Dr. Madhusudhan Govindaraju joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in September 2003. He received Masters and PhD from Indiana University. He has been actively involved in the design and implementation of a system named XCAT that is based on the Common Component Architecture (CCA) specification. XCAT provides a services-based architecture for building large scale distributed applications on the Grid. He is also working on the design and development of comprehensive benchmark suite for Web services and XML based technologies.

Research Interests

Grid Computing, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Web Services, Component Based Technologies, Problem Solving Environments, XML based technologies.

Courses taught

• CS 553: Introduction to Grid Computing (last taught Fall 2005)
• CS 654: Distributed Systems (last taught Spring 2005)

Selected Publications

• Onur Demir, Michael R. Head, Kanad Ghose, and Madhusudhan Govindaraju, "Protecting Grid Data Transfer Services with Active Network Interfaces," To appear in Grid 2005 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, Seattle WA, November 2005.
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael R. Head, Kenneth Chiu, "XCAT-C++: Design and Performance of a Distributed CCA Framework," To appear in The 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2005, December 18-21, Goa, India.
• Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Pu Liu, Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Robert van Engelen, Kenneth Chiu, Michael J. Lewis, "A Benchmark Suite for SOAP-based Communication in Grid Web Services," To appear in SC|05 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage, Seattle WA, November 2005.
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Kenneth Chiu, Pu Liu, Robert van Engelen, Michael J. Lewis, "Toward Characterizing the Performance of SOAP Toolkits". Proccedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, (short paper) November 8th, 2004, pp: 365 -- 372, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Michael J. Lewis, and Madhusudhan Govindaraju, "Differential Serialization for Optimized SOAP Performance," HPDC-13: IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp: 55-64, June 2004.
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Sriram Krishnan, Kenneth Chiu, Aleksander Slominski, Dennis Gannon, Randall Bramley, ``Merging the CCA Component Model with the OGSI Framework'', Accepted for publication in the proceedings of CCGrid 2003, 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Tokyo, Japan, May 12-15, 2003.
• Dennis Gannon, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Sriram Krishnan, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, and Aleksander Slominski, ``Grid Web Services and Application Factories'', Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Fran Berman (Editor), WileyEurope Publishers, Chapter 9, February, 2003.
• D. Gannon, K. Chiu, M. Govindaraju, A. Slominski, ``A Revised Analysis of the Open Grid Services Infrastructure'', Journal of Computing and Informatics, Volume 21, 2002, pp: 321-332.
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Venkatesh Choppella, Randall Bramley and Dennis Gannon, ``Requirements for and Evaluation of RMI Protocols for Scientific Computing'', Proceedings of Supercomputing Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 4-10, 2000.