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Peter Druschel

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Peter Druschel
Alma mater
Known for
  • Pastry DHT
  • Flash web server
  • Fast buffers (fbufs)
  • Resource containers[5]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions
ThesisOperating System Support for High-Speed Networking
Doctoral advisorLarry Peterson
Websitehttps://people.mpi-sws.org/~druschel/

Peter Druschel (born 22 April 1959 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken.[6][7]

Education and career

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Druschel studied electrical engineering specializing on data technology at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and completed his studies as a graduate engineer. He graduated in 1994 from the University of Arizona under Larry L. Peterson. In the same year he became Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University. In 2000 he became Associate Professor, followed in 2002 by a full professorship.[8]

In August 2005 he started his work at Saarbrücken's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as the founding director. Druschel specializes in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks and security and operating systems. Along with Ant Rowstron, Druschel developed the Pastry distributed hash table technique at Microsoft. In 2008 Druschel was elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea.[8] He is also a receipient of the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  2. ^ "https://www.eurosys.org/awards/lifetime-achievement-award". EuroSys. Retrieved 18 August 2024. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Peter Druschel".
  4. ^ "Druschel, Peter". Max Planck Society.
  5. ^ "Peter Druschel receives Mark Weiser Award". Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  6. ^ Peter Druschel Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Prof. Dr. Peter Druschel". University of Saarland. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Druschel Peter". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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