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2001 Plenary Speaker Bios

Daniel A. Reed, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Dan Reed serves as director of the Alliance and principal investigator for the Alliance cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. In this role he assumes overall responsibility for the Alliance and NCSA in its role as the leading edge site for the Alliance. Reed is also head of the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reed is a member of several national collaborations, including the Center for Grid Application Development Software, the Department of Energy (DOE) Next Generation Internet Initiative, and the DOE Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He also serves on the advisory committee of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association.

Tim Mattson, Global Manager DP Systems, PGS Data Processing
Tim Mattson is a kayaker. He lives for the surf, white water, and miles of high speed cruising in his sea kayak. To support his habit, he works on parallel and distributed computing at Intel. Tim's academic credentials include a full rack of degrees in Chemistry, a Post Doc at Caltech (working on the Caltech/JPL hypercubes), and a stint at Yale as a research scientist in the computer science department. It was at Yale (in 1990) where he started his work in cluster computing turning networks of desktop workstations into supercomputers. In 1993, he joined Intel and moved to massively parallel supercomputers culminating in his work on Intel's teraFLOP computer project. These days—when not on the water—he works on software technologies to effectively exploit concurrency. This includes shared memory computers (he's one of the authors of OpenMP), clusters (see http://www.openclustergroup.org/), and peer-to-peer computing.

Applications Track Speaker Bios

Sarah Anderson, LCSE / University of Minnesota, USA
Sarah Anderson is a researcher at the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, directed by Dr. Paul Woodward at the University of Minnesota.

Hans-Peter Bunge, Princeton University, USA
Hans-Peter Bunge is an assistant professor of geophysics at Princeton's Geosciences Department. His research interests are focused on understanding the internal dynamics of the Earth. Using massively-parallel 3-D spherical computational simulations, he is working extensively on problems related to convection in the solid Earth mantle. Mantle convection is responsible for plate tectonic and continental drift, and represents together with the circulation of the Earth's core, the oceans, and the atmosphere one of Earth's four main circulatory systems. In high-performance computing, Bunge's main research interests lie in distributed computing. In 1992 he used an 16-Processor IBM-RS6000/560 cluster at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for global mantle convection studies. More recently, he and his group built a 140 processor Beowulf cluster at Princeton's Geosciences department for large-scale geophysical simulations, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Bunge received his Ph.D. in geophysics in 1996 from the UC-Berkeley. Much of his research is performed at the Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) both at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Bunge is currently the co-director of Princeton's computational physics PICASSO program.

Karen D. Camarda, University of Kansas, USA
Karen D. Camarda received her Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1991, and her Master's and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. As a graduate student and as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, she performed numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes. Currently she works in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Kansas porting a chemical reactor simulation to parallel and distributed computing environments.

Weiyei Chen, Ames Laboratory
Weiyei Chen received his Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering in 1995 from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and his Master's degree in signal and information processing in 1998 from Peking University. He is now working toward his Master's degree in computer science at Iowa State University, where his thesis topic is to write a module for the MP_Lite message-passing library that uses the M-VIA OS bypass library to reduce the message latency and increase the bandwidth in Linux clusters.

Stefano Cozzini, openMosix Project and INFM, Italy
Stefano Cozzini is a developing scientist of INFM (Italian National Institute for Matter Physics) working at National Simulation Center DEMOCRITOS hosted at Sissa. He is now the coordinator of the IT activities within the center. Prior to coming at Sissa, S.C. was a member of the High Performance group at the Cineca Supercomputing Center in Bologna (Italy) for about two years. He earned a Phd in Physics from University of Padova (Italy) and he spent two years as Post-doc research at University of Sevilla (Spain) before joining the Cineca Center. His main professional present interest is in the field of High performance computing and Grdi Computing applied to computational physics.

Robert Fiedler, CSAR, University of Illinois, USA
Robert Fiedler received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. He has been the technical program manager at the UIUC Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) since 1998. In 1997, he was a senior technical consultant with Hewlett-Packard and before that he was a senior research programmer at NCSA where he developed a parallel astrophysics simulation package. At CSAR, he is a technical lead for integrating multiple engineering applications to perform large-scale, multidisciplinary, coupled, multiphysics simulations of complex systems. His interests include parallel application development and optimization, visualization, I/O, fluid dynamics, mesh adaptivity, and fluid structure interaction problems.

