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| Subject: |
Prof. Kathy Yelick Named New NERSC Division Director |
| Author: |
Horst Simon <hdsimon_at_lbl.gov> |
| Date: |
2007-10-27 09:04:06 |
| 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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