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I'm a Ph.D. student at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, working in the Computer Architecture Group under Professor Steve Ward.

My current research is in global-scale parallel and distributed computing. Specifically, my ongoing Ph.D. thesis project, Project Bayanihan, seeks to explore and develop the idea of web-based volunteer computing using Java. We successfully ran a research exhibit at SC97 last November in San Jose, California. Here are some pictures.

Last summer, I worked at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan with Dr. Satoshi Hirano, using his HORB distributed Java package with Project Bayanihan.

For my Master's thesis, I worked with the NuMesh project, studying and developing a neat technique called rational clocking, which enables efficient synchronous communication between two systems whose speeds are rational multiples of each other.

This term (Spring '98), I am a Recitation Instructor for the course 6.004, Computation Structures. I have also been a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the following courses:

• 6.096, Introduction to Interactive Programming. (Fall '97)
• 6.823, Computer System Architecture (Spring '96)
• 6.004, Computation Structures (Fall'94 and Spring '95)

The best way to get in touch with me is by e-mail (lfgs@mit.edu). You can also contact me at the following address and phone number:

Luis Sarmenta
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square, Room 616
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel. (617) 253-5881