Selected papers of the workshop on clusters, clouds and grids for scientific computing (CCGSC)

Jack Dongarra, Bernard Tourancheau

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)259-260
Number of pages2
JournalInternational Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2011

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Dongarra Jack Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Tourancheau Bernard University of Lyon, INRIA and CITI INSA-Lyon, France 8 2011 25 3 259 260 © The Author(s) 2011 2011 The Author(s) sagemeta-type Journal Article search-text 259 Selected papers of the Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Scientific Computing (CCGSC) SAGE Publications, Inc. 201110.1177/1094342011414550 © The Author(s) 2011 2011 The Author(s) JackDongarra Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA BernardTourancheau University of Lyon, INRIA and CITI INSA-Lyon, France This special issue gathers selected papers of the Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Scientific Computing (CCGSC) that was held at Highland Lake Inn at Flat Rock, North Carolina on 8–10 September 2010. This workshop is a continuation of a series of workshops started in 1992 entitled Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing, eventually Workshop on Clusters Computing and Grids for Scientific Computing. These workshops are held alternately every 2 years in the US and France. The purpose of the workshop is to evaluate the state-of-the-art and future trends of scientific parallel computing from clusters to clouds. This special issue addresses system and programming tools for effi- cient usage of parallel systems, from multi-cores to cloud computing. The papers present research on the future software technologies that will provide for better, easier and more efficient use of cluster, cloud and Grid computing in the following areas: • multi-cores; • scheduling, reservation; • load-balancing, migration; • workflow. The workshop was made possible thanks to sponsor- ship from NSF, Myricom Inc., HP, Microsoft Inc., Google Inc., ICL and AMD with the scientific support of the French National Institute for Research in Computer Sci- ence (INRIA), the Computer Science Departments of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, The CITI lab at INSA-Lyon and University of Lyon. Author’s Biographies Jack Dongarra received a BSc in Mathematics from Chi- cago State University in 1972 and a MSc in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Uni- versity of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scien- tist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Ten- nessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow at Manchester University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He is the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the Uni- versity of Tennessee. He is also the director of the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of Ten- nessee which coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the University. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced- computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the devel- opment, testing and documentation of high-quality mathe- matical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open-source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approxi- mately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memor- anda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high-performance computers using innovative approaches; in 2008 he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing; in 2010 he was the first recipient of the SIAM Special Inter- est Group on Supercomputing’s award for Career Achieve- ment; and in 2011 he was the recipient of the IEEE IPDPS 2011 Charles Babbage Award. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Bernard Tourancheau received a MSc in applied mathe- matics from Grenoble University in 1986 and a MSc in 260 renewable energy physics from Loughborough University in 2007. He was awarded ‘best INPG thesis of the year’ for his PhD in Computer Science on Parallel Matrix Computing and Scientific Computation, from Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble in 1989. He was appointed assistant professor at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon in 1990, working on his research at the LIP laboratory. He then joined CNRS as a Senior Researcher at LIP and spent a 2-year sabbatical in 2002–2004 on leave at the University of Tennessee, CRPC in the ICL group. He eventually obtained a professor position at Uni- versity of Lyon in 1996 where he founded a research laboratory, associated with INRIA, specialized in high- speed networking and clusters. In 2001, he joined SUN Microsystems Laboratories for a 6-year sabbatical as a Principal Investigator in the DARPA HPCS project. He is now professor at the University of Lyon developing research into sensor networks and their applications to building energy efficiency in the CITI lab SWING team associated with INSA and INRIA.

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