Member Institutions
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The ESIEE Group,
a Center for Advanced Technical and Scientific Education
was set up in 1961 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce
and Industry to train engineers capable of adapting
to the everchanging needs of today's industry.
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA) at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a leader
in developing and deploying cutting-edge high-performance
computing, networking, and information technologies.
NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid
project, a National Science Foundation initiative to
build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most
comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific
research. NCSA also leads the National Computational
Science Alliance (Alliance), a partnership to prototype
an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st
century that includes more than 50 academic, government,
and industry research partners. The NSF Partnerships
for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program
funds the Alliance. In addition to the NSF, NCSA receives
support from the state of Illinois, the University of
Illinois, private sector partners, and other federal
agencies.
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Waterloo
is a research-intensive university, committed to discovering
new knowledge and finding ways to use that knowledge
for the benefit of society. Well known for our entrepreneurial
spirit, we are a leader in the transfer of technology
and ideas.
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The BioInformatics Institute (BII),
an institute funded by the Biomedical Research Council
(BMRC) of Agency for Science, Technology and Research
(A*STAR), has been set up to be the focus of research
and teaching in bioinformatics in Singapore. Dr Gunaretnam
Rajagopal, formerly the Assistant Director of Research
from the Cavendish Laboratory in UK's Cambridge University,
was appointed as the Acting Director of the BII from
July 2001.
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A broad base of science and fundamentals, a talented
faculty, state-of-the-art research facilities, and some
of the brightest students in the world -- these are
just some of the factors that contribute to the reputation
for quality and excellence at College
of Engineering at the University of Illinois. The
mission of the college is to serve the state and nation
with the products of excellence in education, research,
and public service and to instill in students attitudes,
vision, values, and training.
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UNSW is regarded
as Australia’s leading international university
— with credentials that recognise the quality of
its graduates and commitment to new and creative approaches
to education and research.
Visit Gelato@UNSW to learn more about their Gelato activities.
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With strong support from the nation and in the face
of unprecedented opportunities, Tsinghua
University is poised to become a world-class university
in the 21st century. With the inspiring motto "Self-discipline
and Social Commitment," Tsinghua is dedicated to
the well being of Chinese society.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, was established in 1960 to serve as a focus for
research on atmospheric and related science problems and is recognized for
its scientific contributions to our understanding of the earth system, including
climate change, changes in atmospheric composition, Earth-Sun interactions, weather
formation and forecasting, and the impacts of all of these components on human
societies. The Center is operated by UCAR under a cooperative agreement with
the National Science Foundation.
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CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's
largest particle physics centre. Founded in 1954, the laboratory was one of
Europe's first joint ventures, and has become a shining example of international
collaboration. From the original 12 signatories of the CERN convention, membership
has grown to the present 20 Member States.
CERN explores what matter is made of, and what forces hold it together. The Laboratory provides state-of-the-art scientific facilities for researchers to use.
These are accelerators which accelerate tiny particles to a fraction under the speed of light,
and detectors to make the particles visible.
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The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides academic, government and
industrial researchers with access to a flexible array of high-performance
systems, communications and informatics, including LeMieux, a 3,000
processor HP system capable of six teraflops, the most powerful system in
the United States committed solely to public research and open to all
science and engineering disciplines.
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The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control conducts fundamental and applied research in
information and communication science and technology (ICST). INRIA has six
research sites: Grenoble, Nancy, Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis,
and Bordeaux-Lille-Saclay (France). Approximately 2500 members of its staff
of 3000 are research scientists, either at or affiliated with INRIA sites.
The Institute focuses on four research areas: networks and systems; software engineering and symbolic computation; human-machine interaction,
imaging, data, and knowledge; and simulation and optimization of complex
systems. INRIA is actively involved in technology transfer programs: the
Institute maintains 600 industry contracts and has spun off some 60 private
companies, notably through its INRIA-Transfert subsidiary, promoter of four
seed funds: I-Source 1&2 in the field of ICST, C-Source (multimedia), and
T-Source (telecommunications). INRIA's active international collaborations
and exchanges have resulted in significant training and research
initiatives. From 1995-2002, INRIA led the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
in Europe, in collaboration with MIT (US) and the University of Keio
(Asia). The W3C is charged with developing common protocols for the
evolution of the Web.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is one of nine U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) multiprogram national laboratories, delivering breakthrough
science and technology to meet key national needs. The DOE national
laboratories apply their capabilities to meet selected environmental,
energy, health and national security objectives, strengthen the economy,
and support the education of future scientists and engineers. Pacific
Northwest is managed by DOE's Office of Science, and performs work for
many DOE offices as well as other government agencies. The W.R. Wiley
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national user facility at
Pacific Northwest, is the home of an 11.4-Teraflop supercomputer
composed of more than 1,900 Intel Itanium 2 processors.