Joshua Gray, University of Illinois, USA
Joshua Gray graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1997, with a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He received his Master's degree in chemical engineering at UIUC in 2000, working on the propagation of localized corrosion events on aluminum under Dr. Richard C. Alkire. His current research is focused on the initiation of pitting corrosion on stainless steel, using complementary experimental and numerical approaches. The project includes moving code onto the Linux cluster and improving performance of the underlying PETSc library on the Linux cluster system.

Anirudh Modi, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Anirudh Modi received his Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1997 and his Master's degree in aerospace engineering from Penn State University in 1999. He has been designing and building Beowulf clusters for the university since 1998 and is involved in their maintenance and administration. He has worked with various parallel numerical codes since 1997.

His interests include numerical programming, high performance computing, computer graphics and virtual reality. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at Penn State University where he is conducting research on the use of real-time parallel simulations coupled to virtual reality for air-traffic control applications.

Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA
Shirley Moore received her Ph.D. in computer sciences from Purdue University in 1990. From 1990 to 1992 she was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Hope College in Holland, MI. From 1993 until 1997, she was a research associate with the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee. She is the associate director of research at ICL. She has been the Programming Environment and Training (PET) Programming Tools academic lead at three DoD Major Shared Resource Centers. As part of PET, she taught a number of training courses on parallel programming tools. She has participated in the design and development of PAPI. She is a member of the Parallel Tools Consortium Steering Committee and serves as project coordinator for that organization.

Systems Track Speaker Bios

Ray Bean, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA
Ray Bean is a UNIX systems administrator with 6 years experience focusing on automation of operations in UNIX environments. He is currently the lead database integrator for the HPC Systems group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

Neil Gorsuch, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA
Neil Gorsuch was educated at Iowa State University in computer engineering. He co-founded an electronics R&D company in Irvine, CA, that created microporcessor-based oil well controllers, and then founded another company that created unique SCSI peripheral devices. After moving back to the Midwest, he worked at Motorola as a a system engineer at NCSA. He is married with two children, and enjoys biking, scuba diving, and renovating old houses.

Dave Jackson, University of Utah, USA
Dave Jackson is a senior systems researcher and developer who focuses on the design and implementation of systems and middleware for high-end and next-generation supercomputers and clusters. He designed, developed, and supports the Maui Scheduler, an advance reservation based optimizing back-fill scheduler, which is used at many of the country's largest supercomputers and clusters. Jackson developed scalable cluster resource management and meta-scheduling software including, the Wiki resource manager and Silver metascheduler to support the needs of the computational grid community. His research interests are optimizing resource utilization under real-world system constraints and developing highly robust, scalable system management software architectures.

Jackson received his Bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science at Brigham Young University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science.

Tim Mattson, Open Cluster Group (and Intel)
Tim Mattson is a kayaker. He lives for the surf, white water, and miles of high-speed cruising in his sea kayak. To support his habit, he works on parallel and distributed computing at Intel. Mattson's academic credentials include a full rack of degrees in chemistry, a post-doc at Caltech (working on the Caltech/JPL hypercubes), and a stint at Yale as a research scientist in the computer science department. It was at Yale (in 1990) where he started his work in cluster computing, turning networks of desktop workstations into supercomputers. In 1993, he joined Intel and moved to massively parallel supercomputers culminating in his work on Intel's teraFlop computer project. These days - when not on the water - he works on software technologies to effectively exploit concurrency. This includes shared memory computers (he's one of the authors of OpenMP), clusters (see www.openclustergroup.org and peer-to-peer computing.

Tom Roney, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA
Tom Roney is a system engineer and a member of the Systems Group at NCSA for which he manages the system-monitoring environment. He has a Masters degree in technology management from Eastern Illinois University, and leads the system-monitoring effort for the Virtual Machine Room, a grid-development project, for the National Computational Science Alliance.

Gary Skouson, PNNL
Gary Skouson received his Master's degree from Brigham Young University in 1992. He did research on remote sensing, including recalibration of spaceborne radars using tropical rainforests. He worked at IBM in Rochester, MN until May 2000, where he was an administrator for the batch processing pool of over 1300 workstations, most of which were people's desktops. Skousen joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in May 2000 as a senior research scientist and works in the Molecular Science Computing Facility (MSCF) in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). His interests include system administration, resource management and batch processing.

