Neil J. Gunther

Neil J. Gunther ( born August 15, 1950 in Melbourne) is an Australian scientist with a focus on Computational Information Systems (classical and quantum systems ), physicist, teacher, musician and author, known internationally for developing the open-source queuing analysis Tools " PDQ " (Pretty Damn Quick). He was also cited for his contribution on the theory of large transients in computer systems and network packets, as well as his universal law of computational scalability. He currently focuses on the development of quantum information technologies.

  • 2.1 dissertation
  • 2.2 Books
  • 2.3 presentations
  • 2.4 Publications

Biography

Neil Gunther was born on August 15, 1950 in Preston, Victoria, Australia. He studied Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics ( 1976) at La Trobe University, Australia, and a PhD in theoretical physics (1980 ) at the University of Southampton, England. As a research student of Prof. CJ Eliezer (one of Paul Dirac few research students), Gunther has the Dirac point 2

He left in 1980 to settle in Silicon Valley. In the following years he taught physics at San Jose State University ( 1980-1981). While he worked on the new PC technology, he worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, and developed thermoelectric materials that were used in the Voyager and Galileo space.

Starting in 1982, Gunther worked for eight years in research for Xerox PARC. There he developed the PARCbench multiprocessor benchmark ( an early SPEC benchmark ) and wrote his dissertation on Feynman's path integral. This research formed the basis of Part III of his first book The Practical Performance Analyst. Other tasks at PARC included VLSI design and testing for the Dragon multiprocessor workstation; later it emerged the SPARCcenter 2000 multiprocessor Sun Microsystems. 1990 Gunther worked as a senior scientist and manager for Pyramid Technology (now Fujitsu Siemens Computers ). In 1994 he founded the Performance Dynamics Company, whose clients such well-known companies such as AT & T Wireless, eBay, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems are. Gunther teaching worldwide (including courses at Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles) and has written numerous articles and several books on performance analysis. He was awarded for the Best Technical Paper of the Computer Measurement Group in 1996 and is the winner of AA Michelson Award 2008.

Gunther is a member of the American Mathematical Society ( AMS ), American Physical Society (APS ), the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM), the Computer Measurement Group (CMG ), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) and the Institute for Operations Research and the management Sciences ( INFORMS ).

Current research interests

Since 2004, Gunther research on quantum information systems based on photonics. During his research in this field, he developed a theory of photon bifurcation, which is currently being tested experimentally at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL).

Consulting Practice

  • Performance Dynamics Company ( SM), one of Gunther founded in 1994 in California company, provides consulting and training in the field of performance analysis and capacity planning of computer systems.
  • Development of PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick), a queuing analysis tool in the form of a Perl module.
  • Articles, books and presentations on aspects of performance analysis and capacity planning.
  • A New Interpretation of Amdahl's law.
  • Developed the Guerrilla Manual.

Awards

  • Senior Member of the ACM ( April 2009)
  • Senior Member of the IEEE (February 2009)
  • Winners of A. A. Michelson Award 2008
  • Summer Research Institute Guest Speaker, EPFL 2006 and 2007.
  • Lecturer, Western Institute of Computer Science, Stanford University, 1997-2000.
  • Best paper award, CMG Conference 1996.
  • Visiting student in Materials Science, Stanford University, 1981-1982.
  • University of Southampton Advanced Studies Travel Grant, 1978.
  • Science Research Council Studentship, U.K. From 1976 to 1980.
  • Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship, Australia 1975 to 1976.

Selected Bibliography

Dissertation

  • The Feynman Path Integral in Non- Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics. La Trobe University (AUS), B.Sc. Honors dissertation, Department of Physics, 1974.
  • Dynamical Symmetry Groups: The Study and Interpretation of Certain Invariants as Group generator in Quantum Mechanics, La Trobe University (AUS), M.Sc. dissertation, Department of Applied Mathematics, 1976.
  • Broken Dynamical Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory and Phase Transition Phenomena. University of Southampton ( U.K.), Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics, 1979.
  • The Practical Performance Analyst. McGraw- Hill, New York 1998, ISBN 0-07-912946-3.
  • The Practical Performance Analyst. iUniverse.com Press, Lincoln, Nebraska 2000, ISBN 0-595-12674- X. (New edition )
  • Performance Engineering: State of the Art and Current Trends. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer- Verlag, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-540-42145-9. (Book chapter)
  • Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl :: PDQ. Springer -Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-20865-8.
  • Guerrilla Capacity Planning. Springer -Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-26138-4.

Presentations

  • Goldstone modes in first- order phase transitions. Sixth West Coast Conference on Statistical Mechanics, IBM Research Laboratories, San Jose, June (1980 )
  • Instanton Techniques for Queueing Models of Large Computer Systems: Getting a Piece of the Action. Invited paper, SIAM Conference on Applied Probability in Science and Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, March (1990 )
  • (Numerical ) Investigations into Physical Power -Law Models of Internet Traffic Using the Renormalization Group. IFORS Conference of Operations Research Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 11-15 (2005)

Publications

  • Goldstone modes in vacuum decay and first- order phase transitions. In: Journal of Physics. A, 13 ( 1980), pp. 1755-1767.
  • With G. Beretta: A Benchmark for Image Retrieval using Distributed Systems over the Internet. , 2000.
  • Performance and Scalability Models for a Hyper Growth e -commerce Web site., 2000.
  • KJ Christensen and K. Yoshigoe: Characterization of the Burst Stabilization Protocol for the RR / CICQ switch., 2003.
  • Unification of Amdahl 's Law, LogP and Other Performance Models for Message - Passing Architectures. , 2005.
  • With G. Beretta: Towards Practical Design Rules for Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging Devices. , 2005.
  • The Virtualization Spectrum from hyperthreads to Grids. Proc. CMG Conf., Reno, Nevada, 2006.
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