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OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) is Ohio's high-performance computing and
networking center. Established in 1987 by the Ohio Board of Regents, the
Center provides scientific computing, networking, educational outreach, and
information technology resources to state and national high-performance
computing and networking groups. OSC empowers its academic, industrial, and government partners to make Ohio the education and technology state of the
future. For more information, please visit www.osc.edu.
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The Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD) at the
University of Karlsruhe researches tools and
techniques for parallel computing, software engineering, and compiler
construction. The long-term objective is to develop and understand
approaches for efficiently building reliable, high-performance, usable, and safe
software. The IPD is a leader in research on cluster operating systems,
configuration management, software architecture, empirical software
engineering, compiler theory, component systems, and software
re-engineering. The IPD at the University Karlsruhe is consistently ranked
as Germany's top computer science department.
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The Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS) is one of Russia's leaders in information technologies. The three main components of ISP's mission are academic research, development
for industry, and education, and they are closely interrelated. The
principle research and development directions of the Institute include:
compiler technologies and optimization, parallel and distributed
programming; cross-development tools for embedded
systems; program analysis, reverse engineering and verification;
integration technologies for
information resources; neural networks and control; and discrete
mathematics and numerical
analysis.
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SDSC, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego, and the leading-edge site of
the National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). SDSC's
mission is to develop and use technology to advance science and to provide
leadership both nationally and internationally in computing, data
management, biosciences, and other areas. As a national laboratory for
computational science and engineering, SDSC is funded by NSF and other federal agencies, the state of California, the University of California, and private
organizations.
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The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), KTH, established in 1827, is one of Europe's top schools for science and
engineering education and research, graduating one-third of Sweden's
undergraduate and graduate engineers in the full range of engineering
disciplines. PDC is the lead center for high-performance computing and
visualization for the Swedish academic community and collaborates with five
other HPC centers in Sweden through the SweGrid project. PDC is also a
founding member of the Nordic Grid Consortium and the European Grid Support
Center (together with the UK e-Science program and CERN). The Center for Parallel Computers, PDC, established
in 1989, has extensive experience in providing secure access and dependable
service and training for high-end state-of-the art environments for leading
edge computational research in science and engineering. PDC has gained
considerable experience in developing tools and systems for administering
and managing novel HPC environments for production, including massively
parallel computers (Thinking Machines), early clusters (Digital and IBM),
parallel/vector systems (Fujitsu), distributed shared memory systems (SGI),
and Intel- and AMD-based clusters. In collaboration with the Department of
Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA), PDC has developed an Open
Source version of Kerberos V (Heimdal), delivered with Debian and Free BSD, and Open Source clients for AFS (ARLA). Among developed tools are schedulers/load
levelers, file systems for distributed environments, and a software system
for administering a cluster of currently 200 nodes, developed and deployed
in cooperation with the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center.
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil, was established in 1931 and has since
graduated more than 100,000 students. Currently, PUCRS offers 60
undergraduate courses of study, 24 Master's programs and 15 Ph.D. programs
through 22 units. Current enrollment is 30,403. The Faculty of Computer
Science began as a department of the Faculty of Mathematics in 1973 and
became an independent unit in 1977. Today more than 1000 students are
enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs. In 1993 PUCRS began
hosting industry-sponsored research laboratories that have evolved into
collaborative research projects with key organizations in computer and
information technologies. With the R&D group of HP Brazil, PUCRS hosts the
Research Center in Software Testing (CPTS) and the Research Center in
High-Performance Computing (CPAD). Other research activities relevant to
Gelato include resource management and monitoring in clusters, cluster
benchmarking, heterogeneous clusters (including IPF machines),
high-performance applications on multiprocessors and clusters, cluster of
clusters, cluster and GRIDS, operating system scalability on multiprocessor
architectures (including IPF nodes), statistical software testing, and
reliability estimation.
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UPRM, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez ,
has a tradition of excellence in higher education and is regarded as the Puerto
Rico's leading research institution. Established in 1911 as a college of
agriculture, the Mayaguez Campus continues its development in the best
tradition of a land grant institution. It comprises the Colleges of
Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and
Engineering. The campus includes over 810 professors and researchers and
about 12,600 students. Approximately 800 students are enrolled in graduate
programs.
