Background
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Over the past 21 years, we have attracted many post-doctoral researchers and professors from multi-disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, etc. Many of these experts came to UT specifically to work with Dr. Dongarra, which began a long list of top research talent to pass through ICL and move on to make exciting contributions at other institutions and organizations. Below is a short list of the many experts who have passed through ICL on their way to distinguished careers at other organizations and academic institutions.

  • Emmanuel Agullo - INRIA, France
  • Ed Anderson - EPA
  • Dorian Arnold - University of New Mexico
  • Zhaojun Bai - University of California, Davis
  • Richard Barrett - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Adam Beguelin - Sensr.net, Inc.
  • Susan Blackford - Myricom
  • Alfredo Buttari - CNRS, France
  • Henri Casanova - University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Jaeyoung Choi - Soongsil University, Korea
  • Andy Cleary - Amazon
  • Frederic Desprez - ENS-Lyon, France
  • Victor Eijkhout - University of Texas, Austin
  • Graham Fagg - Microsoft
  • Edgar Gabriel - University of Houston
  • Sven Hammarling - Numerical Algorithms Group, UK
  • Greg Henry - Intel
  • Robert van de Geijn - University of Texas, Austin
  • Julien Langou - University of Colorado at Denver
  • Bob Manchek - Stratus Technologies
  • Antoine Petitet - ESI Group, France
  • Roldan Pozo - NIST
  • Yves Robert - ENS-Lyon, France
  • Ken Roche - University of Washington
  • Erich Strohmaier - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Keith Seymour - University College Dublin
  • Francoise Tisseur - Manchester University, England
  • Bernard Tourancheau - University of Lyon, France
  • Sathish Vadhiyar - Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Reed Wade - Catalyst IT, New Zealand
  • Clint Whaley - University of Texas, San Antonio
  • Felix Wolf - German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Germany

Dozens of tools and applications of high value to the HPC community have been produced at ICL since its inception. Many of these now form the basic fabric of HPC, scientific computing. Below is just a brief list of some of the technologies that we have produced or been a part of since our beginning:

Active Netlib ATLAS BLAS
FT-MPI HARNESS LAPACK
LAPACK for Clusters LINPACK Benchmark MPI
NetBuild Netlib NetSolve
PAPI PVM RIB
ScaLAPACK Top500  

Today, some of these successes continue along with current efforts such as Blackjack, DAGuE, Fault Tolerant Linear Algebra (FT-LA), HPC Challenge benchmark suite (HPCC), High Performance Linpack (HPL), MAGMA, MuMI, PLASMA, GridSolve, Open MPI and PAPI. Many of our efforts have been recognized nationally and internationally, which includes many awards such as four R&D 100 awards; PVM in 1994, ATLAS and NetSolve in 1999, and PAPI in 2001.