CRD’s Lenny Oliker is the new PI for the SciDAC SUPER project.
The SUPER project is a broadly-based SciDAC institute with expertise in compilers and other system tools, performance engineering, energy management, and resilience. The goal of the project is to ensure that DOE’s computational scientists can successfully exploit the emerging generation of high performance computing systems. This goal is being met by providing application scientists with strategies and tools to productively maximize performance, conserve energy, and attain resilience.
Stepping up as director of SUPER is an honor and a wonderful opportunity to work with leading computer science experts on a project that is strategically positioned to broadly impact the SciDAC program,” said Oliker. “Although the idea of coordinating an effort spread across 14 institutions sounds daunting, we are fortunate that many of these investigators have been working together for over a dozen years as part of SciDAC. These established relationships enable distributed technical leadership that immensely facilitates effective collaborations, both within SUPER’s technical research areas as well as interfacing with the broader SciDAC and DOE communities. It’s been a pleasure working with this team as a researcher over the years, and together with the new project deputy Jeff Hollingsworth (University of Maryland), we look forward to advancing SUPER’s ambitious high-end computing goals.
SUPER builds on past successes and includes research into performance auto-tuning, energy efficiency, resilience, multi-objective optimization, and end-to-end tool integration. Leading the project dovetails neatly with Oliker’s research interests, which include optimization of scientific methods on emerging multi-core systems, ultra-efficient designs of domain-optimized computational platforms and performance evaluation of extreme-scale applications on leading supercomputers.
