Gernot Heiser

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Gernot Heiser (born 1957) is professor for operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is also leader of the Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems (ERTOS) research program at NICTA. Recently he has founded a company called Open Kernel Labs (OK) where he serves as Chief Technology Officer.

His research focuses on microkernels and microkernel-based systems as well as virtual machines. His group produced the Mungi single address space operating system^[1] and implementations of the L4 microkernel with very fast inter-process communication.^[2]

In the past he also worked on semiconductor device simulation, where he pioneered the use of multi-dimensional modeling in the optimisation of silicon-based solar cells.

[edit] Operating-System Projects

Mungi and Iguana single address space operating systems
Wombat portable Linux on L4 microkernel
Gelato@UNSW performance and scalability of Linux on Itanium

[edit] Publications of Note

^ Heiser, Gernot; Elphinstone, Kevin; Vochteloo, Jerry; Russell, Stephen; Liedtke, Jochen (1998). "The Mungi Single-Address-Space Operating System". Software: Practice and Experience 28: 901–928.
^ Liedtke, Jochen; Elphinstone, Kevin; Schönberg, Sebastian; Härtig, Hermann; Heiser, Gernot; Islam, Nayeem; Jaeger, Trent (May 1997). "Achieved IPC performance (still the foundation for extensibility)". 6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems: 28–31, Cape Cod, MA, USA: IEEE.