High Performance Computing in Clouds: Moving HPC Applications to a Scalable and Cost-Effective Environment

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Edson Borin: Prof. Edson Borin is an associate professor at the Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and has been working there since 2010. Prior to joining Unicamp he was a researcher at Intel Labs in California where he developed dynamic compilation techniques to improve next-generation HW/SW co-designed microprocessors. He also used the microcode compression algorithms he had developed in his PhD thesis to enhance the manufacturing process of Intel microprocessors earning four divisional recognition awards. At Unicamp Prof. Borin applies his expertise in modern computer architecture and compilers to optimize the performance and cost of scientific and engineering computing. He leads the Discovery laboratory which is supported by government agencies such as Fapesp CNPq and Capes international technology companies like Intel AMD Samsung Motorola and Cadence/Tensilica and major Brazilian corporations such as Petrobras. Several of his researchworks have been particularly geared towards optimizing the execution of seismic-processing and deep-learning applications on cloud infrastructure. In addition to his research contributions Prof. Borin has authored eight patents a technical book on assembly programming and over 100 papers in international conferences and journals. He has supervised over 22 doctoral and master's students many of whom have received recognition for their exceptional theses dissertations and papers.Lúcia Maria A. Drummond: Prof. Lucia Drummond obtained her D.Sc. in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio deJaneiro Brazil in 1994 where she took part of the group which developed the first Brazilian parallel computer. She has been in the Department of Computer Science of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) since 1989 where she is now Full Professor. She currently acts in undergraduate and graduate program advising a number of master and doctoral students. She is a Level 1 Researcher at CNPq (a Brazilian Research Agency) possessing more than 100 publications in journals and proceedings of national and international conferences. Her research interests are parallel and distributed computing including theory and applications. She has been invited to give talks in Université Paris-Sud École de Mines Université dAvignon et des Pays du Vaucluse Université Sorbonne France where she has also co-advised Ph.D. students.Jean-Luc Gaudiot: Prof. Jean-Luc Gaudiot received the Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique Paris France in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles in 1977 and 1982 respectively. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California Irvine where he was department Chair from 2003 to 2009. Priorto joining UCI in January 2002 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California since 1982 where he served as Director of the Computer Engineering Division for three years. He has also designed distributed microprocessor systems at Teledyne Controls Santa Monica California (1979-1980) and performed research in innovative architectures at the TRW Technology Research Center El Segundo California (1980-1982). He frequently acts as consultant to companies that design high-performance computer architectures and has served as an expert witness in patent infringement and product liability cases. His research interests include programmability of parallel systems hardware computer security and design of Autonomous Driving Systems. He has published nearly 300 journal and conference papers. His research has been sponsored by NSF DoE and DARPA as well as a number of industrial organizations. From 2006 to 2009 he was the first Editor-in-Chief of theIEEE Computer Architecture Letters a new publication of the IEEE Computer Society which he helped found to the end of facilitating short fast turnaround of fundamental ideas in the Computer Architecture domain. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. In June 2001 he was elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and re-elected in June 2003 for a second two-year term. In 2009 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society for a 3-year-term. He was the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board Transactions Operations Committee (2010-2011) the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board Magazines Operations Committee in 2012 the IEEE Computer Society vice President Educational Activities Board in 2013 and 2014-2015 IEEE Computer Society vice President Publications Board. He served as the 2017 IEEE Computer Society President. Dr. Gaudiot is a member of AAAS ACMand IEEE. He has also chaired the IFIP Working Group 10.3 (Concurrent Systems). He was co-General Chairman of the 1992 International Symposium on Computer Architecture Program Committee Chairman of the 1993 IFIP Working Conference on Architectures and Compilation Techniques for Fine and Medium Grain Parallelism the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (Systems Track) the 1995 Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques Conference (PACT 95) the High Performance Computer Architecture conference in 1999 (HPCA-5) and the 2005 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. In 1999 he became a Fellow of the IEEE For Contributions to the Programmability and Reliability of Dataflow Architectures. He was elevated to the rank of AAAS Fellow in 2007 For Distinguished Contributions to the Design and Analysis of Highly Efficient Multiprocessor and Memory System Architectures.Alba Melo: Prof. Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) France in 1996. In 2008 she did a postdoc at the University of Ottawa Canada; in 2011 she was invited as Guest Scientist at Université Paris-Sud France; and in 2013 she did a sabbatical at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya Spain. Since 1997 she works at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Brasilia (UnB) Brazil where she is now a Full Professor. She is also a CNPq Research Fellow level 1D in Brazil. She was the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Informatics at UnB for several years (2000-2002 2004-2006 2008 2010 2014) and she coordinated international collaboration projects with the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Spain (2012 2014-2016) and with the University of Ottawa Canada (2012-2015). In 2016 she received the Brazilian Capes Award on Advisor of the Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science. Her research interests are High Performance Computing Bioinformatics and Cloud Computing. She advised 2 postdocs 4 PhD Thesis and 22 MsC Dissertations. Currently she advises 4 PhD students and 2 MsC students. She is Senior Member of the IEEE Society and Member of the Brazilian Computer Society. She gave invited talks at Universitat Karlshure Germany Université Paris-Sud France Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya Spain University of Ottawa Canada and at Universidad del Chile Chile. She has currently 91 papers listed at DBLP.Maicon Melo Alves: Dr. Maicon Melo Alves obtained his D.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) Brazil in 2018 and received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) Brazil in 2012. He received the best paper award (2015) and an honorable mention for his D.Sc. thesis (2019) in WSCAD the foremost brazilian conference for the high-performance computing area. He has over 25 years of experience in IT infrastructure and since 2006 he acts as system analyst at Petrobras the brazilian oil and gas state company working with high performance computing systems used to execute geoscience applications. He had joined in 2021 the executive committee of the Regional Commission for High Performance Computing of the State of Rio de Janeiro and completed the MBA in in Data Science of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO). He possesses two published books and publications in international journals and proceedings of national conferences. His research interests include high performance computing parallel and distributed computing cloud computing and artificial intelligence.Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux: Prof. Philippe Olivier Alexander Navaux is a retired professor of the Informatics Institute from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Porto Alegre Brazil since 1971. Graduated in Electronic Engineering UFRGS 1970 Brazil master's in applied physics UFRGS 1973 Brazil PhD in Computer Science Grenoble National Institute of Technology (INPG) Grenoble 1979 France. Professor of graduate and undergraduate courses on Computer Architecture - High Performance Computing. Leader of the GPPD Parallel and Distributed Processing Group with projects financed by government agencies Finep CNPq Capes and international Cooperation with groups from France Germany Spain and USA with funding from EU CNPq and CAPES. Besides the cooperation projects with academic sector he has conducted several research projects with private companies: Petrobras Microsoft Intel HP DELL Altus and Itautec. Has oriented more than 100 Master and PhD students and has published near 400 papers in journals and conferences. Member of the SBC Brazilian Computer Society SBPC Brazilian Society for Scientific Progress ACM Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Consultant to various national and international funding organizations DoE (USA) ANR (FR) FINEP CNPq CAPES FAPESP FAPERGS FAPEMIG FACEPE and others. He was member of the Superior Council from the FAPERGS (one Brazilian agency for supporting research) and from the CTC Scientific and Technical Council of the LNCC/MCT. He was coordinator of the Computing Area Committee from the Capes/MEC (Higher Education Personnel Training Coordination / Ministry of Education).