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March 14, 2008

HPC User Forum Adds Three Notables to Steering Committee

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 14 -- Three high performance computing (HPC) industry notables have joined the Steering Committee of the HPC User Forum, according to Earl Joseph, program vice president for HPC at market analyst firm IDC and executive director of the HPC User Forum.

The three new members are:

Jack Collins, manager of the Scientific Computation and Program Development group at the National Cancer Institute's Advanced Biomedical Computing Center.
Doug Kothe, director of science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's National Center for Computational Sciences.
Michael Resch, director of the University of Stuttgart's High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and head of the university's Department of High Performance Computing.

At NCI, Jack Collins leads a group that seeks to develop and apply algorithms for HPC to computational biology in the areas of genomic analysis, pattern recognition in proteomics and imaging, and systems biology. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics from Park College with minors in physics and chemistry, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry (theoretical quantum chemistry) from the U. of Nebraska at Lincoln. Prior to joining NCI in 1992, he worked at SRI International and the Molecular Research Institute. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Association of Computing Machinery, the Protein Society, International Society of Computational Biologists, and the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics. His work has led to three patents, and over 50 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals.

Doug Kothe is director of science for ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). In 2004, NCCS was designated by the Secretary of Energy as the DOE Leadership Computing Facility. Kothe earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri/Columbia and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering at Purdue Engineering. After a stint as a weapons design physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in 1988 he became a technical staff member in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Fluid Dynamics Group, where he helped develop three computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. He was later group leader of the Methods for Advanced Scientific Software Group. Kothe has authored over 60 refereed publications and written over one-half million lines of source code.

Michael Resch is a 20-year, award-winning HPC industry veteran. He initiated the first European Grid computing project, METODIS, in 1998 and has since led a number of European Grid Projects. He is chairman of the Technology and Business Council of T-Systems SfR, a member of the HPC Customer Advisory Board of Microsoft, and a member of the advisory board of Triangle Venture Capital Group. He also chairs the NEC User Group (NUG). Resch holds an MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in technical mathematics from the Technical University of Graz/Austria and a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in engineering from the University of Stuttgart/Germany. In 2002 he held an assistant professorship at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Houston.

The HPC User Forum is directed by a steering committee consisting of HPC users/buyers from government, industry and academia, and is operated for the users by market analyst firm IDC. Chairman of the steering committee is Paul Muzio, City University of New York, and vice chairman is Steve Finn, BAE Systems. The HPC User Forum was founded in 1999 to advance the state of high-performance computing through open discussions, information sharing and initiatives involving HPC users in industry, government and academia, along with HPC vendors and other interested parties. The organization has grown to more than 150 members.

The next HPC User Forum meeting will be held April 14-16, 2008, in Norfolk, Va. For more information, go to www.hpcuserforum.com.

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Source: IDC

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