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Keynote Speaker Bios
Tilak Agerwala, Vice-President,
Systems, IBM Research
Tilak Agerwala is responsible for developing the next-generation
hardware and software technologies for embedded systems,
servers, and supercomputers for IBM. Dr. Agerwala's distinguished
career includes jointly developing the architectural foundations
of the RS6000 and was responsible for the systems architecture
and technology strategy of the RS/6000 SP (1992-1997),
the most successful parallel computer of all time. Dr Agerwala
received the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE in
1998 for outstanding contributions to the development of
high performance computers.
Jacubus N. Buur, Principal
Research Physicist, Shell International Exploration and
Production B.V.
Jacubus N. Buur is responsible for research initiatives
in subsurface imaging and exploration for Royal Dutch/Shell
via their GameChanger process. He has been instrumental
in developing key visualization technologies and has made
significant contributions to the adoption of clusters in
the petroleum industry with the early installation of large-scale
Linux clusters. Mr. Buur has been with the Royal Dutch/Shell
family of companies for 20 years.
John Picklo, Manager,
Mainframes and High Performance Computing, DaimlerChrysler
John Picklo is responsible for systems software and hardware
for all of the engineering mainframes and supercomputers
at the Chrysler Group. His background includes 25 years
of experience working with information technology in various
technical and consulting roles. Mr. Picklo's automotive
background includes experience designing and managing systems
to support computer-aided design at DaimlerChrysler, General
Motors, Nissan, and Toyota.
John Reynders, Vice-President,
Informatics, Celera Therapeutics
John Reynders is responsible for computational sciences,
algorithmics, software engineering, computer science, and
knowledge management efforts in support of drug discovery
and development at Celera Therapeutics. Previously, Dr.
Reynders served as Vice-President for Information Systems
at Celera Genomics where he was responsible for all supercomputing
capabilities, discovery software engineering, and enterprise
system infrastructure. Prior to Celera, Dr. Reynders worked
at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Los Alamos National Laboratory
where he managed the largest dedicated unclassified super
computer in the United States.
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Applications Track Speaker Bios
Stefano Cozzini,
Democritos INFM National Simulation Cente
Stephano Cozzini is a development scientist at INFM (Italian
National Institute for Matter Physics) working at National
Simulation Center DEMOCRITOS hosted at Sissa (Trieste,
Italy). He is presently coordinating all the IT activities
within the center and works an external consultant for
cluster and grid computing at ICTP (International Center
of Theoretical Physics). His main professional interests
are in the fields of high-performance computing and grid
computing appliced to computational physics.
Aaron Darling,
University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Aaron
Darling is a graduate student in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He entered
Simon's Rock College in 1997 and received an honorary
high school diploma in 1998. In 2000 he received a Bachelor
of Science degree from UW-Madison, where he elected to
pursue graduate studies the following year. In 2002 he
was awarded a National Library of Medicine Fellowship
for training in Computation and Informatics in Biology
and Medicine at UW-Madison.
In 2002 Aaron accepted a summer research internship working with Dr.
Wu-chun Feng at Los Alamos National Labs. Dr. Feng's group had recently
published several articles on a low-power, high-density Transmeta cluster
called Green Destiny. Impressed by the efficiency of Green Destiny, Aaron
could not help but 'imagine a beowulf cluster of these running BLAST.'
During this internship he began work on mpiBLAST, an open source parallelization
of BLAST. During his stay in Los Alamos he also discovered a passion
for mountain-biking and ultimate frisbee. Aaron's current research project
is methods for multiple genome alignment in the presence of inversions
and rearrangements.
M. Ehtesham
Hayder, Saudi Aramco
Dr. M. Ehtesham Hayder is a member of the Advanced Simulation
Support Team, EXPEC Computing Center, Saudi Aramco. He
worked at the Institute for Computational Mechanics in
Propulsion (ICOMP/NASA Glenn Research Center), Institute
for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE/NASA
Langley Research Center) and the Center for Research on
Parallel Computation (CRPC/Rice University) before joining
Saudi Aramco. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University,
NJ in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Ulisses T. Mello,
IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Dr. Ulisses T. Mello is a research scientist at IBM's
T. J. Watson Research Center and an adjunct associate research
scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory. He has more than 50 papers published in the
literature. Dr. Mello received his Ph.D. and M.A. in geology
from Columbia University, M.Sc. in geology from Federal
University of Ouro Preto and B.Sc. in geology from the
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. From 1987 to 1994 he worked
for the Petrobrás Research Center in large-scale
fluid and heat flow within sedimentary basins. During this
period, he was the principal architect and developer of
the Petrobrás basin simulation system for risk assessment.
