The University of Arizona, Computer Science Department
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The Cactus Project




Overview
  • The goal of the Cactus Project is to develop an integrated design and implementation framework for supporting customizable dynamic fine-grain Quality of Service (QoS) attributes related to dependability, real time, and security in distributed systems. Click here for a more detailed overview of the project.


Software
  • Three prototype implementations have been completed. One is written in C++, for Solaris and Linux, one written in C for MK 7.3 and Linux, and one is written in Java:


Research Areas


Resources


Project Members
  • Richard Schlichting, Professor, PI
  • Matti Hiltunen, Assistant Research Scientist, CoPI
  • Gary Wong, Systems Programmer, Principal
  • Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Patrick Bridges, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Amit Gupta, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Jun He, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Mohan Rajagopalan, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Carlos Ugarte, Graduate Research Assistant


Former members
  • Nina Bhatti, graduated with a PhD degree in Dec 1996.

  • Melvin Cardozo, graduated with a Master's degree in 1998, currently at Synopsys Inc.
  • Ilwoo Chang, graduated with a Master's degee in 1997, currently at Bell Labs
  • Wen-Ke Chen, PhD student.
  • Wanda Chiu, PhD Student
  • Rajsekhar Das, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Microsoft.
  • Vinit Deshpande, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Microsoft.
  • Dorgival Guedes.
  • Xiaonan Han, graduated with a Master's degree in 1997, currently at Amiable Tech. Inc
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  • Hemant Hebbar, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Cisco.
  • Vijaykumar Immanuel, graduated with a Master's degree in 1998, currently at Compaq.
  • Sumita Jaiprakash, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Verisign
  • Tarak Parekh, graduated with a Master's degree in 1998, currently at Novell.
  • Rohit Sah, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Baogang Song, graduated with a Master's degree in 2000, currently at Oracle
  • Padmavathy Thelaprolu, graduated with a Master's degree in 2001.
  • Gregg Townsend, Staff Scientist
  • Sameer Verkhedkar, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Microsoft.
  • Yongfeng Wu, graduated with a Master's degree in 1999, currently at Microsoft.
  • Shuangxi Xu, graduated with a Master's degree in 1998, currently at PG&E Energy Services


Past Projects


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Cactus is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under grant N66001-97-C-8518 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants CDA-9500991 and ANI-9979438.

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