Steven C. Timm, Fermilab
Steven C. Timm is the lead designer for the Fermilab Linux computing farms in the operating systems support group of the Fermilab Computing Division in Batavia, IL. He has lead responsibility for security, vendor relations, evaluation and reliability protocols. His background is as an experimental high-energy physicist.

Putchong Uthayopas, Open Cluster Group (and Intel)
Putchong Uthayopas received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in electrical engineering from Chulalongkorn University, and Masters and Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, at Kasetsart University, Thailand. His major research interest is in parallel/ distributed computing, cluster/grid computing, and parallel software tools. He is also a director of Parallel Research Group (PRG) in Thailand which he founded in 1996. The mission of the group is to explore cluster computing technology and it's application for Thailand. His research group has built many cluster software tools, which have been used around the world by many companies. In 1999, his team integrated the largest Beowulf cluster in Thailand at his university. This machine is the most powerful supercomputer in Thailand. He is now actively involved in cluster computing activities and serving as a regional executive member of IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing since 1999.

James B. (Trey) White, ORNL
Trey White received a Bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Rhodes College in 1992, and a Master's in physics from The Ohio State University in 1996. Since shifting his primary interest from computational nuclear physics to applied high-performance computation, White has gained expertise in a wide variety of parallel architectures and programming paradigms in a short time. At the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), he provided application support and documentation for the Convex Exemplar SPP-1200, SGI Power Challenge, Cray YMP, and Cray T90. In addition, he had primary responsibility for application support, training, and documentation for the then-new Cray T3E. As an OSC employee at the ERDC MSRC, one of the four major HPC centers for the Department of Defense, White was a computational scientist in the Computational Migration Group. He successfully migrated various scientific applications optimized for the Cray C90 to parallel platforms, particularly the SGI/Cray Origin2000 and the IBM SP2. Since arriving at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1999, White has been the primary contact for application support and documentation for the IBM RS/6000 SP and Compaq AlphaServer SCs in the Center for Computational Sciences. To complement his interest and expertise in the practical aspects of applied high-performance computing, White pursues research in improved techniques for scientific computation, from numerical algorithms to parallel paradigms and programming languages.

Derek Wright, University of Wisconsin, USA
Derek Wright is a systems programmer for the Condor Team in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been a member of the Condor Team since 1995 and has been working as full-time academic staff since 1997. Derek helped bring Condor to the UW Physics department while working as a system administrator for UW's Phenomenology Group and pursuing Computer Science and Physics degrees as an undergraduate student. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1997 with honors. His interests in computational physics, chaos theory, and other compute-intensive fields led him towards distributed computing research. He recognized that work on enabling technologies such as Condor allowed him to explore his interests in computer science while simultaneously supporting many other branches of science.

Before moving to Madison, Wright lived in New Orleans, and studied jazz bass. When he's not working on high throughput computing research, he is often playing music from around the world. He performs regularly in Madison, playing Middle Eastern stringed instruments such as the ud and saz, or jazz acoustic bass. He also plays in a Brazilian percussion band (www.handphibians.com), and in many other musical settings.

Vendors Speaker Bios

Sean Dague, IBM
Sean Dague graduated from Wesleyan University in 1998 with a Bachelor's degree in Physics. He joined IBM Global Services after graduation, where he took a lead roll in FanMail 2000, one of the projects in IBM's Sydney 2000 Olympic effort. During this time he became an avid fan of Linux, and open source development practices. He has recently become part of the Linux Technology Center at IBM, where he works as a developer on LUI (Linux Utility for Cluster Installation), and is the team lead for the new System Configurator project.

