CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Carl Kesselman

Professional Preparation

Appointments:

• 2000-present Senior Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
• 1996-2000 Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
• 1997-present Research Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California
• 1996-present Visiting Associate, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
• 1993-1996 Member of the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology
• 1991-1993 Senior Research Fellow, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
• 1990 Assistant Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1989 Visiting Scientist, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
• 1982-1991 Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation

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Synergistic Activities

Pedagogical: Co-editor of widely used text: The Grid: Blueprint for a Future Computing Infrastructure (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999: www.mkp.com/grid); also, teaching of numerous related tutorials.

Research tools: Developed numerous software systems that have seen extensive use in the research community including the Compositional C++ programming environment, the Nexus communication library and the Globus Grid toolkit.item1;item2;item3.

Service: Program committee: SC Program Committee (1994,1997,2000), the International Symposium on Parallel Processing (1996), the International Symposium on Concurrent Object Oriented Programming (1997,1999), High-Performance Distributed Computing Conference (1992,1993,1998,1999,2000). Program Co-chair High Performance Distributed Computing Conference in 1999..

Awards and Honors: 1998 Global Information Infrastructure Award.

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Related Publications:

• The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations," Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steve Tuecke, International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, to appear.
• The Data Grid: Towards an Architecture for the Distributed Management and Analysis of Large Scientific Datasets. A. Chervenak, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, C. Salisbury, S. Tuecke, proc. NetStore '99.
• A Distributed Resource Management Architecture that Supports Advance Reservations and Co-Allocation. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, C. Lee, R. Lindell, K. Nahrstedt, A. Roy. (Intl Workshop on Quality of Service, 1999).
• A Resource Management Architecture for Metacomputing Systems. K. Czajkowski, I. Foster, N. Karonis, C. Kesselman, S. Martin, W. Smith, S. Tuecke. Proc. IPPS/SPDP '98 Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing,1998.
• A Directory Service for Configuring High-Performance Distributed Computations. S. Fitzgerald, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, G. von Laszewski, W. Smith, S. Tuecke. Proc. 6th IEEE Symp. on High-Performance Distributed Computing, pg. 365-375, 1997.

Other Significant Publications

1. I. Foster, J. Insley, C. Kesselman, G. von Laszewski, M. Thiebaux, ìDistance Visualization: Data Exploration on the Grid," IEEE Computer, December 1999.
2. The Globus Project: A Status Report. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, Proc. IPPS/SPDP '98 Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, pg. 4-18, 1998.
3. A Security Architecture for Computational Grids. I. Foster, C. Kesselman, G. Tsudik, S. Tuecke, Proc. 5th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Conference, pg. 83-92, 1998.
4. Real-Time Analysis, Visualization, and Steering of Microtomography Experiments at Photon Sources, Gregor von Laszewski, Mei-Hui Su, Joseph A. Insley, Ian Foster, John Bresnahan, Carl Kesselman, Marcus Thiebaux, Mark L. Rivers, Steve Wang, Brian Tieman, Ian McNulty, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Apr. 1999.
5. Implementing Distributed Synthetic Forces Simulations in Metacomputing Environments. S. Brunett, D. Davis, T. Gottshalk, P. Messina, C. Kesselman, Proceedings of the Heterogeneous Computing Workshop. Mar. 1998.

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Collaborators:

Bruce Allen (U. Wisc.), Joseph Bannister (USC), Chaitanya Baru (UCSD), Francine Berman (UCSD), Joseph Bester (ANL.), John Bresnahan (ANL), Sharon Brunett (CIT), Randy Butler (NCSA), Julian Bunn (CIT) Henri Casanova (UCSD), Charles Catlett, (Argonne Natl. Lab.), Ann Chervenek (USC), Andrew Chien (UCSD), K. Mani Chandy (CIT.), Keith Cooper (Rice U.), Karl Czajkowski (USC), Dan Davis (USC), Tom DeFanti (U. of Ill.),Jack Dongarra (U. of Tenn.), Mark Ellisman (UCSD), Steven Fitzgerald (USC), Ian Foster (Argonne Natl. Lab.), Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse U.), Michael Franklin (Berkeley), Dennis Gannon (Indiana U.), Robert Gardner (Indiana), Jonathan Geisler (Northwestern U.), Thomas Gottschalk (CIT),Andrew Grimshaw (UVA), Bill Gropp (ANL), Roch Guerin (IBM), Robert Hollebeek (Penn), Jeffrey Hollingsworth (U. of Maryland), John Huth (Harvard), Joseph Insley (ANL), Chris Johnson (U. of Utah), Lennart Johnson (U. of Houston), William Johnston (NASA), Tom Jordan (USC), Nickolas Karonis (Northern Ill. U.), Ken Kennedy (Rice U.), Stephen Kent (Chicago), Albert Lazzarini (CIT), Craig Lee (The Aerospace Corp.), Jason Leigh (U. of Ill.), Robert Lindell (USC), Miron Livny (U. of Wisc.), Meloney Loots (NCSA), Richard Marciano (UCSD), Stuart Martin (Argonne Natl. Lab.), Keith Marzullo, (UCSD), Ian McNulty (ANL), Paul Messina (CIT.), Bart Miller (U. of Wisc.), Reagan Moore (UCSD), Richard Mount (SLAC), Klara Nahrstedt (U. of Ill.), Harvey Newman (Caltech), Larry Peterson (Princeton U.), Lawrence Price (ANL), Thomas Prince (Caltech), Arcot Rajasekar (UCSD), Daniel Reed (U. of Ill.), Mark L. Rivers (U. of Chicago), Alain Roy (U. of Chicago), Joel Saltz (U. of Maryland), Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia U.), Steven Schwab (Network Associates), Arie Shoshani (LBNL), Warren Smith (NASA), Marc Snir (IBM), James Stepanek (The Aerospace Corp.), Rick Stevens (ANL), Mei Su (USC), Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins), Marcus Thiebaux (USC), Brian Tieman (ANL), Gene Tsudik (UCI), Steven Tuecke (Argonne Natl. Lab.), Joseph Romano (Texas Brownsville),Michael Wan (UCSD), Steve Wang (Argonne Natl. Lab.), Mary Wheeler (U. of Texas), Roy Williams (Caltech), Richard Wolski (U. of Tenn.), Gregor von Laszewski (Argonne Natl. Lab.)

Graduate Advisor: Milos Ercegovac, University of California at Los Angeles

Thesis Advisor & Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: Soonwook Hwang, University of Southern California

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