Akademischer Oberrat a.D. (retired)
Former member of the
HPC
and
systems and operations depts. at the CC (RHRK) of the University of Kaiserslautern
Diplom-Mathematiker
Tertiary education (1966-1970)
- studies in mathematics and theoretical physics 1966-1970 at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany (summer term 1966 - summer term 1970)
- 1970: degree of Diplom-Mathematiker
Industrial employment (1971-1974)
- system developer (system programmer) in Konstanz at Lake Constance for the system TR440/BS3
at AEG-Telefunken and Telefunken Computer GmbH (departments N31 and EP (1971-1972)
- YMAINT: Development and support of a BS3 command interpreter, primarily created for system maintenance purposes
- YTEST: Internal BS3 acceptance test
- YVERGL: File comparing program needed for the BS3 acceptance test
- installation and integration tests of new BS3 and programming system versions in the development center Konstanz
- system consultant at Telefunken Computer GmbH resp. CGK (Computer Gesellschaft Konstanz), sales department: installation, acceptance test and support of TR440/BS3 and TR86S systems respectively components at customer sites (1972-1974):
Academic employment at RHRK (1974-2008)
- projects
- KL&DEMONTIERE: user based demand paging for the system TR440/BS3
- KL&WSPKOP: a fast copy tool on block level (SSR HSP) for the removable disk drives WSP414 und WSP430 of the system TR440/BS3
- KL&BOOTSTRAP: a BS3 job monitoring system
- DASI440 (RHRK part: commands PUTZE and KKOPIERE). A security package (data eraser) for the system TR440/BS3
- KE6800: a Motorola 6800 based interface (KE) to connect cheap devices (printer, reader,...) with the TR440 Standard Channel
- DAS6800: an autonomic workstation with connected ASCII terminal, keyboard, paper tape puncher, paper tape reader and matrix printer, based on motorola 6800, TR86 connectivity by the DFS 321 protocol (SIG51 terminal emulation)
- a BS3 based EXAPT interpreter for generation of TRUMA machine code (punchable on paper tape puncher)
- KSM6800: exchange of the BS3 control typewriter by a microprocessor motorola 6800 system with ASCII terminal, keyboard and und matrix printer, connected to the TR400 via the standard channel
- KL&VERBUND: connectivity TR440<->TR440 via a shared LFD disk drive
- MIG32: Migration BS3-BS2000 with connecting VERB3/VERB2 software
- connectivity BS3<->BS2000 via TR86S/DUET using MSV1 protocols
- SSR: a front-end system for BS3 and BS2000 connection with DAK1/DAK4 (realized by a Siemens R30 ORG300PV system)
- USER2000/COPY2000: connection between a VP100 supercomputer and a BS2000 system using a shared IBM disk (ADAM access method)
- implementation support for a BS2000 system at the Computer Center of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras (today Chennai) / India
- NBS (Network Backup System)
- GUI projects
- xcf77 and xcf90: an OSF/Motif based interface for the Cray/UNICOS Fortran77 and Fortran90 compiler environment
- xudb: an OSF/Motif based interface for the Cray/UNICOS user administration (UDB); later on additionally implemented for IRIX
- xftnsgi: an OSF/Motif based interface for the IRIX Fortran77 and Fortran90 compiler environment
- xgsf: a GTK based software information system for LINUX computers, additionally with HTML export
- Supervision of Diploma theses with the following themes:
- Replacement of the TR400 console typewriter by ASCII terminal and lineprinter
- KOMSYS/DCAM interconnection (PUKD)
- Discussion of several aspects concerning the implementation of the virtual shared memory model TreadMarks
- System administration of past and actual systems
- Programming languages
- UNIX tools
- TIVOLI(ADSM) backup administration for the client platforms LINUX, HP-UX and IRIX
- Linux/UNIX shells (sh, ksh, bash)
- consulting services for the usage of Linux/UNIX system interfaces
- License management
- Matlab License management for Linux/UNIX and Windows platforms
- StarOffice License management for Linux/UNIX and Windows platforms
- HP-UX software basket management
- Programming of graphical user interfaces (GUI)
- Client server programming
- Desktop publishing with BroadVision QuickSilver, A.K.A Interleaf
Holded courses (sample)
Past member of
- STARG440 - TR440/BS3 user group, section 10 (BS3-BS2000 migration)
- SAVE - Siemens Anwenderverein (Siemens User Group)
- UNICOS AK - Cray User Group Germany
- IGC - SGI user group, Germany
- ZKI - Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Lehre und Forschung eV, Supercomputing section
Internal and external talks
- GI talk, Aachen, march 31st, 1976
Implementation of the TR400 load balancing system, especially for file services
- STARG440 talk, Konstanz, october 07th, 1976
- Hannover Messe, Hannover, april 1976
Demonstration of the load balancing system between the universities of Kaiserslautern and Trier [demonstration]
- STARG440 talk, Konstanz, september 29th, 1978
- STARG440 talk, Konstanz, march 27th, 1978
- STARG440 talk, Konstanz, september 21st, 1983
- STARG440 talk, Konstanz, march 06th, 1986
- Project discussion at Fujitsu Ltd, Numazu (Japan), may 21st, 1986
Technical explanation of COPY2000
- Siemens-ST-Kolloquium, Munich-Perlach, february 19th, 1987
COPY2000
- SAVE talk, Heidelberg, march 19th, 1987
- project talk at Fujitsu Ltd, Numazu (Japan), july 28th, 1987, together with Dr.-Ing. Martin Bükle (RHRK)
- SAVE talk, Madrid 1988, together with Dr.-Ing. Martin Bürkle (RHRK)
Experiences with supercomputing in a BS2000 environment [proceeding]
- SAVE talk, Travemünde, april 18th, 1991, together with Dr.-Ing. Martin Bürkle and Dipl.-Inf. med. Marita Lange (both RHRK)
- IAO Forum Dialog-Management at Fraunhofer Institute, Stuttgart, november 05, 1992
- Cray UNICOS German Users Group, Zurich, october 1994
xcf77: A motif interface for cf77
- UNICOS-AK, Rüsselsheim, april 1995
- Cray User Group Conference Fall '95, Fairbanks, Alaska, september 27th, 1995
- UNICOS-AK, Kaiserslautern, october 27th, 1995
Xudb - a graphical UNICOS tool for UDB management
- UNICOS-AK, Jülich november 8th, 1996, Dr. Tonnis Pool and Joachim Backes
Fortran90 - first experiences with the version 2.0.0.0 and Xcf90
- IGC talk, Garching, april 6th-7th, 2000
LINUX usage at the RHRK high performance computing division
- RHRK internal talk, march 27th, 2001
MOSIX: a scalable PC cluster system
-
IGC talk, Kaiserslautern, october 25th, 2001
MOSIX: a scalable PC cluster system
- Guest lecture on july 27th, 2009 at Saarland University, faculty 6 (mathematics and cs), Compiler Design Lab, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wilhelm
TR440/BS3 - a success story?
RHRK reports (composed by colleagues or myself)
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