Sid Karin steps down as SDCS directorSan Diego 23 February 2001 Sid Karin, founding director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), will assume a new role as Senior Strategic Advisor to the SDSC director. Internationally recognised computer scientist Francine Berman will become director of SDSC and NPACI.
As director for the past 16 years, Karin transformed SDSC from a resource for high-performance technology to a national computational science and engineering laboratory with a broad research agenda in computer science, scientific applications and education. In 1997, Karin spearheaded UCSD's successful proposal to lead NPACI, one of only two National Science Foundation-funded partnerships of their kind in the nation. Having shepherded SDSC through this evolution, Karin requested the opportunity to return to hands-on computing and communications research and development. In his new position, Karin will be a strategic adviser to the SDSC director and consultant to Chancellor Dynes on computing and communications issues; he also will continue as a professor of computer science and engineering at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering.
Berman, a UCSD professor of Computer Science and Engineering since 1984, was involved in the early development of both SDSC and NPACI and has worked in high-performance computing for 20 years. She is a pioneer in parallel distributed computing in which networks of computers work together to process complicated scientific problems. Berman developed software that enables users to take full advantage of the computing power available through networks of computers. The founder of UCSD's Parallel Computation and Grid Computing Laboratories, her research has focused on developing adaptive applications and middleware that promotes performance in dynamic, networked multi-user environments. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Berman is a leader in NPACI's Metasystems research and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology's software research.
Karin, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, predicts that the coming years hold great promise for SDSC and NPACI. He foresees that initiatives in scientific data management and analysis, petaflops scale computing, computational biology and bioinformatics, and extreme networking are just a few areas in which SDSC will play a key role.
A research unit of UCSD, SDSC is leading the effort by NPACI to deploy the national computational environment that will foster tomorrow's scientific discovery.
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