Alan Wood is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Switch Architecture project. He was the fault-tolerance lead for the DARPA HPCS project, and the technical volume captain for the Phase 3 HPCS proposal. SInce the end of HPCS Phase 2, he has been researching switch architectures using proximity communications, energy-efficient reliability and energy utilization modeling, and software reliability. Prior to joining Sun, he worked for 13 years in the HP NonStop Division, which was originally Tandem Computers. Alan was a Distinguished Technologist at HP, in charge of fault-tolerant modeling and architecture for NonStop systems. He has a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford and has been an officer of the local IEEE Reliability chapter for the past several years. He was the general chair for SELSE 2009 and serves on several program committees. He has over 40 published papers.
