Rick McGeer

Dr. Rick McGeer is a Principal Investigator at the Communications and Design Group of SAP America Labs, working on next-­‐generation Internet and programming environments technologies. He is also the Chief Scientist of US Ignite and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. He is currently the Principal Investigator on the GENI Experiment Engine project, which is an embedded containers-­‐as-­‐a-­‐service infrastructure on top of one or more underlying wide-­‐area infrastructures. Its principal feature is one-­‐click allocation of customizable environments across the wide area. He has led multiple projects, mostly in the fields of testbeds, networks, and distributed clouds, including:

• The InstaGENI project, which created a network of 35 small Clouds networked across the United States under the GENI project (while a Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs/HP Enterprise Systems)
• The GENICloud and TransCloud projects, whose goal was to design and implement and interoperable, distributed, GENI-­‐compliant Cloud architecure (while a Distinguished Technologist at HP Labs/HP ES)
• HP lead  on  the  National  Cyber  Range  (sub  to  Sparta),  whose  goal  was  to  create  a  next-­‐generation  scalable automated  testbed  for  national  cyber  systems.
• Social Network  Analysis  using  Geometric  Inference  Techniques  under  the  DARPA  GRAPHS  program,  to design  geometry-­‐based  systems  for  the  analysis  of  very  large  graphs  (109  nodes  and  beyond)
• The OpenNet project, which led to the first commercial switch implementation of
• The CHART Project under the DARPA Control Plane program, which increased  TCP/IP  performance  by a mean of 4000% under military