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IBM Fellow, Next Generation Systems
Systems & Technology Group (STG)
NCSU Adjunct Professor (CSC,
ECE)
Contact Information
Steven Wade
Hunter
IBM
Corporation, P.O. Box
12195
Research Triangle Park, NC
27709
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IBM Activities
Clustering / High-Speed Networking Technology
InfiniBand
Architecture and Technology
Software Reliability and Rejuvenation
Power Management
Academic/Research
Interests and Activities
Computer Architecture
and Systems including High-Performance Computing / Cluster Computing /
Grid Computing, Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Computing, Special-Purpose
Processor Architectures
Networking
Architecture, Technology, and Standards including Computer
Communications, Local-Area and Wide-Area Networks, Network Performance
and Reliability
Courses taught (NCSU):
Education
1984 - BS in Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
1988 - MS in Electrical Engineering, NC
State University, Raleigh, NC
1997 - PhD in Electrical Engineering, Duke
University, Durham, NC
Professional/Academic Memberships
North Carolina Licensed Professional Engineer
(NCEES, NCBES)
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers -
Senior Member (IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu,
Pi Mu Epsilon,
Sigma Pi Sigma
External Publications
Workload
and network-optimized computing systems, with David LaPotin, Shahrokh
Daijavad, Charles Johnson, Kazuaki Ishizaki, Hubertus Franke, Heather
Achilles, Dan Dumarot, Nancy Greco and Bijan Davari, IBM Journal of
Research and Development, Volume 54, Number 1, 2010.
Applying Amdahl’s Other
Law to the Data Center, with Dave Cohen, Fabrizio Petrini,
Mike Day, Muli Ben-Yehuda and Uri Cummings, IBM Journal of
Research and Development, Volume 53, Number 5, 2009.
AC Coupled Backplane
Communications Using Embedded Capacitor, with Bruce Su, Pravin Patel,
Moises Cases, Paul D Franzon, 17th Conference on Electrical Performance
of Electronic Packaging, San Jose, CA, October 27-29, 2008.
BladeCenter Networking (HTML, PDF),
with Norm Strole, David Cosby and David Green, IBM Journal of Research
and Development, September/November 2005.
The Application of
Network Processing to the Scale-Out Model, with Andy Gram, Network
Processing Forum (NPF) Whitepaper, March 2004.
Workload-Based Power Management
for Parallel Computer Systems (HTML, PDF),
with Dave Bradley and Rick Harper, IBM Journal of Research and
Development, Sept 2003.
Analysis of Software
Rejuvenation in Cluster Systems Using Stochastic Reward Nets, with
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Richard E. Harper, and Kishor Trivedi, The
Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 1, 2002.
Analysis
and Implementation of Software Rejuvenation in Cluster Systems, with
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Richard E. Harper, and Kishor Trivedi, ACM
Sigmetrics 2001 Conf, Cambridge,
Mass, June 16-20, 2001.
Proactive Management of Software
Aging (HTML,
PDF),
with Vittorio Castelli, Richard E. Harper, Phil Heidelberger, Kishor
Trivedi, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, and William Zeggert, IBM Journal
of Research and Development, April 2001.
Availability
Modeling and Analysis of a Two Node Cluster, with W.E. Smith, 5th
International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis
(ISAS ‘99), Orlando, Florida, July 31-August 4, 1999.
Combined
Performance and Availability Analysis of a Switched Network Application,
with T. Philip, and K. Trivedi, International Conference on
Communications (ICC '97), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 8-12, 1997.
Performance and
Dependability Modeling of Some Switched Network Applications, Ph.D.
Dissertation March 1997.
IDEA:
Integrated Design Environment for the Assessment of ATM Networks,
with R. Fricks, S. Garg and K. Trivedi, Second IEEE International
Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada --
October 21-25, 1996.
The Effects of
LAN-like Input Traffic on a Switch Access Node, with R. Fricks, Proceedings
of IEEE Intl. Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, IL -- Sept. 4-6, 1996.
ATM-to-the-Desktop:
Its Position and Advantages in Emerging Networks with A. Rindos, S.
Woolet, M. Vouk, D. Cosby and J. Glekas, in Proceedings of IEEE
Southcon '96, July, 1996.
Reliability
Analysis Techniques Explored Through a Communication Network Example,
with K. Trivedi, S. Garg and R. Fricks, International Workshop on
Computer-Aided Design, Test, and Evaluation for Dependability, Beijing, China, July 2-3, 1996.
Traffic Measurements from a
Working ATM Network, with L. Bottomley, A. Nilsson, and K. Trivedi, Third
Workshop on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of ATM Networks, Bradford, England, July 3-5, 1995.
Conference and Symposium
Activities
20th
IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE
2009), Bengaluru-Mysuru,
India,
November 16-19, 2009; Program Committee Member
The Third International
Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI) 2009, Research Triangle Park, NC.
October 22-23, 2009; Program Committee Member
IEEE
International Service Availability Symposium 2008 (ISAS-2008), Tokyo, Japan. May 19-21, 2008; Program Committee
Member
9th
International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networks ICDCN 2008,
Calcutta, India; January 5 – 8, 2008; Invited Speaker
IEEE International Service
Availability Symposium 2007 (ISAS-2007), Durham, New Hampshire. May 21-22, 2007; Program Committee
Member
International
Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI) 2007, Research Triangle Park, NC.
May 7-8, 2007; Program Committee Member
10 Gigabit Ethernet in the
Datacenter, Networld Interop, Las
Vegas, NV;
April 27 – May 2, 2007; Invited
Speaker
Carnegie Mellon Cylab Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA,
February 12, 2007 BladeCenter
Systems – Leading the way toward better IT
17th IEEE
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2006),
Raleigh, North Carolina, November 6-10, 2006;
Program Committee Member
IEEE International Conference
of Computer Design 2006 (ICCD-2006), San Jose, CA,
October 1-4, 2006; Program Committee Member for the Computer Systems
Design and Applications Track
North Carolina System Administrators
(NC*SA) Symposium, Research
Triangle Park, NC.
July 10, 2006; Topic: Blade Technology and the IBM
BladeCenter
IEEE International
Service Availability Symposium 2006 (ISAS-2006), Helsinki, Finland.
May 15-16, 2006; Program Committee Member
NCSU College of
Engineering Innovators Forum, Raleigh,
NC. May 15, 2006; Topic: Virtualization and IBM BladeCenter
Intel Developer Forum
(IDF), San Francisco,
CA, March 2006; Presented From Servers Blades to SMP: IBM Leads
in x64
UNC-NCSU
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) Seminar, Chapel Hill, NC,
February 2006; Presented The IBM
BladeCenter - Optimizing the Cluster Computing Environment
Network I/O Architecture:
Partner Concepts Session at the 2005 Microsoft WinHEC:
Windows Hardware Engineering Conference; Invited Speaker Blade Architectures, Applications and
Benefits with a Networking Focus
IFIP
Working Group 10.4 Dependable
Computing and Fault Tolerance 47th Meeting, Rincon, PR, USA,
January 26-30, 2005; Invited Speaker IBM
BladeCenter as a Dependable Web Infrastructure Platform
Optical
Internetworking Forum, Network
Computing Initiative, January - December, 2004; Chair
IBM DeveloperWorks Live! in New Orleans, LA,
April, 2003; Presented Scale-up vs Scale-out
IEEE 2003 Dependable Systems and Networks
Conference, San Francisco, CA. Workshop on
Self-Managing Systems; Program Committee Member
Server I/O Conference in Monterey, CA,
Invited Panelist and Presenter on The
Future of Blade Servers
IEEE 2002 Dependable Systems and Networks
Conference, Washington, D.C.
June 2002. Dependability
of e-Commerce Systems Workshop Co-chair
IEEE Mesa 2001
Computing Elements Workshop, Mesa,
AZ. January 2001. Session Chairman, Presented on Internet Communications
PSI Symposium, RTP, NC,
October, 2000. Presented Web Hosting Technologies
IEEE 2000 Dependable Systems and Networks
Conference,
NY, NY,
July 2000. Presented Web
Hosting Technology Tutorial
IEEE Mesa 2000
Computing Elements Workshop, Mesa,
AZ. January 2000. Invited speaker on Future I/O Architecture
IEEE IPDS 2000 Conference, Chicago, IL.
Program Committee Member
IEEE ISAS ’99 Conference, Orlando, FL.
Session Chairman, Presented Availability
Modeling and Analysis of a Two Node Cluster
IBM PSI ’99 Symposium, RTP, NC.
October, 1999. Future Server Session Chairman
IBM PSI ’99 Symposium, RTP, NC.
October, 1999. Presented Software Rejuvenation
IEEE ICC ‘97 Conference, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
Presented Combined
Performance and Availability Analysis of a Switched Network Application
IEEE IPDS ‘96 Conference,
Urbana-Champaign, IL. September 1996, Presented The Effects of
LAN-like Input Traffic on a Switch Access Node
Some
Patents
US 5,754,804: Method and system for managing system bus communications in a
data processing system
US 6,594,784: Method and system for transparent time-based selective software
rejuvenation
US 6,629,266: Method and system for transparent symptom-based selective
software rejuvenation
US 6,795,928: Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer
servers
US 6,820,215: System and method for performing automatic rejuvenation at the
optimal time based on work load history in a distributed data processing
environment
US 6,964,539: Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers
US
6,978,398:
Method and system for proactively reducing the outage time of a computer
system
US 6,996,751: Method and
system for reduction of service costs by discrimination between software
and hardware induced outages
Personal Information
I
was born in Los Angeles,
CA and lived there for six
years. I then moved to Tuscumbia,
AL with my family and lived
there until I graduated from Deshler High School in
1979. After high school, I moved to Auburn,
AL to begin college at Auburn
University. During this time, I also participated in the Auburn co-op program in which I worked for Reynolds
Aluminum in Sheffield,
AL (later merged with
Alcoa) and IBM in Research
Triangle Park, NC.
I completed my Bachelor's degree at Auburn
in the Department of Electrical Engineering
in March 1984 and accepted a position with IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC.
I’m now a full time IBM
employee and an Adjunct Professor in the NCSU Computer Science and ECE
departments. I started my IBM career in the Networking Division where I
worked on a variety of networking products and technology. During this
time, I also received my Master's degree from North
Carolina State University in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering and my Ph.D. from Duke University in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. I joined the IBM xSeries group in 1997 where I’ve been a
systems architect and designer for network and clustering technology, the
InfiniBand architecture, and
the IBM eServer BladeCenter system. I’m currently focused on Next
Generation Systems.
While at Auburn,
I met Frances (Fran) Stallings while at Auburn and she is now my wife of 29
years. We live in Raleigh, NC and have three children: Stephanye (27),
Emma (23), and Will (19). Here they are hanging
around in Tuscumbia, AL.
During my free time I enjoy reading,
basketball, woodworking, fishing, hunting and camping.
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