Dr. Martin Swany

University of Delaware

Network Performance for Clusters and Grids

Abstract

High performance networks enable cluster and grid computing as viable paradigms. The achievable network performance is critical to the overall performance of the system. Despite increases in the speed of both processors and networks, there is a growing "network performance gap'' that limits the ability to perform faster data movement. There are various bottlenecks to achievable network performance and consequently, many potential techniques to improve performance. This talk explores techniques for improving network performance and explores potential evolution of network systems.

About the Speaker

Martin Swany is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his B.A. and M.S. from the University of Tennessee in 1992 and 1998, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003 and joined the faculty of the University of Delaware that year. He is a 2004 recipient of the US Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator award. Since 2005, Swany has been the Internet2 Faculty Fellow involving work in network metrics and performance enhancing middleware. His research interests include high-performance parallel and distributed computing and networking.