The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing: William "Bill" Gropp: An HPC Journey

Zoom Link: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/89710665677?pwd=emMeHohwVpKy5v5srbijDn8RHpO0ws.1

Reception following program.

Abstract: Computing has changed dramatically over the last 45 years. Systems are well over a billion times faster. Parallelism and high performance computing are everywhere, and HPC is a key technology in the AI revolution. In this talk, I will review the change in computer performance over the years. This provides a background to discuss what we mean by performance and why it is important to think quantitatively about performance. I will present a few examples of how such models guide the design of both algorithms and implementations and argue that simple models can be quite powerful. I will close with a few challenges in HPC.

Bio:
William Gropp is a professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and holds a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982 and worked at Yale University and Argonne National Laboratory.  His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He was Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications from 2016-2025. He chairs the Computing Community Consortium for the Computing Research Association.  He is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has received numerous awards for his work in HPC.

Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.

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