Prof. Bill Gropp Finalist for High Performance Computing Leader

Oct 20 2009

InsideHPC.com has selected University of Illinois computer science professor Bill Gropp as a finalist for their HPC Community Leadership Award.  Gropp serves as co-PI for the Blue Waters petascale computing project to build the world’s fastest computer at Illinois, and is the deputy director for research of the University’s Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.

Prof. Gropp’s best known legacy to the HPC community is the MPI standard. Many people suggest that node level parallelism will run out of sensible programming paradigms long before inter-node – largely due to MPI scaling well beyond the scale of resources around at the times of its introduction. Gropp can be regularly heard arguing how MPI can evolve to keep our millions of lines of ‘legacy’ applications scaling to systems with millions of cores, and he has made major contributions in hierarchical numerical methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. This year he lead the SC09 technical program and was a major contributor to several other conference technical programs.

The HPC Community Leadership award “recognizes the people and organizations who have persevered through technology, budget or organizational challenges to place innovative HPC solutions in the hands of users in business, engineering, technology, and science.”

To vote for Prof. Gropp, please visit http://insidehpc.com and place your vote in the right-hand section of the page.