice President of Product Development at RelayHealth Corporation, Inc., where he oversaw the continuing development and implementation of an advanced patient-provider communication system. As Chief Technology Officer at HealthCentral.com, he led the development of health information systems for more than 100 hospitals and health plans as well as a consumer portal that served millions of consumers. He is also the chief technical advisor for Healia, Inc. and co-founder of the Healthy Communities Foundation. He holds a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics and a doctorate in health informatics, both from UC Berkeley where he was a University Fellow.

Charles Bacon is a software engineer at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. He has worked in the Globus Alliance for the last seven years. He is the author of the Globus Quickstart guide and has been presenting on Toolkit administration since 2002. He enjoys fine dining, but not long walks on the beach.

Silona Bonewald is currently the Open Source evangelist for http://GRID.org and Univa UD. A known community leader, she is the founder of the League of Technical Voters and the promoter of a free open source social network backbone for the transparent government project. She sits on the board of tano.org and has lobbied on cyber liberties for the ACLU, EFF and EFF-Austin. For more information, see http://www.leagueoftechvoters.org

Joshua Boverhof is a software engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  His expertise is Grid and Web service technologies.  He is currently working on scalable services for the SciDAC-funded Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science project, developing technologies for grid-enabling legacy applications and provisioning on-demand resources. 

Francisco Brasileiro, PhD is a Professor at the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, for his work on fault-tolerant systems. He was the founder of the Distributed Systems Laboratory at UFCG, which has OurGrid as its current flagship project. His research interests include dependability in distributed systems, distributed algorithms and protocols, grid computing, and peer-to-peer systems. He is a member of the Brazilian Computer Society, the ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. Contact him at fubica@dsc.ufcg.edu.br.

Paul Brenner, PhD is a scientist with the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing and a concurrent Assistant Professor in the Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His expertise and interests lie in novel architectures and algorithms for energy efficient High Performance Computing.

John Bresnahan, Argonne/UC

Greg Bruno

Julian Bunn, Caltech

Darius Buntinas, PhD, is an assistant computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His primary research area is communication subsystems, specifically support for MPI and scalable parallel tools. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Loyola University Chicago, and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

Ann Chervenak, USC/ISI

Patrick Choi is a Senior Software Engineer. He is currently a graduate student in engineering mathematics at Claremont Graduate University.

Shreyas Cholia is a software engineer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is primarily responsible for managing the grid infrastructure at NERSC, in conjunction with the Open Science Grid. Shreyas has been involved with various grid projects since 2002, including the HPSS-GridFTP integration project, the Grid-File-Yanker, SGE Gratia development, the NERSC Online CA, and the OSG MPI integration effort. He has a bachelor’s degree from Rice University in Computer Science and Cognitive Sciences. Prior to his work at NERSC, Shreyas was a developer and consultant for IBM with the HPSS project.

Walfredo Cirne, PhD is with Google's infrastructure group in California, USA. He is on leave of his faculty position at the Computer Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, in Brazil. Dr. Cirne holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego, in the USA. Since 1997, his research focuses on Distributed Systems and Resource Management, having led the OurGrid project from 2001 to 2006. Further information and publications of Dr. Cirne can be found at http://walfredo.dsc.ufcg.edu.br/index en.html. Contact him at walfredo@dsc.ufcg.edu.br.

Clem Cole is an old school hacker and “Open Sourcer.” His work has ranged from CPU, workstation and large system design, I/O controllers, OS development, and network protocol implementation to cluster file systems, single system image and interconnect technologies. His most recent enterprise at Intel Corporation is leading the Architecture and Development of Intel Cluster Ready. Prior to Intel, he was vice president & district Engineer at Ammasso and vice president of Engineering at Paceline Systems. Mr. Cole has degrees in EE, Math & CS from CMU and UCB, with the usual multi-page list of publications and talks to his credit and is the current vice president of the USENIX Association.

Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop

Chris Dagdigian is an infrastructure geek. He works as a consultant for BioTeam generally for biotech, pharmaceutical, academic and government clients although he has done Grid Engine consulting, training and application integration work in other fields as well including Digital Content Creation and the Oil & Gas industry. In his spare time he volunteers for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and runs the informal Grid Engine blog located at http://www.gridengine.info

Roland Dittel joined the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Engineering team at Sun Microsystems in 2005 after completing his degree in electrical engineering. Since this time he is responsible for the core modules of SGE and was involved in several projects and support cases. Roland designed and implemented the Resource Quota feature for SGE 6.1 and Advance Reservation for the 6.2 release. He is also responsible for scalability bottleneck analysis and improvements to scale to TACC's Ranger Cluster.

Stephan Erberich, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Linda Fellingham, PhD joined Sun Microsystems eleven years ago, where she currently leads the Advanced Visualization and Graphics group.  She received a PhD in EE from Stanford University, with thesis work on signal and image processing in ultrasonic imaging. Subsequently, she worked for a startup ultrasound company and (simultaneously) was a research associate at Stanford in cardiology and radiology. She segued from 2D to 3D and from ultrasound to CT and MRI when she joined CEMAX, a pioneer 3D medical imaging company, where she was VP of Research and Development. Linda .

Clayton Ferner, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of North Carolina Wilmington and teaches undergraduate courses in cluster computing and in Grid computing. He was also a co-developer and co-investigator on a project called GridNexus, which is a workflow editor for Grid applications. Additional funding for both projects was obtained from the University of North Carolina Office of the President. Dr. Ferner obtained his MS and PhD from the University of Denver and BS from Wake Forest University.

Javier Fontán is a Grid technology engineer in the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group (http://dsa-research.org) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (http://www.ucm.es). He is involved in several international grid initiatives, such as EGEE or GridWay. He has been involved in several tutorials and workshops organized by the Open Grid Forum.

Joe Fu has an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stony Brook University. Joe has worked in IT administration and IT management for over 14 years. Currently Joe is a technical manager at Synopsys and is responsible for worldwide compute farm technologies and Perforce technologies. Joe worked for China Telecom and GM/EDS as a systems/network administrator.

Tim Freeman, Argonne/UC

Patrick Fuhrmann, PhD is a physicist and earned his PhD in High Energy Physics at the University of Aachen, Germany in 1994.Dr. Fuhrmann is working in the area of mass storage at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) for more than 15 years and has been the technical lead of the international dCache project since 2000.

Kannan Govindarajan, Project Associate, MIT Campus, Anna University

Leopold Grinberg, Brown University, master of science, applied mathematics

Dan Gunter specializes in distributed and parallel systems monitoring and analysis. His research includes Grid and distributed workflow monitoring, network monitoring, monitoring tools, visual analysis techniques, and monitoring data semantics and schemata. He is the principal designer and author of the NetLogger open source software package. He has also contributed to the Global Grid Forum in the area of monitoring as a member of the Grid Performance and Network Measurements Working Groups. Past research includes work on scientific collaboration tools, protocol benchmarking on Emulab, and work on the Distributed Parallel Storage System, a predecessor to GridFTP

Richard Hierlmeier joined the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Engineering team at Sun Microsystems in 2004. Starting with taking over the responsibility for the Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo), Richard became co-owner of the development for introducing new Java interfaces in SGE 6.1. For the SGE 6.2 release he has been one of the leading developers for the Service Domain Management (SDM) module. He is an active participant on various SGE user and support email aliases where he shares his expertise and provides advice to users.

Takahiro Hirofuchi is a post doctoral researcher of AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in Japan. He is now working for virtualization technologies in large-scale datacenters and computer centers, and a core developer of the AIST virtual cluster project. He got the Ph.D. of engineering in March 2007 at Graduate School of Information Science of NAIST (Nara Institute of Science and Technology). He also got the B.S. of Geophysics at Graduate School of Science in Kyoto University in March 2002. He is an expert of operating system and network technologies

