Richard Wolski

Professor, Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara VGrADS Activities: Co-PI, working on Execution System (Requirements, Design, Fault Tolerance) and GridSAT Application rich@cs.ucsb.edu http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/

Professional Preparation

• Postdoctoral Assistant, Distributed Computing, University of California at San Diego, 1994-1999
• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California at Davis, 1994
• M.S., Computer Science, University of California at Davis, 1989
• B.S., Computer Science, California Polytechnic University, 1986

Appointments

• Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-present
• Faculty Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 2001-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, 1999-2001
• 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

Synergistic Activities

• Leader, Grid thrust in the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). As co-leader of Metasystems, Dr. Wolski is leading an effort 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.
• Leader, Network Weather Service Pro ject. Dr. Wolski’s research in dynamic network performance forecasting has lead to an on-line and supported permanent installation of the Network Weather Service–a facility for predicting nation-wide resource load in near real-time.

VGrADS and Other Significant Publications

• Brevik, J, Nurmi, D, and Wolski, R. “Quantifying Machine Availability in Networked and Desktop Grid Systems,” In: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004). IEEE Press. (2004).
• Nurmi, D, Wolski, R, and Brevik, J. Model-Based Checkpoint Scheduling for Volatile Resource Environments, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report (2004-25), Santa Barbara, CA, 93106. (2004).
• Brevik, J, Nurmi, D, and Wolski, R. Modeling Machine Availability in Enterprise and Wide-area Distributed Computing Environments, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Computer Science (CS2003-28), Santa Barbara, CA 93106. (2003).
• Krintz, C., and Wolski, R., Using JavaNws to Compare C and Java TCP-Socket Performance, The Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 13, Number, 8-9, pp. 815–839, 2001.
• 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. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/nws-arch.ps.gz)
• Wolski, R., Brevik, J., Krintz, C., Obertelli, G., Spring, N., and Su, A., Running EveryWare on the Computational Grid, Proceedings of SC1999, November, 1999. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/ev-sc99.ps)
• Wolski, R., Spring, N. and Hayes, J., Predicting the CPU Availability of Time-shared UnixSystems on the Computational Grid, Proceedings of the 8th High Performance Distributed Computing Systems Conference, August, 1999. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/nws-cpu.ps.gz)
• Spring, N. Wolski, R., Application Level Scheduling of Gene Sequence Comparison on Metacomputers, Proceedings of ACM 1988 International Conference on Supercomputing, July, 1998. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/apples-ics.ps.gz)
• Berman F. Wolski, R., Figueira, S., Schopf, J., and Shao, G., Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks, Proceedings of Supercomputing 1996, November, 1996. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/apples.ps.gz).
• 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.
• Wolski, R., Static Scheduling of Hierarchical Program Graphs, Journal of Parallel Processing Letters, Volume 5, Number 4, pp. 611-622, December, 1995. (available from http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/publications/sched.ps.gz).
• 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.