Directory Replicator for Grid

About the technology author(s):
Mark Silberstein works at IBM's Haifa Research Laboratory (HRL) in Israel. Mr. Silberstein is a graduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, working in the area of grid computing. He supervises undergraduate projects on distributed computing using the Condor System at the Distributed Systems Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the Technion. In 2000, Mr. Silberstein joined the Distributed Systems group at the Haifa Research Lab, were he is working on grid computing and cluster computing. His research interests include high performance computing, cluster computing, and grid computing.

Michael E. Factor, Ph.D., works at IBM's Haifa Research Laboratory in Israel. He is one of the architects of advanced copy functions for IBM's Enterprise Storage Server (a.k.a. Shark). Dr. Factor is also the architect for the more advanced work being done in IBM on Object Stores, and he chairs the security subgroup of the SNIA OSD TWG working on standardization. In addition, he takes a leading role in storage-related research in his lab. In the past, Dr. Factor was the manager of Distributed and Clustered Systems at HRL. Other projects in which he has been involved include the cluster VM for Java, the XML File System, the IBM iSeries Integrated File System, NAS for iSeries, and the Web server for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Dr. Factor's current areas of interest include storage subsystems, Java implementations, cluster computing, high availability, scalable servers, grid computing, distributed systems, and file systems.

Dean Lorenz is a research staff member at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa. He is in the final stages of completing his Ph.D. on QoS Routing and Partitioning in Networks with Per-Link Performance-Dependent Costs at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion. In 2001, Mr. Lorenz joined IBM HRL, where he works on grid computing and autonomous computing technologies. His research interests include QoS routing, grid computing, and distributed systems.