Since January 2009, Dr. Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe has served as the director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As director of CSMD that role encompasses 10 groups, which range from computational science research, computer application, and computational engineering. In addition to being the director for CSMD, he also serves as the director for Extreme Scale Systems Center, which is a collaboration of ORNL and Department of Defense in High Performance Computing Research. Prior to his appointment at ORNL, he spent over twenty-five years as a member of the Computer Science Department faculty at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He has graduated eleven PhD’s and nine Master’s students. While at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Maccabe also served as the director of UNM’s Center for High Performance Computing and as the university’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). His research has focused on the design and development of system software for massively parallel systems. He was an architect for a series of lightweight operating systems for massively parallel computing systems. Dr. Maccabe has also conducted sponsored research in a wide-range of areas, including: dependence representation for compilers, network intrusion detection, network protocol offload, lightweight file and I/O systems, system software for sensor networks, and virtualization in high end computing systems. Barney received his Ph.D. (1982) and his M.S. (1980) in Information and Computer Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Barney received his B.S. (1977) in Mathematics from the University of Arizona.
Gilad Shainer has served as Mellanox’s vice president of marketing since March 2013. Previously, Mr. Shainer was Mellanox’s vice president of marketing development from March 2012 to March 2013. Mr. Shainer joined Mellanox in 2001 as a design engineer and later served in senior marketing management roles between July 2005 and February 2012. Mr. Shainer holds several patents in the field of high-speed networking and contributed to the PCI-SIG PCI-X and PCIe specifications. Gilad Shainer holds a MSc degree (2001, Cum Laude) and a BSc degree (1998, Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.
NVIDIA’s Donald Becker has a long history in compilers, device drivers, networking, parallel computing and cluster computing. He co-founded the Beowulf Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1994 and received the Gordon Bell Prize in 1997. He was a major developer of the early Linux kernel networking subsystem, Writing essentially all of the network device drivers through 2000.
Bronis R. de Supinski is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Livermore Computing (LC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In this role, he is responsible for formulating LLNL’s large-scale computing strategy and overseeing its implementation. His position requires frequent interaction with high performance computing (HPC) leaders and he oversees several collaborations with the HPC industry as well as academia. Prior to becoming CTO for LC, Bronis led several research projects in LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing. Most recently, he led the Exascale Computing Technologies (ExaCT) project and co-led the Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) program’s Application Development Environment and Performance Team (ADEPT). ADEPT is responsible for the development environment, including compilers, tools and run time systems, on LLNL’s large-scale systems. ExaCT explored several critical directions related to programming models, algorithms, performance, code correctness and resilience for future large scale systems. He currently continues his interests in these topics, particularly programming models, and serves as the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee. Bronis earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 1998 and he joined CASC in July 1998. In addition to his work with LLNL, Bronis is also a Professor of Exascale Computing at Queen’s University of Belfast and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Throughout his career, Bronis has won several awards, including the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 2005 and 2006, as well as an R&D 100 for his leadership of a team that developed a novel scalable debugging tool. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Dr. George Bosilca’s area of expertise includes parallel architectures and algorithms with an emphasis on programming models, fault tolerance, and communication infrastructures for scalable parallel libraries. George is the co-founder of several large projects including Open MPI, FT-MPI, PaRSEC and DPLASMA.
Dr. Pavan Balaji holds appointments as a Computer Scientist and Group Lead at the Argonne National Laboratory, as an Institute Fellow of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, and as a Research Fellow of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. He leads the Programming Models and Runtime Systems group at Argonne. His research interests include parallel programming models and runtime systems for communication and I/O on extreme-scale supercomputing systems, modern system architecture, cloud computing systems, data-intensive computing, and big-data sciences. He has nearly 150 publications in these areas and has delivered nearly 150 talks and tutorials at various conferences and research institutes. Dr. Balaji is a recipient of several awards including the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award in 2012, TEDxMidwest Emerging Leader award in 2013, Crain’s Chicago 40 under 40 award in 2012, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director’s Technical Achievement award in 2005, Ohio State University Outstanding Researcher award in 2005, six best paper awards, one best paper finalist, and one best poster finalist. He has served as a chair or editor for nearly 50 journals, conferences and workshops, and as a technical program committee member in numerous conferences and workshops. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a professional member of the ACM.
Dr. Richard Graham is a Senior Solutions Architect at Mellanox Technologies, Inc. His primary focus is on the High Performance Computing market, working on OFED and communication middleware architecture issues, as they relate to extreme-scale computing. Prior to moving to Mellanox, Rich spent thirteen years at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in computer science technical and administrative roles, with a technical focus on communication libraries and application analysis tools. He was cofounder of the Open MPI collaboration, chairman of the MPI 3.0 standardization efforts.
Jeff Kuehn currently serves as the Group Leader for High Performance Computing System Integration (HPC-5) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he is responsible for the deployment of next generation HPC systems, and leads a broad research portfolio extending the current state of the art in HPC platforms, networking, and storage. Prior to joining LANL, he served as Principal Engineer and Consultant with Quantum Research International, as a Senior Scientist, Deputy Group Leader, and Co-Founder of the Extreme Scale Systems Center (ESSC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as a Senior Software Engineer and Group Leader at National Center for Atmospheric Research, and as a Software Analyst/Instructor at Cray Research, Inc. He was a co-founder of the OpenSHMEM project, the UCCS project, and the originator of several software tools for performance analysis and diagnosis of systems at extreme scales.