Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
USA
Office: 216A CS Building
Email: cecchet @ cs.umass.edu
Phone: +1 413 575 3787
Fax: +1 413 545 1249
This page is still under construction, you can check Prashant Shenoy's page for more up-to-date information about research activities.
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University of Massachusetts Department of Computer Science 140 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003 USA Office: 216A CS Building Email: cecchet @ cs.umass.edu Phone: +1 413 575 3787 Fax: +1 413 545 1249 |
I am a Research Scientist, Software Architect and Open Source activist.
I received a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems from INPG in 2001. During my postdoc at Rice University, I contributed to DynaServer. I studied the design of scalable and highly available e-business servers and I designed the RUBiS benchmark. After leaving Rice, I led a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large scale data servers. I was also Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb consortium and leader of the C-JDBC project. In 2005, I joined Continuent where I served as Chief Architect and Chief Scientific Officer. I lead Continuent.org and the Sequoia project that was the basis for Continuent's High Availability Database product line. I am still providing consulting as an independent activity to companies that need to build Highly Available databases and/or web applications.
At the end of 2006, I joined EPFL as a research assistant. I worked with both the operating systems and dependable systems laboratories. I moved to the US during in July 2008 to work at UMass Amherst as a Senior Research Fellow. I also work for Aster Data Systems since October 2008.
I consider Open Source as an excellent way to disseminate research results and operating system/middleware technologies. I usually prefer the Apache v2 License which allows healthy open source business models.