Carl Kesselman

Information Sciences Institute Fellow Director, Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California VGrADS Activities: Co-PI, working on Execution System (Requirements and Design) and Programming Tools (Application Manager) carl@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~carl/

Professional Preparation

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1985
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo,1982

Professional Appointments

• Director, Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute, USC, 2001
• Senior Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute, USC, 2000
• Project Leader, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 1996
• Research Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California, 1997
• Visiting Associate, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1996
• Member of the Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, 1993
• Senior Research Fellow, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1991
• Assistant Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Div, Argonne National Laboratory, 1990
• Visiting Scientist, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, 1989
• Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation, 1982

Synergistic Activities

• Pedagogical: Co-editor of widely-used text: The Grid: Blueprint for a Future Computing Infrastructure (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999: http://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.
• 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. 2002 R&R 100 Award, 2002 R&D Editors Choice Award

VGrADS and Other Significant Publications

• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, J. Nick, S. Tuecke, “Grid Services for Distributed System Integration,” Computer, 35(6), 2002.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke, “The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations,” International J. Supercomputer Applications, 15(3), 2001.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, C. Salisbury, S. Tuecke, “The Data Grid: Towards an Architecture for the Distributed Management and Analysis of Large Scientific Datasets,” Proc. NetStore '99, http://www.globus.org/documentation/incoming/datagrid.pdf.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, C. Lee, R. Lindell, K. Nahrstedt, A. Roy, “A Distributed Resource Management Architecture that Supports Advance Reservations and Co-Allocation,” (Intl Workshop on Quality of Service, 1999).
• I. Foster, J. Insley, C. Kesselman, G. von Laszewski, M. Thiebaux, “Distance Visualization: Data Exploration on the Grid,” IEEE Computer, December 1999.
• P. Stelling, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, C. Lee, G. von Laszewski, “A Fault Detection Service for Wide Area Distributed Computations,” Proc. 7th IEEE Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 268-278, 1998, ftp://ftp.globus.org/pub/globus/papers/hbm.pdf.
• I. Foster and C. Kesselman “The Globus Project: A Status Report,” Proc. IPPS/SPDP '98 Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, pp. 4-18, 1998.
• S. Fitzgerald, I. Foster, C. Kesselman, G. von Laszewski, W. Smith, S. Tuecke “A Directory Service for Configuring High-Performance Distributed Computations,” Proc. 6th IEEE Symp. on High-Performance Distributed Computing, pg. 365-375, 1997, ftp://ftp.globus.org/pub/globus/papers/hpdc97-mds.pdf.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselmen, G. Tsudik, S. Tuecke,“ A Security Architecture for Computational Grids,” Proc. 5th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Conference, pp. 83-92, 1998. ftp://ftp.globus.org/pub/globus/papers/security.pdf.
• 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, “Real-Time Analysis, Visualization, and Steering of Microtomography Experiments at Photon Sources,” Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, April 1999, http://www-fp.globus.org/documentation/incoming/siamCmt99.pdf.