Brent N. Chun

Contact Info

Projects

Previously: NOW and Millennium at Berkeley, TeraGrid at Caltech, PlanetLab at Intel Research, wireless sensor networks at Arch Rock, quantitative research at an equity long/short hedge fund.

Currently: high performance, scalable data analytics platform at Aster Data Systems.

Papers

• Service Placement in Shared Wide-Area Platforms. David Oppenheimer, Brent Chun, David Patterson, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2006.
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• Addressing Strategic Behavior in a Deployed Microeconomic Resource Allocator. Chaki Ng, Philip Buonadonna, Brent N. Chun, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, August 2005.
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• Computational Risk Management for Building Highly Reliable Network Services. Brent N. Chun, Philip Buonadonna, and Chaki Ng. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability, June 2005.
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• Why Markets Could (But Don't Currently) Solve Resource Allocation Problems in Systems. Jeffrey Shneidman, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Alvin AuYoung, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Brent N. Chun. In Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, June 2005.
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• Mirage: A Microeconomic Resource Allocation System for SensorNet Testbeds. Brent N. Chun, Philip Buonadonna, Alvin AuYoung, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Jeffrey Shneidman, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors, May 2005.
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• The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor. Ryan Huebsch, Brent Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Boon Thau Loo, Petros Maniatis, Timothy Roscoe, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica and Aydan R. Yumerefendi. In Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, January 2005.
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• DART: Distributed Automated Regression Testing for Large-Scale Network Applications. Brent N. Chun. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (Copyright © Springer-Verlag), December 2004.
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• Design Considerations for Information Planes. Brent Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch, Petros Maniatis, and Timothy Roscoe. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems, December 2004.
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• Resource Allocation in Federated Distributed Computing Infrastructures. Alvin AuYoung, Brent N. Chun, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the On-demand IT InfraStructure, October 2004.
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• The Lonely NATed Node. Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop 2004, September 2004.
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• The Ganglia Distributed Monitoring System: Design, Implementation, and Experience. Matthew L. Massie, Brent N. Chun, and David E. Culler. Parallel Computing, Vol. 30, Issue 7, July 2004.
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• Distributed Hash Queues: Architecture and Design. Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, July 2004.
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• Operating Systems Support for Planetary-Scale Network Services. Andy Bavier, Mic Bowman Brent Chun, David Culler, Scott Karlin, Steve Muir, Larry Peterson, Timothy Roscoe, Tammo Spalink, and Mike Wawrzoniak. In Proceedings of the 1st USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, March 2004.
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• Decentralized Trust Management and Accountability in Federated Systems. Brent N. Chun and Andy Bavier. In Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2004.
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• Workload and Failure Characterization on a Large-Scale Federated Testbed. Brent Chun and Amin Vahdat. Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-03-040. November 2003.
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• PIER on PlanetLab: Initial Experience and Open Problems. Ryan Huebsch, Brent Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein. Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-03-043, November 2003.
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• SHARP: An Architecture for Secure Resource Peering. Yun Fu, Jeffrey Chase, Brent Chun, Stephen Schwab, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Bolton Landing, NY, October 2003.
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• Netbait: a Distributed Worm Detection Service. Brent N. Chun, Jason Lee, and Hakim Weatherspoon. Intel Research Berkeley Technical Report IRB-TR-03-033, September 2003.
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• Slice Creation and Management. Brent Chun and Tammo Spalink. PlanetLab Design Note PDN-03-013, July 2003.
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• PlanetLab: An Overlay Testbed for Broad-Coverage Services. Brent Chun, David Culler, Timothy Roscoe, Andy Bavier, Larry Peterson, Mike Wawrzoniak, and Mic Bowman. PlanetLab Design Note PDN-03-009. ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol. 33, Issue 3 (July 2003).
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• Bootstrapping a Distributed Computational Economy with Peer-to-Peer Bartering. Brent Chun, Yun Fu, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley, CA, June 2003.
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• User-centric Performance Analysis of Market-based Cluster Batch Schedulers. Brent N. Chun and David E. Culler. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Berlin, Germany, May 2002.
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• REXEC: A Decentralized, Secure Remote Execution Environment for Clusters. Brent N. Chun and David E. Culler. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-based Parallel Computing , Toulouse, France, January 2000.
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• Market-based Proportional Resource Sharing for Clusters. Brent N. Chun and David E. Culler. University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science Division, Technical Report CSD-1092. January 2000.
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• Virtual Network Transport Protocols for Myrinet. Brent N. Chun, Alan M. Mainwaring, and David E. Culler. In Proceedings of Hot Interconnects V: a Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, Stanford University, August 1997 (Award Paper). Also appears in IEEE Micro, January/February 1998.
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• System Area Network Mapping. Brent Chun, Alan Mainwaring, Saul Schleimer, and Daniel Wilkerson. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Newport, Rhode Island, June 1997.
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• Parallel Computing on the Berkeley NOW. David E. Culler, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Brent Chun, Steven Lumetta, Alan Mainwaring, Richard Martin, Chad Yoshikawa, Frederick Wong. In Proceedings of the 9th Joint Symposium on Parallel Processing, Kobe, Japan, May 1997.
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• Using Smart Clients to Build Scalable Services. Chad Yoshikawa, Brent Chun, Paul Eastham, Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, and David Culler. In Proceedings of the USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, California, January 1997.
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Software

• pssh: Parallel openssh tools, including pssh, pscp, prsync, pnuke, and pslurp. These tools can be useful for controlling and managing multiple machines in either a cluster environment or over the wide-area (e.g., on PlanetLab) . For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the pssh web page.

• GEXEC: A scalable cluster remote execution system which provides fast, RSA authenticated remote execution of parallel and distributed jobs. It uses hierarchical control and is designed to provide robust and scalable execution to systems over 1000 nodes. For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the GEXEC web page.

• PCP: A system for fast replication of files on multiple nodes of a PC cluster. Replication is done by building an n-ary tree of TCP sockets and using parallelized, pipelined data transfers which use RSA authentication. For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the PCP web page.

• authd: A software package for obtaining and verifying user credentials which contain cryptographic signatures based on RSA public key cryptography. authd is currently used as part of both PCP and GEXEC. For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the authd web page.

• libe: A C library which contains various functions which deal with data structures (hash tables, bitmasks, trees of IP addresses, etc.), networking, I/O, barriers, and other useful things. It is currently used in the implementation of authd, PCP, and GEXEC. For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the libe web page.

• dslice: Prototype dynamic slice creation implementation for PlanetLab. Users obtain cryptographically signed tickets from an agent and subsequently redeem these tickets for leases on node resources which are bound to virtual machines (currently Linux vservers). For more information, including a link to the latest software distribution, see the dslice web page.

• REXEC Cluster Remote Execution System: A decentralized, secure remote execution system for running parallel and sequential jobs on a cluster of computers. Also distributed as part of the NPACI Rocks open-source, cluster software distribution. For more information, including the latest software distribution, see the REXEC web page.

• Active Messages: A fast, general-purpose cluster communication system that supports multiprogramming with virtual networks, direct and protected network access, reliable message delivery using message timeouts and retransmissions, a powerful return-to-sender error model for applications, and automatic network mapping. (Berkeley distribution)

Courses

• CS199-6: An undergraduate project course aimed at building planetary-scale applications to run over the PlanetLab infrastructure, and/or the tools and services needed to effectively deploy and manage them. Co-taught with Timothy Roscoe at UC Berkeley in Spring 2003. An archive of the course materials is here.