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| Argonne Leadership Computing Facility |
| Interim Director of Science Named |
| Dr. Paul Messina (figure 4) has been named interim director of science at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). He will guide the ALCF science teams using the IBM Blue Gene/P system and help them achieve the best science output obtainable. Dr. Messina most recently served as distinguished senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and as adviser to the director general at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). |
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| Figure 4. Dr. Paul Messina, interim director of science at ALCF. |
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| During his illustrious career, Dr. Messina served as director of California Institute of Technology's (Caltech) Center for Advanced Computing Research. He led the Computational and Computer Science component of Caltech's research project funded by the Academic Strategic Alliances Program of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He also acted as director of Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facilities at Caltech; he was the assistant vice president for scientific computing, and faculty associate for scientific computing, Caltech. Furthermore, Dr. Messina was the principal investigator for TeraGrid, an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership-class resources at 11 partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource. At Argonne, he held a number of positions, ranging from computer scientist to director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. |
| Dr. Messina has also served on many review and advisory committees in high-performance computing and grid computing. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Grid Forum where he chaired its advisory committee for several years. |
