Joefon JannIBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: joefon@us.ibm.com). Ms. Jann is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Watson Research Center, where she leads a small team that conceived and prototyped the notion of DLPAR for AIX. She is currently working on automating DLPAR. Her previous projects in IBM include the design and prototype of a DSM (distributed shared memory) system for the pSeries servers, the design and implementation of the LoadLeveler® hierarchical communication infrastructure, which enables IBM's LoadLeveler product to work in the largest SPTM installations. She coinvented the “Jann MPP Workload Model,” was a member of the Deep Blue Computer chess team, a developer of the IBM product VMPRF (VM Performance Reporting Facility), a VM/SNA Area Specialist, and an APL programmer. Ms. Jann was a lecturer in mathematics at Lehman College for three years, and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in pure mathematics from Wellesley College–MIT and the City University of New York (CUNY), respectively, and an M.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University. She is a member of the IEEE.
Luke M. BrowningIBM Server Group, 11501 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: browninl@us.ibm.com). Mr. Browning is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the AIX Kernel Architecture and Design Department of the IBM Server Group, working on dynamic LPAR, workload management, threads, and process management. He joined IBM in 1984 in Austin after receiving his bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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