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General Interests
"My main research focus is on very large systems, high-performance computers with many processors. These systems require clever scheduling and processor allocation to achieve their full potential and it's an area where clever ideas can make a huge difference in the performance of very expensive systems. Ideas from these systems are also beginning to trickle down to smaller computers, which are increasingly built around multi-core processors. Thus, an important goal of my teaching is to incorporate ideas of parallelism into my courses."
Years at Knox: 2006 to present
Education
Ph.D., 2006, University of Illinois-Champaign.
B.S., 1998, Harvey Mudd College.
Teaching Interests
Parallel computing, algorithms.
Honors/Grants
Awarded National Science Foundation grant DUE-1044299: "Collaborative Research: Responding to Manycore: Teaching parallel computing with higher-level languages and activity-based laboratories". Collaborating with Jens Mache at Lewis & Clark College (DUE-1044932). $82,382. Award effective September, 2011- August, 2014.
Quad City Engineering and Science Council 2011 Junior Scientist of the Year Award, 2011.
R&D 100 Award for "Compute Process Allocator," 2006.
Publications
"Backfilling with guarantees granted upon job submission." Co-authored with A.M. Lindsay '09, M. Galloway-Carson '11, C.R. Johnson '11, and V.J. Leung. Proceedings of 17th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar), Part 1,6852 of LNCS (2011): 142-153.
"Tie-breaking strategies for processor allocation in meshes." Co-authored with C.R. Johnson '11 and V.J. Leung. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS), 2010.
"Dispatching Equal-length Jobs to Parallel Machines to Maximize Throughput." Co-authored with M.H. Goldwasser. Proceedings of the 12th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), 6139 of LNCS (2010): 346-358.
"Faster High-Quality Processor Allocation." Co-authored with Peter Walker '11 and Vitus Leung, Vitus. Proceedings 11th Linux Cluster Institute International Conference High Performance Clustered Computing, 2010.
"Tie-Breaking Strategies for Processor Allocation in Meshes." Co-authored with Chris Johnson '11 and Vitus Leung. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2010.
Presentations
"Faster High-Quality Processor Allocation." Paper, 6th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems, San Diego, California, 2010.
"Power-Aware Scheduling for Makespan and Flow." Association of Computer Machinery Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Your First Years as Faculty." Panelist. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, organized by College Teaching Effectiveness Network, 2009.
Like many Knox College students, Steve Galdek is fond of the squirrels wandering around campus. His research project is enabling him to learn more about their winter-survival strategies.
A few weeks after completing an international assignment to take photos of newly arrived pandas in Scotland, Knox College instructor Michael Godsil is asked to document the delivery of two more pandas in France.
Knox College introduces KnoxReads, an online book discussion. The first selection is "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World," by writer and foreign policy analyst Robin Wright, who visits Knox on February 28.
