ESIEE is a center for advanced technical and scientific education established by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP) to train engineers capable of adapting to the ever-changing needs of today's industry. 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. Technical Interests Cluster Performance & Scalability The University of Waterloo is a research-intensive university, committed to discovering new knowledge and finding ways to use that knowledge for the benefit of society. Technical Interests Scalable event notification & delivery, 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. Technical Interests Parallel File Systems (Focus Group Leader), Clustering, Performance Monitoring The College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) provides 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. Technical Interests Compilers The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is regarded as Australia's leading international university, with credentials that recognize the quality of its graduates and commitment to new and creative approaches to education and research. Technical Interests Performance & scalability improvements in the Linux kernel, librairies and systems programs 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 and is dedicated to the well being of the Chinese society. Technical Interests Compilers, Cluster Computing The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) serves as a focus for research on atmospheric and related science problems, and is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) under an agreement with the National Science Foundation. Technical Interests Simulation application porting effort & fast computing libraries development CERN, located in Switzerland, is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. The Laboratory provides state-of-the-art scientific facilities for researchers to use. Technical Interests Compilers, Clustering, Performance Analysis The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) provides academic, government and industrial researchers with access to a flexible array of high-performance systems, communications and informatics. Technical Interests Cluster (Performance & Scalability), Parallel File Systems The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) conducts fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology. Technical Interests Scalability in a cluster, Parallel File Systems Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) multiprogram national laboratories, delivering breakthrough science and technology to meet key national needs. Technical Interests Parallel Filesystems, Cluster Scalability Gelato-related activities at the University of Karlsruhe are house within the Scientific Supercomputing Center (SSC Karlsruhe). Technical Interests Clustering, Parallel File Systems The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), 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). Technical Interests Cluster Performance & Scalability The Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is one of Russia's leaders in information technologies, providing academic research, development for industry, and education. Technical Interests Clustering, Compilers Ohio Supercomputer Center is Ohio's high-performance computing and networking center, providing scientific computing, networking, educational outreach, and information technology resources to state and national HPC and networking groups. Technical Interests Scalability (Box & Cluster), Parallel Filesystems Located in Sweden, the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan-KTH) is one of Europe's top schools for science and engineering education and research. Technical Interests Clustering (Performance and Scalability), Security, Grid Computing The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Brazil hosts research laboratories with collaborative projects with key organizations in computer and information technologies. Technical Interests Clustering, Box Scalability The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) houses the Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory (PDC Group), which performs research in the design, implementation, and efficiency measurements of parallel algorithms. Technical Interests Clustering, Box Scalability & Scalability in a box Fudan University, located in Shanghai, is one of the top universities in China with an international reputation for academic excellence and high-level research. Technical Interests Grid computing Zhejiang University is regarded as one of the leading universities in China. Gelato-related activities are led by both the Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation (CESC) and the College of Computer Science (CS). Technical Interests Clustering, Grid computing, scheduling and process management, applications, integration, Web services The Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) is known its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Gelato-related activities are conducted through their Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS). Technical Interests Compilers, Performance, Parallel Filesystems 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). Technical Interests Grid computing, performance monitoring, scheduling and process management, remote visualization middleware, applications, integration, libraries, testing, cache-obvious algorithms 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. Technical Interests Grid computing, filesystems, applications, HW administration, libraries, packaging, testing. Purdue University's College of Engineering is renowned as one of the largest and most respected engineering schools in the world. Technical Interests clusters, filesystems, grid computing, HW compatibility, scheduling, applications, integration, libraries, packaging, commercial printing The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley is at the leading edge of research in electromagnetics, electronics, and information technology. Technical Interests Clustering, compilers, Grid computing, HW compatibility, performance monitoring, applications, HW administration, integration. The Network Engineering Research Center at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) is the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Networks. Technical Interests Clustering, Grid Computing, performance monitoring BMD, the Research Institute of Bioinformatics & Molecular Design, in Seoul, Korea, focuses on constructing Computer-Aided Molecular Design (CAMD) environments and developing tools for CAMD. Technical Interests Applications, HW administration, integration, ilbraries, packaging, Web services, testing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory operated by the University of California. Technical Interests clustering, filesystems, HW compatibility, kernel development, applications, HW administration, integration Technical Interests Grid software The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre's (CSCS) mission is to provide the computing power, storage capacity, and expertise Switzerland's leading scientific research. Technical Interests Performance monitoring, scientific applications, HW