Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center

Brad Topol



I have graduated. I can now be reached at the following address:
Home
Brad Topol
225 Summit Lake Drive
Apex, NC 27502
(919) 388-7301

Work
Brad Topol
IBM Network Computing Software Division
4205 South Miami Blvd.
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
btopol@us.ibm.com
(919) 543-0646


I received my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Emory University. I came here to pursue a Ph.D. degree. My research interests include distributed systems and the visualization of such systems. Currently, I'm developing middleware support for the development of scalable, fault tolerant, and platform independent state sharing applications for use in service to the home and metacomputing wide area distributed computing environments.


Resume (Postscript)

Current Research:

Publications:

Topol, Brad. " A Framework for the Development of Wide Area Distributed Applications ,"
Ph.D. Dissertation, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. June 1998.

Topol, Brad and Ahamad, Mustaque and Stasko, John T., " Robust State Sharing for Wide Area Distributed Applications ," Submitted for publication.

Topol, Brad and Ahamad, Mustaque and Stasko, John T., " Robust State Sharing for Wide Area Distributed Applications ," College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-CC-97-25, September 1997. To appear in the Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'98) .

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John T. and Sunderam, Vaidy S., "PVaniM: A Tool for Visualization in Network Computing Environments", Accepted for publication in the Journal Concurrency: Practice and Experience.

Carothers, Christopher and Topol, Brad and Fujimoto, Richard M. and Stasko, John and Sunderam, Vaidy. "Visualizing Parallel Simulations that Execute in Network Computing Environments ". To appear in Future Generation Computer Systems .

V. Krishnaswamy, D. Walther, S. Bhola, E. Bommaiah, G. Riley, B. Topol and M. Ahamad, Efficient Implementations of Java RMI, To appear in the Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS'98) .

Kordale, R. and Krishnaswamy, V. and Bhola, S. and Bommaiah, E. and Riley, G. and Topol, B. and Torres-Rojas, F. and Ahamad, M. "Middleware Support for Scalable Services," Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop On Community Networking , Atlanta, GA, September 1997, pages 53-58.

Carothers, Christopher and Topol, Brad and Fujimoto, Richard M. and Stasko, John and Sunderam, Vaidy. "Visualizing Parallel Simulations in Network Computing Environments: A Case Study," Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC '97), Atlanta, GA, December 1997, pages 110-117.

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John T. and Sunderam, Vaidy S., "The Dual Timestamping Methodology for Visualizing Distributed Application Behavior", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Euro-PDS '97, Barcelona, Spain, June 1997, pages 81-86. Selected for publication in a special issue of the IASTED International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks.

Carothers, Christopher and Topol, Brad and Stasko, John and Sunderam, Vaidy and Fujimoto, Richard M. "Middleware-Specific Visualization Support for Parallel Simulations in Cluster Environments ," Proceedings of the 1997 Cluster Computing Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 1997.

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John T. and Sunderam, Vaidy S., " Monitoring and Visualization in Cluster Environments (37 MB) ," College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-CC-96-10, March 1996. Click here for version with color figures removed (1 MB)

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John T. and Sunderam, Vaidy S., " The Dual Timestamping Methodology for Visualizing Distributed Applications ," College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-CC-95-21, May 1995.

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John and Sunderam, Vaidy, "Integrating Visualization Support into Distributed Computing Systems," Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , Vancouver, B.C., May 1995, pp. 19-26.

Topol, Brad and Stasko, John T. and Sunderam, Vaidy S., " Integrating Visualization Support into Distributed Computing Systems," Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Technical Report GIT-GVU-94/38, October 1994.

Topol, Brad. "Conch: Second Generation Heterogeneous Computing." Master thesis for the Department of Math and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1993.

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Contact information:

At GVU :
College of Computing
801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
E-mail :
topol@cc.gatech.edu