Andy Tucker

I'm a recent Stanford Ph.D. graduate in Computer Science. I'm now working at SunSoft, the software division of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. I do Solaris OS kernel development with a focus on scheduling, synchronization, and multiprocessor support and performance.

I'm best reached by e-mail at tucker@eng.sun.com

I can also be reached at:

SunSoft, Inc.
2550 Garcia Ave., M/S MPK17-301
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 786-5340

Sorry, no cute pictures.

Publications

• Efficient Scheduling on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, Andrew Tucker. Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, November 1993.
• Making Effective Use of Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: The Process Control Approach, Andrew Tucker, Anoop Gupta, and Luis Stevens. Technical Report CSL-TR-91-475, Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Revised July 1991.
• The Impact of Operating System Scheduling Policies and Synchronization Methods on the Performance of Parallel Applications, Andrew Tucker, Anoop Gupta, and Shigeru Urushibara. Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May 1991.
• Process Control and Scheduling Issues for Multiprogrammed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, Andrew Tucker and Anoop Gupta. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1989.