Distributed Computing Systems Group (DCSG)

The DCSG at the University of Minnesota is led by Professor Jon Weissman. The group performs applications-driven systems research in the area of Computational Grids. In particular, we are working on systems, middleware, and techniques to support high-end Grid applications and end-users. We work in "layer 3" of the Grid protocol stack, layer 1 being the physical resources, layer 2 the enabling Grid infrastructure or Grid OS, and layer 4 is the Grid application.

Focus of Research

The goal of our research is to advance the theory and practice of Grid Computing. In our view, Grids will not be successful until they are invisible and effortless to use. Towards this vision, we are working in several areas: scheduling and resource management (high-performance must be automatically delivered to Grid applications with little programmer effort), and Grid-based service infrastructures (using Grid technology to build high-level, easy-to-use, environments, that hide their underlying Grid implementation).

To achieve our goal, we do a mixture of system building, middleware design, and performance evaluation (both in simulation and in live experiments). We also produce running prototypes that serve as testbeds for our research and proof-of-concept demonstrations.

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• Jon Weissman

• Darin England (Ph.D)
• Seonho Kim (Ph.D)
• Jason Sonnek (M.S.)
• Rahul Trivedi (M.S.)
• Jim Diehl (Ph.D with Du)

• Jayashree Sadagopan (M.S. 2005)
• Jason Sonnek (M.S. 2005)
• Anusha Iyer (M.S. 2004)
• Byoung-Dai Lee (Ph.D, 2003)
• Lakshman Abburi (M.S. 2003)
• Zhaoxin Ding (M.S. 2003)
• Murali Sangubhatla (M.S. 2003)
• Darin England (M.S. 2002)
• Pramod Srinivasan (M.S. 2001)
• Ping Jiang (M.S. 1999)
• Michael Gingras (M.S. 1998)
• Xin Zhao (M.S. 1997)

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