administration, integration Gelato-related work at the Universidade Federal da Campina Grande (UFCG) is housed at the Distributed Systems Laboratory within the Computer Science Department. Technical Interests Clustering, grid software, performance monitoring, scheduling and process management, Web services Technical Interests Clustering, chemistry applications Technical Interests Clustering, filesystems, grid computing, image processing and bioinformatics applications Technical Interests Compilers, libraries The Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), commonly known as Tec de Monterrey, is the largest multi-campus university system in Latin America. Technical Interests Kernel development, scheduling and process management, security, applications The School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University (PKU) houses Gelato-related research. Technical Interests Clustering, grid computing, kernel development, scheduling and process management, libraries, Web services The Computing Centre of Academia Sinica (ASCC) is one of the major high-performance computing and communication centers in Taiwan. Technical Interests Clustering, grid computing, performance monitoring, scheduling and process management, applications, HW administration, integration, packaging, Web services, testing The National Grid Office (NGO) aims to develop the framework and infrastructure to achieve the vision for the National Grid of Singapore. Technical Interests Grid computing, applications, integration, packaging, testing The Particle Physics Group at the University of Bristol carries out fundamental research at the world's highest energy particle colliders. Technical Interests Grid, applications, libraries, testing The CEA intervenes in three main fields: energy, information and health technologies, and defense. Technical Interests applications, HW administration, libraries The Centre for Mathematical Modeling is located at the University of Chile. Technical Interests HW compatibility and administration, performance, scheduling, applications, integration, libraries, Web services DIKU is the Computer Science Department of the University of Copenhagen. Technical Interests Grid computing, performance, applications The Leibniz Computing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany is a modern service enterprise in the scientific arena. Technical Interests Performance, testing, SMP-scalability tests of the Linux kernel The NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration houses the Columbia supercomputer. Technical Interests compilers, filesystems, kernel development, memory, performance, scheduling, security, applications, HW administration, libraries The Computer and Information Technology was established in 1986 as a research-centric institute at Rice University. Technical Interests clusters, compilers, grid computing, memory, performance, scheduling, applications, libraries, testing The University of Sarajevo is a promoter of traditional, historical, cultural, scientific and artistic values in the of Bosnia-Herzegovina area of Europe. Technical Interests scheduling, security, applications, libraries, and testing The Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Education of the University of Split provides research and education in natural and computer sciences. Technical Interests applications, integration, libraries, packaging, Web services, testing The Department of Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires heads that institution's Gelato-related activities. Technical Interests grid computing, performance, security Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications is one of the most advanced Russian educational institutions. Technical Interests performance/performance monitoring and security The University of Guadalajara is a public decentralized body of the State of Jalisco Government in Mexico. Technical Interests grid software and security Gelato activites are housed in the Computer Science Department of the School of Sciences and Engineering. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, statistical machine translation The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing provides the national advanced computing and grid infrastructure for eResearch in Australia. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, kernel development, memory/memory management, performanc/performance monitoring, scheduling, and process management Gelato activities are housed in the High Performance Computing Center at the Graduate School of Engineering. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, performance/performance monitoring Gelato activities are housed within the Creative Compiler Research Group (CCRG). Technical Interests compilers, debuggers, kernel development Gelato activities are housed in the The Center for High-End Systems Software (CHESS) in the Department of Computer Science. Technical Interests compilers, memory/memory management, performance/performance monitoring Gelato-related activities at NPU are led by the Center for High Performance Computing. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, compilers, performance/performance monitoring, scheduling and process management Gelato activities are housed at the University's Cybermedia Center. Technical Interests grid software, security Gelato-related activities are led by Tecgraf (Computer Graphics Technology Group). Technical Interests cluster and grid software, filesystems, scheduling and process management PSI is a research institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Technical Interests cluster and grid software Gelato activities are housed in the Moe Key Lab of Data and Knowledge Engineering. Technical Interests parallel database management systems The Genomic Sciences Center is the core center for genomic sciences in Japan. Technical Interests Cluster software CESGA is the center for high-performance computing in Spain. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, memory/memory management, performance/performance monitoring Gelato activities are housed at the Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory (CAPSL). Technical Interests compilers Gelato activities are led by the HPC team, as part of Manchester Computing. Technical Interests grid software, memory/memory management, performance/performance monitoring, scheduling and process management Gelato-related activites are housed at the Digital Technology Center. Technical Interests compilers, performance/performance monintoring, scheduling and process management Gelato activities are housed in the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) in the Computer Science Department. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, compilers, performance/performance monitoring The University of Tromso is Gelato's northernmost member. Technical Interests cluster and grid software, compilers, performance/performance monitoring Xiamen U provides a comprehensive range of educational programs. Technical Interests performance/performance monitoring Gelato activities at UC3M are organized by the Computer Architecture Group. Technical Interests cluster software/tools, filesystems, grid software/tools, kernel development, scheduling and process management

