Kesselman and Foster on board EntropiaSan Diego 16 October 2000 Entropia, Inc. recently added two internationally acclaimed technology leaders to its Scientific Advisory Board. As SAB members Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman will provide strategic and technology guidance as Entropia leads the industry in the emerging field of peer-to-peer distributed computing.
Most recently, Foster was co-Principal Investigator on two
major National Science Foundation ("NSF") grants for Grid
development on nationally strategic applications, which he
and Kesselman lead together. The first, NEESgrid,
will establish a national virtual laboratory for earthquake
engineering. The second is the Grid
Physics Network ("GriPhyN"), the largest grant in the
NSF's new Information Technology Research program. GriPhyN
will build a vast distributed Grid capable of handling the
petabytes of scientific data expected to flow from the world's
most ambitious physics and astronomy experiments, such as
the Large Hadron Collider, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and
the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
As associate director of the Mathematics and Computer Science
division at Argonne National
Laboratory, Foster heads the Distributed
Computing Laboratory. In addition, he is a professor of
computer science at the University of Chicago. Foster's expertise
lies in the fields of parallel programming, large-scale computing
application, distributed systems and high-speed networking.
Currently, his research is focused on the techniques required
to integrate high-performance computing and networking in
wide-area environments.
At the University of Southern California, Kesselman is both
a senior project leader in the Information
Sciences Institute and a research professor. Kesselman's
research is in parallel programming, distributed systems,
networking and distributed information services.
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