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Dr. Jack Dongarra
ProfessorJack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's Sidney Fernbach award in the fall of 2003. Created in memory of Sidney Fernbach, a pioneer in the use of supercomputers to solve large computational problems, this award is given annually to an individual “for outstanding contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches.” In addition to his faculty duties, Dr. Dongarra is also Director of UT's Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) and the Center for Information Technology Research (CITR), one of UT's Centers of Excellence.
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Dr. Victor Eijkhout
Research Assistant ProfessorDr. Eijkhout, of the Innovative Computing Laboratory in the CS Department, discusses the Numerical Metadata (NMD) Library during a presentation. NMD, which is a component of the Self-Adapting Large-scale Solver Architecture (SALSA) project, was recently released to the public and the first of its kind, formalizing the transfer of numerical knowledge between software components. Using this library, future integration of numerical software components in large-scale composite scientific applications will be considerably facilitated.
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Dr. Dan Terpstra - Research Leader; Kevin London - Research Assistant
Dan Terpstra (left) and Kevin London (right) of the Innovative Computing Laboratory discuss the next version of the Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI), which enables software engineers to see, in near real time, the relation between software performance and processor events. The PAPI project received a prestigious R&D 100 award in 2001.
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Jeff Larkin
Graduate Research AssistantJeff stands next to one of the many computer clusters, consisting of over 100 computers, that comprises the Scalable Intracampus Research Grid (SInRG) at UT. The goal of the SInRG project is to create an infrastructure for interdisciplinary research on the Knoxville campus, which is a smaller-scale testbed for the emerging national and international computational grids. Working on the SInRG project at the Innovative Computing Laboratory, Jeff is pursuing his M.S. degree in Computer Science.
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Dr. Lynne Parker
Associate ProfessorComputer Science Professor Lynne Parker and her Graduate Students Michael Bailey, Balajee Kannan, Ben Birch, and Yifan Tang, together with SAIC researchers Nahid Sidki and Tom Long, assemble 70 autonomous mobile robots. These robots are used in Prof. Parker's Distributed Intelligence Laboratory for research in developing intelligent software control of large-scale heterogeneous multi-robot teams for indoor security, surveillance, and distributed sensing applications.
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Dr. Lynne Parker
Associate ProfessorMembers of the Computer Science's Distributed Intelligence Laboratory conducted experiments on large-scale heterogeneous multi-robot cooperation at Ft. AP Hill, Virginia, in January, 2004. These successful experiments exhibited the research developed at UT for multi-robot cooperation using autonomous software behaviors, ad hoc mobile communications networks, distributed sensing, and heterogeneous sensor net deployment. The participants of this research are Graduate Students Daisy Tang, Yifan Tang, Michael Bailey, Balajee Kannan, Ben Birch, Chris Reardon, and Computer Science Professor Lynne Parker.
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Dr. Lynne Parker
Associate ProfessorRobots programmed by members of the Computer Science's Distributed Intelligence Laboratory perform autonomous operations at Ft. AP Hill, Virginia. These robots are executing software for heterogeneous mobile sensor network deployment.
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Dr. Micah Beck
Associate ProfessorDr. Micah Beck, director of the Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI) Lab, is working to expand the capabilities of the Internet. Currently, the Internet only provides for communication between two locations. Dr. Beck's work aims to add storage resources within the network as well as data processing. This effort has been described as the "killer app" for Internet2. So far, LoCI provides over 30 terabytes (TB) of publicly-sharable storage space in over 20 countries. In 2003 alone, nearly 10,000 people downloaded LoCI software.
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Dr. James Plank
Associate ProfessorDr. James Plank, research fellow with the Logistical Computing and Internetworking (LoCI) Lab, focuses on fault-tolerance in Internet-scale applications. Originally, his work focused on improving the performance of long-running systems when resuming work in the event of a crash (i.e. check-pointing). Currently, his work involves determining the best means for retrieving data stored throughout the Internet and regenerating it from the available parts if some of the data cannot be retrieved (i.e. using error-correcting codes) as well as determining policies for trusting the results of untrusted remote processors.