Active Members

Academia Sinica Computing Centre -- ASCC (Taiwan)
CRASA homology-based sequence annotation tool; BioPortal Web interface; mpiBLAST, an MPI wrapper of NCBI Blast

American University of Cairo -- AUC (Eqypt)
bioinformatics, mathematical function libraries, bio-medical modeling, stress analysis, and parallel ray tracing

Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing -- APAC (Australia)
management software for large-scale cluster: batch system with detailed utilization monitoring, NUMA-aware allocations and cpusets, a kernel module accurate job memory usage and page unreferencing of suspended jobs, parallel launch utility; application porting and tuning including large-scale chemistry packages

Bioinformatics Institute -- BII (Singapore)
bioinformatics application porting and tuning

CEA (France)
applications, HW administration, libraries

European Organization for Nuclear Research -- CERN (Switzerland)
high-energy physics library and application porting and tuning

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro -- UFRJ (Brazil)
develop parallel applications for clusters for graph partitioning, computational fluid dynamics, petroleum, data mining, data bases, and energy; deploy grid services for the Brazilian High Performance System; developed an accounting system for parallel jobs in PBS

French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control -- INRIA (France)
cluster and grid applications, tools, and filesystems

Fudan University (China)
grid software and tools, grid-based workflow system and data mining software

Georgia Institute of Technology -- GA Tech (USA)
filesystems, kernel development, performance and performance monitoring, security, cluster/grid software and tools

Huazhong University of Science and Technology -- HUST (China)
Clustering, filesystems, grid computing middleware, porting image processing and bioinformatics applications to Itanium

Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences -- RAS-ISP (Russia)
cluster development web-based tools, GCC performance studies and extensions

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences -- ICT (China)
Open Research Compiler (ORC) on Itanium, NBD driver on Itanium

Institute of High Performance Computing -- IHPC (Singapore)
performance benchmarking and optimization, remote visualization

Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey -- ITESM (Mexico)
An extension of User-Mode Linux called User Mode KU Real Time (UMK), Personal Digital Library (PDLib) with mobility support

Lawrence Livermore National Lab -- LLNL (USA)
IA-64 kernel and system management tools, clustering, filesystems, scientific applications

Leibniz Computing Centre -- LRZ (Germany)
providing relevant parts of the LRZ benchmark suite to measure the performance of supercomputers (e.g. CPU, memory, disk and network I/O, etc.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- NASA (USA)
compilers, filesystems, kernel development, memory, performance, scheduling, security, applications, HW administration, libraries

