Richard Wolski

Richard Wolski’s research interests include cloud computing, computational grid computing for performance, and parallel and distributed systems. He works with the Greenscale Center for Energy-Efficient Computing to restructure computations to be more energy aware through virtualization technology: a powerful tool with which to migrate and consolidate computations when used in conjunction with models and control of cooling technologies. Other recent endeavors include Eucalyptus: an open-source implementation of cloud computing that can emulate Amazon's EC2 on your own resources (commercialized as Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.); the Network Weather Service: a distributed system that periodically monitors and dynamically forecasts the performance that various network and computational resources can deliver over a given time interval; EveryWare: a toolkit for building high-performance globally distributed programs; and G-Commerce: market-based resource allocation strategies for the grid.