Teaching Schedule
Recent Courses
Research Interests
I am interested in a wide range of topics
related to infrastructure for building software systems, including
distributed systems, operating systems, storage systems,
development frameworks, and programming languages. Most of my current
research is in the area of
granular computing:
new software stack layers that allow the execution of large numbers of
very small tasks (as short as a few microseconds) in a datacenter.
Current work includes projects developing new techniques for thread
management, network communication, and logging.
I am also Faculty Director of the
Stanford Platform Lab, a
research group that includes several faculty and projects in the
areas of distributed systems, large-scale systems, and networking.
Biography
I received a BS in Physics from Yale University
in 1975 and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
in 1980.
From 1980–1994 I was a Professor of Computer Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. My research projects included
design tools for integrated circuits such as the Magic layout editor
and the Crystal timing analyzer, the Sprite network
operating system, log-structured file systems, the
Tcl scripting language, and the Tk toolkit.
In 1994 I left Berkeley to fulfill a long-standing desire to build
commercial software. From 1994–1998 I was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories. In 1998 I founded Scriptics Corporation
to commercialize Tcl development tools, where I was CEO until 2000.
In 2002 I founded Electric Cloud.
I was at Electric Cloud until 2007, and I led the development
of a parallel build system (ElectricAccelerator) and a Web-based
server for managing distributed processes such as nightly builds
and automated tests (ElectricCommander).
In 2008 I returned to academia in the Department of Computer Science
at Stanford.
Selected Publications
- S. Park and J. Ousterhout,
"Exploiting
Commutativity For Practical Fast Replication,"
Proc. 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and
Implementation (NSDI 19), February 2019, pp. 47–64.
- H. Qin, Q. Li, J. Speiser, P. Kraft, and J. Ousterhout,
"Arachne:
Core-Aware Thread Management,"
Proc. 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and
Implementation (OSDI 18), October 2018, pp. 145–160.
- B. Montazeri, Y. Li, M. Alizadeh, and J. Ousterhout,
"Homa: A
Receiver-Driven
Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities,"
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2018, August 2018, pp. 221–235.
Complete version
- J. Ousterhout,
"Always
Measure One Level Deeper,"
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 61, No. 7,
July 2018, pp. 74–83.
- S. Yang, S. Park, and J. Ousterhout,
"NanoLog: A Nanosecond Scale Logging System,"
2018 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '18),
June 2018, pp. 335–350.
- J. Ousterhout,
A Philosophy of Software Design,
Yaknyam Press, April 2018, 178 pages.
- J. Ousterhout, A. Gopalan, A. Gupta, A. Kejriwal, C. Lee,
B. Montazeri, D. Ongaro, S. J. Park, H. Qin, M. Rosenblum,
S. Rumble, R. Stutsman, and S. Yang,
"The
RAMCloud Storage System," ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 33, No. 3, August 2015, pp. 7:1–7:55.
- D. Ongaro and J. Ousterhout,
"In Search of an Understandable
Consensus Algorithm," 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
(USENIX ATC '14), June 2014, pp. 305–319.
Extended version
- J. Ousterhout, "Scripting:
Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century,"
IEEE Computer, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 23–30.
- J. Ousterhout, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit,
Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1994, 460 pages.
- M. Rosenblum and J. Ousterhout, "The
Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System,"
ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 26–52.
- M. Nelson, B. Welch, and J. Ousterhout,
"Caching in the
Sprite Network File System," ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1988, pp. 134–154.
- J. Ousterhout, "Scheduling
Techniques for Concurrent Systems,"
Proc. 3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, October 1982, pp. 22–30.
Selected Awards and Honors
- IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing Outstanding
Technical Contribution Award (2020)
- IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing High Impact
Paper Award, for "Scheduling Techniques for Concurrent Systems"
(2020)
- IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award (2014)
- National Academy of Engineering (2001)
- ACM Software System Award (1997)
- ACM Fellow (1994)
- ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1987)
- U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award (1985)
- National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1984–1989)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1976–1979)
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