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Willy Zwaenepoel
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Professor and Dean
PhD (Stanford, 1984)
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office(s):
BC408
phone(s): [+41 21 69] 34779,36489,37521
fax: +41 21 6936490
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BIOGRAPHY
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Willy Zwaenepoel has worked in a variety of aspects of operating systems and distributed systems, including microkernels, fault tolerance, parallel scientific computing on clusters of workstations, clusters for web services, and mobile computing. He is most well known for his work on the Treadmarks distributed shared memory system, which was licensed to Intel and became the basis for Intel’s OpenMP cluster product. His work on high-performance software for network I/O led to the creation of iMimic Networking, Inc, which he led from 2000 to 2005. His current projects include database replication, I/O performance of virtual machines, and software update mechanisms.
Before joining EPFL in 2002, Willy Zwaenepoel was on the faculty at Rice University, where he was the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, and Fellow of the ACM in 2000. He won best paper awards at SigComm 1984, OSDI 1999, Usenix 2000, Usenix 2006 and Eurosys 2007. He was program chair of OSDI in 1996 and Eurosys in 2006, and general chair of Mobisys in 2004. He was also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems from 1998 to 2002. In 2000, he also received the Rice University Graduate Student Association Teaching and Mentoring Award.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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C. Amza, A. Cox, S. Dwarkadas, P. Keleher, H. Lu, R. Rajamony, W. Yu, and
W. Zwaenepoel, ``TreadMarks: Shared Memory Computing on Networks of
Workstations,,'' IEEE Computer, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 18-28, 1996.
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V. S. Pai, P. Druschel, and W. Zwaenepoel, ``IO-Lite: a unified I/O
buffering and caching system,'' ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems (TOCS), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 37-66, 2000.
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A. Menon, A. L. Cox, and W. Zwaenepoel, ``Optimizing Network Virtualization
in Xen,'' in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2006.
Best paper award.
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S. Elnikety, S. Dropsho, and W. Zwaenepoel, ``Tashkent+: Memory-Aware
Load Balancing and Update Filtering in Replicated Databases,'' in
EuroSys 2007, 2007.
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O. Crameri, N. Knezevic, D. Kostic, R. Bianchini, and W. Zwaenepoel, ``Staged
Deployment in Mirage, an Integrated Software Upgrade Testing and
Distribution System,'' in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium
on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), (Stevenson, WA, U.S.A.),
2007.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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CURRENT WORK
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| Xen: | Optimizing Network Virtualization | | Tashkent: | Scalable database replication | | Mirage: | A framework for testing and distributing software updates | | | | Willy Zwaenepoel's research is sponsored by the European Commission, the Hasler Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and Hewlett-Packard Corporation. |
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PRESENTATION
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26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Lisbon, July 4-7, 2006:
P2P, DSM, and Other Products from the Complexity Factory (pdf 1.4 MB)
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Full Professor