Ann Chervenak, USC Information Sciences Institute

I am part of the Center for Grid Technologies at USC Information Sciences Institute. My group focuses on issues of replicated data management and resource discovery in high performance distributed computing environments.

I'm part of several large projects and collaborations, including two recently funded efforts: Scidac2: Scaling the Earth System Grid to Petascale Data (ESG) where I work on issues of distributed data management and monitoring, and Scidac2: Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (CEDPS), where I lead the effort to develop Placement Services for policy-driven placement and replication of data sets in distributed environments. I also work under the NSF-funded Community Driven Improvement of Globus Software (CDIGS), which funds ongoing development and support for Globus software based on the requirements of the scientific community.

My research activities include design and evaluation of services for managing data replication, peer-to-peer resource discovery services, and metadata services.

I lead software development projects for two services, the Globus Replica Location Service and the Globus Data Replication Service.  Project software is released through the Globus Toolkit, which provides software infrastructure for high performance distributed computing environments.

I teach classes at USC on topics related to Grid Computing.