John Levesque, Times N Systems
John Levesque is the director of software development at Times N Systems of Austin, TX. He is in charge of the group that is developing Windows and UNIX-based software, including application porting and optimization software. Levesque has been in high-performance computing for more than 30 years. Before joining Times N Systems. Levesque was the director of the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York. At IBM Research, he headed a group that focused HPC expertise within the company and supplied users with application porting and optimization solutions for IBM SP hardware. Previous to IBM, Levesque ran Applied Parallel Research (APR), a small California software company which developed tools for parallelizing applications. He holds Master's degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

	2001 Plenary Speaker Bios Daniel A. Reed, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Dan Reed serves as director of the Alliance and principal investigator for the Alliance cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. In this role he assumes overall responsibility for the Alliance and NCSA in its role as the leading edge site for the Alliance. Reed is also head of the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reed is a member of several national collaborations, including the Center for Grid Application Development Software, the Department of Energy (DOE) Next Generation Internet Initiative, and the DOE Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He also serves on the advisory committee of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. Tim Mattson, Global Manager DP Systems, PGS Data Processing Tim Mattson is a kayaker. He lives for the surf, white water, and miles of high speed cruising in his sea kayak. To support his habit, he works on parallel and distributed computing at Intel. Tim's academic credentials include a full rack of degrees in Chemistry, a Post Doc at Caltech (working on the Caltech/JPL hypercubes), and a stint at Yale as a research scientist in the computer science department. It was at Yale (in 1990) where he started his work in cluster computing turning networks of desktop workstations into supercomputers. In 1993, he joined Intel and moved to massively parallel supercomputers culminating in his work on Intel's teraFLOP computer project. These days—when not on the water—he works on software technologies to effectively exploit concurrency. This includes shared memory computers (he's one of the authors of OpenMP), clusters (see http://www.openclustergroup.org/), and peer-to-peer computing.

	Applications Track Speaker Bios Sarah Anderson, LCSE / University of Minnesota, USA Sarah Anderson is a researcher at the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, directed by Dr. Paul Woodward at the University of Minnesota. Hans-Peter Bunge, Princeton University, USA Hans-Peter Bunge is an assistant professor of geophysics at Princeton's Geosciences Department. His research interests are focused on understanding the internal dynamics of the Earth. Using massively-parallel 3-D spherical computational simulations, he is working extensively on problems related to convection in the solid Earth mantle. Mantle convection is responsible for plate tectonic and continental drift, and represents together with the circulation of the Earth's core, the oceans, and the atmosphere one of Earth's four main circulatory systems. In high-performance computing, Bunge's main research interests lie in distributed computing. In 1992 he used an 16-Processor IBM-RS6000/560 cluster at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for global mantle convection studies. More recently, he and his group built a 140 processor Beowulf cluster at Princeton's Geosciences department for large-scale geophysical simulations, funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Bunge received his Ph.D. in geophysics in 1996 from the UC-Berkeley. Much of his research is performed at the Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) both at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Bunge is currently the co-director of Princeton's computational physics PICASSO program. Karen D. Camarda, University of Kansas, USA Karen D. Camarda received her Bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1991, and her Master's and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. As a graduate student and as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, she performed numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes. Currently she works in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Kansas porting a chemical reactor simulation to parallel and distributed computing environments. Weiyei Chen, Ames Laboratory Weiyei Chen received his Bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering in 1995 from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and his Master's degree in signal and information processing in 1998 from Peking University. He is now working toward his Master's degree in computer science at Iowa State University, where his thesis topic is to write a module for the MP_Lite message-passing library that uses the M-VIA OS bypass library to reduce the message latency and increase the bandwidth in Linux clusters. Stefano Cozzini, openMosix Project and INFM, Italy Stefano Cozzini is a developing scientist of INFM (Italian National Institute for Matter Physics) working at National Simulation Center DEMOCRITOS hosted at Sissa. He is now the coordinator of the IT activities within the center. Prior to coming at Sissa, S.C. was a member of the High Performance group at the Cineca Supercomputing Center in Bologna (Italy) for about two years. He earned a Phd in Physics from University of Padova (Italy) and he spent two years as Post-doc research at University of Sevilla (Spain) before joining the Cineca Center. His main professional present interest is in the field of High performance computing and Grdi Computing applied to computational physics. Robert Fiedler, CSAR, University of Illinois, USA Robert Fiedler received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. He has been the technical program manager at the UIUC Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) since 1998. In 1997, he was a senior technical consultant with Hewlett-Packard and before that he was a senior research programmer at NCSA where he developed a parallel astrophysics simulation package. At CSAR, he is a technical lead for integrating multiple engineering applications to perform large-scale, multidisciplinary, coupled, multiphysics simulations of complex systems. His interests include parallel application development and optimization, visualization, I/O, fluid dynamics, mesh adaptivity, and fluid structure interaction problems. Joshua Gray, University of Illinois, USA Joshua Gray graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1997, with a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He received his Master's degree in chemical engineering at UIUC in 2000, working on the propagation of localized corrosion events on aluminum under Dr. Richard C. Alkire. His current research is focused on the initiation of pitting corrosion on stainless steel, using complementary experimental and numerical approaches. The project includes moving code onto the Linux cluster and improving performance of the underlying PETSc library on the Linux cluster system. Anirudh Modi, Pennsylvania State University, USA Anirudh Modi received his Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1997 and his Master's degree in aerospace engineering from Penn State University in 1999. He has been designing and building Beowulf clusters for the university since 1998 and is involved in their maintenance and administration. He has worked with various parallel numerical codes since 1997. His interests include numerical programming, high performance computing, computer graphics and virtual reality. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science at Penn State University where he is conducting research on the use of real-time parallel simulations coupled to virtual reality for air-traffic control applications. Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA Shirley Moore received her Ph.D. in computer sciences from Purdue University in 1990. From 1990 to 1992 she was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Hope College in Holland, MI. From 1993 until 1997, she was a research associate with the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee. She is the associate director of research at ICL. She has been the Programming Environment and Training (PET) Programming Tools academic lead at three DoD Major Shared Resource Centers. As part of PET, she taught a number of training courses on parallel programming tools. She has participated in the design and development of PAPI. She is a member of the Parallel Tools Consortium Steering Committee and serves as project coordinator for that organization.

