HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CENTER DURING 1997-98

• The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing completed its second year on Aug. 31, 1998. It currently has 1 Director, 1 Assistant, 11 faculty members from Northwestern University, 2 members from Argonne National Lab, 39 graduate students, 1 postdoctoral fellow, and 6 undergraduate students.

• Researchers at the Center received a new grant for $1.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for "A MATLAB Compilation Environment for Adaptive Computing." The project PIs are P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, S. Hauck and N. Shenoy.

• Researchers at the Center received a continuation grant for $906,000 grant from the National Science Foundation on "A High-Performance Distributed Computing Infrastructure". The project PIs are P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, S. Hauck, D. T. Lee, P. Scheuermann, M. Sarrafzadeh, and V. Taylor.

• Researchers at the Center received a continuation grant for $1.9 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for "Architecture, Compilers, and Configuration Management for Mass Market Adaptive Computing". The project PIs are S. Hauck, P. Banerjee, and M. Sarrafzadeh.

• Several large joint grants were submitted to various research agencies.

• The Center had a total research expenditure of about $1.8 million during 1997-98.

• Prof. Alok Choudhary was awarded tenure in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the rank of Associate Professor.

• A new faculty member, Andreas Moshovos, was hired into the Center to start Sep. 1, 1998. Andreas will join Northwestern University as Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and will work with the Center in the area of computer architecture. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Advisor: Prof. Guri Sohi).

• Researchers in the Center have been involved in numerous professional activities. Prof. Prith Banerjee served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He has served on the program committees of 6 international conferences. Prof. Alok Choudhary served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and has served on the program committee of two international conferences, and has served as the Program Chairman of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems. Prof. Valerie Taylor has served on the program committee of two international conference and served as guest editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI CAD, and as General Chairman of the Int. Symp. on Physical Design. Prof. Der Tsai Lee has served as the Editor of two journals. Prof. Peter Scheuermann has served as Program Director at the National Science Foundation.

• Researchers in the Center published about 30 journal and 60 conference papers.

• A paper authored by researchers at the Center was awarded the Best Paper Award at the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS-98), Monterey, CA, April 1998.

• Researchers in the Center have had industrial collaboration with numerous companies and national labs including, Cadence Design Systems, LSI Logic, Sierra Vista Research, Ambit Design Systems, Intel Corporation, Allied Signal, Integrated Sensors Incorporated, Argonne National Lab, Air Force Research Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia National Labs and NASA Ames Research Lab.

• Prof. Valerie Taylor has been a very active participant in the four Petaflop Workshops on Applications, System Software, Architecture and Algorithms.

• Our CPDC seminar series organized 19 seminars, including lectures from 11 external speakers during the year.