Condor High Throughput Computing

The Condor Team

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Faculty
Miron Livny
Marvin Solomon
Staff
Ben Burnett
Dan Bradley
Tim Cartwright
Peter Couvares
Alan De Smet
Jaime Frey
Becky Gietzel
Nate Griswold
Ken Hahn
Pete Keller
Scot Kronenfeld
Jim Kupsch
Nick LeRoy
Karen Miller
Todd Miller
Zach Miller
Greg Quinn
Alain Roy
Todd Tannenbaum
Bill Taylor
Greg Thain
Kent Wenger
Graduate Students
Ian Alderman
Jim Hill
Joe Meehean
Erik Paulson
Undergraduates/Other

 

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Information about us and the roles we play on the Condor Team

Ian Alderman received a BA degree in Government in 1992 and a MEng degree in Computer Science in 1999, both from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He has been a graduate student in the UW Computer Sciences department since 2000, performing research on vulnerability analysis and testing before joining the Condor group in 2002. His work experience includes security consulting and testing, software engineering, and system administration. Within the Condor group, his present research focus is on data security.

Ben Burnett works on the Windows version of Condor. He received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Lethbridge, located in Alberta Canada. Before that, he lived in a few other places in Canada, as well as Mexico, Illinois, and New Zealand, where he was born. He has conducted research in several areas: Constraint Satisfaction, Data Mining and Philosophy of Math, but did not publish in any of them. Oddly enough, he did end with his name on a paper on Polygon Searching: an area he was introduced to at the end of his studies. He eventually presented the paper at a conference in China. When Ben is not working on Condor, he is busy critiquing books, movies, TV shows, and pretending he knows what he is talking about. He also likes learning everything he can about computers.

Dan Bradley became a member of the Condor staff in November 2002. Dan also works in the UW High Energy Physics CMS computing group, which collaborates closely with the Condor team. He is the current maintainer for condor_glidein, schedd-on-the-side, and is an active member of the Grid Laboratories of Wisconsin (UW campus grid) technical group. Dan received his B.S. in computational physics from Harvey Mudd College in 1996.

Tim Cartwright joined the Condor team in April 2005. Tim received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1996, and has worked as a programmer and consultant since then. Now, his primary focus is on building and maintaining the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT).

Peter Couvares began working on the Condor Project as a full time academic staff researcher fall of 1999. Along with the shared duties of all Condor staff, his focus is on efforts to enhance Condor's support for dedicated resources such as our own cluster. Peter also helps support the Condor Project's collaboration with other research projects such as EMERGE, a high-speed QoS-enabled data network, and the Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG). Peter graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a degree in Computer Sciences, and worked in the telecommunications industry as an infrastructure & applications developer and project architect before coming to UW Madison.

Alan De Smet joined the Condor team as a staff member in April 2002. Alan received a degree in Computer Science from the UW Madison in 1997. Alan's work for the Condor team has focused on grid computing, including Condor-to-Globus (Condor-G) and direct Condor-to-Condor (Condor-C).

Jaime Frey joined the Condor team in September 1999 as a student, later becoming a staff member. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences from UC-San Diego in June 1998 and a master's degree in Computer Sciences from UW-Madison in December 2001. His work in Condor focuses on its interaction with computational grid systems, pariticulary Globus.

Becky Gietzel joined the Condor team as a staff member in April 2003. Becky received a BS degree in Computer Science from UW Eau Claire in 2000. Becky has worked primarily on the NMI project, with a focus on testing.

Nate Griswold joined the team in June 2008, and he supports the NMI Build and Test Facility. Nate works primarily on system's administration, managing the configuration and availability of the many platforms that NMI has to offer. Nate completed a BS in Computer Engineering with an additional major in Computer Sciences at the UW Madison.

Ken Hahn has been working for Condor as a sysadmin since May 2006.

Jim Hill joined the Condor team in 2009 as a Research Assistant. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2002 and interned at Custom Computer Services Inc. working on custom embedded systems with a focus on PIC microcontrollers. After graduation, he worked for Stark Investments as a programmer on a quantitative trading team before moving to Quad/Tech to work on print finishing controls. His main interest is in Computer Graphics but he is also very interested in Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, and Distributed Computing.

Pete Keller joined the Condor team in 1999 after achieving his B.S. in Computer Science at UW-Madison. He performs and maintains many ports of Condor to new platforms, works to design, implement, and document new features, increases Condor's reliability and stability, and enjoys teaching software engineering skills, debugging methods, and the internals of Condor to new members of the team. When he is not working on Condor, Pete spends his time writing experimental: operating systems, compilers, computer graphics algorithms, distributed AI algorithms, and exploring functional programming in Scheme, learning Homeric Greek, playing black metal guitar, as well as doing charcoal drawings.

Scot Kronenfeld joined Condor in February 2007. Scot graduated with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from UW-Madison in 2005. He is working with the Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT).

