Greg Ganger
Jatras Professor – ECE, CS; Director – PDL
Carnegie Mellon, 1998 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | 2208 Collaborative Innovation Center |
| Telephone | (412)-268-1297 |
| Fax | (412)-268-6779 |
| ganger@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/ |
| Assistant | Karen Lindenfelser |
Research Interests
Professor Ganger has broad research interests in computer systems, including cloud computing, storage/file systems, operating systems and distributed systems. He is particularly interested in developing new ways of structuring computer systems to address technology changes and enable new applications. He is involved in many ongoing projects in such areas as data-intensive computing, distributed system diagnosis, cloud computing, home storage, and exploitation of new storage technologies.
Cloud Computing Infrastructure
We are exploring the many systems challenges hidden behind the hype surrounding cloud computing, such as storage performance insulation and QoS, scalable instrumentation, and performance problem diagnosis. In addition, to gain first-hand experiences, we maintain and measure several deployed cloud resources with real users, in collaboration with industry partners.
Data-intensive Computing (DISC, a.k.a. Big Data)
DISC refers to the rapidly growing style of computing characterized by extraction of information from huge and often dynamically growing datasets. We are exploring new distributed storage and computing system designs for achieving robust, efficient data-intensive computing. We are particularly interested in supporting DISC within cloud computing, which introduces challenges of elastic sizing and achieving locality (needed for efficiency) while allowing for virtualization and consolidation.
Parallel Data Lab (PDL)
As Director of the Parallel Data Lab, Ganger leads a number of storage-related projects in areas such as storage system architecture, survivable storage, file systems, storage security, and automated storage management. As one example, we are exploring how system software should change to accommodate new storage technologies like non-volatile RAM (e.g., PCM) and shingled magnetic recording (in disks). As another, we are exploring new approaches to sharing and access control in distributed home storage.
In the News
- Ganger, Narasimhan To Head New Intel Science and Technology Centers
- Tumanov Earns Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Ganger Earns Stephen J. Jatras Professorship
- Ganger, Schlesinger Named IEEE Fellows
- Ganger Earns HP Innovation Award
- Ganger Gives Testimony on Cloud Computing
- Ganger Receives Second HP Innovation Award
- Carnegie Mellon's Greg Ganger Earns HP Innovation Research Award
- ECE Faculty Win Accolades from IEEE and ACM
- PDL Researchers Awarded Best Paper at SIGMETRICS 2007
- Carnegie Mellon Researchers Attack Rising Costs of Data Center Operations
- ECE Faculty Instruct Information Assurance Capacity Building Program
- Grad Student Jiri Schindler Receives Best Paper Award in VLDB 2003 Ph.D. Workshop
- Ganger & the PDL Awarded IBM Equipment Grant for Self-* Storage Project
- Ganger Taps Medieval History For A New Approach to Computer Security; Displays Castle Model at Open House
- Khosla and Ganger Take a Byte out of Computer Crime
- Several Faculty in ECE and Computer Science Awarded DOD Grants
- ECE Students and Ganger Win Best Student Paper Award at Top Storage Systems Conference
Research Area
Computer Systems
Keywords
cloud computing, storage/file systems, operating systems, distributed systems
Education
PhD, 1995
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MS, 1993
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
BS, 1991
Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor