William Gropp - Extreme Computing
William Gropp joined the University of Illinois as the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in parallel computing, software for scientific computing, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. He has played a major role in the development of the MPI message-passing standard. He is co-author of the most widely used implementation of MPI, MPICH, and was involved in the MPI Forum as a chapter author. He is also one of the designers of the PETSc parallel numerical library, and has developed efficient and scalable parallel algorithms for the solution of linear and nonlinear equations. Gropp was named an ACM Fellow in 2006 and received the Sidney Fernbach Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 2008.
Website: www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/wgropp.
This talk was recorded at TEDxUIUC 2010 (April 10, 2010).