W. R. Wing

Education

PhD	1972	Physics	University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
MA	1968	Physics	University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
BA	1965	Physics	University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Work Experience:

1999 – Present; Senior Research Staff Member and Group Leader - Networking Research Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1991 – 1999; Senior Research Staff Member – Computing, Information and Networking Division / Office of Computing and Network Management / Office of Laboratory Computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1972 – 1991; Research Staff Member – Fusion Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research Interests:

Network Monitoring and Instrumentation

Network Simulation

Protocol Development

Biographical Sketch:

Bill Wing joined the Fusion Energy Division immediately after completing his PhD. He developed and applied a wide variety of diagnostic instruments for characterizing the fusion plasmas in experimental devices there. He received a patent for one of these, a Gigacycle Correlator. While there, he started using early laboratory-scale computers (PDP-8, PDP-12, and a PDP-10) for data acquisition and analysis. He led the in-house programming group responsible for writing data acquisition software and developed an integrated data acquisition system that spread throughout the fusion community. His interest in computerised analysis and modeling led to an interest in networking (ORNL’s Fusion Energy Division was one of the first backbone nodes on the Magnetic Fusion Energy Network, which linked Fusion sites to the MFE computer center at Livermore). In 1991, he moved from the Fusion Energy Division to the Office of Laboratory Computing to help improve ORNL’s position in the high-performance computing and networking community. He chairs the ESnet Site Coordinating Committee, as well as serving as ORNL’s representative on it. He serves on the ESnet Steering Committee, was chair of the SCinet committee for SC’99 in Portland, and served as ORNL’s representative on the National Information Infrastructure Testbed.

Selected Publications:

1. Internet Monitoring in the Energy Research Community, with Cottrell et. al. IEEE Network Transactions, special issue on the Internet 1997.

2. Data Acquisition in Support of Physics, Chapter in “Basic and Advanced Diagnostic Techniques for Fusion Plasmas” Published by Commission of the European Communities Directorate General XII – Fusion Programme, 1049 Brussels, Belgium - 1986

3. Soft X-ray Techniques, Chapter in “Course on Plasma Diagnostics and Data Acquisition” Eubank and Sindoni Editors, Published by C. N. R. – Euratom – 1975

4. Configuration Control Experiments Using Long-Pulse ECH Discharges in the ATF Torsatron, 18^th Conf. On Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Berlin, 1991

5. Transport Sutdies Using Modulation of Dimensionless Parameters in the Advanced Toroidal Facility; with Murakami, M.; Int. Conf. On Plasma Physics (EPS) Innsbruck, Austria, 1992

6. Energy Confinement Scaling in ATF; Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 1989

7. Fluctuations and Stability in the ATF Torsatron, with;Harris, J.H.;v. 2, pp. 677-84, Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Washington, DC, Oct.1-6,1990, Nuclear Fusion Suppl., IAEA, 1990

8. Power and Particle Balance Studies Using an Instrumented Limiter System on ATF, with;Uckan, T.Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.v.35 1990pp.2063

9. Biasing Experiments on the ATF Torsatron,; withUckan, T.;18th Eur. Phys. Soc. Conf., Div. Plasma Physics, Berlin, June 3-7,1991

10. Configuration Control, Fluctuations, and Transport in Low-Collisionality Plasmas in the ATF Torsatron,; withHarris, J.H.;18th Conf. on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Berlin, June 3-7,1991

11. Pellet Injection into ATF Plasmas,;with Wilgen, J.B.Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.v.34 1989pp.1947

12. Operating Window Enhancement of the ATF Torsatron,; with Glowienka, J.C.Bull. Am. Phys. Soc.v.34 1989pp.1946

13. Boundary Radiation and Plasma Stability in Currentless Confinement Devices,; with Isler, R.C.;v. 2, Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Plasma Surface Interactions, Satellite Meet. on the Production and Stability of Cold Edge Layers for Fusion Reactors, Cadarache, France, May 28-30,1990 (1990)

14. The ATF Diamagnetic Diagnostic, Status and Results,;Wing, W.R.;8th Top. Conf. on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Hyannis, MA, May 6-10,1990