John Carter
Location: (Austin, TX)
Personal Research Web Page: http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/retrac.index.html
Keywords: Power management, energy-proportional system design, computer architecture, distributed systems, operating systems, memory systems, storage, data center design, networking.
Posted on: Monday, June 1st, 2009
Broad Research Area: Hardware / Architecture, Networks / Operating Systems, Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
Research Interests:
John Carter leads the Power Aware Systems research group at the IBM Austin Research Lab. At ARL, Dr. Carter and his teamare developing an array of technologies designed to dramatically reduce data center and server energy consumption as part of IBM’s Smart Planet initiative. These projects include: (i) integrating IT and facilities energy management (e.g., co-managing both computing resources and the electrical/cooling infrastructure), (ii) devising virtualization mechanisms that make energy-aware consolidation and task placement decisions, (iii) developing low-power high-performance storage servers that exploit flash and energy-aware caching/replication policies to reduce storage power, (iv) developing platform energy management solutions that actively manage the power consumed by individual components within a server (e.g., processors, memory, fans, and power supplies), (v) developing power management features for future IBM processors, and (vi) designing energy efficient high-performance (peta- and exa-scale) systems.
Prior to joining IBM, Dr. Carter was the Associate Director of the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where he led a number of research projects in the areas of multiprocessor computer architecture, distributed systems, and memory system design.
Contact Information:
I am very interested in hosting one or more CIFellows doing research related to chip-to-datacenter level power management. Please contact me via email (retrac AT us DOT ibm DOT com), and we can set up followup discussions via phone as appropriate.
