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Computer Science @ Rochester
Friday, October 24, 2008
2:00 PM
703
Dr. Paul McKenney,
IBM Linux Technology Center
RCU in the Linux Kernel
Biography: Paul E. McKenney is a Distinguished Engineer at the Linux Technology Center at IBM Beaverton. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Oregon Health and Sciences Univerity. His research interests are in the intersection of SMP performance and scalability and realtime response. He has authored more than 20 research papers in SMP algorithms, communications congestion control algorithms, realtime response, and synchronization primitives. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and has been invited to the Linux Kernel Summit three times (2003-2005). He is a co-inventor of RCU, but given that something resembling RCU has been invented independently at least five times, this might not count for all that much. He holds 19 patents.