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Brent Welch

I am Chief Technology Officer at Panasas, which has created a scalable, high-performace, parallel, distributed storage cluster that is the file system for many of the most powerful super computers in the top500. Scalable Performance in the Panasas Parallel File System provides a nice description of the system.

Panasas has job openings for great system programmers! Please email welch-at-panasas-dot-com if you are interested in a challenging job at a pre-IPO company.

This blog posting by Tadashi Ogawa has a nice collection of pointers to papers on Panasas, Object-Storage, RAID, and Sprite.

I live with my wife and boys and dog in Mountain View, CA. We enjoy footbag, our garden, soccer, baseball, fire juggling and music.

Footbag Video #1 (Brent and Jody)

Footbag Video #2 (Brent and Jody)

Footbag Net Video (slow motion!)

Brent Fire Juggling

SC12 Juggling

St Mark's Choir

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, 4th Ed.

The 4th edition of my book covers Tcl/Tk 8.4. There are new chapters on multi-threaded Tcl scripts and Starkits.

The Tcler's Wiki .

Tcl Developer Xchange.

EXMH is a popular email user interface that runs on Linux and other UNIX systems. It is extensible, using Tcl of course, and has accumulated many cool features since its release in 1993.

Exmh Wiki contains lots of information contributed by its users.

TclHttpd is an extensible web server that provides an easy way to develop and deploy applications.

Personal Information

There are a few family pictures in my album, including pictures of the Wright family on my mother's side. Theodore McKay Wright diary 1887
email: welch@panasas.com, welch@acm.org, brent@beedub.com
home town: Mountain View
employer: Panasas
PGP and My PGP key
key fingerprint: 94 D8 90 6A FD 9C AE 94 40 E3 C6 D6 B1 90 E0 03
Class F license CYSA soccer
Delgado league where our Rapids team competes.

Bio

I am currently Chief Technology Officer at Panasas, I have worked at Xerox-PARC and Sun Microsystems Laboratories. I have experience building software systems from the device driver level up through network servers, user applications, and graphical user interfaces. While getting my PhD at UC Berkeley, I designed and built the Sprite distributed file system. I am the creator of the TclHttpd web server, the exmh email user interface, and the author of Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.

What is BeeDub.com?

This is my permanent home on the web. Come here to find up-to-date pointers to my current work.

Tcl Developer Xchange Open source downloads of Tcl/Tk, documentation, and a catalog of Tcl web resources.
Brent's Resume
Exmh mail user interface.
TclHttpd web server.
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.
Sprite Project Papers including my PhD dissertation and other papers.
I have a copy of the Sprite operating system source code here for historical reference. John Ousterhout's summary of that project describes our accomplishments.

Some of my Friends

Old Friends I'm Looking For

John Vinych, college roommate, now in Fargo ND
Sandy Robinson, Mary White, Stacy Bockavoy, Sewell Hall, University of Colorado 1978
Liz Baker, raft guide, Whitby Ontario

Interesting Links

Wikipedia List of File Systems
Footbag World Wide. My wife and I won the Mixed Doubles Net title at the 1997 Footbag World Championships. We have won that event 7 times in 11 appearances in the finals since 1987!
Pictures from the 1998 Footbag World Championships
More pictures from the 1998 Footbag World Championships, and Still More
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). PGP key server .
Interesting views on the JFK assasination .
Resume of George W. Bush and a view into Bushworld
The Rolling Stones Home Page.
Magic Card Information. Tom Christiansens site.
Pumpkin Seed Brittle Recipe

That's me, getting big air in footbag net. See also these two shots of another "joust" between James Harley and Brent Welch at the 1998 World Championships (preliminary rounds) in Montreal. I teamed up with James in the 'O3 Worlds where we took 3rd place.