William Douglas Gropp is the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)[1] and the Thomas M. Siebel Chair[2] in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the founding Director of the Parallel Computing Institute.[3] Gropp helped to create the Message Passing Interface, also known as MPI, and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, also known as PETSc.
Bill Gropp | |
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 Bill Gropp | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Awards | Sidney Fernbach Award Ken Kennedy Award |
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| Institutions | Yale University Argonne National Laboratory University of Illinois |
Gropp was awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2008, "for outstanding contributions to the development of ___domain decomposition algorithms, scalable tools for the parallel numerical solution of PDEs, and the dominant HPC communications interface".[4] In 2016, he was awarded the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award "For highly influential contributions to the programmability of high-performance parallel and distributed computers, and extraordinary service to the profession."[5]
In 2009, Gropp received an R&D 100 Award for PETSc.[6] In February 2010, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "For contributions to numerical software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation."[7] In March 2010, he was honored with the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing.[8][9] He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Gropp received his PhD at Stanford in 1982, under Joseph Oliger.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Bill Gropp Named NCSA Director". www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/bill_gropp_named_ncsa_director. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ^ "Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science | Illinois Computer Science".
- ^ "Parallel Computing Institute". Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
- ^ "List of Sidney Fernbach Award winners". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
- ^ "Ken Kennedy Award • IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
- ^ CS UIUC News Archived July 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Computer.org". Archived from the original on 2010-04-26. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
- ^ IEDD TCSC[permanent dead link]
- ^ "William Gropp | IEEE Computer Society". 27 March 2018.
- ^ "William Gropp". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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