Jim Kupsch works as a security researcher in the UW Computer Sciences Department. He is currently working on vulnerability assessment, focusing on Grid software. The project involves developing techniques for vulnerability assessment and applying them to software, including the Condor project. This project has documented over 20 vulnerabilities in grid software packages, and it has provided advice and training to the developers to improve the security of their software. Prior to this, Jim had worked on developing parallel and distributed databases and search engines. He received a BSEE with additional majors in Computer Science and Mathematics and a MS in Computer Sciences, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Nick LeRoy joined the Condor team in September of 2001. Nick grew up in Sister Bay, Wisconsin and graduated from Carroll College (Waukesha, Wisconsin) in 1989, with a Computer Science major, and minors in Mathematics and Physics. Since then he's worked as a Software Engineer for various medical related companies in the area. Nick's responsibilities include "Linux Czar", and are still being defined fully. Nick is the primary developer of the Hawkeye System Monitoring Tool. When not working on Condor, Nick enjoys spending time with his family. Nick's computer related interests include Linux & Linux development, software development (mostly Unix based), and Unix system administration. Nick's other interests include particle physics, astronomy, woodworking, and fixing up his 100 year old house.

Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences. He has been leading the Condor project since 1986.

Joe Meehean received a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2003 and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. He is currently in the process of earning a PhD, and has been a member of the Condor team since 2004. The focus of his work has been mobile computing as it applies to the grid.

Karen Miller does technical writing for the Condor team. She grew up in the Bay area of California, and completed a BS in EECS at Berkeley. Karen has been in Madison since 1985, initially doing digital design work, followed by completing an MS in Computer Sciences at UW Madison. She has been teaching in the department and has authored two popular assembly language textbooks.

Todd Miller received his master's in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He joined the Condor team in February of 2007, to work on NMI.

Zach Miller received his Computer Sciences degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December of 2000 and began working for Condor shortly thereafter. His main focus is the development of the core Condor software, particularily aspects related to security features and policy. His other interests include reading, traveling, hiking and biking, and both listening to and playing a lot of music, especially Brazilian percussion.

Erik Paulson is the only person on the Condor Team to have had three roles: undergrad hourly, academic staff, and graduate student. He started with the Condor Team in 2000, and following his graduation spent five years as an academic staff member. He returned to graduate school in the fall of 2005, where he is interested in far too many things. Before Condor, he spent two years in the College of Engineering's Model Advanced Facility, where he worked with the lab's Immersive Virtual Reality and Parallel Computing systems, as well as the college's Condor pool.

Greg Quinn received his BS in Computer Sciences and Computer Engineering in 2003, and his MS in Computer Sciences in 2005, all from UW-Madison. He joined Condor Team in 2006, with a focus on maintaining and advancing the Windows port.

Alain Roy joined Condor in August 2001. Alain graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in the fall of 2001, where he worked with Ian Foster and the Globus Project doing research in Quality of Service. Alain is the Open Science Grid Software Coordinator, though he pokes his nose into other business from time to time.

Marvin Solomon has been on the faculty of the Computer Sciences Department since 1976. He has conducted research in programming languages, operating systems, computer networks, and object-oriented databases. In connection with Condor, his principal interests are security, the ClassAd language, and Java.

Todd Tannenbaum first became involved with the Condor Project in 1993, while working as the Unix systems manager for the UW Madison College of Engineering. In 1995, Todd became director of the Model Advanced Facility (MAF) at UW Madison, a center which focused on high performance (and high throughput) computing. In 1997, Todd joined the Condor team as a full-time researcher. On the Condor team, Todd's responsibilities include the day-to-day management of the full-time development staff. Todd is also heavily involved in the design and implementation details of future Condor releases. His contributions include the low-level libraries which provide Condor's communication framework, process management, and portability layers. As the Condor team resident Windows NT expert, Todd worked on most parts of Condor NT. In addition to research publications, Todd has over 25 articles published in several of the nation's leading software development and network administration publications such as Network Computing, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and Information Week.

Bill Taylor joined the Condor team as a staff member in August 2002. Bill received a degree in Computer Science from the UW Madison in 1980. Bill became interested in network programming in 1988 while working for a Unix manufacturer and has worked largely in this area under both Unix and Windows since. Bill's responsibilities are currently split between helping campus researchers use Condor to run their research studies and improving and extending the Condor test suite.

Greg Thain joined the Condor team in November of 2004. He works on Condor's ability to run parallel codes, such as MPI, and more experimental parallel systems such as Condor's Master-Worker framework. Greg received a BS degree in Computer Sciences from the UW in 1990.

Kent Wenger spends part of his time on Condor and part on DEVise (which includes working closely with the BioMagResBank). Kent grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Green Bay, Wisconsin, and received a degree in computer science from UW Madison in 1990 (after also studying some electrical and mechanical engineering along the way). His Condor responsibilities include the Classad Viewer and enhancements to DAGMan. When he's not working, you can often find Kent riding one of his bikes, cross-country skiing, or hiking, or, less often, scuba diving or traveling to interesting places. Return_to_top



 

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Ahmad AbualSamid "Sami"
Himani Apte
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Dhrubajyoti Borthakur
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Jichuan Chang
Nick Coleman
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Jeffrey Freschl
Nicholas Geib
Wen-Han Goh
Michael Greger
Deirdre Joyce
Anatoly Karp
Ameet Kini
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Carey Kireyev
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Yong Lu
Raghu Mallena
Nate Mueller
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Sean Murphy
Gokul Nadathur
Kevin O'Connor
Colby O'Donnell
Ross Oldenburg
Andy Pavlo
Jacqueline Pitter
Jim Pruyne
Rajesh Rajamani
Rajesh Raman
Swaroop Sayeram
Dhaval Shah
Youngsang Shin
Sechang Son
Tom Stanis
Bin Song
Colin Stolley
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Hao Wang
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Derek Wright
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