Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, Illinois 60439
Tel. (708) 252-4619
Fax. (708-252-5986
Email: foster@mcs.anl.gov
Narrative:
Ian Foster obtained his PhD in computer science at Imperial College, London. He is currently a Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National University, where he leads a group conducting research into parallel languages, compilers, and algorithms, and developing grand challenge applications in climate modeling and other areas. In 1989, the Strand parallel programming system that he codesigned was awarded the British Computer Society award for technical innovation. He is presently a member of the Technical Steering Committe, Center for Research in Parallel Computation (an NSF Science and Technology Center) and of the Science Team for the CHAMMP climate modeling program, and is Co-PI on a Federal Grand Challenge award in computational chemistry. His research interests are primarily in the areas of algorithms and programming languages for scalable parallel computers; software engineering; and the application of parallel processing to problems in computational science.
Education:
1988: PhD, Imperial College, University of London.
1979: BSc (Hons I), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Experience:
92-- Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
89--91 Assistant Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
85--88 Research Associate, Department of Computing, Imperial College
Selected Publications:
I. Foster, J. Tilson, A. Wagner, R. Shepard, R. Harrison, R. Kendall, R. Littlefield, High performance computational chemistry: (I) Scalable Fock matrix construction algorithms, J. Comp. Chem. (in press)
I. Foster and S. Taylor, A compiler approach to scalable concurrent program design, ACM TOPLAS, 16(3):577--604, 1994.
I. Foster, R. Olson, and S. Tuecke, Productive parallel programming: the PCN approach, Scientific Programming, 1(1), 1(1):51--66, 1993.
I. Foster, W. Gropp, and R. Stevens, The parallel scalability of the spectral transform method, Monthly Weather Review, 120(5), 835--850, May 1992.
I. Foster, Automatic generation of self-scheduling programs, IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1991.
I. Foster and S. Taylor, Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming, Prentice-Hall, 1990.
Awards
1989 British Computer Society Award for Technical Innovation. (For the Strand parallel programming system.)