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Prof.
Robert A. Ballance received his Ph.D. from University of California,
Berkeley, in 1989. He is presently Research Associate Professor of
Computer Science at UNM, and Associate Director,
AHPCC. Dr. Ballance's interests include object-oriented software design and programming
techniques; software engineering; user interface design; understanding,
maintaining, and controlling software and
hypermedia systems; system administration; and cluster computing. His compiler
research includes the development and applications of the Program
Dependence Web. Dr. Ballance has published numerous articles
and technical reports in system design, user interfaces, programming language
theory, and object-oriented
application frameworks.
As the Associate Director for Computing Systems and Systems Research
at AHPCC, Dr. Ballance oversees all high-performance computing systems associated
with the Center., including the 512-processor Los Lobos
cluster and the 128-processor RoadRunner cluster. He is co-PI and Project Manager
for the 64-processor Vista Azul high-performance computing system awarded to
AHPCC under a IBM SUR grant, and leads systems
research on this hybrid architecture in local/remote scientific and visual computing.
Dr. Ballance plays a guiding role in the adoption and evolution of Access Grid
remote teleconferencing.
Dr. Ballance is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society and
serves on the Board of Directors for the Linux Clusters Institute and the New
Mexico Information Technology and Software Association. He
has recently served as the Co-Chair of the Workshop on Human-Factors in the Access
Grid and was a member of the program committee for the 2001 Workshop on Advanced
Computing Environments held in conjunction with
the Tenth IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing in San Francisco,
California.
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