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Deb
Agarwal, deputy head of NERSC’s Distributed Systems Department, was
honored in the May 2000 cover story of Upside magazine as one of the
“Top 25 Women of the Web.” She received the award for her work to
provide reliable multicast communication for the Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty monitoring system. Having written her Ph.D. thesis on reliable
multicasting, Deb served as an independent expert at the Vienna headquarters
of the treaty organization for three months in 1999, and as a member
of the U.S. delegation on subsequent occasions.
Deb’s
report showed that multicasting technology provides the reliability
required by the treaty as well as flexible network configuration.
Although politics and turf wars prevented official acceptance of
Deb’s recommendations, one European country is planning to implement
a multicast system that Deb hopes will serve as a prototype for
other nations.
Deb
leads the Collaboration Technologies Group at NERSC, which researches,
develops, and deploys the middleware and technologies needed to
allow scientists to collaborate on projects. Their research falls
roughly into three categories: (1) applications and middleware supporting
real-time collaboration between geographically remote researchers,
(2) reliable group communication mechanisms, and (3) middleware
enabling network-aware applications.
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