	Systems Track Speaker Bios Ray Bean, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA Ray Bean is a UNIX systems administrator with 6 years experience focusing on automation of operations in UNIX environments. He is currently the lead database integrator for the HPC Systems group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Neil Gorsuch, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA Neil Gorsuch was educated at Iowa State University in computer engineering. He co-founded an electronics R&D company in Irvine, CA, that created microporcessor-based oil well controllers, and then founded another company that created unique SCSI peripheral devices. After moving back to the Midwest, he worked at Motorola as a a system engineer at NCSA. He is married with two children, and enjoys biking, scuba diving, and renovating old houses. Dave Jackson, University of Utah, USA Dave Jackson is a senior systems researcher and developer who focuses on the design and implementation of systems and middleware for high-end and next-generation supercomputers and clusters. He designed, developed, and supports the Maui Scheduler, an advance reservation based optimizing back-fill scheduler, which is used at many of the country's largest supercomputers and clusters. Jackson developed scalable cluster resource management and meta-scheduling software including, the Wiki resource manager and Silver metascheduler to support the needs of the computational grid community. His research interests are optimizing resource utilization under real-world system constraints and developing highly robust, scalable system management software architectures. Jackson received his Bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering and his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science at Brigham Young University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science. Tim Mattson, Open Cluster Group (and Intel) Tim Mattson is a kayaker. He lives for the surf, white water, and miles of high-speed cruising in his sea kayak. To support his habit, he works on parallel and distributed computing at Intel. Mattson's academic credentials include a full rack of degrees in chemistry, a post-doc at Caltech (working on the Caltech/JPL hypercubes), and a stint at Yale as a research scientist in the computer science department. It was at Yale (in 1990) where he started his work in cluster computing, turning networks of desktop workstations into supercomputers. In 1993, he joined Intel and moved to massively parallel supercomputers culminating in his work on Intel's teraFlop computer project. These days - when not on the water - he works on software technologies to effectively exploit concurrency. This includes shared memory computers (he's one of the authors of OpenMP), clusters (see www.openclustergroup.org and peer-to-peer computing. Tom Roney, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA Tom Roney is a system engineer and a member of the Systems Group at NCSA for which he manages the system-monitoring environment. He has a Masters degree in technology management from Eastern Illinois University, and leads the system-monitoring effort for the Virtual Machine Room, a grid-development project, for the National Computational Science Alliance. Gary Skouson, PNNL Gary Skouson received his Master's degree from Brigham Young University in 1992. He did research on remote sensing, including recalibration of spaceborne radars using tropical rainforests. He worked at IBM in Rochester, MN until May 2000, where he was an administrator for the batch processing pool of over 1300 workstations, most of which were people's desktops. Skousen joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in May 2000 as a senior research scientist and works in the Molecular Science Computing Facility (MSCF) in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL). His interests include system administration, resource management and batch processing. Steven C. Timm, Fermilab Steven C. Timm is the lead designer for the Fermilab Linux computing farms in the operating systems support group of the Fermilab Computing Division in Batavia, IL. He has lead responsibility for security, vendor relations, evaluation and reliability protocols. His background is as an experimental high-energy physicist. Putchong Uthayopas, Open Cluster Group (and Intel) Putchong Uthayopas received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in electrical engineering from Chulalongkorn University, and Masters and Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, at Kasetsart University, Thailand. His major research interest is in parallel/ distributed computing, cluster/grid computing, and parallel software tools. He is also a director of Parallel Research Group (PRG) in Thailand which he founded in 1996. The mission