Ian Foster

Professor

Department of Computer Science

Associate Division Director

MCS Division, Argonne

Senior Fellow

Computation Institute

Professor

Physical Sciences Collegiate Division

Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar

University of Chicago

Contact Information

University of Chicago
1100 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Office: Ryerson 250
Phone: (773)702-3487
Fax: (773)702-8487
foster@cs.uchicago.edu

Personal Homepage

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~foster

Research

In my research, I seek to develop tools and techniques that allow people to use high-performance computing technologies to do qualitatively new things. This involves investigations of parallel and distributed languages, algorithms, and communication; and also focused work on applications. I am particularly interested in using high-performance networking to incorporate remote compute and information resources into local computational environments.

Projects

Laboratories

Distributed Systems Laboratory

Technical Reports

TR-2003-07

A Constraint Language Approach to Grid Resource Selection. Ian Foster; Chuang Liu. 31 March, 2003. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2003-01

Data-Sharing Relationships in the Web. Ian Foster; Matei Ripeanu; Adriana Iamnitchi. 12 February, 2003. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2002-07

Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations. Ian Foster; Matei Ripeanu; Adriana Iamnitchi. 26 September, 2002. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2002-06

A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Grid Environments. Daniel C. Nurmi; Ian Foster; Adriana Iamnitchi. 26 September, 2002. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2001-28

The Cactus Worm: Experiments with Dynamic Resource Discovery and Allocation in a Grid Environment. Chuang Liu; Gerd Lanfermann; Ian Foster; Dave Angulo; Gabrielle Allen; John Shalf; Ed Seidel; Thomas Radke. 1 August, 2001. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2001-27

Cactus-G Toolkit: Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments. Tom Goodale; Ian Foster; Thomas Dramlitsch; Brian Toonen; Ed Seidel; Matei Ripeanu; Nick Karonis; Gabrielle Allen. 24 July, 2001. Communicated by Ian Foster.

TR-2000-01

A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems. Foster, Ian; Iamnitchi, Adriana. 5 February, 2000. Communicated by Ian Foster.