Dr. Berman is head PI of the AppLeS project. A full Professor Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UCSD and Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, she received her PhD and MS from the University of Washington and her BA from UCLA. Her research focuses on the development of models and software for scheduling parallel applications on distributed heterogeneous resources. In addition, she is interested in parallel programming models and environments.
Starting January 1999, Rich will be a faculty member at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he will continue to collaborate with Francine Berman on the AppLeS project. His work involves predicting network performance for heterogeneous systems and the development of the Network Weather Service.
Henri got his PhD from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was the main application developer on the NetSolve project. He is planning to apply the ideas from AppLeS and NetSolve projects to some heterogeneous applications as a Post Doc here, at UCSD.
Gary is a sixth year PhD student. His thesis project involves studying the scheduling of independent parallel tasks on diverse and distributed computational grid platforms.
Marcio is a fourth year PhD student. His research involves studying scheduling for data intensive metacomputing applications. Currently, he is working on the implementation of AppLeS agents for the Storage Resource Broker project.
Walfredo is a third year PhD student and also an assistant professor at Brazil's Universidade Federal da Paraiba (currently on leave). He has worked on the scheduling conponent of the wide-area version of the Nile project. Now, he is investigating the system-wide dynamics of environments with multiple AppLeS, each independently scheduling for an application, a problem that has been called "the Bushel of AppLeS". In particular, he is currently focusing on the Bushel of AppLeS over space-shared parallel computers.
Alan is a third year PhD student. Most recently he has been working on an AppLeS for JPL's visualization tool for satellite radar images called Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas (SARA) to explore the possbilities of application-level scheduling on dynamic multiple-user Computational Grids and clusters.
Jim is one of the group's programmers with particular expertise in the innards of the Network Weather Service. Recently, Jim has been looking into creation of an AppLeS template for embarrasingly parallel applications. Jim has an MS in computer science from UCSD.
Graziano is one of the group's programmers, fearlessly tackling tasks from writing AppLeS code to configuring our Linux workstation cluster. He has become quite an expert in Legion after his participation in the EveryWare effort.
Dmitrii is a second year PhD student. His current project deals with writing an AppLeS template for the class of "parameter sweep" applications that run the same algorithm with various input parameters and do not interact with the user. One of the testbed applications he is considering is INS2D -- a fluid dynamics simulation from NASA Ames Research Center.
Shava is a first year MS student working on an AppLeS for a tomography application developed by NCMIR and CMT groups. The tomography code originally developed by NCMIR takes 2D images taken from an electron microscope and constructs a 3D image. We are currently working with a Globus version of the code developed by the CMT group.
Jaime is a programmer working for NCMIR. He is currently collaborating with the AppLeS group on the Tomography Code.
These are people formerly of the AppLeS group, or some project closely related to the AppLeS project.
Jenny has just graduated and accepted an Assistant Professor position at Northwestern University. She plans to continue research in developing a performance model for distributed parallel applications and in evaluating required information for performance predictions.
Neil has worked with the group as an undergraduate student, contributing to various AppLeS implementations and playing a major role in development of Network Weather Service. He has since moved on to pursue PhD study in computer science at University of Washington.
Silvia's work at UCSD involved modeling the effects of contention on the performance of applications in multi-user environments. She is now a faculty member at Santa Clara University. Her current research interests are in the area of high-performance - parallel and heterogeneous - computing.
Chris worked with the Globus version of the Network Weather Service as an undegraduate at UCSD. He has since accepted a position with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
Mino is a researcher at the Univeristy of Torino, Italy.
Leesa graduated in January 1996 with her Master's degree after finishing her thesis on Pangaea, a heterogeneous debugging tool, based in part on John May's thesis work, Panorama.