Katarzyna Keahey is a Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering (CASE) of the

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. She is a

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(PI) of the Chameleon project, which provides an innovative experimentation platform for computer science systems experiments."NSF renews Chameleon Cloud testbed project with $10m grant"
by Sebastian Moss, in ''Data Center Dynamics''; published 20 September 2017; retrieved 19 May 2020 She created

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, one of the first open source implementations of infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and co-founded the SoftwareX journal, publishing software as a scientific instrument.Lessons from the Grid: An Interview with Argonne’s Kate Keahey
by Nicole Hemsoth, in ''HPCwire''; published 25 January 2011; retrieved 13 May 2020"Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Kate Keahey, Creator of Nimbus"
by Robert Duffner, in '' Microsoft Azure''; published 10 December 2010; retrieved 15 May 2020A Nimbus Rises in the World of Cloud Computing
by PHYS staff, in ''

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''; published 8 May 2019; retrieved 15 May 2020

Education

Keahey attended the

Gdańsk University of Technology The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, former ''GUT''; pl, Politechnika Gdańska) is a technical university in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties and with 41 fie ...

where she obtained her magister inżynier in informatics in 1992. She received her M.S. in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universi ...

in 1994, and later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at Indiana University in 1998.Kate Keahey
in ScienceDirect Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled, ''An Architecture for Application-Level Parallel Distributed Computation'', and was supervised by Dennis Gannon.

Research

Her research interests include

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

,K. Keahey, I. Foster, T. Freeman, and X. Zhang
"Virtual Workspaces: Achieving Quality of Service and Quality of Life in the Grid"
'' Scientific Programming''; 13(4), pp. 265-276 (2005)K. Leahey, R. Figueiredo, J. Fortes, M. Tsugawa, and T. Freema
"Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications"
''Cloud computing and applications''; pp. CCA-08 (2008)

resource management In organizational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective development of an organization's resources when they are needed. Such resources may include the financial resources, inventory, human skills, production resources, or i ...

,A. Andrieux, K. Czajkowski, A. Dan, K. Keahey, H. Ludwig, J. Pruyne, J. Rofrano, S. Tuecke, and M. Xu,
"Web services agreement specification (WS-Agreement)"
''

Global Grid Forum The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors for standardization of grid computing. It was formed in 2006 in a merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance. The OGF models its process on the I ...

''; pp. 265-276 (2007)K. Keahey, P. Riteau, J. Anderson and Z. Zhen
"Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications"
'' Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'' (''IEEE''); pp. 41-49 (2019) in particular the exploration of how cloud and high-performance/scientific resources can co-exist and complement each other,F. Liu, K. Keahey, P. Riteau, and J.B Weissma
"Dynamically negotiating capacity between on-demand and batch clusters"
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IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...

''; pp. 493-503 (2018)P. Marshall, K. Keahey and T. Freema
"Improving Utilization of Infrastructure Clouds"
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''; pp. 205-214 (2011) B. Sotomayor, K. Keahey, and I. Foste
"Combining batch execution and leasing using virtual machines"
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''; pp. 87-96 (2008) infrastructure operation,K. Keahey, J. Anderson, P. Ruth, J. Colleran, C.Hammock, J. Stubbs, and Z. Zhe
"Operational Lessons from Chameleon"
''Proceedings of the Humans in the Loop: Enabling and Facilitating Research on Cloud Computing''; 5 pp. 1–7 (2019) and Internet of Things (IoT)/cloud continuum. She is currently developing methods that support capturing, replicating, and publishing experiments digitally.

References

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