National Center for Supercomputing Applications -- NCSA (USA)
OSCAR clustering software (OSCAR Gold), virtual machine interface (VMI)

National University of Defense Technology -- NUDT (China)
GCC compiler work: FORTRAN 95 syntax implementation and performance improvements for GCC; significant floating point performance improvements on Itanium 2 systems

National Grid Office -- NGO (Singapore)
Grid Accounting System (GAS); providing a portal to access grid resources

North Carolina State University -- NCSU (USA)
a hardware-assisted approach to support first-touch page placement on a large-scale Itanium-2 ccNUMA SMP, the SGI Altix; exploration of capabilities for the online selection of parallelizing optimizations

Northwestern Polytechnical University -- NPU (China)
optimize the performance of clusters using parallel programming techniques: develop job scheduling, a resource management suit, and a grid portal; scientific applications: develop applications for material design, computational fluid dynamics, and structural computing

Ohio Supercomputer Center -- OSC (USA)
remote heterogeneous cluster management and administration tools, parallel filesystems, training

Osaka University -- Osaka U (Japan)
grid software: developed a grid-aware secure filesystem by extending an existing distributed filesystem

Pacific Northwest National Lab -- PNNL (USA)
parallel file system development, job allocation management, management and monitoring software

Peking University -- PKU (China)
LilyTask parallel programming language, LilyTask runtime rupport, LilyHPC management suite, PKU grid software

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center -- PSC (USA)
heterogeneous architecture & interoperability, job management & scheduling, maintenance monitoring, parallel file system development

Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences -- RAS-PSI (Russia)
T-system migration tool for parallel computing on clusters and grids, which is designed to simplify both tasks of development of new parallel programs and parallelizing existing ones

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul -- PUCRS (Brazil)
adaptation of cluster monitoring and management tools to work with small heterogeneous Linux Itanium clusters, Linux scalability

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro -- PUC-Rio (Brazil)
cluster and grid software: a set of tools to manage resources and applications in cluster and grid environments (CSGrid)

Purdue University (USA)
commercial printing/digital publishing applications and drivers for Itanium

Renmin University of China -- Renmin U (China)
parallel database management systems: developing a high-performance parallel and/or in-memory database management system in the MPP enviroment

Research Institute of Bioinformatics & Molecular Design -- BMD (Korea)
drug discovery, bioinformatics, and material design application tools porting and tuning

Rice University (USA)
In general, developing tools and software optimized for the Itanium platform. Specifically, HHPCToolkit, a performance tuninsg tools for IA-64, and porting superpages from FreeBSD for Alpha to the IA-64 Linux kernel.

RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center -- RIKEN (Japan)
Bioinformatics sequence analysis using Itanium

Royal Institute of Technology -- KTH (Sweden)
tools for application performance measurement using performance counters, development and support of scalable security infrastructures, adaptivity of codes to the grid computing environment

South China University of Technology -- SCUT (China)
cluster performance monitoring, bioinformatics analysis tools

Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure -- SPACI Consortium (Italy)
Grid libraries, Grid problem solving environments for remote sensing, bioinformatics, atmospheric and climate modeling, industry simulation

Supercomputing Center of Galicia -- CESGA (Spain)
performance and programmability improvement of HPC systems; software tools for HPC and grid facilities

Tsinghua University (China)
parallel debugger for PVM and MPI, checkpoint and rollback recovery resource manager for PVM, enable ORC as OpenMP compiler

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid -- UC3M (Spain)
MiMPI-a multithreaded implementation of MPI; EXPAND-a parallel filesystem based currently on NFS servers adequated for heterogeneous architectures and OSes; Clusterfile-a parallel file system for clusters of commodity computers; also a member os the Spanish IrisGrid Initiative

Universidade Federal de Campina Grande -- UFCG (Brazil)
OurGrid user-centric middleware, clustering, performance monitoring, scheduling and process management

University of Buenos Aires -- UBA (Argentina)
grid computing, performance, security

University of California, Berkeley (USA)
cluster and grid monitoring tools (Ganglia), compilers (UPC, Java), software performance tuning, math library development (LAPACK), networks (PlanetLab)

University of Chile (Chile)
Port of Climate Model MM5, a climate model programmed mostly in FORTRAN; port of Omnet++ Transportation Model, an open-source network simulator (discrete) programmed in C++; and an energy and telecommunications computing algorithm.

