Cluster Computing – Editorial Organization

Editor-in-Chief Salim Hariri is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. His technical interests include high performance distributed computing, high speed networks and protocols, benchmarking and evaluation of parallel and distributed software tools, performance analysis and prediction, and virtual distributed computing environments. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986, an M.Sc. from The Ohio State University in 1982, and the B.Sc. degree from Damascus University. He has played an important role in organizing the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) and he is currently the General Chair for HPDC-7. Editor-in-Chief C.S. Raghavendra is with The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. From September 1982 to December 1991 he was on the faculty of Electrical Engineering-Systems Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. From January 1992 he was on the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Washington State University in Pullman as the Boeing Centennial Chair Professor of Computer Engineering. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics and communication from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. His research interests are in high speed networks, parallel processing, fault tolerant computing, and distributed systems.