Biographical sketches of authors

Gary F. Goth IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (gfgoth@us.ibm.com). Mr. Goth received his B.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1971, his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Union College in 1975, and his M.S. degree in statistics in 1978 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After seven years with the General Electric Company, he joined IBM in 1979. In IBM he has held managerial and technical positions in server group development. Currently a Senior Technical Staff Member, Mr. Goth is the thermal team leader for high-end servers. He holds 24 patents, has coauthored several technical publications, and has received IBM Outstanding Innovation and Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in thermal technology.

Daniel J. Kearney IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (yenraek@us.ibm.com). Mr. Kearney is an Advisory Engineer in the Power/Thermal Systems Development and Integration Department in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the L. C. Smith College of Engineering at Syracuse University in 1983, subsequently joining IBM. Mr. Kearney has been involved with power-supply design, power and thermal systems integration, and code development and testing. In 1988, he was a development manager for the power systems design group responsible for the ES/9000 mainframe. Mr. Kearney has contributed to the development of the IBM 9076 SP2 bulk power system, and the S390 G3 through G6 power systems integration and testing. He was responsible for power/thermal system code integration for the refrigeration components of the zSeries z900, and is currently responsible for power/thermal system code integration for the hybrid cooling system of the z990 server. Mr. Kearney has received two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, has been granted ten U.S. patents, and has achieved his third IBM Invention Achievement Award plateau. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of New York.

Udo Meyer IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicherstrasse 220, 71032 Boeblingen, Germany (umeyer@de.ibm.com). Mr. Meyer received the graduate engineer (Dipl. Ing. grad.) degree in precision engineering from the Gauss-Schule in Berlin. He joined IBM in 1967, initially as a Customer Engineer, and worked as a region-designated specialist on IBM high-end computers. Since 1973 Mr. Meyer has worked in the IBM Boeblingen Laboratory, developing HW-related firmware and supporting control programs. He has received an IBM Team Award for his technical contributions to the IBM S/390 G5. He holds two patents.

Donald W. Porter IBM Systems and Technology Group, 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (porterd@us.ibm.com). Mr. Porter received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1981 and 1994, respectively, and became a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New York in 1997. He joined IBM in 1981 as a Manufacturing Engineer, large systems, and has held various management and non-management positions in both the manufacturing and development organizations. Mr. Porter is currently an Advisory Engineer; he is team leader for the zSeries modular cooling unit (MCU), responsible for development and release of refrigeration technology. He specializes in applying unique cooling solutions to IBM products and developing those designs through the conceptual, release, shipment, and field-support stages.