Paul Brenner
Senior Associate Director and Professor of the Practice
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Research
The focus of Prof. Brenner's research is on the advancement of computational infrastructure for scientific discovery. Three current areas of work are: Cloud and Distributed Systems for Science, Architecture Aware Scientific Algorithm Design, and Implementing Energy Efficient Computational Infrastructure.
Research Interests
Energy Conversion and Efficiency, Smart Distribution and Storage, Building and Energy Consumption
Relevant Energy Publications
- Raycroft, Patrick, Ryan Jansen, Mateusz Jarus, and Paul R. Brenner. "Performance bounded energy efficient virtual machine allocation in the global cloud." Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 4, no. 1 (2014): 1-9.
- Woodruff, J. Zachary, Paul Brenner, Aimee PC Buccellato, and David B. Go. "Environmentally opportunistic computing: A distributed waste heat reutilization approach to energy-efficient buildings and data centers." Energy and Buildings 69 (2014): 41-50.
- Brenner, Paul, Douglas Thain, Aimee Buccellato, and David B. Go. "Environmentally opportunistic computing." In Handbook of Energy-Aware and Green Computing, Volume 2, pp. 347-362. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2013.