EASC 2018 - Key Persons
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Project Leader in the Development of GROMACS
Berk Hess is a project leader in the development of GROMACS, one of the most popular molecular dynamics software packages available today. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biophysics at KTH in Stockholm.
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Distinguished R & D Staff Member
- Fellow of the IEEE
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Ph.D., is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member, and the founding group leader of the Future Technologies Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Vetter also holds a joint appointment at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. From 2005 through 2015, Vetter held a Joint position at Georgia Institute of Technology, where, from 2009 to 2015, he was the Principal Investigator of the NSF Track 2D Experimental Computing XSEDE Facility, named Keeneland, for large scale heterogeneous computing using graphics processors, and the Director of the NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence.
Vetter earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined ORNL in 2003, after stints as a computer scientist and project leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The coherent thread through his research is developing rich architectures and software systems that solve important, real-world high performance computing problems. In particular, he has been investigating the effectiveness of next-generation architectures, such as graphics processors, massively multithreaded processors, non-volatile memory systems, heterogeneous multicore processors, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), for key applications. His recent books, entitled "Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale (Vols. 1 and 2)," survey the international landscape of HPC.
Vetter is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Scientist Member of the ACM. Vetter, as part of an interdisciplinary team from Georgia Tech, NYU, and ORNL, was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 2010. Also, his work has won awards at major conferences: Best Paper Awards at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) and EuroPar, Best Student Paper Finalist at SC14, and Best Presentation at EASC 2015. In 2015, Vetter served as the Technical Program Chair of SC15 .
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Chairman
- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Local Organising Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Director of the Riken Center for Computational Science
Satoshi Matsuoka is the director of the Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS). He is the leader of the TSUBAME series of supercomputers, including TSUBAME2.0 which was the first supercomputer in Japan to exceed Petaflop performance and TSUBAME 3.0 which was number 1 in the world for power efficiency in the Green 500 2017 list. Satoshi has a wealth of experience and knowledge in HPC and is one of the key global players pushing forward exa-scale technologies.