{{{ #!html }}} = The developers and supporters of smartmontools = [[PageOutline(3,Table of Contents, inline)]] {{{ #!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:left; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-right:30px;" [[Image(wiki:images:BruceAndCat_2008_04_22-sm.jpg)]] }}} === Bruce Allen (Initiator and Project Leader) === I am a professor of physics at the U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and a Director of the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, which is operated by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Leibniz University Hannover. I got interested in SMART because of my research work. I work on data analysis for gravitational waves (the LIGO, GEO and VIRGO detectors) and my research groups build and operate large computer clusters for this purpose. My research group at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover operates a cluster with 2400 disks (the Atlas Cluster) and 1100 TB of storage. My research group at U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee runs a [http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/beowulf/nemo/ beowulf cluster] with 1200 (SATA-II) distributed disks attached to hardware RAID controllers. We have more than 300 TB disk space on that system. It's nice to have advanced warning when a disk is going to fail. Smartmontools is the only open-source software project that I manage. When smartmontools first started in 2002, I did most of the coding and real work. I was lucky to quickly find several other developers like Doug Gilbert and Christian Franke who knew much more than I did! These days I mostly do coordination and cheerleading - in any given technical area there are typically other developers who know more than I do. I also do some work on BOINC, and run the Einstein@Home distributed search for gravitational waves. ---- {{{ #!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:right; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-left:30px;" [[Image(wiki:images:chrfranke.jpg)]] }}} === Christian Franke (Developer and Maintainer) === My interest in hard disk monitoring actually starts when the disk of the christmas-gift-PC for my son failed in the evening of Dec. 23, 2003. This resulted in a first Windows port of smartctl checked in on Feb. 23, 2004. Future plan for smartmontools is a major redesign of smartd and the internal device interface, which benefits from the transition from C to C++. My other open source contributions include some small patches for Cygwin and Mozilla.org (Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey and Bugzilla) codebase, a Windows port of hdparm, and a recent Cygwin port of GRUB2. In real life, I hold a degree in computer science and work for a company developing applications for banking & finance. ---- === Guido Guenther (Developer and Maintainer) === Guido has a sharp eye for distribution issues and clean system architecture. He improves Makefiles, configuration and installation scripts, cares for packaging issues and makes sure that {{{Return Values}}} are correct. Last not least, he added CCISS (Compaq Smart Array Controller) support with contributions from Praveen Chidambaram, Douglas Gilbert and Frederic Boiteux. ---- {{{ #!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:left; background-color: #FFFFCC; padding:10px; margin-right:30px;" [[Image(wiki:images:gap-woody.jpg)]] }}} === Gabriele Pohl (Website Maintainer) === I joined the developers team in May 2008 to rebuilt the [http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/www/index.html?revision=2491 old homepage] to a [http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/trunk/www/index.html?revision=2910 multipage (but even static) website]. This was a first larval stage. Inbetween we moved to a more collaborative space with Trac and Wiki, so every one can participate in an active manner. Contributions are welcome! ---- {{{ #!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:right; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-left:30px;" [[Image(wiki:images:erwan.jpg)]] }}} === Erwan Velu (Packager and Maintainer) === My interest in SMART arose at my previous job at Mandriva. I was building up a Linux distribution to turn a set of computers into a super computer (HPC). While looking at how we can manage such a cluster, I was faced with some failing disks. Doing a short research on that problem, I found this project. As I am also packaging applications in RPM for Mandriva Linux, I decided to include smartmontools in it. My role is to keep smartmontools up-to-date in the Linux distribution and reporting bugs to the developers. To be honest, this happens once in a blue moon. Since I am implicated in the smartmontools project, friends often ask me for help in understanding how theirs disks feels ;o). So I also wrote an [http://www.lea-linux.org/documentations/index.php/Hardware-hard_plus-smart article about smartmontools] in French language. ---- === Other portraits === will follow..