My origins, like those of most people born in North America during this century, are ambiguous and questionable. I'm currently a research faculty member in the U.C. San Diego CS&E Department where I research CS and a little E (every now and then) in a decidedly pedagogical manner. My current interests include heterogeneous computing for performance as well as research in parallel and distributed systems. Consequently, I'm housed quite comfortably in the High Performance and Scientific Computing lab.
Researchwise, my most recent endeavors include AppLeS which is a collaboration between myself, Francine Berman , and a raft of talented, dedicated, and, upon graduation, eminently employable students. In and out of conjunction with AppLeS, I'm also developing the Network Weather Service to monitor and forecast resource performance levels in distributed systems.
My vita and some of my more recent publication efforts are here as are a bunch of related pointers (compiled by the fabulously well-organized graduate student, Jenny Schopf, whose web page is something to behold) to other Web locales. Of course, research is not possible without readily accessible coffee and music which luckily are available here in the San Diego area. Occasionally, a movie is also necessary.