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Berman
Francine Berman
Professor, Computer Science |
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Professional Preparation
- PhD, Mathematics, University of Washington,1979
- M.A., Mathematics, University of Washington, 1976
- B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
Appointments
- Director, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), 2001-present
- Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), 2001-present
- Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1993-present
- Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1987-1993
- Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1984-1987
- Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1979-1984
Synergistic Activities
Francine Berman holds the High Performance Computing Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at U. C. San Diego, is an ACM Fellow, and serves as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership of Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). Her research interests over the last 20 years have focused on parallel and grid computation, and in particular the areas of programming environments, tools, and models that support high-performance computing.Professor Berman's current research focuses on the development of performance-oriented software environments for networked heterogeneous distributed resources, also known as the Computational Grid. She has collaborated closely with Prof. Rich Wolski and Dr. Henri Casanova on the AppLeS project, a pioneering effort focused on the development of adaptive and dynamic application scheduling methods and performance technology for multi-user distributed environments.
Dr. Berman is one of the two PIs of NSF’s $53,000,000 TeraGrid project and one of the co-PIs for the 2002 Extensible Terascale Facility. She has served on numerous editorial boards, program and conference committees in the areas of parallel computing and Grid Computing, a selection of which are listed below.
- ACM Fellow, 1999-present.
- Program Chair, 1996 Heterogeneous Computing Workshop.
- Program Co-Chair, 1999 High Performance Distributed Computing Conference.
- General Chair, Computing Research Association Careers Workshop for Women at FCRC 1999.
- Program Chair, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS, the Merged IPPS/SPDP Conference) 2000.
- Co-Chair, Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science, 1993-1996.
- Subject Area Editor (Metacomputing), The Journal of Supercomputing.
- Editor (1995-1997), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
- Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
- Co-Chair, Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science, 1993-1996
- Subject Area Editor (Metacomputing), The Journal of Supercomputing.
- Editor (1995-1997), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
- Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
VGrADS and Other Significant Publications
- Berman, F, Casanova, H, Chien, A, Cooper, K, Dail, H, Dasgupta, A, Deng, W, Dongarra, J, Johnsson, L, Kennedy, K, Koelbel, C, Liu, B, Liu, X, Mandal, A, Marin, G, Mazina, M, Mellor-Crummey, J, Mendes, C, Olugbile, A, Patel, M, Reed, D, Shi, Z, Sievert, O, Xia, H, and YarKhan, A. “New Grid Scheduling and Rescheduling Methods in the GrADS Project,” International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). (To appear 2005).
- Berman, F., Fox, G., Hey, T. editors, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Wiley, 2003.
- H. Dail, H. Casanova, F. Berman, “A decoupled scheduling approach for Grid application development environments,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 63, No. 5, May 2003, 505-524.
- Berman, F., Wolski, R., Casanova, H., Cirne, W., Dail, H., Faerman, M., Figueira, S., Hayes, J., Obertelli, G Schopf, J., Shao, G., Smallen, S., Spring, N., Su, A. and Zagorodnov, D., “Adaptive Computing on the Grid Using AppLeS,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 14 , No. 4 , April 2003, 369 - 382.
- Smallen, S., Casanova, H, and Berman, F. “Applying Scheduling and Tuning to On-line Parallel Tomography,” Best Student Paper, Proceedings of SC2001.
- F. Berman, A. Chien, K. Cooper, J. Dongarra, I. Foster, D. Gannon, L. Johnsson, K. Kennedy, C. Kesselman, J. Mellor-Crummey, D. Reed, L. Torczon, and R. Wolski, “The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development,” International Journal of High Performance Applications and Supercomputing, Winter 2001 (Volume 15, Number 4).
- H. Casanova, G. Obertelli, R. Wolski, and F. Berman, “The AppLeS Parameter Sweep Template: User-Level Scheduling for the Grid,” Best paper finalist, Proceedings of Supercomputing 2000.
- Berman, F., “High-Performance Schedulers,” book chapter for The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, July 1998.
