CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Fran Berman

Professional Preparation

Appointments:

• February, 2001–present Director San Diego Supercomputer Center
• February, 2001–present Director National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
• July, 1993–present Professor U.C. San Diego
• July, 1987–June, 1993 Associate Professor U.C. San Diego
• July, 1984–June, 1987 Assistant Professor U.C. San Diego
• August, 1979–July, 1984 Assistant Professor Purdue University

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Synergistic Activities

Dr. Berman is a Fellow of the ACM and has served on numerous editorial boards, steering committees, and program and conference committees in the areas of parallel computing and Grid computing. She has been Program Chair of the Heterogeneous Computing Workshop and IPDPS Conference and Program Co-Chair of the High Performance Distribute Computing Conference. A member of the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W) since its inception a decade ago, Dr. Berman has served as co-chair of CRA-W, is a member of its steering committee, and has served as General Chair and Program Chair of the 1999 Careers Workshop for Women.

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Related Publications:

1. H. Casanova, A. Legrand, Z. Zaogordnov, and F. Berman, ‘Heuristics for Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications in Grid Environments,” Proceedings of the 2000 Heterogeneous Computing Workshop.
2. H. Casanova, G. Obertelli, R. Wolski and F. Berman, “The AppLeS Parameter Sweep Template: User-Level Scheduling Middleware for the Grid,” Best paper finalist, Proceedings of Supercomputing 2000.
3. Berman, F., “High-Performance Schedulers,” book chapter for The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999.
4. Beck, M., Casanova, H., Dongarra, J., Moore, T., Planck, J., Berman, F. and Wolski, R., “Logistical Quality of Service in NetSolve,” to appear in the Special Issue on Network-Based Parallel and Distributed Computing of Computer Communications.
5. S. Smallen, Walfredo Cirne, Jaime Frey, Francine Berman, Rich Wolski, Mei-Hui Su, Carl Kesselman, Steve Young, Mark Ellisman, “Combining Workstations and Supercomputers to Support Grid Applications: The Parallel Tomography Experience,” Proceedings of the 2000 Heterogeneous Computing Workshop

Other Significant Publications:

1. W. Cirne and F. Berman, “A Model for Moldable Supercomputer Jobs,” Proceedings of IPDPS 2001.
2. F. Berman, R. Wolski, and Z. Zaogordnov, “Application Scheduling on the Information Power Grid,” [invited paper] International Journal of High Performance Computing, 14(3), Fall 2000.
3. M. Faerman, A. Su, R. Wolski, and F. Berman, “Adaptive Performance Prediction for Distributed Data-Intensive Applications,” Proceedings of Supercomputing ’99.
4. Berman, F., Wolski, R., Figueira, S., Schopf, J. and Shao, G., “Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks,” Proceedings of Supercomputing ’96.
5. Berman, F. and Wolski, R., “Scheduling from the Perspective of the Application,” (invited paper ), Proceedings of the 1996 High-Performance Distributed Computing Conference.

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Collaborators:

Micah Beck, Silvia Figueira, Jim Planck, Atsuko Takefusa, Henri Casanova, Jaime Frey, Jennifer Schopf, Steve Young, Walfredo Cirne, Andrew Grimshaw, Gary Shao, Rich Wolski, Holly Dail, Aubin Jarry, Shava Smallen, Dmitrii Zagorodnov, Jack Dongarra, Carl Kesselman, Michelle Strout, Mark Ellisman, Arnaud LeGrand, Alan Su, Marcio Faerman, Terry Moore, Mei-Hui Su

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors:

Ph.D. Dissertation advisors: Robert Ritchie (HP) and Michael Fischer (Yale University)

Thesis Advisees (last 5 years):

Leesa Hicks (Creedence Software Engineering), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University), Jennifer Schopf (Northwestern University), Walfredo Cirne (Universidade Federal da Paraiba), Gary Shao (will postdoc at UCSD)

Postdoctoral Advisees:

Rich Wolski (University of Tennessee), Henri Casanova (UC San Diego)

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