of the group is to explore cluster computing technology and it's application for Thailand. His research group has built many cluster software tools, which have been used around the world by many companies. In 1999, his team integrated the largest Beowulf cluster in Thailand at his university. This machine is the most powerful supercomputer in Thailand. He is now actively involved in cluster computing activities and serving as a regional executive member of IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing since 1999. James B. (Trey) White, ORNL Trey White received a Bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Rhodes College in 1992, and a Master's in physics from The Ohio State University in 1996. Since shifting his primary interest from computational nuclear physics to applied high-performance computation, White has gained expertise in a wide variety of parallel architectures and programming paradigms in a short time. At the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), he provided application support and documentation for the Convex Exemplar SPP-1200, SGI Power Challenge, Cray YMP, and Cray T90. In addition, he had primary responsibility for application support, training, and documentation for the then-new Cray T3E. As an OSC employee at the ERDC MSRC, one of the four major HPC centers for the Department of Defense, White was a computational scientist in the Computational Migration Group. He successfully migrated various scientific applications optimized for the Cray C90 to parallel platforms, particularly the SGI/Cray Origin2000 and the IBM SP2. Since arriving at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1999, White has been the primary contact for application support and documentation for the IBM RS/6000 SP and Compaq AlphaServer SCs in the Center for Computational Sciences. To complement his interest and expertise in the practical aspects of applied high-performance computing, White pursues research in improved techniques for scientific computation, from numerical algorithms to parallel paradigms and programming languages. Derek Wright, University of Wisconsin, USA Derek Wright is a systems programmer for the Condor Team in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been a member of the Condor Team since 1995 and has been working as full-time academic staff since 1997. Derek helped bring Condor to the UW Physics department while working as a system administrator for UW's Phenomenology Group and pursuing Computer Science and Physics degrees as an undergraduate student. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1997 with honors. His interests in computational physics, chaos theory, and other compute-intensive fields led him towards distributed computing research. He recognized that work on enabling technologies such as Condor allowed him to explore his interests in computer science while simultaneously supporting many other branches of science. Before moving to Madison, Wright lived in New Orleans, and studied jazz bass. When he's not working on high throughput computing research, he is often playing music from around the world. He performs regularly in Madison, playing Middle Eastern stringed instruments such as the ud and saz, or jazz acoustic bass. He also plays in a Brazilian percussion band (www.handphibians.com), and in many other musical settings.

	Vendors Speaker Bios Sean Dague, IBM Sean Dague graduated from Wesleyan University in 1998 with a Bachelor's degree in Physics. He joined IBM Global Services after graduation, where he took a lead roll in FanMail 2000, one of the projects in IBM's Sydney 2000 Olympic effort. During this time he became an avid fan of Linux, and open source development practices. He has recently become part of the Linux Technology Center at IBM, where he works as a developer on LUI (Linux Utility for Cluster Installation), and is the team lead for the new System Configurator project. John Levesque, Times N Systems John Levesque is the director of software development at Times N Systems of Austin, TX. He is in charge of the group that is developing Windows and UNIX-based software, including application porting and optimization software. Levesque has been in high-performance computing for more than 30 years. Before joining Times N Systems. Levesque was the director of the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York. At IBM Research, he headed a group that focused HPC expertise within the company and supplied users with application porting and optimization solutions for IBM SP hardware. Previous to IBM, Levesque ran Applied Parallel Research (APR), a small California software company which developed tools for parallelizing applications. He holds Master's degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

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