Bill Gropp

William Douglas Gropp is the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)[1] and the Thomas M. Siebel Chair[2] in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the founding Director of the Parallel Computing Institute.[3] Gropp helped to create the Message Passing Interface, also known as MPI, and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, also known as PETSc.

Bill Gropp
Bill Gropp
Alma materStanford University
AwardsSidney Fernbach Award
Ken Kennedy Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsYale University
Argonne National Laboratory
University of Illinois

Gropp was awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2008, "for outstanding contributions to the development of domain decomposition algorithms, scalable tools for the parallel numerical solution of PDEs, and the dominant HPC communications interface".[4] In 2016, he was awarded the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award "For highly influential contributions to the programmability of high-performance parallel and distributed computers, and extraordinary service to the profession."[5]

In 2009, Gropp received an R&D 100 Award for PETSc.[6] In February 2010, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "For contributions to numerical software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation."[7] In March 2010, he was honored with the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing.[8][9] He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and SIAM, and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Gropp received his PhD at Stanford in 1982, under Joseph Oliger.[10]

References
  1. "Bill Gropp Named NCSA Director". www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/bill_gropp_named_ncsa_director. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  2. "Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science | Illinois Computer Science".
  3. "Parallel Computing Institute". Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
  4. "List of Sidney Fernbach Award winners". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
  5. "Ken Kennedy Award • IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  6. CS UIUC News Archived July 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Computer.org". Archived from the original on 2010-04-26. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  8. IEDD TCSC
  9. "William Gropp | IEEE Computer Society".
  10. "William Gropp". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2 July 2022.


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