Rom Walton

Rom Walton

Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Systems software engineer and engineering leader with 35 years of experience building…

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    Bellevue, WA

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    Bellevue, Washington, United States

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    Bellevue, WA

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    Bellevue, Washington

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    Bellevue, Washington

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    Bellevue, Washington

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    Fort Myers, Florida

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    Berkeley, California

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Redmond, Washington

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    Federal Way, Washington

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    Anchorage, Alaska

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    Anchorage, Alaska

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    Fort Richardson, Alaska

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • High-performance task distribution for volunteer computing

    1st IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

    Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which the server can dispatch tasks may limit the computing power available to the project. This paper discusses the design of the task server in BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing. We present measurements of the CPU time and disk I/O used by a BOINC server, and show that a server consisting of a single…

    Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which the server can dispatch tasks may limit the computing power available to the project. This paper discusses the design of the task server in BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing. We present measurements of the CPU time and disk I/O used by a BOINC server, and show that a server consisting of a single inexpensive computer can distribute on the order of 8.8 million tasks per day. With two additional computers this increases to 23.6 million tasks per day.

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Projects

  • BOINC

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    Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

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  • World Community Grid

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    World Community Grid is a simple way to support cutting-edge research into important global humanitarian causes. Your computer or mobile device could be powering scientific research on health, poverty and sustainability.

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Honors & Awards

  • Largest Computing Grid

    Guinness World Records

    The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) was originally created to process the huge amounts of data for the SETI at Home project (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence). It has since been expanded to offer distributive platform computing for a range of projects as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics. BOINC currently has approximately 527,880 active hosts for this application on home computers worldwide, providing a massive…

    The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) was originally created to process the huge amounts of data for the SETI at Home project (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence). It has since been expanded to offer distributive platform computing for a range of projects as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics. BOINC currently has approximately 527,880 active hosts for this application on home computers worldwide, providing a massive average 5.428 petaFLOPS of computational power as of 8 August 2010.

  • Certificate of Appreciation (Exceptional Performance)

    United States Army, Alaska

  • Goodwill Ambassador

    March of Dimes (Alaska)

  • Legislative Citation (Honors)

    Alaska State Legislature (14th)

Organizations

  • International Desktop Grid Federation

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  • BOINC Project Management Committee

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