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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CENTER DURING 1996-97

  • The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing was formed on Sep. 1, 1996 with 12 faculty members from Northwestern University, and 2 members from Argonne National Lab, 31 graduate students, 1 postdoctoral fellow, and 3 undergraduates.
  • In the first year, the CPDC lab was set up with the following high-performance computers: a 16-processor IBM SP-2, an 8-processor IBM J-40, and a network of 20 HP workstations. The value of the equipment was $1.6 million, and was obtained through a combination of funds from Northwestern University and donations from IBM and Hewlett-Packard. In addition, we obtained software donation worth about $1.5 million from Mentor Graphics Corporation for VLSI CAD software.
  • Several large joint grants were submitted to various research agencies. The external research funding for the center for 1996-97 was about $1 million.
  • Researchers at the Center received a large grant for $906,000 grant from the National Science Foundation on "A High-Performance Distributed Computing Infrastructure". The proposal was written by P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, S. Hauck, D. T. Lee, P. Scheuermann, M. Sarrafzadeh, and V. Taylor. This will enable the purchase of an 8-processor SGI Origin multiprocessor, and 70 more high-performance HP workstations, and ATM networking equipment.
  • Researchers at the Center received a large grant for $2 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for "Architecture, Compilers, and Configuration Management for Mass Market Adaptive Computing". The proposal was written by S. Hauck, P. Banerjee, and M. Sarrafzadeh.
  • Prof. Valerie Taylor was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
  • Prof. Prith Banerjee received the prestigious Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineeing Education in Nov. 1996.
  • Researchers in the Center have been involved in numerous professional activities. Prof. Prith Banerjee was appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is also serving as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has served on the program committees of 6 international conferences. Prof. Alok Choudhary has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and has served on the program committee of two international conferences, and has served as the General Chairman of the Internationl Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Prof. Valerie Taylor has served on the program committee of two international conference and the Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Applciation Specific Systmes, Architectures, and Processors.
  • Researchers in the Center published more than 70 research papers in journals and conferences in the field of parallel and distributed computing during 1996-97.
  • Researchers in the Center have had industrial collaboration with numerous companies and national labs including, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, LSI Logic, Sierra Vista Research, Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, AlliedSignal, Argonne National Lab, Rome Labs, and Sandia National Labs.
  • Prof. Valerie Taylor has been a very active participant in the four Petaflop Workshops on Applications, System Software, Architecture and Algorithms.


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