Carl Kesselman is an Institute Fellow at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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's Information Sciences Institute

Information Sciences Institute

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 and a Professor in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, also at the University of Southern California. Carl Kesselman is an acknowledged authority in grid computing

Grid computing

Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...

 technologies. He has co-led the Globus

Globus Alliance

The Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures...

 project, which is developing core technologies for computational grid systems in the areas of resource location, resource allocation

Resource allocation

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, computer security

Computer security

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, data communication, and data access

Data access

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. Most recently he received international recognition for GUSTO

Gusto

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, the world's first high-performance computational grid. GUSTO pushes the technological envelope

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 by using high-speed computer network

Computer network

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s and software to provide global access to advanced supercomputer

Supercomputer

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s and other devices.