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Plenary Speaker Bios Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma, USA Kelvin Droegemeier joined the University of Oklahoma faculty in September, 1985 after receiving his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois. Dr. Droegemeier's research interests lie in thunderstorm dynamics and predictability, variational data assimilation, mesoscale dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, massively parallel computing, and aviation weather. He also is interested in the societal applications of mesoscale meteorology and economic development. His current research focuses on storm-scale ensemble prediction using fine-scale nonhydrostatic models, the mechanisms by which convective-scale flows adjust to imposed disturbances, application of variational techniques to data analysis and radar data quality control, and the detection of hazardous local weather using dynamically adaptive radars. Droegemeier directs the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), which is a graduated NSF Science and Technology Center that he co-founded in 1989. He also is deputy director, and co-founder, of the new NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), and leads an NSF Large Information Technology Research (ITR) grant known as Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD). A collaborative project among nine institutions, LEAD is creating technologies that allow meteorological tools and remote sensing systems to interact with weather. In 2004, Droegemeier was appointed by President George W. Bush to a 6-year term on the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation that also provides science policy guidance to the Congress and President.
Thom H. Dunning, Director, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thom H. Dunning, Jr. was recently appointed the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He had been director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before joining the University of Tennessee, he was responsible for supercomputing and networking for the University of North Carolina System and professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dunning has authored nearly 150 scientific publications on topics ranging from advanced techniques for molecular calculations to computational studies of high power lasers and the chemical reactions involved in combustion. He was the scientific leader of DOE's first "Grand Challenge" in computational chemistry. Dunning is a member of the American Chemical Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received DOE's E.O. Lawrence Award in 1996. Dunning obtained his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1965 from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his doctorate in chemistry/chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1970.
Mark Seager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Mark Seager received his B.S. Degree
in Mathematics and Astrophysics at the University of New
Mexico at Albuquerque in 1979 and received his Ph.D. in
Numerical Analysis from the University of Texas at Austin
in 1984. Mark started working at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in 1983 and has been working in the field of
parallel processing ever since. He manages the Platforms
Program for the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI)
Program at LLNL, successfully deploying architectures such
as ASCI Blue Pacific, ASCI White and the powerful LLNL
Linux clusters (MCR and Thunder). He manages the IBM contract
for ASCI Purple and BlueGene/L. His current interests include
advanced technology and scalable systems architecture,
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Applications Track Speaker Bios George Delic, HiPERiSM Consulting, USA George Delic majored in physics for the B.S. (University of New South Wales) and received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics (Australian National University). He went on to establish a career in computational physics that spanned work at research and development centers in Europe and the USA . After this, a tenured faculty appointment followed with academic duties in service, teaching and research. Delic’s research record of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications demonstrates a wide range of interests centered in advanced numerical algorithms for high-performance computational platforms. He has more than three decades of programmer/analyst experience on serial, vector, Shared Memory Parallel and Distributed Memory Parallel computer platforms. After arrival in the USA, Delic developed skills (and a training program) in vector supercomputing and published research on supercomputer workload performance. He then entered into government contracting where he acted as a Key Appointment in establishing the U.S. EPA Scientific Customer Support group at the EPA’s supercomputer center. During this tenure Dr. Delic acted as project lead in software development, conducted outreach/training at customer sites, and organized/edited technical conferences/proceedings on supercomputing and high-performance algorithms for environmental models. Delic has applied his extensive experience in government
contracting to establish a consultancy (HiPERiSM Consulting,
LLC) that specializes in technology transfer to enhance
programmer skill levels in OpenMP, MPI and hybrid OpenMP+MPI
programming. Specialized courses have sensitized stake-holders
in legacy codes to the need for code and performance portability
across current and future computer architectures. The importance
of software tools and the programming environment as a
whole have been major components of the consultancy. Delic’s
current interests include, evaluation of compiler performance,
portability across parallel computer architectures, and
hybrid programming models that match trends in clustered
parallel computing. John Fettig, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA John
Fettig is a research assistant working with
the Performance Engineering and Computational Methods
(PECM) group at NCSA. He is investigating methods for
the solution of linear systems of equations on high-performance
computing platforms, in the interest of solving partial
differential equations using finite elements and finite
difference schemes. Fettig holds a Masters of Science
in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois,
where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Science
and Engineering. Sheikh Ghafoor, Mississippi State University, USA Sheikh K. Ghafoor is a research associate at the Center
for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University.
