Greg Eisenhauer Research Scientist Systems Research Group College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

Biography

Greg Eisenhauer is a research scientist in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Technical Director of the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Science (1983) and the M.S. degree in Computer Science (1985) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. His thesis work involved the development of a new model for externally interacting with parallel and distributed systems (called program steering). This object-based model and the steering system based on the model , the Mirror Object Steering System, provide a framework for structuring complex interacting applications.

Projects

Some of the projects with which I am involved in some way are:

• The Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems.

• IQ-ECho Events with Quality of Service, a DOE SciDAC project.

• The ECho Event Delivery System -- An efficient and flexible event notification system that uses dynamic code generation

• The Connection Manager Library -- A multi-transport messaging middleware

• Mirror Oject Steering System -- An object-based monitoring and steering system for parallel and distributed programs.

• DataExchange -- A communications library built on top of PBIO that eases construction of networks of cooperating enties.
• Distributed Laboratories -- A framework for massive interactive applications.
• PBIO -- Portable Binary Input/Output. A binary data meta-representation library.

• COBS -- Configurable OBjectS for High Performance Systems.
• Cthreads -- A user-level threads library for parallel programming.
• Falcon -- A monitoring and steering system for parallel programs.
• MD -- A parallel molecular dynamics application.

Publications

• iManage: Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. to appear ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference,2007.
• Middleware for Enterprise Scale Data Stream Management using Utility-Driven Self-Adaptive Information Flows, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, and Karsten Schwan. In Cluster Computing Journal, Springer Publishing, invited for publication, 2006.
• Towards Resilient Enterprise-Scale Information Flows, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, and Robert E. Strom, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2006.
• Implementing Diverse Messaging Models with Self-Managing Properties using IFLOW, Vibhore Kumar, Zhongtang Cai, Brian Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Muhamed Mansour, Bala Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing(ICAC), pp. 243-252, June, 2006.
  PDF Format [281K]
• AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems, Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, in collection: "Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications", ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, Chapter 14, pp. 275-304, CRC Press, 2006. Book is available at Amazon.com.
• Autonomic Information Flows, Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, CERCS Technical Report GIT-CERCS-05-22, Nov 2005.
  [Abstract] | [PDF]
• Publish-subscribe for high-performance computing, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián Bustamante, and Karsten Schwan IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue -- Message-Oriented Middleware, (10, 1), pp. 40-47, Jan/Feb 2006.
  PDF Format [207K]
• IQ-Services: Network-Aware Middleware for Large-Data Applications, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Qhi He, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan, Matthew Wolf, in Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 6, 2006, pp. 635-652
• IFLOW: Resource-Aware Overlays for Composing and Managing Distributed Information Flows, Vibhore Kumar, Zhongtang Cai, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee and Patrick Widener, Eurosys-2006, Leuven, Belgium.
  PDF Format [602K]
• Lightweight Morphing Support for Evolving Data Exchanges in Distributed Applications, Sandip Agarwala, Greg Eisenhauer, and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005)
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• Resource-Aware Distributed Stream Management using Dynamic Overlays, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan. Proc. of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2005), Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  PDF Format [260K]
• IQ-Services: Network-Aware Middleware for Interactive Large-Data Applications, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Qhi He, Vibhore Kumar, Karsten Schwan and Matthew Wolf, Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing, October 2004, Toronto, Ontario.
  PostScript [1.1M] | PDF Format [260K]
• XChange: Coupling parallel applications in a dynamic environment, Hasan Abbasi, Matthew Wolf, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer and Andrew Hilton, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 2004. PDF Format [700K]
• Morphable Messaging: Efficient Support for Evolution in Distributed Applications, Sandip Agarwala, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop in the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE), June 2004. PostScript [220K] | PDF Format [129K]
• Kernel Plugins: When A VM Is Too Much, Ivan Ganev, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Proc. of the 3rd USENIX Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM 2004), May 2004, San Jose, CA
  PostScript [423K] | PDF Format [119K]
• IQ-Services: Resource-Aware Middleware for Heterogeneous Applications, Zhongtang Cai, Greg Eisenhauer, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan and Matthew Wolf, Proc. of the 13th Heterogenous Computing Workshop (HCW 2004), invited paper, April 2004, Santa Fe, NM.
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• Service Morphing: Integrated System- and Application-Level Service Adaptation in Autonomic Systems, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Sandip Agarwala, Ada Gavrilovska, Greg Eisenhauer, Santosh Pande, Calton Pu, and Matthew Wolf, Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2003), Seattle, Washington, June 2003.
  Postscript [3.3M] | PDF Format [350K]
• Scalable Directory Services Using Proactivity,Fabián E. Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener, Proc. of Supercomputing 2002 (SC2002), Baltimore, MD, November 16-22, 2002.
