HPCS 2007 PANEL
Parallel Processing
Systems: Present and Future Trends
Moderator: Mads Nygård
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway
PANEL MEMBERS:
Dr. Hamid Abachi, Monash University, Australia
Dr. Ratan Guha,
University of Central Florida, US
Dr. Antonio Nebro, University of Malaga, Spain
Dr. Domenico Talia, Università della
Calabria, Italy
Dr. Mark Wachowiak, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada
ABSTRACT:
To date, a large number of research activities have
taken place with particular focus on improving different aspects of parallel
processing systems design including speed, reliability, fault tolerance,
flexibility, compatibility, availability, cost and size.
Implementation
of an appropriate interconnectivity scheme of a network is an important part of
the design of parallel computer architecture.
Its topology and architecture directly influence overall capability and
performance of a parallel system. That
is one of the reasons that we encounter many scientists and researchers
continuing to develop different parallel processing architectures in order to
further improve the above mentioned parameters.
This panel will discuss
the current state-of-the-art in high performance parallel processing systems,
the gaps that exist, and the future trends and directions of these
systems.
PANLEISTS SHORT BIOS:
Hamid Abachi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and
Computer Systems Engineering from University of Wales in Britain in 1981. He has been in academic life for more than 25
years. Hamid
has also worked and gained a wide spectrum of practical experiences in heavy to
light industries. From 1991 to present
he has held a faculty position in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Systems Engineering, at Monash University in
Australia. He is the Director of the
International Program, and Director of Postgraduate (Coursework) studies as
well as the Professional Development Programs.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Systems Journal in the
USA and WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research. He has been a keynote speaker at many
international conferences. In addition, Hamid is also a member of Technical Program Committees and
a reviewer of more than 60 international conferences where in a number of
occasions he has been invited to serve as the conference chair. He is a Fellow
of IET (formally IEE, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK) and a Fellow of IEAust
(Engineers Australia). Hamid is also a Senior Member of the IEEE, USA. His prime research areas include the modeling and simulation of Parallel Processing Systems,
Design of Advanced Computer Architectures, Fault-tolerant Distribution and
Parallel Systems. He has many journal
and international conference papers in these areas.
Ratan Guha Panel Notes
Antonio J. Nebro
Panel Notes received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science from the University of Malaga, Spain, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.
He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Malaga, Spain. He has coauthored
several book chapters, and over 30 papers. His current research interests
include the design and implementation of parallel evolutionary algorithms,
multi-objective optimization, grid computing applied to meta-heuristic
techniques, and applications to telecommunications and bioinformatics.
Domenico Talia is a professor at DEIS, Università della Calabria, Italy. Domenico Talia is a full professor of computer science at the
Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calabria,
Italy, a research associate at ICAR-CNR in Rende, Italy and a partner at Exeura
s.r.l. He received the Laurea
degree in Physics at University of Calabria. His
research interests include grid computing, distributed knowledge discovery,
parallel data mining, parallel programming languages, and peer-to-peer
systems. Dr. Talia
published four books and about 200 papers in international journals such as
Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSE, IEEE TSMC-B,
IEEE Micro, ACM CS, FGCS, Parallel Computing, IEEE Internet Computing and
conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Future Generation Computer
Systems journal, the International Journal on Web and Grid Services, the
Parallel and Distributed Practices journal, and the Web Intelligence and Agent
Systems International journal. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the
CoreGRID Network of Excellence. He is serving as a
program committee member of several conferences and is a member of the ACM and
the IEEE Computer Society.
Mark Wachowiak Panel Notes
is currently an Assistant Professor at Nipissing
University in North Bay, Canada. He has
worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at Robarts
Research Institute in London, Canada, where he helped plan and build a
supercomputing facility in the Imaging Laboratories. He also held an adjunct appointment in the
Department of Medical Biophysics at the University of Western Ontario, London,
Canada. He obtained the Doctorate degree
from the University of Louisville, USA, in 2002, and
was awarded the Best Dissertation Award for his work in particle swarm
optimization. Dr. Wachowiak’s research interests are high-performance
computing and parallel algorithms in scientific computing, grid computing,
biomedical applications including imaging, bioinformatics, proteomics, and
systems biology, and parallel global optimization. His recent work has focused on parallel
optimization techniques for medical image alignment. He has been an invited speaker at several
high-performance computing conferences.
Mads Nygård was
born in Mosjøen, Norway in 1953, and he has taken
both his Master of Science (Siv.Ing.) and Doctor of
Science (Dr.Techn.) degrees at NTH (the Norwegian
Institute of Technology, Trondheim), respectively in
1979 and 1990. From 1983 to 1997 he worked for SINTEF (the Foundation for
Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim) as Section Head, Research Manager and Principal
Research Scientist in several different Information and Communication
Technology departments. In 1997 he joined NTNU (the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Trondheim) as Full Professor
in the Computer and Information Science department. Over the years he has also
held Adjunct Professor positions at the University of Stavanger,
Stavanger (1997-2005) and the Norwegian University of
Life Sciences, Ås (1994-1997). He has further for
longer periods of time worked full time for UNDP (the United Nations
Development Program) developing Information and Communication Technology
educations in Bangkok, Thailand (1988) and Beijing, China (1984), and part time
for OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) in a task
force on Road-Vehicle Communication Systems (1989-1992). His main research
interests are distributed systems and operating systems, and he has in that
capacity had longer sabbatical stays at the Imperial College in London, England
(2001) and the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa (2000), and
shorter sabbatical visits at the University of Maryland in Maryland College
Park, USA (2002-2003) and the Georgetown University in Washington D.C., USA
(2002-2003). He has more than 50 international research publications, he was
the Organization Committee Chair for the Very Large Data Base 2005 conference,
and he was the Panel Chairman for an International Evaluation of the Danish Computer
Science Programmes in 2006. In the period 1989-1993 he was Member of the Board
of Directors of SINTEF (the Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research
at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim),
and in the period 2002-2006 he was Member of the Master of Engineering Board of
NTNU (the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim).
Finally over the last 20 years he has been engaged as Chairman / Member of
Several Different Boards of TEKNA (the Norwegian Society of Chartered Technical
and Scientific Professionals).