Professor Dr. Garth Gibson

Biography

Garth Gibson is a Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he specializes in data-intensive cloud computing and distributed systems. His early research on redundancy in parallel storage systems led to the development of RAID, which revolutionized the storage industry and created a market worth over $15 billion. He has contributed to network-attached secure disks (NASD) and shaped new storage technologies with innovations like SCSI Object Storage Devices (OSD) and high-performance IP-based storage solutions that comply with IETF Parallel NFS filesystem standards. Gibson's graduate students have been influential in shaping significant projects, notably Google’s file system and database software at Seagate. As a founding member of Panasas in 1999, Gibson was instrumental in deploying high-performance storage technologies, exemplified by the Panasas storage cluster, which served the world's fastest computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He plays a leadership role in both academia and industry, serving on the steering committee for major storage systems conferences and contributing to international discussions in the field. Gibson leads a team from CMU and other institutions aimed at addressing the challenges of scaling high-performance storage systems for the future.

Research Interests