Nikita Ivanov has over 15 years of experience in software development and over seven years of developing grid computing and distributed middleware, a vision and pragmatic view of where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering. Back in 1996, Mr. Ivanov was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European System Integrator. Mr. Ivanov has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and working with well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Mr. Ivanov is an active member of Java middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications as a member of JSR-107. Mr. Ivanov holds a master's degree in electro mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Steve Jones currently runs the High Performance Computing Center at Stanford University, supporting sponsored research for The Department of Energy Advanced Simulation and Computation Program (ASC), and the next-generation Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP). The HPC center also supports the computational needs of sponsored research for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Jones is the chair of the annual Stanford High Performance Computing Conference, has designed and currently administers numerous Top 500 Supercomputers and speaks regularly about the management of High Performance Computing Clusters. More information can be found at http://hpcc.stanford.edu and http://psaap.stanford.edu

Mason Katz

Kate, Keahey, Mathematics & CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory Computation INstitute, University of Chicago

Raj Kettimuthu is a researcher in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. He is the technology coordinator for Globus GridFTP and Reliable File Transfer (RFT) service. His research interests include Data Transport and Management in the Grids, and Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has published over 30 articles in these areas. He leads the effort to develop Managed Object Placement Service as part of US Department of Energy's SciDAC-2 Center for Enabling Petascale Science. He is also actively involved in a multi-institutional collaboratory research to develop efficient data transfer strategies for high-bandwidth and high-delay networks using RDMA over IP and TCP offload techniques. He has served on the program committee for more than 30 international conferences and workshops. He has also served as a referee for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the topmost journal in the field, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, the second topmost journal in the field. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, India, and a Master of Science in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University.

Tevfik Kosar, PhD joined the Louisiana State University Department of Computer Science as an assistant professor after receiving his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. Dr. Kosar has introduced the concept that the data placement efforts should be regarded as first class entities just like the computational jobs. Dr. Kosar has designed and implemented the first scheduler specialized in data placement: Stork. He is currently leading a state-wide NSF project called PetaShare to provide a distributed data management infrastructure across the state of Louisiana. Kosar is also organizer of the first workshop on “Data-Aware Distributed Computing” to be held in conjunction with HPDC’08.

Rock Kuo, Assistant Researcher of Grid Technology Division, National Center for High-performance Computing, HsinChu, Taiwan

Greg Kurtzer is CTO of Infiscale (the company behind Perceus and other open source offerings) and also has an extensive background in the open source community: author of Warewulf, one of the leads and developers of Perceus, project lead of Caos Linux (including Caos NSA) and the initial founder of Centos Linux. In addition, Greg is the technical lead and systems architect for the cluster computing group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Walt Ligon is an associate professor at Clemson University and director of Clemson Parallel Architecture Research Lab. He received his PhD from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech in 1992 under Kishore Ramachandran and since that time has been teaching and conducting research on parallel file systems, reconfigurable computing, and parallel programming frameworks.

Lee Liming is a technology analyst at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. His team supports a wide range of Grid-related projects, from infrastructure-focused projects including TeraGrid and Open Science Grid to science-focused projects including the Earth Systems Grid and Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. This team founded the Globus Toolkit and the open community of its developers: dev.Globus. Lee is also an area director for software integration for the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid. In this role, he is responsible for employing new software tools to enhance TeraGrid's production-quality scientific computing environment.

Victoria Livschitz has been an authority on Java and grid community for over 15 years. In 2006 she founded Grid Dynamics, a global engineering and consulting firm specializing in grid and scale-out computing. Prior to Grid Dynamics, Victoria spent 10 years at Sun Microsystems in a variety of senior technical positions. Her roles included Senior Scientist at SunLabs leading super-computer productivity research for Darpa's HPCS program and Principal Architect of SunGrid division. Victoria is a winner of several prestigious awards for engineering excellence, including Ford’s Chairman Award and Sun’s System Engineer of the Year Award. She has multiple patents in Grid technology.

Ryszard Macidlowski, known to many as "Rys," was born in Poland. He studied computer science on University of Technology in Wroclaw (faculty Computer Systems and Networking) and graduated with
a master's degree. He joined SUN after graduation in January 2006 where he worked in N1 team on cacao. He started to work in Grid Engine in August 2006 and since January 2007 has been working on Service Domain Manager (SDM).

