[Tccc] 2010 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing awarded to Professor William Gropp

2010 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing awarded to
Professor William Gropp

The IEEE Technical committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is happy to
announce that the 2010 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing
has been awarded to Professor William Gropp for outstanding
contributions to the development of the Message Passing Interface (MPI),
scalable implementations of MPI (MPICH-1 and MPICH2), domain
decomposition algorithms, and scalable tools for the parallel numerical
solution of PDEs (PETSc library).

William Gropp is the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in the Department
of Computer Science and Deputy Director for Research for the Institute
of Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Stanford University in 1982, he held the positions of
assistant (1982-1988) and associate (1988-1990) professor in the
Computer Science Department of Yale University. In 1990, he joined the
Numerical Analysis group at Argonne, where he held the positions of
Senior Scientist (1998-2007) and Associate Division Director
(2000-2006). His research interests are in parallel computing, software
for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential
equations. He is a co-author of "Using MPI: Portable Parallel
Programming with the Message-Passing Interface", and is a chapter author
in the MPI-2 Forum. His current projects include the design and
implementation of MPICH, a portable implementation of the MPI
Message-Passing Standard, the design and implementation of PETSc, a
parallel, numerical library for PDEs, and research into programming
models for parallel architectures. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE and a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.

The IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing was established
in 2008 to recognize significant and sustained contributions to the
scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on
Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high
quality and high impact research. The award includes a medal and a
honorarium of $1000.In the past, IEEE TCSC medal of excellence were
awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in
2008, and Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne,
Australia) in 2009. Details of award can be found at
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/ieee-medal.html.

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