Date Posted: April 16, 2003
Overview
What is OptimalGrid?
This technology has been retired.
About the technology author(s)
Glenn Deen is the leader of the OptimalGrid project at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California. Since joining IBM in 1989, he has been involved in security architecture development and distributed computing solutions. His current interests include grid computing, large distributed simulations, and electronic healthcare systems.
James H. Kaufman is a research staff member in the Distributed & Cluster Systems Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He received a Ph.D. in physics from U.C.S.B. and a B.A. in physics from Cornell University. Dr. Kaufman has made contributions to several fields of research at IBM, and he is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His current research interests include distributed computing, simulation and modeling, and grid middleware.
Tobin (Toby) J. Lehman joined the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1986, shortly after finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include server-based back-up systems, object-relational database systems, large object management, memory-resident database systems, Tuplespace systems, and computing grids. Dr. Lehman is currently working on an autonomic grid computing infrastructure for solving very large connected problems on a heterogeneous collection of Internet machines.
Iris Eiron is a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She joined IBM in January 1998 after receiving her M.Sc. in computer science from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology. Ms. Eiron worked for the IBM Israeli Research Lab for three years before joining the Almaden Research Center in December 2000. Her current interests include development and implementation of a national health care infrastructure.
John Thomas is a Java developer for IBM. He was formerly one of the lead programmers for the IBM Almaden TSpaces project. Mr. Thomas is currently a member of the OptimalGrid Project at the Almaden Research Center.
These engineers can all be reached through e-mail.