Ravi Madduri is a Sr. Software Developer with Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He has been working on data management and resource management components of Globus toolkit for past 7 years. He is a lead architect of the workflow technologies with caBIG project and serves as Area lead of DoE SciDac CEDPS project. He is the chief architect of Service Oriented Science paradigm at the Globus Project.  He received his Masters from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago in 2001.

Phil Maechling, University of Southern California

Stuart Martin has been working at Argonne National Laboratory with the Globus Project for 11 years and is currently a Senior Software Developer. In this capacity, he is responsible for the development, distribution and use of Grid Resource Allocation Management (GRAM) component in the Globus Toolkit. Stuart helped develop and manage the creation of all 3 versions of GRAM: Pre-WS, OGSI, WSRF. He has worked closely with large grid communities like TeraGrid and Open Science Grid providing support and integration of GRAM. Stuart is also coordinator for Science Gateways for the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid. In this role, he is responsible for collecting requirements from TeraGrid's Gateways and architecting new production solutions.

Usman Ahmad Malik (Invited) is working as System Administrator and WLCG Manager for the NCP-LCG2 node at National Centre for Physics. He worked as part of the Sys Admin team for the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

Suresh Marru is a Scientific Computing Research Specialist working with Dr. Dennis Gannon on the Linked Environment for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) and TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group. He received a B.E. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Osmania University, India, and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Marru’s research interests include distributed and grid computing, scientific workflows, portals and web services. Mr. Marru’s current focus is developing and integrating general purpose workflow tools and assist communities in building Science Gateways through OGCE and TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group projects.

Tim McIntire, a veteran of the HPC community, is president and cofounder of Clustercorp, a commercial operation focused on providing software, services and support based on proven solutions using the Rocks cluster distribution. McIntire’s early work includes building and managing one of the first significant Rocks Clusters, which was built at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in support of NASA’s Direct Broadcast program. Mr. McIntire’s research has been published in various IEEE and Elsevier Journals. He also contributes or has been featured in IBM developerWorks, HPCwire, Bio IT World, Apple Developer Connection and the computational science magazine, enVision.

Don Middleton, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Arnie Miles is the Grid Middleware Architect at Georgetown University, where his current duties are to engage and organize potential grid users, resource owners, and institutions interested in using grid technologies for the Thebes Grid Middleware Project. He has been involved in connecting Georgetown University to the National Cancer Institute's caBIG project, as well as to Open Science Grid. He was also instrumental in the establishment of a several hundred core Computational Core Facility that supports researchers from multiple disciplines on campus.

Kunal Modi is a Software Architect for Ekagra Software Technologies and is currently playing the role of a Security Solutions Architect for the caGrid / caCORE project for CBIIT, NCI. After obtaining his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai - India, he was involved in supply chain management and logistics domain developing J2EE applications for DHL. For almost past four years, Mr. Modi has been associated with CBIIT where he initially worked as part of the team that developed the Common Security Module (CSM). Subsequently, he developed several major features for CSM including Instance Level and Attribute Level Security and spear headed the effort of integrating CSM into Software Development Kit (SDK) and the caGrid Project to provide security. Mr. Modi has also architected and developed the Web Single Sign On Project (WebSSO) which extends the Single Sign On realm from the web domain to the grid domain. In his current role as a Security Solutions Architect, Mr. Modi is responsible for architecting solutions using caGrid's GAARDS as well as caCORE's CSM tools and products for the user applications to cater their security needs. He also is responsible for evaluating various policies and technologies in the security arena and determining their impact on the caGrid / caCORE Project.

Rubén S. Montero, PhD is an associate professor of in the Department of Computer Architecture and Systems Engineering at Universidad Com- plutense de Madrid (UCM). His research interests lie mainly in resource provisioning models for distributed systems. He is actively involved in several  open source grid and cluster initiatives like the Globus Toolkit, GridWay metascheduler and OpenNebula. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture (2002) from UCM.

Hidemoto Nakada, PhD, earned his doctorate degree in 1995, in the field of Computer Engineering, at the University of Tokyo.  He is currently working for National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Grid Technology Research Center, as a Senior Research Scientist.  He had served for Tokyo Institute of Technology, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, as a Visiting Associate Professor, from 2001 to 2006. Dr. Nakada is a co-chair of the GridRPC Working Group in Open Grid Forum.

