CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Richard Wolski

Professional Preparation

Richard Wolski
Department of Computer Science
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Appointments:

• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, 1999-present
• SDSC Junior Fellow, University of Tennessee, 1994-present
• Research Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1995-1999
• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego, 1994-1995

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Synergistic Activities

1. Partner in the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). As a member of this partnership, Dr. Wolski is working to make the research-grade software artifacts he produces available to the community at large. The technology transfer he leads benefits both the computer and computational science communities.
2. Leader, Network Weather Service Project. Dr. Wolski’s research in dynamic network performance forecasting has lead to an on-line and supported permanent installation of the NetworkWeather Service – a facility for predicting nation-wide resource load in near real-time.
3. Co-Leader, Application-level Scheduling Project. Dr. Wolski (with his collaborator Professor Francine Berman) co-leads the Application Level Scheduling (AppLeS) project which is building dynamic, adaptive scheduling tools for the Computational Grid.

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Related Publications:

1. Wolski, R., Spring, N. and Hayes, J., The Network Weather Service: a Distributed resource Performance Forecasting Service for Metacomputing, Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems, Volume 15, Numbers 5-6, pp. 757-768, October, 1999.
2. Wolski, R., Brevik, J., Krintz, C., Obertelli, G., Spring, N., and Su, A., Running EveryWare on the Computational Grid, Proceedings of Supercomputing 99, November, 1999.
3. Wolski, R., Plank, J., Brevik, J, and Bryan, T., G-Commerce: Market Formulations Controlling Resource Allocation on the Computational Grid, (to appear) Proceedings of IPDPS 01, April, 2001.
4. Wolski, R., Spring, N., Peterson, C., Implementing a Performance Forecasting System for Metacomputing: The Network Weather Service, Proceedings of Supercomputing 97, November, 1997.
5. Spring, N. Wolski, R., Application Level Scheduling of Gene Sequence Comparison on Metacomputers, Proceedings of ACM 1988 International Conference on Supercomputing, July, 1998.

Other Significant Publications:

1. Berman F. Wolski, R., Figueira, S., Schopf, J., and Shao, G., Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks, Proceedings of Supercomputing 1996, November, 1996.
2. Wolski, R., Static Scheduling of Hierarchical Program Graphs, Journal of Parallel Processing Letters, Volume 5, Number 4, pp. 611-622, December, 1995.
3. Wolski, R., Feo, J.T., Program Partitioning for NUMA Multiprocessor Computer Systems, The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 19, No. 3, pp. 203-218, November, 1993.
4. Griswold, W., Wolski, R. Baden, S., Fink, S., Kohn, S., Programming Language Requirements for the Next Millennium, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 28, No. 4, pp. 194-196, December, 1996.
5. Gorda, B. and Wolski, R., Time Sharing Massively Parallel Machines, Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, August, 1995.

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Collaborators:

Current Collaborators: Micah Beck (Univ. Tennessee), Francine Berman (UC San Diego), Jack Dongarra (Univ. Tennessee, ORNL) John Feo (Tera Computer Corp.), Ian Foster (Argonne National Lab) Carl Kesselman (USC/ISI), Reagan Moore (SDSC), James Plank (Univ. Tennessee), Margaret Simmons (NPACI), Andrew Grimshaw (Univ. Virginia)

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisees: James Calloway (UT),Walfredo Cirne (UCSD), Marcio Faerman (UCSD), Gary Shao (UCSD), Alan Su (UCSD), Martin Swany (UT)

Thesis Advisor: John Feo (now at Tera Computer Corp.)

Postdoctoral Advisor: Francine Berman (UCSD)

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