Bill Gropp
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William Douglas "Bill" Gropp is Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Gropp helped to create the Message Passing Interface
, also known as MPI, and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
, also known as PETSc. He is also the Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.
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 PDE
s, and the dominant HPC communications interface".
In 2009, Gropp received an R&D 100 Award for PETSc. 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.” In March 2010, he was honored with the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing.
Message Passing Interface
Message Passing Interface is a standardized and portable message-passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers...
, also known as MPI, and the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation , is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the Message Passing Interface standard for all message-passing communication...
, also known as PETSc. He is also the Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies.
Gropp was awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award
Sidney Fernbach Award
The Sidney Fernbach Award established in 1992 by the IEEE Computer Society, in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems as the Division Chief for the Computation Division at...
in 2008, "for outstanding contributions to the development of domain decomposition algorithms
Domain decomposition methods
]In mathematics, numerical analysis, and numerical partial differential equations, domain decomposition methods solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller boundary value problems on subdomains and iterating to coordinate the solution between adjacent subdomains...
, scalable tools for the parallel numerical solution of PDE
Partial differential equation
In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...
s, and the dominant HPC communications interface".
In 2009, Gropp received an R&D 100 Award for PETSc. In February 2010, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
, “For contributions to numerical software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation.” In March 2010, he was honored with the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing.