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My current main research interest is in the design and management of
economy-based self-managing service-oriented architectures. |
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I'm the editor and publisher of: Storage, data, and information systems,
by John Wilkes, Christopher Hoover, Beth Keer, Pankaj Mehra, and Alistair
Veitch. The 5th edition is
available from Amazon.com. |
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![[Corinthian Capital]](Images/CorinthianCapital.72.smaller.trans.gif) |
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I'm most well known for the HPL Storage Systems Program's prior work on
self-managing storage systems, which made large-scale, multi-terabyte online storage
systems easier to manage.
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Research areas here include:
- Capturing high-level goals for the storage system,
expressed as Quality-of-service based Service Level Agreements
(QoS-SLAs)
- Automatically determining the appropriate design and
configuration of a storage system to meet those goals, and
the placement of data in it. This includes tools to
design network topologies for high speed Storage-Area
Networks (SANs) such as FibreChannel.
- Online system management tools that allow data to be moved
around on the fly, while it's being accessed, and help to
close the loop, allowing a storage system to be completely
self-managing.
- Mechanisms and languages for describing storage system
requirements, capabilities, designs, and deployments.
- Scalable storage system architectures that can deliver
big-system reliability and performance with small-system
price and flexibility.
Before this, I was active in several areas, including:
- Helping HP's Storage Systems Division in Boise develop the
HP AutoRAID
technology.
- Network architecture (the Hamlyn sender-based message model).
- Operating systems (e.g., the Brevix project).
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Many of the papers
published by myself and other members of the research groups in
which I have worked over the years are available, as is some of
our software
and disk I/O traces that we and other researchers have used.
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| looking for a job? |
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Please see the HPL jobs page for information on our current hiring
activities. Please do not email me resumes directly.
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Non-work |
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The Sarum seminar:
gothic architecture and medieval life |
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I host the web page for the
Sarum Seminar
program, and have occasionally given talks there.
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Glassblowing |
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I host the web page for the
San Francisco University (SFSU) glassblowing program,
and do a little glassblowing myself, too. |
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| Titian's Venus of Urbino |
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In the spring of 1996, Christy Junkerman taught a superb Stanford Continuing Studies course on Italian
Renaissance art. One outcome was an essay I wrote on the
possible meaning of Titian's Venus of Urbino.
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Last modified:
2008-03-17 10:00
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