Christian Baun

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Inst. f. Wissenschaftliches Rechnen

About Christian Baun
Since May 2008 Christian Baun has been a PhD student at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). His supervisor is Prof. Thomas Ludwig from the University of Heidelberg, who leads in Heidelberg, the working group for parallel and distributed computing. The focus of Christian’s work is cloud computing (Eucalyptus) and virtualization (Xen).

Since Mai 2006 until April 2008 Christian worked at the D-Grid project at the Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
(FZK). The focus of his work in those days was sustainability in Grid Computing. This covered the organisational, legal and financial aspects of large grid projects.

He has a Master of Science in IT from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and since October 2006 has bee engaged on a teaching assignment there where he gave a lecture covering the topics operating systems and system software.

During the last years Christian has written several books about PHP and LaTeX.

Also Christian is a co-author of a book about parallel and distributed computing. He has also written a few articles in the following magazines: iX, c't, Informatik Spektrum, LinuxUSER, EasyLinux, Linux Enterprise and entwickler magazin.

He was involved in the topics Linux/UNIX and OpenSource since 1994 where he did his first Slackware 2.0 installation.