Biographical sketches of authors

Bishop C. Brock   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (bcbrock@us.ibm.com). Mr. Brock is a Research Staff Member in the Tools and Technology Department of the IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and joined IBM in 1997. Mr. Brock has co-authored numerous publications in the areas of automated reasoning, formal verification of hardware, and system design; he has filed several patents related to hardware performance monitoring, security, and power-management techniques for servers and embedded systems.

Gary D. Carpenter   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (carpentg@us.ibm.com). Mr. Carpenter is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He joined IBM in 1983 after receiving a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky. Since joining IBM Mr. Carpenter has worked in the areas of hardware system architecture, system design, and analog circuit and logic design. Currently his focus is research on energy-efficient circuits, processors, and systems.

Eli Chiprout   Intel Corporation, 5000 W. Chandler Boulevard, Chandler, Arizona 85226. Dr. Chiprout is a Senior Staff CAD Engineer in the Desktop Products Group in Austin, Texas, and Chandler, Arizona. He has worked in the areas of computer-aided design for advanced circuits, numerical algorithms, microprocessor design, and operating systems. Dr. Chiprout has received an IBM Research Recognition Award; he is the author of a book and multiple journal and conference papers.

Mark E. Dean   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (deanm@us.ibm.com). Dr. Dean is currently Vice President of Systems in IBM Research. He is responsible for the research and application of systems technologies from circuits to operating environments. Dr. Dean is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an IBM Fellow. His most recent awards include the Black Engineer of the Year Award, the NSBE Distinguished Engineer Award, and induction into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame. He has more than 30 patents or patents pending. Dr. Dean received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1979, an M.S.E.E. degree from Florida Atlantic University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.

Philippe L. De Backer   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (pdb@austin.ibm.com). Mr. De Backer is a member of the Research Staff of the IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He received an engineering degree at L'Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris and joined IBM in France. Mr. De Backer has worked on AIX; he joined IBM Research in 2000.

Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (mootaz@us.ibm.com). Dr. Elnozahy received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rice University in 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he served as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997, he joined the IBM Austin Research Laboratory, where he currently manages the System Software Department. His research interests include distributed computing, fault tolerance, networking, and operating systems. He holds three patents and has published more than 25 papers on distributed systems. His research in fault tolerance and reliable file systems has influenced several industrial products.

Hubertus Franke   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (frankeh@us.ibm.com). Since 1993 Dr. Franke has been a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he currently manages the Enterprise Linux group. He contributed to the IBM SP2 system software and architecture, the K42 operating system, the development of Linux for highly scalable architectures, and the MXT Linux support. Dr. Franke has received multiple IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement and Outstanding Innovation Awards, and he has published more than 50 papers and 13 patents. He received a first-in-class Diplom. in Informatik from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1992. His research interests include architectures and operating systems for highly scalable systems, distributed systems, and system security. He is a member of the IEEE.

Mark E. Giampapa   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (giampapa@us.ibm.com). Mr. Giampapa is a member of the Scalable Parallel Systems Department, where he holds a technical leadership position in the design and development of a parallel operating environment for a massively scalable parallel ultracomputer. After graduating from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1984, he joined IBM Research to work in the areas of collaborative and distributed processing, and has focused his research on distributed-memory and shared-memory parallel architectures and operating environments. Mr. Giampapa has received three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his work in distributed processing, simulation, and parallel operating systems. He holds ten patents, with several pending, and has published ten papers on the subject.

David Glasco   Newisys, Inc., 11612 Bee Caves Road, Austin, Texas 78738 (david.glasco@newisys.com). Dr. Glasco received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1994. He has worked in the areas of highly scalable machine architectures, ccNUMA protocol development, microprocessor design, and system architecture. He is the author of multiple conference papers and holds several U.S. patents.

James L. Peterson   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (peterson@austin.ibm.com). Dr. Peterson is a member of the Research Staff of the IBM Austin Research Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974 and then joined the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Peterson joined IBM in 1989. He has published four books (including the popular Operating Systems Principles textbook) and a number of papers on computers, software, algorithms, and systems.

Ram Rajamony   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (rajamony@us.ibm.com). Dr. Rajamony received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1998 and his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1989. He is primarily interested in experimental systems, focusing in the areas of server power management, networking, operating systems, and web services. Dr. Rajamony has published more than ten papers at venues such as USENIX, ISCA, and SIGMETRICS. According to Citeseer, his publications have been cited more than 300 times. He also received the Best Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS in 1997.

Rajan Ravindran   IBM Global Services India Pvt. Limited (rajancr@us.ibm.com). Mr. Ravindran is a Software Engineer; he has been with IBM since 1998. He did his postgraduate work in computer science at Madurai Kamaraj University, India. His work has ranged from product evaluation to implementation.

Freeman L. Rawson   IBM Research Division, Austin Research Laboratory, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (frawson@us.ibm.com). Mr. Rawson joined IBM in 1973 and spent many years working on the development of operating systems and related software in San Jose, Boca Raton, and Austin before joining the Austin Research Laboratory in 1996. His interests are in systems architecture and software, systems management, and Internet-related technologies.

Ronald L. Rockhold   WhisperWire, Inc., 8240 N. MoPac Expressway, Suite 200, Austin, Texas 78759 (ron.rockhold@whisperwire.com). Dr. Rockhold joined WhisperWire in 2000 as a Senior Architect. He was previously a Research Staff Member in the IBM Research Division in Austin, Texas, where he focused on operating system issues for NUMA systems. Dr. Rockhold is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, currently teaching courses in object-oriented programming and design. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1993.

Juan Rubio   The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENS 143, Austin, Texas 78712 (jrubio@ece.utexas.edu). Mr. Rubio received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Santa Maria, La Antigua, Panama, in 1997, and his M.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is investigating hardware and software architectures to improve the performance of transaction-processing workloads. His research interests include the design of microprocessors and memory systems for high-performance concurrent architectures.