JP Navarro, ANL

Kieran Nolan is a Principal Software Engineer and is pursuing a PhD in Industrial Applied Mathematics and Engineering through a joint program between the Claremont Graduate University and California State University, Long Beach , with research focusing on modeling the distributed execution of numerical methods.

Daniel Nurmi is a PhD candidate at the University of California Santa Barbara under the advisorship of Dr. Rich Wolski. He has studied computer science at the University of Minnesota, Tulane University and the University of Chicago where he received an MS in computer science. From 1998 to 2002, he worked in the Math and Computer Science department of Argonne National Laboratory designing and developing software and management techniques for several super-computers. His research efforts include large scale system management, resource failure and batch queue delay prediction, distributed workflow scheduling, virtual resource definition, and large scale virtualization platforms.

Jana Olivova joined Sun Microsystems two and a half years ago and became part of the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) team two years ago. Jana is an Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo) module owner responsible for technical analysis, formulation of the best strategy and implementation of new features. She is an active participant on various SGE user and support email aliases where she shares her expertise and provides advice to users.

Laura Pearlman, USC/ISI, MDS Project Chair

Lubomír Petrík has been a member of core development team of the Sun Grid Engine since 2006 and is experienced with Java and JMX with deep knowledge of Solaris operating system.

Peter Raeth, PhD is employed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. as a Research Engineer. He designs algorithms and heuristics for spectral exploitation and provides expertise in computer technology for throughput improvement. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina and an MS in Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. A doctorate in computer science was awarded by Nova Southeastern University. He has received Ball Corporation's top award, the Award of Excellence. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Phoenix and Sinclair Community College, teaching courses in computer programming.

Ioan Raicu is a PhD Candidate in the Distributed Systems Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at University of Chicago, under the guidance of Dr. Ian Foster. His main area of research is in Grid Computing with an emphasis on resource management in large scale distributed systems and grid computing. Within resource management, he is particularly interested in efficient task dispatch and execution systems, resource provisioning, data management, scheduling, and performance evaluations. His work has been funded by the NASA Ames Research Center Graduate Student Research Program, as well as the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.

Anoop Rajendra

Robert Read is a senior staff engineer in the Lustre Group at Sun Microsystems. Robert was one of the original Lustre developers and has over 15 years of systems development experience. He has recently returned to the Lustre Group after working in the virtualization space for several years. His initial focus is on Lustre reliability.

Eric Roman received his BS in physics with Honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1998. He is currently a member of the Future Technologies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Eric joined LBNL in 1999 and is concurrently pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on cluster operating systems.  His recent work has been on Berkeley Lab's Checkpoint/Restart for Linux (BLCR), where he is developing the BLCR kernel module. He has also performed ab initio simulations of the optical susceptibilities of semiconductors, and developed methods for calculating spin transport properties of metals.

Vicky Rowley comes to the BIRN project with BS. and MS degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the BIRN project, Vicky was involved in real-time, networked simulation efforts working at Lockheed-Martin, and serving as an independent software engineering consultant for many large organizations, including Lockheed-Martin, the British Ministry of Defense, and ITT Corporation, among others. She brings over 18 years of experience in software engineering, system administration and network engineering, an outstanding combination of skills, to the project. She has spent the past 5 years working as a software engineer, system administrator, and system architect for the BIRN Coordinating Center. She is a RedHat Certified Technician (RHCT) and has GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC).

Tom Scavo is the lead developer of the GridShib Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. He is an active member of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee and the OGF AuthZ Working Group, working on standards specifications covering a broad range of use cases in the research areas of federated identity and grid security. Tom has been a teacher, researcher, technical editor, and software architect for over 30 years, holding advanced degrees from the
University of Wyoming (1978, 1982) and the University of Oregon (1989).

Rob Schuler, USC/SI

Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO, GigaSpaces

Ashish Sharma, PhD is a Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University, Columbus OH.  Dr. Sharma received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2005 and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University, India. He is involved in the NCI caBIG program and is one of the lead developers of the In Vivo Imaging middleware and the VirtualPACS. His research interests include imaging informatics, large data processing, scientific visualization and grid computing.  

