{"51140":{"#nid":"51140","#data":{"type":"news","title":"High Performance Computing Heavyweights Join Georgia Institute of Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAUSTIN, Texas (SC08) \u2013 November 17, 2008 \u2013 The Georgia Institute of Technology, a national leader in high performance computing research and education, announced the addition of six distinguished researchers to its current roster of experts and luminaries in supercomputing. George Biros, Tom Conte, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker, Ignacio Taboada and David Ballantyne will bring their deep and varied experience from across the computing spectrum and its varied application areas to Georgia Tech to further advance the Institute\u2019s mission to define the technological research university of the 21st century and educate the leaders of a technologically driven world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs scientists and engineers apply new computational methods to dramatically enhance research and discovery efforts in biomedical engineering, nanoscience, climatology, astrophysics and other fields, the field of high performance computing will continue to grow in size and stature across the country and around the world,\u201d said Dr. Mark Allen, senior vice provost for Research and Innovation at Georgia Tech. \u201cThe addition of these computing heavyweights to our high performance computing team further positions Georgia Tech as a global leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorge Biros is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Georgia Tech College of Computing\u2019s Computational Science and Engineering division and the College of Engineering\u2019s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Bioengineering, and Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. Biros chose to continue his distinguished career within the collaborative research environment established by Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges of Computing and Engineering, focusing on medical imaging and bringing new computational tools into the clinical setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech\u0027s initiatives in high performance computing and the newly formed Computational Science and Engineering division provide world-class leadership in parallel and scientific computing, new architectures and programming languages, and data and visual analytics for massive datasets,\u201d said Biros. \u201cThe members of my research group and I are excited to join such a scholarly environment. With our colleagues in Georgia Tech, we will develop enabling technologies for discovery and innovation that will harness the upcoming breakthroughs in high performance computing\u2014including exascale platforms.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETom Conte is a professor in the Georgia Tech College of Computing\u2019s School of Computer Science. His many professional and industry appointments include past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture and the past chair of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. An industry leading expert in microarchitectures and a fellow of the IEEE, Conte will continue his work in the areas of manycore\/multicore architectures, microprocessor architectures, compiler code generation, architectural performance evaluation and embedded computer systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is a dynamic environment for high performance computing research, rising quickly on the national stage,\u201d said Conte. \u201cI am thrilled to help continue this upward momentum through research to drive the next generation of computer architectures.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker, Ignacio Taboada and David Ballantyne constitute a \u201ccluster hire\u201d of researchers in Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. Working in collaboration with computational scientists and physicists, this powerful team of numerical relativists, theorists and experimentalists will use supercomputing to explore extreme astrophysics such as mergers of black holes and neutron stars, central engines of active galactic nuclei, gamma ray bursts, and sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. In establishing the Center of Relativistic Astrophysics earlier this year, Laguna (the center\u2019s director), Shoemaker, Taboada and Ballantyne aim to lead Georgia Tech in using high performance computing technologies to prove the theory of relativity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u201cI am very excited to work with a great team of researchers to establish a relativistic astrophysics effort at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Laguna. \u201cHigh performance computing is essential in our research involving the most extreme astrophysical phenomena in the universe, and Georgia Tech\u0027s vision in support of computing research is very important to the success of our new endeavor.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation\u0027s premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s top public universities, Georgia Tech\u0027s more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation\u0027s top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\n###\n\u003Ch3\u003EFor more information, contact:\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStefany Wilson\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.7253\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stefany@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Estefany@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAUSTIN, Texas (SC08) \u2013 November 17, 2008 \u2013 Georgia Tech, a national leader in high performance computing research\nand education, announced the addition of six distinguished researchers\nto its current roster of experts and luminaries in supercomputing. 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