He is engaged in research on alternative architectures
and implementation strategies for computational Web Portals
that extend the user desktop by providing a seamless access
to remote computational resources. His research also includes
developing infrastructure supports for adaptive parallel
applications in a distributed computing environment. Mr.
Ghafoor received an MS in computer science from the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State
University, and he expects to receive his Ph.D. in the
summer of 2005. His research interests include adaptive
parallel systems, parallel and distributed computing on
clusters and Grid. Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA Gerhard Klimeck is the Technical Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since December 2003. He was the Technical Group Supervisor for the Applied Cluster Computing Technologies Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, genetic algorithms, and parallel image processing. Gerhard developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO
3-D) for multimillion atom simulations and continues to
expand NEMO 1-D. Previously he was a member of technical
staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments
where he served as manager and principal architect of the
Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO 1-D) program. Dr. Klimeck
received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University and his
German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr-University
Bochum. Dr. Klimeck's work is documented in more than 110
peer-reviewed publications and more than 180 conference
presentations. He is a senior member of IEEE and member
of APS, HKN and TBP. More information about his work can
be found at http://ece.purdue.edu/~gekco. Manojkumar Krishnan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Manojkumar Krishnan is a senior research scientist in the Applied Computer Science Group, Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Krishnan's research interests include high-performance computing, cluster computing, HPC programming models, and interprocessor communications. Krishnan is working with the High Performance Computing
group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory towards
the research and development of the Global Arrays toolkit,
ARMCI, and Common Component Architecture. Krishnan authored
and co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed conference/journal
papers. Rick Kufrin, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Rick Kufrin is a senior member of the
technical staff at the University of Illinois' National
Center for Supercomputing Applications. He joined NCSA
in 1987 and has worked in a number of areas at the center,
including high-performance computing, massively parallel
processing, artificial intelligence, software tool design,
and training/consulting. Rick has authored or co-authored
numerous conference papers, technical articles and book
chapters covering topics in high-performance computing
and AI and is a frequent speaker on these subjects. He
holds a master's degree in computer science from UIUC with
a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
He is the originator and technical lead for the PerfSuite
software project that will be covered in this tutorial. Ding Li, Purdue University,USA Ding Li is a senior researcher in the
Mechanical Enginneering School of Purdue University. He
earned his Ph.D. degree from China in 1992. Before joining
Purdue University in 2005, he was a research associate
professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Kent Milfeld, TACC/University of Texas at Austin, USA Kent Milfeld received his Ph.D. in Chemical
Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. After spending
several years as a faculty member at the University of
Houston teaching chemistry and numerical analysis, and
serving as the director for computational chemistry he
moved to Austin, Texas and joined the University of Texas
HPC group at the supercomputer center. Over the past 17
years at the center, now named the Texas Advanced Computing
Center (TACC), Kent has occupied his time directing the
HPC training programs, teaching computational chemistry,
consulting, and collaborating on computational projects
such as GridChem. Baha Y. Mirghani, North Carolina State University,USA Baba Y. Mirghani is a Ph.D. student in computer-aided engineering in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. His research interests are in parallel performance analysis, grid-computing application, inverse problems, and optimization. |
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Systems Track Speaker Bios Chung-Hsing Hsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory,USA Chung-Hsing Hsu is a postdoctoral research associate in the Research & Development in Advanced Network Technology (RADIANT) team of the Computer & Computational Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests span the areas of software-hardware coordination. He is currently investigating high-performance power-aware computing. Hsu received a B.S. in National Chiao-Tung University
in Taiwan in 1988, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science
from Rutgers University in 1994 and 2003, respectively.
