Summer Institute on Advanced Computation

Speakers

This site contains the "web-based proceedings" of Summer Institute on Advanced Computation that focused on high- performance high-throughput Cluster Computing.

Speakers listed in the order of their presentations.

Dr Miron Livny Professor Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin 1210 W.Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706-1685 phone: 608-262-1204 fax:: 608-262-9777 Email: miron@cs.wisc.edu
Aug 20, 2000

Dr. Livny received his Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1984. His interests include High Throughput Computing, Visual Data Exploration, Experiment Management Environments, and Performance Evaluation.
Dr Prabhaker Mateti Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering 303 Russ Engineering Center Wright State University Dayton, OH 45435 phone: 775-5114 Email: pmateti@cs.wright.edu Aug 21, Aug 22, Aug 23, 2000

Dr. Mateti received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, his Masters' in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India in 1972. He has directed nineteen MS theses and three Ph.D dissertations. Dr. Mateti is interested in distributed computing, operating systems, programming language design, formal aspects of Software engineering, and Internet Security.
Mr Joshua Simons, Distinguished Engineer in High Performance Computing Sun Microsystems Email: joshua.simons@east.sun.com Aug 21, 2000

Mr. Simmons joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 from Thinking Machines Corporation, where he worked in a variety of software areas related to high performance computing during his 8 years with the company. He holds an S.M. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Mr Lee Liming Project Manager Bldg 221, B-139 Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 phone: 630-252-5648 Email: liming@mcs.anl.gov Aug 21, 2000

Lee Liming is the project manager for the Distributed Systems Laboratory in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory. A recent addition to the Globus Team, Lee supports the Globus Project's collaborative activities at Argonne, the USC Information Sciences Institute, and various other locations.
Dr Kumaran Kalyanasundaram Systems Engineering Specialist Technology Center, SGI 2060 E.Algonquin Rd Schaumburg, IL 60173 Phone: 847-925-2913 Fax: 847-925-2930/2931 Email: kumaran@vonkarman.chicago.sgi.com Aug 21, 2000

Kumaran Kalyanasundaram received his Ph.D in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Iowa State University in November, 1994. His dissertation involved developing a parallel surface reconstruction algorithm for recreating 2-manifold surfaces in 3D. Kumaran has been with SGI since February 1995. He works for the Technology Center and is involved in tuning and benchmarking scientific applications on SGI's high end architectures. Kumaran also teaches performance tuning classes at various universities. For the past few months Kumaran has been the Technical Lead for Linux clusters within the Technology Center. Kumaran has given talks on clusters, and demonstrated an SGI 1200 compute cluster, at Linux World, Comdex, and SGI's and Linux Journal's Linux University.
Dr Mario Lauria, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science 395 Dreese Lab 2015 Neil Avenue The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210-1277 Phone: 614-292-7027 Fax: 614-292-2911 Email: lauria@cis.ohio-state.edu Aug 23, 2000

Mario Lauria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the Ohio State University. His interests include commodity cluster architectures and high performance communication software for clusters. He has worked on a number of cluster projects including Fast Messages (FM), HPVM, and the NT Supercluster at NCSA. Mario Lauria holds a Laurea degree in EE and a Ph.D in EE and CS from the "Federico II" University of Naples, Italy, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

last revised:11/16/00 06:26:45 PM

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