In 1998, he received the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists (AAPG) Wallace Pratt Award for the best paper
published in AAPG Bulletin. His research interests are
basin modeling, 3D representation of geological structures,
4D seismic reservoir simulation, parallel computing, data
mining, and visualization in geosciences. Since 2000, Dr.
Mello has served as the IBM Research Relationship Manager
for the Chemical and Petroleum Industry sector.
Jim Prewett,
University of New Mexico, USA
James E. Prewett is a High Performance Computing Systems
Engineer at the Center for High Performance Computing at
the University of New Mexico. His primary responsibilities
there include maintaining high-performance-computing resources
and networks as well as leading the security team. His
primary interests are in security for high-performance-computing
systems and monitoring those systems.
Ying Xu, University
of California - Riverside, USA
Ying Xu received his B.E. degree in Computer Science from
Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China, in 1998. He is
currently a Ph.D. candidate of Computer Science at the
University of California, Riverside. His research interests
include operating systems, distributed systems, mobile
code and cluster computing.
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Systems Track Speaker Bios
Robert A.
Ballance, University of New Mexico, USA
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.
Tomoyuki
Hiroyasu, Doshisha University
Tomoyuki Hiroyasu is Associate Professor of the Department
of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Sciences at Doshisha
University.
1987 Doctor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University.
1987-1988 Research Associate in Waseda University
1988-2002 Research Associate in Doshisha University
2002-2003 Assistant Professor in Doshisha University
2003-Present Associate Professor in Doshisha University
He is working to develop optimization algorithms, such as gradient methods
and genetic algorithms. He is applying these algorithms to solve several
problems by computing simulations such as designing structures, finding
the best parameters in fluid dynamics problems, and determining protein
tertiary structures. To derive these solutions, huge computational costs
are needed, which is why he is also working for developing tools for
parallel, grid, and clusters.
Morris Jette,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Morris Jette is a computer scientist with the Integrated
Computational Resource Management Group at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. His primary research interest is computer
scheduling, from individual tasks and processors to distributed
applications running across a computational grid.
James H. Laros
III, Sandia National Labs, USA
James H. Laros III is employed by Sandia National Labs
as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff, where he
is currently involved in research and development of technologies
that can be applied to large cluster and MPP systems.
Nader Mohamed, University
of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Nader Mohamed obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Bahrain, Bahrain, in 1992 and M.Sc.
in Computer Science from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, USA, in 1998. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate
at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. His research interests
include network middleware, computer networks, cluster
and grid computing, and object-oriented distributed systems.
José Moriera, IBM,
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
José E. Moreira received B.S. degrees in physics
and electrical engineering in 1987 and an M.S. degree in
electrical engineering in 1990, all from the University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1995. Dr. Moreira is a Research Staff Member and Manager,
Modular System Software, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center. Since joining the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center in 1995, he has been involved in several high-performance
computing projects, including the Teraflop-scale ASCI Blue-Pacific
and ASCI White. Dr. Moreira is the author of over 30 publications
on high-performance computing. He is currently the spec
lead for the Java Community Process proposal to add multidimensional
arrays to Java. In the Blue Gene project, he is the system
software architect for this family of massively parallel
machines.
Michael S. Warren, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Michael S. Warren is a staff member in the Theoretical
Astrophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He
holds a Ph.D. (1994) in physics from the University of
California, Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in physics and B.S.
in engineering and applied science from the California
Institute of Technology (1988). His research in computational
astrophysics extends from modeling the behavior of supernova
explosions to understanding the structure and evolution
of the universe. Warren has been a frequent user of many
of the fastest parallel machines in the world for the past
15 years. He is a four-time winner of the Gordon Bell prize
for significant achievement in parallel processing (1998,
1997 [two], and 1992), and the co-winner of the Intel Grand
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