David A. Bader School of Computational Science and Engineering College of Computing

Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications David A. Bader (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series, © 2007. ISBN-10: 1584889098 ISBN-13: 978-1584889090

Active Projects for Students

Current National Science Foundation Projects:

• Understanding Whole-genome Evolution through Petascale Simulation,
  Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering Through Petascale Simulations and Analysis (PetaApps) Program, (OCI-0904461)
• Establishing a Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR),
  Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program. (IIP-0934114)
• Development of a Research Infrastructure,
  Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) Program. (CNS-0708307)

Recent National Science Foundation Projects:

• Establishing an I/UCRC Center for Multicore Productivity Research (CMPR),
  Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program. (IIP-0831110)
• A Framework for Optimizing Scientific Applications,
  Computer Systems Research (CSR) Program. (CNS-0614915)
• Workshop Proposal: Petascale Computing in the Biological Sciences,
  Directorate of Biological Sciences. (DBI-0632517)
• CAREER: High-Performance Algorithms for Scientific Applications,
  Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. (CCF-0611589)
• Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics,
  (with PI: B.M.E. Moret (U New Mexico); coPI's: D.A. Bader (U New Mexico), F. Berman (UC San Diego), P. Bourne (UC San Diego), M. Donoghue (Yale), D.M. Hillis (U Texas-Austin), W. Hunt (U Texas-Austin), J. Kim (U Pennsylvania), P. Lewis (U Connecticut), D. Maddison (U Arizona), W. Maddison (U Arizona), D. Miranker (U Texas-Austin), B. Mischler (UC Berkeley), L. Meyers (U Texas-Austin), E. Myers (UC Berkeley), S. Rao (UC Berkeley), S. Russell (UC Berkeley), D. Swofford (Florida State U), T. Warnow (U Texas-Austin), W. Wheeler (American Museum of Natural History), T. Williams (U New Mexico)); Information Technology Research (ITR) Program. (EF/BIO 03-31654).
• Acquisition of a High Performance Shared-Memory Computer for Computational Science and Engineering at the University of New Mexico, (with PI: H. Guo; coPI's: D.A. Bader, S. Atlas, T. Oprea, and M. Ingber); Major Research Infrastructure (MRI) Program. (DBI 04-20513).

Current and Recent Collaborations:

• DoD Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software - Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT)
• Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine
• Microsoft Research: Parallel and Concurrent Computing
• Productive, Easy-to-Use, Reliable Computing Systems,
  IBM / DARPA, High Productivity Computing Systems Project.
• NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research (CIPRes) project
• Experimental Algorithmics
• PhyloLab, University of Texas at Austin

Recent Honors and Awards:

• IEEE Fellow
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
• Georgia Tech College of Computing 2007 Dean's Award.
• 2008 IBM Shared University Research Award
• 2006 IBM Faculty Fellowship Award
• 2008 NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award
• 2006-7 Microsoft Research award
• UNM Regents' Lecturer.
• IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker.
• ECE Lawton-Ellis Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Community Service, 2002.
• UNM School of Engineering Junior Research Excellence Award, 2000.
• ECE Outstanding Researcher of the Year, 2000 (First Recipient of this Award).
• IEEE & Sigma Xi 2000 Young Outstanding Engineer Award.

Recent Service:

• Advisory Council, Internet2 (2007-)
• Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), 2003--2007.
• Associate Editor, The IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
• Associate Editor, The ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics.
• Associate Editor, Parallel Computing.
• Associate (Founding) Editor, The IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
• Steering Committee Member:
  • The IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2002--2006, 2009-2011.
  • The IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), 2002--2007.
  • The International Symposium on Efficient and Experimental Algorithms (WEA), 2005--present.
  • The Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC), 2008--present.
  • The International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore Technologies (IFMT), 2008--present.
• General Chair:
  • The 24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010), Atlanta, GA.
  • The 19th IEEE International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2010).
• General Co-Chair:
  • The 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Denver, CO.
  • The 18th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), Santa Fe, NM.
• General Vice Chair:
  • The 23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), Rome, Italy.
• Co-Chair:
  • Georgia Tech/AFRL Computational Science Workshop on Computational Science Challenges Using Emerging & Massively Parallel Computer Architectures, Atlanta, GA.
  • IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB) [2002-9].
  • Minisymposium on High-Performance Computing on Massive Real-World Graphs, 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN09), Denver, CO.
  • The SC08 Workshop on Multicore Architectures and Biomedical Informatics, Austin, TX.
  • The 2nd Annual Georgia Tech -- Sony, Toshiba, IBM (STI) Workshop on Software and Algorithms for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, Atlanta, GA.
  • Minisymposium on Cell BE Technologies: Algorithms, Programming Models and Environments, Performance Analysis and Applications, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Minisymposium on High Performance Computing on the Cell Processor, 13th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP08), Atlanta, GA.
  • Minisymposium on HPC on Large Graphs, 13th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP08), Atlanta, GA.
  • Workshop on Progress Toward Petascale Applications in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE 2007), Boston, MA.
  • International Workshop on Parallel Bio-Computing (PBC) [2005-7].
  • The 1st Annual Georgia Tech -- Sony, Toshiba, IBM (STI) Workshop on Software and Algorithms for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor, Atlanta, GA.
  • NSF Workshop on Petascale Computing in the Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.
• Program Chair:
  • The 18th IEEE International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2009), Rome, Italy.
  • The SPEC 2007 Benchmark Workshop, Austin, TX.
  • The 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2005).
• Program Vice Chair:
  • The 39th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2010).
  • The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2010), Melbourne, Australia.
  • The 15th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distribbuted Systems (ICPADS), Shenzhen, China.
  • The 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • The 15th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Bangalore, India.
  • The 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006), Rhodes Island, Greece.
  • The 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006).

Teaching:

• Recently taught courses:
• Computational Science and Engineering Algorithms, CSE 6140, Fall 2008
• High Performance Computing, CSE 6220, Spring 2008
• Computational Science and Engineering Algorithms, CSE 6140, Fall 2007
• Multicore and GPU Programming for Video Games, Fall 2007
• High-Performance Computing Seminar, Spring 2007
• Multicore Computing, CS 8803-MC, CS 4803-MC, Spring 2007
• Discrete Algorithms in Computational Science and Engineering, CS 8803-DA, CS 4803-DA, Fall 2006
• Computability, Algorithms, and Complexity, CS 6505, Spring 2006


• Older courses:
• Parallel Algorithms
• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Advanced Parallel Algorithms
• Advanced Cache-Aware Algorithms
• Computer Design
• Foundations of Computing
• Introduction to Parallel Processing

	My curriculum vitæ
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