Presentation of the Board members
President: Dave Gigrich
The Boeing Company
David Gigrich holds a Computer Science Degree from Oregon State University. He has been with The Boeing Company since 1980 where he currently works in MSE CAE Engineering Systems and holds the position of Senior Technical Analyst providing technical support for in-house and 3rd party software used in the development of all major Boeing commercial airplanes (e.g. 787 Dreamliner & 747 Advanced). He serves as the representative for Structures’ Computing on the Boeing HPC Council which is responsible for defining the company’s future high-performance computing needs and overseeing all major computing hardware purchases.
David has participated in CUG since 2000. He was the Chair for the PE SIG from 2000 – 2003 and was elected onto the Board in 2002 as Vice President and Program Chair. In 2006 he took over as President of the Board from Barbara Horner-Miller.
Vice President: John Noe
Sandia National Laboratories
John stood for election as Vice President of CUG at the 2006 conference held in beautiful Lugano, Switzerland. Previously he had completed the term of Director at Large for Rob Leland of Sandia who resigned due to increased responsibilities brought on by a promotion. John has been the Sandia Site Representative for CUG since Sandia rejoined in 2004. In a previous incarnation, he was also the Site Rep when Sandia fielded Cray 1s, X-MPs and Y-MPs. John thanks David Gigrich for providing a solid foundation and mature guidance for organization of the CUG Technical Programs which constitute most of the annual CUG conference. As Technical Chair for the meetings, he welcomes participation by all CUG sites and encourages CUG members to submit abstracts early and often!
Secretary: James Kasdorf
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre
Jim began his career in supercomputing in 1966, working to exploit CDC 6600 computers at Westinghouse. Later, he managed their international engineering and scientific computing activities and, in 1984, co-founded the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Since 1996, he has been the PSC Director of Special Projects, continuing his leadership role in supercomputing system acquisition and implementation. Before election to the CUG Board in 2006, Jim held user group positions in CDC’s VIM (7600 development committee chair, vice-president, president), HP-CAST (president) and was the first chair of CUG’s XT3 SIG.
Treasurer: Mark Fahey
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mark Fahey holds a PhD in numerical analysis from the University of Kentucky. He has been with Oak Ridge National Laboratory since November 2001. He currently holds the position of Senior Scientific Application Analyst in the Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL. Mark has been involved with CUG as an X1 SIG Chair since May 2003. He joined the CUG board in May 2007 to take over as Treasurer.
Director-at-Large: Mike Ashworth
CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
Mike leads the Advanced Research Computing Group at STFC Daresbury Laboratory, which is engaged in optimization of applications across a wide range of scientific disciplines for terascale systems. He manages the delivery of a number of computational science and engineering support programmes. His own work focuses on the development and optimization of environmental modelling and CFD codes, including performance engineering and application of Grid technologies.
Mike joined the CUG Board in May 2007 as Director-at-Large.
Director-at-Large: /Marie-Christine Sawley
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Marie-Christine completed her PhD studies in plasma physics at EPFL, followed by a post doc at the University of Sydney. As the head of the User Services at the Scientific Computing Centre (SIC) of the EPFL, she was in charge of the HPC application support, including design and support for industrial contracts. She managed the support team of the CRAY-EPFL partnership (1993-1996). She acted in a number of selection committees for HPC system purchase and presided Speedup, the Swiss forum for HPC. She was later involved in the design and establishment of industrial or multi-institutional partnerships such as the Swiss TX project with Compaq and the bio-simulation research sponsorship with Hewlett-Packard, and joined CAST. She was appointed at CSCS as general manager on July, 1st, 2003, centre which procured and installed the first XT3 in Europe.
She has been involved with CUG since 2006 when she joined the Board as Director-at-Large.
Director-at-Large: Ladina Gilly
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Having graduated from Lausanne Hotel Management School with a BSc in International Hospitality Management in 2003, Ladina gained experience in conference management with a Geneva based conference organizer. She joined CSCS in the summer of 2003 where she works as HR manager, Event manager and head of the infrastructure unit. Ladina first joined CUG in 2005 in Albuquerque to learn the ropes of organizing this conference in preparation for managing the 2006 conference in Lugano. She joined the board in 2007 with a strong wish to further assist future local arrangements committees and bring a different viewpoint to the strategic planning and outlook of the board and the organization.
Past President: Barbara Horner-Miller
Arctic Region Supercomputing Centre
With more than 35 years of experience in high performance computing with increasing responsibilities working at some of the nation’s premier institutions. Barbara began her career with 7 years at the Rand Corporation, an Air Force think tank in Santa Monica, California doing Fortran programming on military-based applications. From Rand, she moved to the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado to work on the National Hail Research Experiment; during 15 years at NCAR, she made the transition from an applications programmer into user support. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, she headed the Supercomputing and Computational Mathematics Group . She currently the Associate Director of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks Alaska.
In the late eighties she became active in the User Services Special Interest Group, giving a paper or sitting on a panel at most meetings. She was elected User Services SIG Chair and volunteered to be track coordinator for the Program Committee. Soon after moving to ARSC, the CUG Treasurer changed jobs and resigned his CUG position. Barbara was appointed Treasurer by the CUG BoD and served in that position for 4 years, before running for Director of Americas and then CUG President. She served as Director of Americas for one year and CUG President for 4.
