HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CENTER DURING 1998-99

• The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing completed its third year on Aug. 31, 1999. It currently has 1 Director, 1 Assistant, 11 faculty members from Northwestern, 2 members from Argonne, 45 graduate students.
• Researchers at the Center received a continuation grant for a $1.8 million grant "A MATLAB Compilation Environment for Adaptive Computing" from DARPA.
• Researchers at the Center received a continuation grant for a $1.million grant "Architectures, Compilers, and Configuration Management for Mass Market Adaptive Computing" from DARPA.
• Researchers at the Center received a continuation grant for a $906,000 grant "PANTHER: A High-Performance Distributed Computing Infrastructure" from the National Science Foundation.
• Researchers at the Center (Choudhary, Banerjee, Taylor) received a new grant for $800,000 on "Large High-Performance Data Management," from Department of Defense ASCI Level 2 program.
• Researchers in the Center published 83 papers including 25 journal papers, and 58 conference papers.
• A paper authored by Y. Yuan and P. Banerjee, "Parallel Algorithms for 3 D Circuit Extraction" has been selected to receive the Best Paper Award at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 2000.
• Prof. Prith Banerjee was elected to Fellow of Association of Computing Machinery.
• Prof. Andreas Moshovos received the National Science Foundation CAREER award. >LI> Researchers in the Center have had collaboration with several companies and research labs.
• We had 26 seminars presented by faculty and graduate students of Northwestern, and outside visitors.