DV Workshop: Les Cottrell
DV Workshop: Les Cottrell
Date: October 17, 2006
Speaker bio:
Les Cottrell left the University of Manchester, England in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. He joined SLAC as a research physicist in High Energy Physics, focusing on real-time data acquisition and analysis in the 1990 Nobel prize winning group that discovered the quark. In 1973/3, he spent a year’s leave
of absence as a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1979/80 at the IBM U.K. Laboratories at Hursley, England, where he obtained United States Patent 4,688,181 for a a dynamic graphical cursor. He is currently the Assistant Director of the SLAC Scientific Computing and Computing Services group and lead the computer networking and telecommunications areas. He is also a member of the Energy Sciences Network Site Coordinating Committee (ESCC) and the chairman of the ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force.
Les was a leader of the effort that, in 1994, resulted in the first Internet connection to mainland China. He is also the
leader of the DoE sponsored Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM) effort. In 2002/3, He was the co-PI of teams that captured the Internet2 Land Speed Record twice, a feat that was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records and also earned us the CENIC 2003 On the Road to a Gigabit, Biggest Fastest in the West award. In 2003, 2004, and for a third
time in 2005 he was the co-leader of the teams that won the SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge for the maximum bandwidth utilization.