He is a professional member of the ACM and the ACM SINGLAN
group. Tong Liu is a systems engineer in the
Scalable Systems Group at Dell. His current research interests
are High Performance Computing Cluster Management, high-speed
interconnects, network attached storage and High Availability
Linux Beowulf Cluster. Prior to joining Dell, he was architect
and lead developer of High Availability Open Source Cluster
Application Resources (HA-OSCAR). Tong has M.S. degree
in Compute Science from Louisiana Tech University. Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA Chokchai “Box” Leangsuksun is an associate professor in computer science and in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology (CEnIT) at Louisiana Tech University. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in 1989 and 1995 respectively. His research interests include:
Before joining Louisiana Tech University in early 2002, Leangsuksun was a member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs Innovation, from 1995-2002 and was responsible in many key research and development roles in various strategic products. Within a short time, he has established his name and research recognitions by founding and co-chairing a high availability and performance workshop, serving as program committee in various conferences/workshops (e.g. IEEE Cluster, Grid Computing Education), releasing the first HA-Beowulf cluster software, writing articles featured in major technical journals/magazines, and giving presentations in highly regarded conferences. He has also collaborated with various research groups and national and industrial labs, which include Oak Ridge National Lab, NCSA, LAM/MPI, Dell, Intel, and Ericsson. In March 2004, he released the HA-OSCAR beta version,
which was the first field-grade High Availability and Performance
Beowulf cluster with transparent recovery. The release
has attracted considerable interest from the HPC research
and industry community. Martin W. Margo, SDSC/San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Martin W. Margo received his BA in mathematics-computer
science from the University of California, San Diego in
2003. His main interest is high-performance storage systems
and high-performance parallel file systems for large scientific
clusters. As an HPC systems engineer at San Diego Supercomputer
Center (SDSC), he has been working with multi-teraflops
Linux clusters at SDSC. He also has been working with systems
engineers, Storage Area Network (SAN) engineers, as well
as researchers from IBM, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL),
and Cluster File Systems (CFS) to perform parallel file
systems integration into state-of-the-art production Linux
clusters. In 2003, he and a team from SDSC and IBM research
won the bandwidth challenge, receiving the Commercial Tools
award in Super Computing (SC) 2003 with the entry "On-Demand
File Accesss Over a Wide Area with GPFS." Margo, and collaborators
from ANL and SDSC, won the Tools award with their entry "High
Performance Grid-Enabled Data Movement with GridFTP." Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Jarek Nieplocha is a Laboratory Fellow
and acting technical group leader of the Applied Computer
Science Group in Computational Sciences and Mathematics
Division of the Fundamental Science Division at Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His area of research
has been in high-performance computing, specifically interprocessor
communication, parallel I/O, and programming models. He
received four best paper awards at: IPDPS'03, Supercomputing'98,
IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC-5, and
IEEE Cluster'03 conference, and an R&D-100 award. He
authored and co-authored over 70 peer reviewed papers and
received one patent. Nieplocha participated in MPI Forum
in defining the MP-2 standard. He
is also a member of editorial board of International Journal
of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE). Douglas Pase is the High Performance Computing Team Lead for eServer xSeries Performance Development and Analysis group at IBM. He has been an active participant in High Performance Computing since 1982, at NASA Ames Research Center, Cray Research, Inc., IBM, and elsewhere. At Floating-Point Systems he was co-developer of the Flo programming language and compiler for the FPS Gemini series. At NASA Ames he authored an early study on the future of supercomputing. At Cray Research he co-developed the CRAFT programming model, a predecessor of OpenMP. He also developed the MPP Apprentice performance analysis tool for the Cray T3D. At IBM he developed the Dynamic Probe Class Library, for dynamically instrumenting high-performance parallel applications for performance analysis. He currently studies all aspects of the performance of Linux Clusters for high-performance scientific and technical work loads. He is an author on seven patents, and more than 20 technical papers. Dr. Pase received the degree of Bachelors of Science in
Mathematics and Computer Science from Northern Arizona
University, in Flagstaff, Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. in
Computer Science and Engineering from the Oregon Graduate
Institute of Science and Technology, in Beaverton, Oregon. James E. Prewett, HPC@UNM, 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. Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Jon Stearley was trained in Electrical
Engineering (B.S, University of New Mexico, 1993). He wrote
brain-imaging software using Khoros for three years and
then spent five years as lead system administrator for
the UNM Computer Science Department. He joined Sandia Laboratories
in 2001 and spent two years as Cplant release manager.
