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CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Ian FosterProfessional Preparation
Appointments:
Synergistic ActivitiesPedagogical: Development of widely used texts: Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming (Prentice Hall,1990), Designing and Building Parallel Programs (www.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp, Addison-Wesley, 1995),nd The Grid: Blueprint for a Future Computing Infrastructure (www.mkp.com/grid, Morgan Kaufmann,1999); also, teaching of numerous related tutorials. Research tools: Development of software tools and systems that have seen extensive use in research and teaching, including: Program Composition Notation compiler and runtime system, Parallel Spectral Transform Shallow Water Model, Nexus communication library (www.mcs.anl.gov/nexus), Globus distributed computing toolkit (www.globus.org). Service: Including: numerous program committees and review committees; chair of numerous technical workshops and conferences, including IEEE HPDC 98, IEEE Frontiers 99; Software Architect,1995 I-WAY,ACM/IEEE SC 95;SC XY steering committee,1999-present;Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems,1997-present. Leadership: Convenor of the Grid Forum, an international organization focused on defining standards and best practices in Gridcomputing (www.gridforum.org). Awards and Honors: British Computer Society Award for Technical Innovation, 1989;Best paper award, IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 95 Conference,1995;GII Next Generation Award,1997. Related Publications:
Other Significant Publications:
Current Collaborators:David Abramson (Monash); Deb Agarwal (LBNL); Richard Alkire (UIUC); Bruce Allen (Wisc-Milwaukee); John Anderson (ILM); Paul Avery (Florida); Ruth Aydt (UIUC); Ray Bair (PNNL); Steve Barnard (NASA Ames); Fran Berman (UCSD); Robert Biswas (NASA Ames); Maxine Brown (UIC); Randy Butler (NCSA); Charlie Catlett (ANL/Chicago); David Ceperley (NCSA); Mani Chandy (Caltech); Ann Chervenak (USC); Andrew Chien (UCSD); Alok Choudhary (NWU); Karl Czajkowski (USC); H.Dachsel (PNNL); Terrence Disz (ANL); Jack Dongarra (Tennessee); John Drake (ORNL); Steve Fitzgerald (USC); Dennis Gannon (Indian ); Jonathan Geisler (NWU); Bill Gropp (ANL); Steve Hammond (NCAR); Robert Harrison (PNNL); Bill Hibbard (Wisc-Madison); Bob Hollebeck (Pennsylvania); Rob Jacob (Chicago); Chris Johnson (Utah); Andrew Johnson (UIC); Lennart Johnsson (Houston); Nancy Johnston (LBNL); Nick Karonis (NIU); Ricky Kend ll (Ames); Ken Kennedy (Rice); Steven Kent (Chicago); Carl Kesselman (USC); Dave Kohr (SGI); Rakesh Krishnaiyer (Intel); Tim Kuhfuss (ANL); Stephen Lau (LBNL); Craig Lee (Aerospace); Jason Leigh (UIC); Kai Li (Princeton); Bob Lindell (USC); Miron Livny (Wisc-Madison); Stu Loken (LBNL); Bob Lucas (LBNL); Rusty Lusk (ANL/Chicago); Andrea Malagoli (Chicago); Joe Mambretti (Northwestern); Rick McMullen (Indiana); Michael McRobbie (Indiana); Reagan Moore (SDSC); Richard Mount (SLAC); Klar Nahrstedt (UIUC); Cliff Neuman (USC); Harvey Newman (Caltech); Jarek Nieploch (PNNL); Jason Novotny (NCSA); Mike Papk (ANL/Chicago); Manish Parashar (Rutgers); Larry Price (ANL); Dan Reed (UIUC); John Reynders (LANL); Bob Rosner (Chicago); Alain Roy (Chicago); Subhash Saini (NASA Ames); Chuck Salisbury (ANL); Volker Sander (Juelich); Ed Seidel (MPI); Larry Smarr (NCSA); John Shalf (NCSA); Arie Shoshani (LBNL); Rok Sosic (Active Tools); Paul Stelling (Aerospace); Rick Stevens (ANL/Chicago); Wai-Mo Suen (WUStL); Valerie Taylor (NWU); George Thiruvathukal (Loyola); Brian Tierney (LBNL); Michael Tobis (Wisc-Madison); Brian Toonen (ANL); Gene Tsudik (Irvine); Steven Tuecke (ANL); Dean Williams (LLNL); Rich Wolski (Tennessee); Patrick Worley (ORNL); Rob Van der Wijngaart (NASA Ames); Gregor von Laszewski (ANL); Maurice Yarrow (NASA Ames); Lou Zechter (NASA Ames). Advisees and Postgraduate Scholars: (2 Ph.D.,6 Postdoc) Rakesh Krishnaiyer (Intel), Ravi Nanjundiah (Indian Institute of Science), Juan Restrepo (U.Arizona), Michael Tobis (U.Wisconsin),Warren Smith (NASA Ames), George Thiruvathukal (Loyola ), Gregor von Laszewski (Argonne), Ming Xu (Platform Computing). Thesis Advisor: Keith Clark (Imperial College, London) |
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