  PostScript [220K] | PDF Format [129K]
• InfoFabric: Adaptive Services in Distributed Embedded Systems, Karsten Schwan, Christian Poellabauer, Greg Eisenhauer, Santosh Pande, Calton Pu, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Large Scale Real-Time and Embedded Systems (in conjunction with RTSS 2002), Dec 2002.
• KECho - Event Communication for Distributed Kernel Services, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer, Jiantao Kong, Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing, International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS'02), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, pp.83-100.
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• Active Streams and the effects of stream specialization, Fabián E. Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener, Poster in Proc. of Tenth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-2001), San Francisco, California, August 7-9, 2001.
  Abstract | PostScript [119K] | PDF Format [34K] Poster (PowerPoint) [1053K]
• JECho - Interactive High Performance Computing with Java Event Channels, Dong Zhou, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer, Yuan Chen, in the Proceedings of the 2001 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001), April 2001. [PS] [PDF]
• Native Data Representation: An Efficient Wire Format for High Performance Computing, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián E. Bustamante and Karsten Schwan. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 13, No 12, December 2002.
  Abstract | PostScript [332K] | PDF Format [418K]
• Event Services in High Performance Systems, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián E. Bustamante and Karsten Schwan, Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications, Vol 4, Num 3, July 2001, pp 243-252.
  Abstract | PostScript [232K] | PDF Format [200K]
• Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for High Performance Computing, Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 10), San Francisco, California, August 7-9, 2001. PostScript [147K] | PDF Format [73K]
• Active Brokers and Their Runtime Deployment in the ECho/JECho Distributed Event Systems, Dong Zhou, Yuan Chen, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the Third Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2001), August 2001.
  PostScript [208K] | PDF Format [60K]
• Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan, and Greg Eisenhauer, Proceedings of the Poster Session of ICDCS-21, Phoenix, Arizona, April 16-19, 2001.
• Active Streams: An approach to adaptive distributed systems, Fabián E. Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan, and Calton Pu, Proc. 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2001.
  Abstract | PostScript [19K] | PDF Format [11K]
• A Middleware Toolkit for Client-Initiated Service Specialization, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián E. Bustamante and Karsten Schwan, ACM SIGOPS, Volume 35, Number 2, pp. 7-20, April, 2001.
  Abstract | PostScript [219K] | PDF Format [108K]
• JECho - Supporting Distributed High Performance Applications with Java Event Channels, Dong Zhou, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer and Yuan Chen, Proceedings of Cluster2000, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
• Open metadata formats for fast communication, Patrick Widener, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer - Technical Report GIT-CC-00-21, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. postscript
• Operational Information Systems - An Example from the Airline Industry, Van Oleson, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer, Beth Plale, Calton Pu and Dick Amin, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS'2000). Postscript, PDF
• CTK: Configurable Object Abstractions for Multiprocessors, Dilma M. Silva, Karsten Schwan and Greg Eisenhauer, Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol 17, Num 6, 531-549, July 2001. postscript
• Efficient Wire Formats for High Performance Computing, Fabián E. Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, and Patrick Widener, in Proc. of Supercomputing 2000 (SC 2000), Dallas, Texas, November 4-10, 2000.
  Abstract | PostScript [206K] | PDF Format [98K]
• A Middleware Toolkit for Client-Initiated Service Specialization, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián Bustamente and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the PODC Middleware Symposium - July 18-20, 2000. Also appears in ACM SIGOPS, Volume 35, Number 2, pp. 7-20, April 2001.
  Abstract | PostScript [219K] | PDF Format [108K]
• Event Services for High Performance Computing, Greg Eisenhauer, Fabián Bustamente and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-2000), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1-4, 2000.
  Abstract | PostScript [138K] | PDF Format [153K]
• Fast Heterogenous Binary Data Interchange for Event-based Monitoring, Beth Plale, Greg Eisenhauer, Lynn K. Daley, Patrick Widener and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS2000), August 8-10 2000. postscript, PDF
• Fast Heterogenous Binary Data Interchange, Greg Eisenhauer and Lynn K. Daley, Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2000), pp 90-101. postscript, PDF
• The ECho Event Delivery System, Greg Eisenhauer, Technical Report GIT-CC-99-08, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. postscript
• Remote Application-level Processing through Derived Event Channels in ECho, Greg Eisenhauer, Unpublished. postscript, pdf
• Steering Data Streams in Distributed Computational Laboratories, Carsten Isert, Davis King, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer and Beth Plale, submitted to High Performance Distributed Computing.
• Realizing Distributed Computational Laboratories, Beth Plale, Volker Elling, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Davis King, and Vernard Martin, International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks, Vol 2, Num 3, 1999. postscript, pdf
• An Object-Based Infrastructure for Program Monitoring and Steering, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the 2nd SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools (SPDT'98), pp. 10-20, August 1998. postscript, pdf,
