[Colloq] Peter Desnoyers Hiring Visit

[Patricia Freeman]

Peter Desnoyers will be joining us for a Hiring Visiton Friday, March 28th.

*He will be giving his Hiring Talk at 10:30am in Room 366WVH*


Abstract and Bio:

Peter Desnoyers                                  pjd at cs.umass.edu
> UMass Computer Science                           (617) 669-4728
> Data Management for Streaming Systems
>
> Many new computing applications are characterized by the arrival of
> asynchronous event data from the external world. These applications
> impose new requirements on the underlying system - requirements which
> are not addressed by the traditional timesharing model where user and
> application form a closed loop.
>
> One area in which these differences are especially pronounced is that
> of data storage and retrieval. In this talk we examine two data
> handling systems for streaming data: TSAR, which provides an
> energy-efficient distributed data store to networks of tiny wireless
> sensors, and Hyperion, a distributed network monitor comprised of
> server-class machines, providing real-time recording and online
> querying of network data.  Despite the vast differences in scale,
> these two systems must address similar application requirements and
> resource constraints. In this talk I will describe the theory and
> practice of these two systems, present results, and address the
> implications of new storage models for the future of operating systems
> research.
>
> Peter Desnoyers received his PhD this fall from the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst, under the supervision of Prashant
> Shenoy; his research interests are in the area of operating systems
> and storage. Prior to UMass he spent fifteen years in industry, and  
> holds two patents. He is currently at VMware.