Gelato-related activities at UPRM are led by the PDC Group (Parallel and
Distributed Computing Laboratory). The PDC Group performs research in the
design, implementation, and efficiency measurements of parallel algorithms.
It also addresses research issues related to parallel and distributed
computing systems with an emphasis in high-performance cluster computing
and Grid computing. The PDC Group was established by the Computing and
Information Sciences and Engineering (PRECISE) initiative at UPRM.
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Fudan University, founded in 1905 in Shanghai, is one of the top universities in China with an
international reputation for academic excellence. Fudan is composed of 17 schools offering a complete range of majors and disciplines. In addition,
Fudan is recognized as having 45 national key (outstanding) disciplines, 5 national key laboratories, 57 institutes and 80 research centers. With the
support of the National Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal Government, Fudan is now being built into a high-level research-oriented university
and one of the most influential universities in the world in the 21st century.
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Zhejiang University, established in 1897, is regarded as one of the leading universities in China. It is
supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Zhejiang Provincial Government. Gelato-related activities are led
by both the Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation (CESC), and
the College of Computer Science (CS). CESC is a key
interdisciplinary research center with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary mission to promote high-performance computing
applications in various fields throughout the university. For the Gelato projects, CESC focuses on software environments for
computational grids, which underpin simulation and visualization for large-scale multidisciplinary applications. CS is one of
twenty-one colleges in Zhejiang University. Its research spans computer science and engineering, digital media and network technology,
and industrial design. For Gelato-related activities, CS is building a scalable information grid enabling large-scale data sharing and
coordination of massively parallel processing.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities,
distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology.
In Fall 2001, the Georgia Tech Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) opened its
doors. CERCS brings together researchers from Georgia Tech's College of Computing and School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering who share a common focus on the design and evaluation of computer and software
systems through experimental methods. CERCS research focuses on complex systems, including their hardware,
communications and system-level software, and applications. CERCS has also been recognized by NSF as an
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.
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The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) is a national research institute and a member of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Its research thrust is in computational science and engineering (CSE). The Institute places great emphasis on furthering CSE through the development of human capital, intellectual capital, and industrial capital. It also aims to help Singapore-based companies gain competitiveness through the promotion, development, and application of CSE technologies. With a current staff strength of 170 research scientists and engineers, IHPC is well-placed to spearhead research and development in CSE across a broad range of disciplines, such as manufacturing, electronics, chemical applications, precision engineering, virtual reality, and advanced product design.
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Housed at the University of Houston, the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2)
serves as a campus-wide center to foster and support multidisciplinary research, education, and training in the computational sciences, computer science, and information technology.
Computational research is focused primarily in Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Geosciences, Mathematics and Engineering.
Most of our codes are either community codes or developed within research groups at the University. TLC2 operates a visualization laboratory, high-performance computing systems, and
systems for computer science research, as well as a distributed storage facility with servers in several campus locations integrated with compute servers over a dedicated Gigabit Ethernet. TLC2
research groups include faculty and students in several Colleges, including Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Technology, Engineering, and Social Sciences. Research groups affiliated with TLC2 are
actively engaged in several national and international science, middleware, and tools projects, including Grid projects. Directly or through disciplinary member centers, TLC2 industrial affiliates
include: Amerada Hess, BP, Chevron-Texaco, CGG, Conoco-Phillips, ENI-Agip, Exxon-Mobil, GX Technology, Petrobras, Shell, Statoil, Total, Unocal, WesternGeo, CoreLabs, PGS, HP, and Intel.
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For more than half a century, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, has been at the leading edge of research in electro-magnetics, electronics, and information technology. Research at Berkeley has led to revolutionary innovations in semiconductor and MEMS devices, design technology, computer architecture, operating systems and databases, and wired and wireless networking. UC Berkeley graduates are at the core of today's Information Technology industry. The driving force behind these achievements is a common spirit, often called the "Berkeley Way," that emphasizes risk and impact, and endorses multi-disciplinary collaboration. Engineering education and innovation have been a part of the University of California since it was chartered on March 23, 1868. Berkeley was the first of nine UC campuses and comprised six colleges, including Mechanics, Mining and Civil Engineering. The department has approximately 137 faculty and 500 graduate students, and is consistently ranked among the top combined EECS departments in the nation.
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Purdue University
(Information forthcoming.)
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Research Institute of Bioinformatics and Molecular Design (BMD)
(Information forthcoming.)
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South China University of Technology (SCUT)
(Information forthcoming.)
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