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Volume 36, Number 2, 1997
S/390 Parallel Sysplex Cluster
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Adaptive algorithms for managing a distributed data processing workload - Author bios

by J. Aman, C. K. Eilert, D. Emmes, P. Yocom, and D. Dillenberger

Biographical sketches of authors

Jeffrey Aman IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (electronic mail: jdaman@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Aman is a Senior Technical Staff Member. He has been in the MVS software design and development area since 1981, involved in many programming projects as a developer, tester, development team leader, and designer. For the last six years he has been the technical leader of the MVS workload manager project, working with design and development of the MVS base control program components and design of exploitation by the IMS, CICS, DB2, VTAM, and RMF products.

Catherine K. Eilert IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (electronic mail: eilert@vnet.ibm.com). Mrs. Eilert is a senior software engineer in the S/390 Performance Design department. She was the team leader for the WLM algorithms project and received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for that work. Mrs. Eilert holds four issued patents related to performance management algorithms. She received a B.S. degree in industrial engineering and an M.S. degree in computer science, both from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Her current interests are performance management algorithms and designing software for performance and scale.

David Emmes IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (electronic mail: demmes@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Emmes joined IBM in 1978 and has worked in MVS development since then. During that time, he worked for seven years on processor storage management for MVS/XA* and MVS/ESA, five years on multisystem coupled communication for MVS/SP* V4, and six years in workload management for MVS/SP V5 and OS/390 R3.

Peter Yocom IBM S/390 Division, 522 South Road, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 (electronic mail: yocom@vnet.ibm.com). Mr. Yocom is currently in workload manager design and development and worked for 10 years in MVS development.

Donna Dillenberger IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York 10532 (electronic mail: engd@watson.ibm.com) Ms. Dillenberger joined the former IBM Data Systems Division in 1988, and the Research Division in 1994. She has worked on future hardware simulations, workload manager, objects, and the Web.

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