Arie Shoshani, PhD joined LBNL in 1976 where he heads the Scientific Data Management Group. His current areas of work include data models, query languages, temporal data, statistical and scientific database management, storage management on tertiary storage, and grid storage middleware. Dr. Shoshani is also the director of the Scientific Data Management (SDM) Center for Enabling Technologies (CET) under the DOE SciDAC program. Dr. Shoshani has published over 80 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences, and chaired several conferences in database management. He received his PhD from Princeton University.

Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory

Shava Smallen is the project lead for Inca and a developer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Her focus has been on Grid application and tool development since receiving her BS and MS degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 1998 and 2001.

Chris Smith is a Principal Product Architect at Platform Computing. Since 1997, as an employee of Platform, he has been involved in the development of the Platform LSF suite of workload management products, with a focus on the integration of Platform's Grid middleware into production Grid solutions within High Performance Technical Computing disciplines. As an active member of the Open Grid Forum, he has contributed to and authored a number of specifications concerned with Grid workload management.

Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram us working as a professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology, MIT Campus of Anna University in Chennai. Established a Centre for Advanced Computing Research and Education funded by Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, New Delhi. Involved in the research field of Grid Computing for the past four years.One of the technology partners of Garuda-National Grid Initiative in India. Working in Globus as well as in gLite and developing merascheduler for Grid . Working in the issue of Interoperability between EUINDIA Grid and GARUDA Grid.

Kamaran Soomro graduated from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan with a bachelors in software engineering in April, 2007. He started working in the field of grid computing during his undergraduate studies and worked on a project to incorporate grid management and creation capabilities into the operating system. Since October, 2007, he is visiting Caltech as a Research Scholar and working with Prof Harvey Newman in the High Energy Physics Department.

W. Dean Stanton has been a Software Engineer in a variety of roles at Sun Microsystems for over 23 years. He is currently a Senior Staff Engineer in Sun's Advanced Visualization group, integrating Sun Shared Visualization Software and Sun Scalable Visualization Software with Sun Grid Engine.  This work included creating an Advance Reservation facility and helping with a large installation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin.  More information is available at www.sun.com/visualization/  Dean has an M.S.E. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Eugene Steinberg, PhD is CTO and Director of Engineering for Grid Dynamics. Eugene is an expert in large scale grid applications. He develops design patterns for high performance and low-latency solutions, conducts technology evaluations and directs product development activities for Grid Dynamics, including project Convergence. Eugene’s expertise includes many of the commercial middleware tools used in financial services and other industries to support distributed data models. Eugene holds a Ph.D. in Mechanics and Numerical Analysis from Saratov State University.

Yusuke Tanimura is a researcher of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He was a research and development member of Gfarm filesystem software in the Grid Data farm project in 2006. Now he provides advice and system development to the geosciences people in AIST, especially for the ASTER satellite observation data storage system. He is also working on storage virtualization in a virtual cluster management system, which is implemented on Rocks.

Daniel Templeton is an engineer on the Sun Grid Engine team at Sun Microsystems and a Software & Java Ambassdor. His current role is focusing on customer and ISV issues, internal collaboration, and training. Daniel has been with Sun for ten years, both in sales and engineering, and has been working with the Java platform since 1995. He is the primary author of the Distributed Resource Management Application API Java Language Binding Specification, and a co-author of several other DRMAA specifications. Daniel has been an active member of the Open Grid Forum since 2003.Daniel speaks regularly at conferences and workshops, both internal and external, including SunNetwork and the Grid Engine Workshop, and he teaches classes on Sun Grid Engine. He has also been a speaker at JavaOne each of the last six years and is an Advanced Toastmaster Bronze.

Brian L. Tierney is a Staff Scientist and group leader in the Distributed Systems Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interests include Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), monitoring and troubleshooting techniques for widely distributed systems (Grids), and high-speed networking issues. He is co-PI of the SciDAC-2 Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science, and is also working on the Bro Intrusion Detection System. Mr. Tierney has an MS in computer science from San Francisco State University, and a BA in physics from the University of Iowa. Mr. Tierney has been at LBNL since 1990.

