422 Engineering II
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-7206
FAX: 951-827-4643

 

Brett D. Fleisch
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Professor Brett Fleisch received his B.A. degree in Computer Science at the University of Rochester, his M.S. degree in Computer Science at Columbia University, and his Ph. D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and USENIX.

Key Research Topics

Dr. Fleisch is currently pursuing research work on memory management in loosely coupled workstation environments, focusing on Distributed Shared Memory Systems (DSM) and reliability and availability for DSM.  Areas of interest include: distributed computing, operating systems, workstation environments, large scale computing systems, operating systems software engineering metrics, security, reliability, heterogeneity, and software quality assessment and power management for computing clusters.

Latest Results

  • Real-Time High Availability DSM protocol.
  • Metrics and study of operating systems source code.
  • Boundary-restricted coherence protocol for highly available DSM.
  • Reliability design for tolerating single site failures for DSM.
  • False coherence detection algorithm.
  • An AIX/TCF implementation of Mirage called Mirage+.

Lab Facilities

The Computer Systems Lab houses Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SUN, Digital Equipment, and Apple hardware used to design, implement, and measure the performance of operating systems and distributed systems.

Publications

B.D. Fleisch, Mark Allan A. Co., Workplace Microkernel and OS: A Case Study, Software Practice and Experience, Vol. 28, no.6, May 1998, pp.569-591.

B.D. Fleisch, The Failure of Personalities to Generalize, Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VI), pp.8-13, May 1997.

O.E. Theel, B.D. Fleisch, The Boundary-Restricted Coherence Protocol for Scalable and highly Available Distributed Shared Memory Systems, The Computer Journal, Vol. 39, No. 6, Oxford Press, pp.496-510, 1996.

O.E. Theel, B.D. Fleisch, A Dynamic Coherence Protocol for Distributed Shared Memory Enforcing High Data Availability at Low Costs, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 7, No. 9, September, 1996.

R.L. Hyde, B.D. Fleisch, An Analysis of Degenerate sharing and False Coherence, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 1996, pp.183-195.



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