• Configurable Distributed Retrieval of Scientific Data, Dilma M. Silva and Karsten Schwan and Greg Eisenhauer, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems (ICCDS), May 1998. postscript
• Falcon: On-line Monitoring and Steering of Parallel Programs, Weiming Gu, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Vol. 10, Num. 9, Aug 1988, 699-736. postscript, pdf,
• From Interactive Applications to Distributed Laboratories, Beth Plale, Greg Eisenhauer, Jeremy Heiner, Vernard Martin, Karsten Schwan, and Jeffrey Vetter, IEEE Concurrency, Volume 6, Number 2, April-June 1998. postscript, pdf.
• DataExchange: High Performance Communication in Distributed Laboratories, Greg Eisenhauer, Beth Plale, and Karsten Schwan, Journal of Parallel Computing, Number 24, 1998, pages 1713-1733. postscript
• Agent and Object Technologies for High-end Collaborative Applications, Mustaque Ahamad, Raja Das, Karsten Schwan, Sumeer Bhola, Fabián E. Bustamante, Greg Eisenhauer, Jeremy Heiner, Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy, Todd Rose, Beth Schroeder and Dong Zhou. 1997 Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents, Dartmouth, NH, 1997.
  Abstract | PostScript [187K] | PDF Format [200K]
• DataExchange: High Performance Communication in Distributed Laboratories, Greg Eisenhauer, Beth Schroeder, Karsten Schwan, Vernard Martin and Jeff Vetter, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'97), October 1997. (Highly condensed version of journal article above.) postscript
• On the Implementation of CORBA Event Channels, Greg Eisenhauer, Bodhi Mukherjee and Chris Codella, Tech Report GIT-CC-97-04, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. postscript
• Online Displays of Parallel Programs: Problems and Solutions, Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Eileen Kraemer, Karsten Schwan and John Stasko, Proceedings of the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'97). postscript
• From Interactive High Performance Programs to Distributed Laboratories: A Research Agenda, Greg Eisenhauer, Beth Schroeder and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the SPDP'96 Workshop on Program Visualization and Instrumentation, October 1996. postscript
• Framework for Collaborative Steering of Scientific Applications, Beth Schroeder, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Jeremy Heiner, Vernard Martin, Song Szou, Jeffrey Vetter, Ray Wang, Fred Alyea, Bill Ribarsky and Mary Trauner, Science Information Systems Newsletter, IV(40), pp. 19-23, 1997. postscript
• Opportunities and Tools for Highly Interactive Distributed and Parallel Computing, Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Thomas Kindler, Karsten Schwan, Dilma Silva and Jeffrey Vetter, chapter in Parallel Computer Systems: Performance Instrumentation and Visualization, Rebecca Koskela and Margaret Simmons, editors, ACM Press, 1996. postscript
• The DataExchange Library, Greg Eisenhauer and Beth Schroeder, Tech Report GIT-CC-96-17, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. postscript
• Case Study: An Integrated Approach for Steering, Visualization, and Analysis of Atmospheric Simulations , Yves Jean, Thomas Kindler, William Ribarsky, Weiming Gu, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, and Fred Alyea, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 95. Also available as Technical Report GIT-GVU-95-15, Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280.
• Design and Analysis of a Parallel Molecular Dynamics Application, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 35, Number 1, pp.76-90, May 25, 1996.
• Opportunities and Tools for Highly Interactive Distributed and Parallel Computing, Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Thomas Kindler, Karsten Schwan, Dilma Silva and Jeffrey Vetter, In Proceedings of The Workshop On Debugging and Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems, Chatham, MA, October, 1994. Also available as Tech Report GIT-CC-94-58 or ( GIT-CC-94-58 in color ), College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. web page
• Portable Self-Describing Binary Data Streams, Greg Eisenhauer, Technical Report GIT-CC-94-45, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. postscript
• MD -- A Flexible Framework for High-Speed Parallel Molecular Dynamics, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, In High Performance Computing, Proceedings of the 1994 SCS Simulation Multiconference, pages 70-75, April 1994, Society for Computer Simulation. postscript
• Falcon -- Toward Interactive Parallel Programs: The On-line Steering of a Molecular Dynamics Application, Greg Eisenhauer, Weiming Gu, Karsten Schwan and Niru Mallavarupu, In Proceedings of The Third International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-3), San Francisco, August 1994. IEEE Computer Society. An early version of this paper is also available as technical report GIT-CC-94-08, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280. postscript
• Falcon: On-line Monitoring and Steering of Large-Scale Parallel Programs, Weiming Gu, Greg Eisenhauer, Eileen Kraemer, Karsten Schwan, John Stasko, Jeffrey Vetter and Nirupama Mallavarupu, in Proceedings of Frontiers 95, April 1995. Also available as Techical Report GIT-CC-94-21College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280.
• A Machine Independent Interface for Lightweight Threads, Bodhisattwa Mukherjee, Greg Eisenhauer and Kaushik Ghosh, Operating Systems Review of the ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, pages 33-47, January 1994. Also available as technical report GIT-CC-93-53, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280.
• Honeywell Distributed Ada -- Approach, Rakesh Jha and Greg Eisenhauer, Distributed Ada - Developments and Experience, Cambridge University Press, January 1990.
• Honeywell Distributed Ada -- Implementation, Rakesh Jha and Greg Eisenhauer, Distributed Ada - Developments and Experience, Cambridge University Press, January 1990. 

Personal

Greg is married to Peggy Eisenhauer, they have two sons, Daniel and Stephen. We have some photos online for friends and family.
Eisenhauer Genealogy.
My home page from prehistory (late 1995).

Contact Information

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3689 Cochise Drive
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