Ashutosh Tripathi is a Core Contributor to the HA Clusters community group on OpenSolaris and a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems specializing in High Availability, Distributed Systems, Networking and
Virtualization. He has over 15 years of industry experience around Clustering and High Availability at SUN Microsystems based in Menlo Park California, IBM TJ Watson Research Center based in Yorktown Heights NY, and C-Dot based in Bangalore India. Ashutosh is a frequent speaker at industry events such as NASCONF and SUN Tech Days.

Bogdan Vasiliu has been a member of the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Engineering organization at Sun Microsystems since 2000. His expertise is in grid and parallel computing, performance tuning and analysis. He studied computer science and engineering and has been involved with High Performance Computing since 1995. Prior to joining Sun, he worked at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University and Politehnica University of Bucharest. At Sun, Mr. Vasiliu is responsible for architecting grid solutions for Sun's partners and customers, porting, optimizing and benchmarking numerically-intensive ISV applications on Sun systems, and acting as a liaison to product engineering, driving resolution to problems affecting ISVs, and providing feedback on future product directions for Sun.

Rich Wellner, Jr. has worked in and led professional services organizations for 18 years with customers in the defense, finance, telecommunications, government research, manufacturing, semiconductor, pharmaceutical and automotive sectors.Wellner began his career as a consultant with Keane and most recently was President of Object Environments, a technology consulting company specializing in object oriented technologies, and Partner in Gridwise Technologies which specializes in grid technology implementations. His work has spanned guiding customers from the emerging client/server technology landscape in the late 80's, through object oriented technology and project management into distributed computing and grid computing with Globus. Wellner is the co-author of Grid Computing: A Savvy Manager's Guide, published by Elsevier, founding editor of the popular Grid Guru's blog and a contributing editor for GridToday.

Barry Wilkinson, PhDis a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author or co-author of nine textbooks (including second editions), most recently Parallel Programming Techniques and Applications using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2005, with M. Allen. He has been supported with several grants from the National Science Foundation for cluster and Grid computing. He has been on the organizing committee of workshops at CCGrid 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Manchester University, England in 1971 and 1974 respectively.

Nadya Williams has a master of science degree in oceanography, and a master of science in computer. She started working at the University of California, San Diego in 1990 for various projects involving oceanographic research, and after a couple of years she began working as a programmer designing and modifying code for various research applications and dealing with all aspects of software and hardware installation and maintenance. Since 2000 she has worked in the Grid and Cluster Computing group at San Diego Supercomputer Center, and since 2006 at Swiss Supercomputer Center in Manno and at University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Leonard Wisniewski, PhD serves as engineering manager of the Sun HPC ClusterTools team in Burlington, MA. His previous experience includes implementing parallel and distributed file systems and MPI I/O. He earned his MS and PhD in computer science from Dartmouth College.

Rich Wolski, PhD is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Having received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of California at Davis (while he held a  full-time research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) he has also held positions at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Tennessee. He is currently also a strategic advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an adjunct faculty member at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Wolski heads the Middleware and Applications Yielding Heterogeneous Environments for Metacomputing (MAYHEM) Laboratory which is responsible for several national scale research efforts in the area of high-performance distributed computing and grid computing. These efforts have resulted in nationally supported production-quality software tools such as the Network Weather Service (currently distributed as part of the NSF Middleware Initiative's baseline software distribution) and a supported international user-community in addition to an extensive scholarly corpus. His most recent efforts have focused on both the implementation of nationally distributable tightly-coupled programs as well as the development of statistical predictive techniques for resource-constrained power usage and resource failure prediction.

Brian Wong is a Sun Distinguished Engineer working on parallel NFS (pNFS), file systems and related technologies. His research interests include capacity planning, storage systems and operating systems, with an emphasis on simplifying the use of advanced technologies in any of these areas. He has been seen recently chasing chickens and and flinging ducks around his Virginia farm.

Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang, Assistant Researcher of Grid Technology Division, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.