From: Horst Simon (hdsimon_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: 10/27/2007
Dear NERSC Users, I am both happy and proud to let you know that Kathy Yelick, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and an internationally recognized expert in developing methods to advance the use of supercomputers, has been named director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Division. Kathy, who has also been head of the Future Technologies Group here at Berkeley Lab since 2005, will officially assume her new job in January 2008 While you are probably aware of Kathy’s many contributions, I would like to note that she has received a number of teaching and research awards and is the author or co-author of two books and more than 75 refereed technical papers on topics covering parallel applications, libraries, languages, compilers and architecture. In 2006, she was named one of 16 “People to Watch in 2006” by the newsletter HPCwire. The editors noted that “Her multi-faceted research goal is to develop techniques for obtaining high performance on a wide range of computational platforms, all while easing the programming effort required to achieve high performance. Her current work has shown that global address space languages like UPC and Titanium offer serious opportunities in both productivity and performance, and that these languages can be ubiquitous on parallel machines without excessive investments in compiler technology.” In addition to high performance languages, Kathy has worked on parallel algorithms, numerical libraries, computer architecture, communication libraries, and I/O systems. Her work on numerical libraries includes self-tuning libraries which automatically adapt the code to machine properties. She is also a consumer of parallel systems, having worked directly with interdisciplinary teams on application scaling, and her own applications work includes parallelization of a CFD model for blood flow in the heart. She is involved in an NCR study investigating the impact of the multicore revolution across computing domains, and was a co-author of a Berkeley study on this subject known as the “Berkeley View.” Please join me in congratulating Kathy on her new position. I am confident that under her leadership, NERSC is poised for even greater success. Horst
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