Francine Berman

Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

High-performance and grid computing: programming environments, adaptive middleware, scheduling, and performance predication.

Francine Berman is a pioneer in grid computing and a leader in the national effort to build a comprehensive modern infrastructure to support research in science and engineering. Dr. Berman directs the San Diego Supercomputer Center, an organized research unit of UCSD whose mission is to develop and use technology to advance science. Dr. Berman also directed 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 principal investigators of the NSF-supported TeraGrid, the largest coordinated grid deployment project to date. Her 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 he 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.

Capsule Bio:
Francine Berman is a UCSD professor of computer science and engineering and is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. Berman is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. She serves on numerous technical, advisory, conference, and scientific committees, and is a founding member of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women. Berman obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Washington in 1979, and served on the Purdue University faculty for five years before joining UCSD in 1984.

Institute Affiliation:
Director,
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