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| Figure 4. Invited ASCAC members, from left to right, Dr. Horst D. Simon, Dr. Rick L. Stevens, and Dr. Thomas Zacharia. |
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| Last year, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman invited three new members from the research community to join DOE’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC). Dr. Horst D. Simon, Dr. Rick L. Stevens, and Dr. Thomas Zacharia are scheduled to be sworn in as members of the committee on February 27, 2007. |
| Established on August 12, 1999, ASCAC provides DOE with valuable and independent advice on a variety of complex scientific and technical issues related to its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program. ASCAC offers recommendations on long-range plans, priorities, and strategies in order to address more effectively the scientific aspects of advanced scientific computing, including the relationship of advanced scientific computing to other scientific disciplines, and the appropriate balance among elements of the program. The committee, which formally reports to the SC Director, is primarily composed of representatives of universities, national laboratories, other federal agencies, and industries involved in advanced computing research. Particular attention has been paid to obtaining a diverse membership for ASCAC, with a balance among scientific disciplines, institutions, and geographic regions. |
| Dr. Simon received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California–Berkeley. He joined LBNL in 1996 as director of the newly formed National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, DOE’s flagship supercomputing facility for unclassified research funded by SC. Dr. Simon is also the founding director of LBNL’s Computational Research Division, which conducts applied research and development in computer science, computational science, and applied mathematics. In 2004, Dr. Simon was named Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at LBNL. His research focuses on sparse matrix algorithms for eigenvalue problems and for sparse linear systems, and his current interests include applications of eigenvalue techniques to computational chemistry and biology, and spectral methods for dynamic load balancing of unstructured CFD computations. Dr. Simon is also involved in a number of benchmarking and performance evaluation projects, and is a regular contributor to the TOP500 reports
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| Dr. Stevens is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is also the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences at ANL, where he heads an advanced computing initiative targeting the development of petaflop computing systems. In addition, he is Leader of ANL’s Computing and Communications Futures Laboratory, a group he started in 1994 to investigate problems in large-scale scientific visualization and advanced collaboration environments. His group in the Futures Lab developed the widely deployed Access Grid collaboration system. Dr. Stevens’ research interests include advanced collaboration and visualization environments, high-performance computer architectures including Grids, and computation problems in the life sciences, most recently with an emphasis on the problems arising in systems biology. He also teaches courses on computer architecture, collaboration technology, virtual reality, parallel computing, and computational science.
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Dr. Zacharia received his Ph.D. in engineering science from Clarkson University. He joined ORNL in 1987, and in 1993 formed ORNL’s Materials Modeling and Simulation Group, serving as Group Leader until 1998, when he was made division director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. He also served as Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of High Performance Computing from 2000 to 2001. In 2001 Dr. Zacharia was named Associate Laboratory Director for ORNL’s newly formed Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications on high-performance computing for manufacturing processes, including superplastic forming, casting and solidification, and the stamping process.
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