Laura E. Grit  

I am a PhD candidate at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina working under the supervision of my advisor, Dr. Jeff Chase. I am part of the Network/Internet Computing Lab and am also a National Physical Science Consortium Fellow. I am a native Coloradoan from Fort Collins and received my Bachelors of Science in May 2001 in Computer Science from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and my Masters of Science in December 2005 in Computer Science from Duke University. See the personal section of my site for pictures from of my travels, family, and hobbies (e.g., hiking and stained glass).

CV: pdf ps txt (last updated 6/1/2007)

Projects

Shirako: a system for dynamic on-demand partitioning of shared networked resources.

Cereus: an architecture to manage network utilities, such as computational grids and network testbeds, through economic resource exchange and adapting services to the dynamics of a shared environment.

Cluster-On-Demand (COD): a cluster site manager for reconfigurable mixed-use clusters.

Publications

• "Towards an Autonomic Computing Testbed", Aydan Yumerefendi, Piyush Shivam, David Irwin, Pradeep Gunda, Laura Grit, Azbayar Demberel, Jeff Chase, and Shivnath Babu. Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (HotACII), June 2007, Jacksonville, Florida pdf.

• "Harnessing Virtual Machine Resource Control for Job Management", Laura Grit, David Irwin, Varun Marupadi, Piyush Shivam, Aydan Yumerefendi, Jeff Chase, and Jeannie Albrecht, In the First Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt), March 2007, Lisbon, Portugal pdf.

• "Virtual Machine Hosting for Networked Clusters: Building the Foundations for "Autonomic" Orchestration", Laura Grit, David Irwin, Aydan Yumerefendi, and Jeff Chase, In the First International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC), November 2006, Tampa, Florida pdf.

• "Toward a Doctrine of Containment: Grid Hosting with Adaptive Resource Control", Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Laura Grit, Anda Iamnitchi, David Irwin, Aydan Yumerefendi, and Jeff Chase, In the 19th Annual Supercomputing Conference (SC06), November 2006, Tampa, Florida pdf.

• "Service contracts and aggregate utility functions", Alvin AuYoung, Laura Grit, Janet Wiener, and John Wilkes, Fifthteenth IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2006, Paris, France pdf.

• "Sharing Networked Resources with Brokered Leases", David Irwin, Jeff Chase, Laura Grit, Aydan Yumerefendi, David Becker, and Ken Yocum, USENIX Technical Conference, June 2006, Boston, Massachusetts pdf  ps.

• "Self-Recharging Virtual Currency", David Irwin, Jeff Chase, Laura Grit, and Aydan Yumerefendi, 3rd Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2PECON) at SIGCOMM, August 2005, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania pdf  ps.

• "Balancing Risk and Reward in a Market-based Task Service", David Irwin, Laura Grit, and Jeff Chase, Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii pdf  ps.

• "Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager", Jeff Chase, David Irwin, Laura Grit, Justin Moore, and Sara Sprenkle, Twelfth IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), June 2003, Seattle, Washington pdf  ps.

Work Experience

• Research Assistant at Duke University - advisor: Jeff Chase (2002 - present)
• Instructor Technical and Social Analysis of Information and the Internet (Spring 2007)
• Summer internship at HP Labs in Palo Alto - mentors: John Wilkes and Janet Wiener (2005)
• Summer internship at IBM TJ Watson Research Center - mentors: Guerney Hunt and Tamar Eliam (2003)
• Teaching Assistant for CPS210 - Graduate Operating Systems (Fall 2003)
• Summer internship at Sandia National Labs - mentor: Ron Brightwell (2001 and 2002)

Classes

Stained glass I've made

Trip to Europe with my brother in 2003

Trip to Washington State in 2004

Guide to a trip up Hwy 1