Olaf Manczak is a researcher in Sun Microsystems Laboratories and he is Principal Investigator of the Live* Project.
Olaf joined Sun Labs in 2003. He was recruited by the Honeycomb Project to design a cost-effective long-term archiving storage technology for fixed-content data based entirely on commodity clusters and JBODs. Later, under the DARPA HPCS Program, he worked on system software and virtualization technologies that enable horizontal scaling, reliability, availability and ease of use of petascale systems. He played a key role in the design of several innovative concepts such as Globally Addressable Memory and Scalability Interface (SIF).
Prior to joining to Sun Labs he co-founded Zambeel, a venture-funded company that was focused on delivering massively scalable network attached storage. He was one of the creators of an extreme-scale data-mining facility developed at DESY, a leading high-energy physics laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, and he worked at Sun on performance improvements of the Solaris NFS server. He was also one of the founding fathers of Internet in Poland, and he is an author of ISO8859-2 X11 fonts used for several central european languages.
His research focuses on use of virtualization techniques and architectural level solutions that reduce complexity and improve scalability, reliability and performance in large distributed computer and storage systems.
He received a MSc degree in Physics from the Warsaw University in Poland. He holds five US Patents.
