Keynotes
These are the keynotes confirmed for SBAC-PAD 2010.Keynote #1: William D. Gropp
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, Illinois, USA
Bio:William Gropp received his B.S. in Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University in 1977, a MS in Physics from the University of Washington in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1982. He held the positions of assistant (1982-1988) and associate (1988-1990) professor in the Computer Science Department at Yale University. In 1990, he joined the Numerical Analysis group at Argonne, where he was a Senior Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, a Senior Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and a Senior Fellow in the Argonne-Chicago Computation Institute. From 2000 through 2006, he was also Deputy Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne. In 2007, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He has played a major role in the development of the MPI message-passing standard. He is co-author of the most widely used implementation of MPI, MPICH, and was involved in the MPI Forum as a chapter author for both MPI-1 and MPI-2. He has written many books and papers on MPI including "Using MPI" and "Using MPI-2". He is also one of the designers of the PETSc parallel numerical library, and has developed efficient and scalable parallel algorithms for the solution of linear and nonlinear equations. Gropp was named an ACM Fellow in 2006 and received the Sidney Fernbach Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2008.
Keynote #2: Radha Ratnaparkhi,
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Bio: Radha Rataparkhi has over 17 years of experience in the software industry. Currently, Radha is the director of commercial systems in the systems research branch of IBM Research. Her team is responsible for innovation in the areas of high performance computing for p-Series and z-Series systems, as well as for commercial scale out and systems management simplification initiatives, together with system architecture and multimedia technologies. In addition, Radha is the area strategist for system software and has a worldwide team in Yorktown, Hawthorne, Haifa, Tokyo and Beijing. The system software strategy covers compilers and firmware, end-to-end performance, operating systems and hypervisors, virtualization and integrated management, and networking. Radha is currently located at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Prior to her current position, Radha led and managed the commercialization efforts of a high-end text analytics solution - WebFountain, at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. WebFountain was an emerging business opportunity for IBM and Radha was responsible for shaping the future of the WebFountain technology, and bringing it to the mainstream business sector from its research roots.
Radha's experience at IBM also includes her development leadership effort for IBM's flagship database product DB2 on the mainframe (z/OS). DB2 z/OS is a billion dollar revenue generator for IBM's Information Management group. In March 2004, Radha led a team of 150 to deliver the largest release ever of DB2 on the mainframe for IBM. In addition to leading DB2 development, Radha was also the Management Advocate for Fortune 100 customers like MBNA. Her leadership role on the DB2 team involved interfacing with key clients, such as Wal-Mart, MBNA, Danske Bank, Banco do Brasil, and Morgan Stanley.
Prior to IBM, Radha was leading and managing the Java products development team at Informix Software (Informix was acquired by IBM in April 2001). At Informix, Radha led and managed global teams at Informix, Menlo Park, California as well as Informix, India. She was responsible for the releases of several database server and connectivity products. Radha also spent three years at Informix's India Development Center at Mumbai, India where she was part of the executive leadership team that grew the center from 35 to 150 engineers. In her early days at Informix, Radha worked on Informix's first Microsoft-Windows tools product, Informix NewEra. While working on NewEra and early in her career at Informix, Radha was promoted to a leadership position. For the past 10 years, Radha has led numerous engineering teams.
She started her career in Mumbai, India with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - India's premier services consulting firm, after completing her masters of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. During her five years at TCS, Radha worked at Tata's research lab in Pune, India and also at Tandem Computers in Cupertino, California.
Keynote #3: Raffaele Tripiccione,
Universidade de Ferrara, Italia
Bio: Raffaele Tripiccione (born 1956) obtained his laurea degree in Physics from the University of Pisa. He carried out his doctoral studies at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
He spent his early scientific career at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). He moved to the Università di Ferrara, as a full professor of physics, in the year 2000. Over the years he has visited for extended periods several scientific institutions, such as Fermilab in the US and CERN (Geneva). He has supervised approximately 20 doctoral theses and a large number of master theses.
His research interests are in the area of computational theoretical physics. Over the years he has focused his work on Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT), turbulent fluid dynamics and complex systems (mainly spin-glasses).
He has played a major role in the development of several application-driven high performance computer systems for physics applications. He is one of the founders of the French-German-Italian APE project, that has developed several generation of LGToptimized computer system.
He has been the head of the project from 1990 to 2000. In recent years, he has been involved in the Italian-Spanish JANUS project, that develops reconfigurable computer systems for applications in condensed-matter physics.
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