| Biosketch |
Karsten Schwan is a professor in the College of Computing at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of the
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), with
co-directors from both GT's College of Computing and School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. The NSF-sponsored CERCS research center's faculty
conduct research in experimental computer systems in the domains of Enterprise,
High Performance, and Embedded/Pervasive Systems, with members from industry
and from federal agencies.
Prof. Schwan's M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he began his research in high performance
computing, addressing operating and programming systems support for the
Cm* multiprocessor. At the Ohio State University, he established the
PArallel, Real-time Systems (PARTS) Laboratory, containing both custom
embedded processors and commercial parallel machines, and conducting research
on operating and programming system support for cluster computing and for
adaptive real-time systems.
At Georgia Tech, his work ranges from topics in
operating and communication systems, to middleware, to parallel and distributed
applications, focusing on information-intensive distributed applications in
the enterprise domain (e.g., the operational information systems supporting
large enterprises) and in the high performance domain (e.g., high performance
I/O, remote data visualization, and online collaboration). Technical topics
currently being pursued in these domains span (1) scalable techniques
for virtualizing and managing future multi-core and multi-machine platforms,
(2) efficient methods for managing applications and services across
multiple machines, including new techniques for runtime performance and
behavior monitoring and understanding, (3) middleware for high performance
data movement, addressing I/O in future petascale machines and QoS-sensitive
data streaming in pervasive and wide area systems, and (4) experimentation
with representative applications in the HPC, enterprise, and pervasive domains.
He can reached at
and at www.cc.gatech.edu/~schwan