University of Copenhagen -- DIKU (Denmark)
Running the Badger Project, a study of the performance of database systems on modern computer platforms; testing new types of grid middleware, especially with a focus on minimal configuration and intrusion; and enhancing the performance of MySQL on Linux on Itanium

University of Delaware -- U Delaware (USA)
compilers: research, maintain, and develop Open64

University of Houston (USA)
storage, visualization, and networking facilities; adaptive FFT libraries; applications in life sciences, CFD, and seismic processing; adaptation of existing software to grid environments

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- UIUC (USA)
OpenIMPACT C compiler, recompilation of performance-critical libraries and applications

University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
parallel filesystem development, scalable servers, coordinated process scheduling, Java development environment

University of Manchester -- U Manchester (United Kingdom)
port and tune scientific applications for SGI Altix systems

University of Minnesota -- U Minnesota (USA)
ADORE, a transparent dynamic object code optimization system that can increase application execution performance on Linux-Itanium; enhancing the ORC compiler with data speculative optimizations such as data speculative register promotion and data speculative PRE

University of New South Wales -- UNSW (Australia)
performance and scalability improvements for the Linux kernel and libraries (user-level device drivers, new virtual memory infrastructure, preemption support, microstate accounting for multithreaded processes, POSIX threads, fast system calls, large block device support (> 1TB), TCP/IP performance analysis and improvement

University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez -- UPRM (Puerto Rico)
parallelize, port and tune signal processing, electromagnetics, acoustics and optics applications, software system for the automatic generation of high-performance, parallel multidimensional symmetric FFT libraries, Linux scalability

University of Sarajevo (Bosnia)
porting and tuning protein and nucleotide sequencing software for Itanium

University of Split (Craotia)
DIALIGN, a multiple DNA and protein sequence alignment program; HMMtop, a program for the prediction of transmembrane helices (based on the HMM model); AMBER, a molecular dynamics package; and GRALIC, a molecular visualization program

University of Tennessee -- U Tennessee (USA)
deploying a wide collection of mathematical software and tools on the Linux IA-64 architecture, including: LAPACK, ATLAS, BLAS, ScaLAPACK, and PAPI

University of Tokyo (Japan)
UTChem quantum chemical calculation program

University of Tromso -- U Tromso (Norway)
developing computational science codes, especially in the area of theoretical chemistry and oceanography; parallelizing the Dalton molecular electronic structure program on Itanium

University of Waterloo (Canada)
scalable event notification and delivery, concurrency-neutral system library

Xiamen University -- Xiamen U (China)
application for resource usage monitoring and performance tuning

Zhejiang University (China)
visual environment for simulation and visualization for multidisciplinary applications, and an information grid tool suite including specifications and middleware

Associate Members

French Engineering College of Electronics and Electrotechnology -- ESIEE (France)
Gelato portal development, hosting and maintenance; software packaging, integration, and testing

National Center for Atmospheric Research -- NCAR (USA)
efficient, modern, and portable spectral transform software libraries optimized for Itanium

San Diego Supercomputer Center -- SDSC (USA)
NPACI Rocks clustering software

Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications -- SUT (Russia)
performance/performance monitoring and security

Swiss National Supercomputing Centre -- CSCS (Switzerland)
performance monitoring and benchmarking in an heterogeneous environment, scientific applications, visualization packages

University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
Porting of existing particle physics application software and libraries and grid middleware

University of Guadalajara -- U Guadalajara (Mexico)
grid software and security, probe and port open-source software for climate modeling using WRF, develop techniques for fabricating Fullerene Nanostructures and rendering (blender)