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Institute Affiliations:
San Diego Supercomputer Center
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Email:
berman@sdsc.edu
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| | Francine Berman - Professor
High-performance and grid computing: programming environments, adaptive middleware, scheduling,
and performance predication.
Dr. Francine Berman is Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed Chair in the
Computer Science and Engineering Department and Fellow of the ACM. She is currently serving as Director of the
San Diego Supercomputer Center. Dr. Berman's academic research during the past two decades has focused on
high-performance and grid computing, in particular in the areas of programming environments, adaptive
middleware, scheduling, and performance prediction. Most recently, she has led or co-led the AppLeS
(Application-Level Scheduling) Project, the design and development of adaptive middleware for Grid environments,
and the large NSF "Virtual Instrument/MCell" Information Technology Research project. Since 2001, Dr.
Berman has served as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a national Cyberinfrastructure facility
whose mission is to innovate, develop and use technology to advance science and engineering. From 2001 to
2004, Dr. Berman served as Director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, a
consortium of 41 research groups, institutions, and university partners with the goal of building a national
infrastructure to improve and extend the reach of science and engineering. She is one of two founding principal
investigators of the NSF-supported TeraGrid, the largest coordinated grid deployment project to date.
Capsule Bio:
Francine Berman is a UCSD professor of computer science and engineering and is the
Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a national Cyberinfrastructure facility. Berman is a Fellow of
the Association for Computing Machinery. She serves on numerous technical, advisory, conference, and scientific
committees including the NSF Engineering Advisory Committee and the NIH NIGMS Advisory Council. Dr. Berman is
a founding member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women. Dr. Berman obtained
her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1979, and served on the Purdue University
faculty for five years prior joining UCSD in 1984.
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