He now works on improving supercomputer RAS via Red Storm
system testing, development of quantitative metrics, and
researching data mining of system logs. Michael Treaster, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Michael Treaster NCSA/University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, USA Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA Matthew Woitaszek is a Ph.D. student
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests
include performance of cluster and supercomputer systems,
hierarchical storage, and data replication for distributed
climate modeling workloads. Roman Wyrzkowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Roman Wyrzkowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland |
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Vendors Speaker Bios Ben Smith, IBM. John Josephakis, Vice President, DataDirect Networks, USA John Josephakis is Vice President, HPC Worldwide Sales
DataDirect Networks. Prior to DataDirect, Mr. Josephakis
has spent over 15 years in Management roles in the field
of high technology. His prior experiences include Operations
and Marketing roles at Bottom Line Distribution, and Sales
Management at Peipheral Vision Inc. Mr.Josephakis
holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics
from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from
St. Edwars University in Austin Texas. Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, USA Patrick Geoffray is a member of the software development team at Myricom where he authored various middlewares running on GM/Myrinet such as MPICH-GM and VI-GM. More recently, he led the firmware development effort for the Myrinet Express (MX) interface. Geoffray was born in Lyon, France, and received his Ph.D.
in computer science from the University of Lyon in 2001.
His interests lie in high-performance computing and high-performance
storage. Duncan Poole. Doug Miles, Portland Group (PGI), USA Doug has been working in High Performance Technical Computing,
primarily from an applications perspective, since 1985. He
held various positions in math library development, applications
engineering and technical marketing at Floating Point Systems
from 1985 until 1993, when he joined the Portland Group
(PGI). At PGI, Doug worked as a technical liaison between
end-users and the compiler engineering team from 1993 until
2000, when The Portland Group was acquired by STMicroelectronics.
From 2000 through 2002, he was the engineering project
manager on an ST-internal project to create a set of optimizing
C/C++ compilers for STMicrolectronics' line of ST100 digital
signal processors. In early 2003, Doug became the
Director of Advanced Compilers and Tools at STMicroelectronics,
and assumed primary responsibility for managing the Portland
Group Compiler Technology business unit. Richard Sawyer, American Power Conversion (APC), USA Richard Sawyer. Dr. Stephen Wheat is a Principal Scientist in Intel's HPC (High Performance Computing) Program Office. He interacts with the HPC end-user community to educate them on Intel architecture and to participate with users in building complex computing solutions using standard Intel building blocks. Wheat also acts as an end-user advocate on behalf of the HPC end-user community to provide feedback into Intel's multiple business units responsible for strategies and product decisions. Wheat has a wide breadth of experience that gives him a unique perspective in understanding large-scale HPC deployments. He was the Advanced Development manager for the Storage Components Division, the manager of the RAID Products Development group, the manager of the Workstation Products Group software and validation groups, and manager of the systems software group within the Supercomputing Systems Division (SSD). At SSD, he was a Product Line Architect and was the systems software architect for the ASCI Red system. Before joining Intel in 1995, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories, performing leading research in distributed systems software. While at Sandia, he created and led the SUNMOS and PUMA/Cougar programs. Wheat is a Gordon Bell Prize winner and has been awarded Intel's prestigious Achievement Award. He has a patent in Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems. Wheat holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has several publications on the subjects of load balancing, inter-process communication, and parallel I/O in large-scale HPC systems. Outside of Intel, he is a commercial multi-engine pilot and a certified flight instructor.
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