Mary K. Vernon Professor Emerita of Computer Science

Quantitative System Design Interests:
Analytic system performance models that accurately predict measured system performance for alternative system design options, important next-generation commercial system design questions, quantitative design of near-optimal hardware and software, near-optimal enterprise storage systems, network traffic characterization, near-optimal network protocols, state-of-the-art parallel/distributed applications and architectures.

Research Projects

• CIPART: Critical Infrastructure Protection through Analysis of Reliability and Trustworthiness
  (DoD University Research Initiatives (URI) Program/ARO)

• HPJS: High Performance Job Scheduling
  (NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) Program/NCSA)

• POEMS/MASC: Performance-Oriented End-to-end Modeling System/Models for Adaptive Software Control
  (NSF Next Generation Software Program)

• SWORD: Scalable Wide-area On-demand Reliable Data Streaming
  (NSF NeTS Program)

• iSWORD: Instrumented Streaming Research and Testbed
  (NSF Networking Special Projects Program)