David R. O'Hallaron, Professor of CS and ECE Emeritus

Mailing address: Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

Email: droh@cs.cmu.edu, Office: GHC 7007 Lab: GHC 9126
Assistant: Angy Malloy, amalloy@cs.cmu.edu, GHC 9006, 412-268-6914

Spring 2024 walk-in office hours: Friday 3:00-4:30pm, or by appointment

Mail | Calendar

---

I work in the general area of computer systems, with special interests in scientific computing and high-performance computing. My main interest these days is autograding systems, in particular the Autolab project.

MSCS Program

MSCS Handbook

Course Verification Letters

As of 7/31/2023, CMU no longer provides skills verification letters to former students. Instead, you should request a course description verification letter from the registrar.

Books

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3rd Edition by Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, Pearson, 2016. (amazon.com)

iWarp: Anatomy of a Parallel Computing System, by Thomas Gross and David R. O'Hallaron, MIT Press, 1998. (amazon.com) Table of Contents

The Mission Primer: Four Steps to an Effective Mission Statement by Richard O'Hallaron and David O'Hallaron Mission, Inc, 2000. (amazon.com)

Teaching

Current: 18-845: Internet Services (Spring '24)

Previous: 15-410: Operating Systems (Fall '23)

Course FCEs | S3

Research

Autolab | CV | NSF-style bio | Narrative-style bio

Misc

Workday

Original Music by John O'Hallaron (Chalk Dinosaur) (Bandcamp)