CCT Hires Executive Director
The CCT has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
As executive director at the CCT, Nabrzyski will work under CCT Director Ed Seidel to identify and pursue strategic endeavors that promote and advance LSU’s research, education and economic development activities.
“Jarek has an excellent track record in identifying and uniting people from around the world who can work together through supercomputing and grid technologies to enable breakthroughs in a variety of areas. We are very happy he will be joining the CCT,” Seidel said. “His expertise will help us tremendously as we grow the center and look for more collaborative opportunities for LSU and the state in future years.”
Nabrzyski has worked for more than 10 years at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poland, where he manages the scientific applications department. He also serves on the center’s board of directors. His research specialties include distributed applications, operations research and Grid and high-performance computing.
The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center houses advanced cyberinfrastructure, including an optical network, called PIONIER, deployed throughout Poland and connecting to the European GÉANT network that is similar to the resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI. With his experience developing and advancing this cyberinfrastructure, Nabrzyski can help Louisiana researchers develop new applications for LONI.
During his work in Poznan, Nabrzyski has established international partnerships to advance Grid computing, networking and high-performance computing capabilities among academic and industrial organizations. He has served as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on many international, European Union-funded projects and was the coordinator and co-principal investigator on the GridLab project, which developed the Grid Application Toolkit and the GridSphere portal framework.
Nabrzyski has a master’s degree in information sciences and a doctor of philosophy degree in computer science from the Poznan University of Technology. He has published more than 20 scholarly papers and authored two books. He also serves as the European Commission’s expert on Grid and distributed computing.
Prior to joining the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in 1995, Nabrzyski managed the IT department for the Polish Bank of Agriculture Development and also worked as a research programmer at Poznan University of Technology.
Nabrzyski will begin coordinating CCT projects and initiatives from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in the spring 2008 semester, transitioning into his new position with the CCT. He will move to Louisiana and assume an office full-time at the CCT in May 2008.
CCT in the News:
LSU Center for Computation & Technology Hires Director
1-17-2007/HPC Wire
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 16 -- The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2035543.html
LSU Computation Center Hires Executive Director
1-18-2008/The Advocate
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/13867652.html
Pats On The Back:
· Congratulations to CCT student Ana Elena Buleu on making the Dean's List for the Fall 2007 semester.
· Dr. Tevfik Kosar is organizing and chairing the International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC ’08) in conjunction with the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-17) June 24th 2008 in Boston, Mass. For more details visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/dadc08/
Upcoming Lectures:
· There will not be a CCT Colloquium lecture on Friday, Feb. 1 because of the Mardi Gras Conference.
· Clayton Webster of Sandia National Laboratories will deliver a special guest lecture on “A Dimension-Adpative Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Technique for Partial Differential Equations with High-Dimensional Random Input Data” Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Jack Ox, artist in residence and research associate at ARTSLab will deliver a Computing the Arts & Humanities lecture on the Gridjam project on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Dr. Don Liu from Louisiana Technical University will give a special guest lecture on “A Spectral/hp Element Method Particle-Fluid Interaction” Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Jianlin Xia, University of California, Berkeley, will deliver a special guest lecture on “Superfast Solvers for Some Large Structured Matrix Problems” Thursday Jan. 24 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
· The Red Stick International Animation festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for the festival. If you wish to be on this year's jury, go to http://www.redstickfestival.org/judging/register. If you were on the jury last year, your login is still valid. Contact Steve Beck at sdbeck@cct.lsu.edu if you have any questions.
· Anyone organizing a lecture should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that we can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in one of our standard lecture series that needs to be filled.
· The 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 at the Hilton in downtown Baton Rouge. Daniel S. Katz, Ph.D., is hosting this year’s conference. Please see www.mardigrasconference.org for more information.
· CCT will host the Finite Element Circus and Rodeo March 5-8 on campus. Please contact Dr. Susanne Brenner if you have questions or want to participate. http://www.math.lsu.edu/~brenner/circus_rodeo.html
· Dr. Brenner also is organizing the Workshop on Automating the Development of Scientific Computing Software at CCT March 5-7. Please contact her to participate. http://www.cct.lsu.edu/scientificomputing
· The Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place from April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
· If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
NSF MRI
January 24, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08503/nsf08503.htm
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: The Fundamental Research Supplements for I/UCRCs
February 6, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07012/nsf07012.jsp
NSF Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
NSF BRIGE
February 8, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07589/nsf07589.htm
The CCT has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
As executive director at the CCT, Nabrzyski will work under CCT Director Ed Seidel to identify and pursue strategic endeavors that promote and advance LSU’s research, education and economic development activities.
“Jarek has an excellent track record in identifying and uniting people from around the world who can work together through supercomputing and grid technologies to enable breakthroughs in a variety of areas. We are very happy he will be joining the CCT,” Seidel said. “His expertise will help us tremendously as we grow the center and look for more collaborative opportunities for LSU and the state in future years.”
Nabrzyski has worked for more than 10 years at the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poland, where he manages the scientific applications department. He also serves on the center’s board of directors. His research specialties include distributed applications, operations research and Grid and high-performance computing.
The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center houses advanced cyberinfrastructure, including an optical network, called PIONIER, deployed throughout Poland and connecting to the European GÉANT network that is similar to the resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI. With his experience developing and advancing this cyberinfrastructure, Nabrzyski can help Louisiana researchers develop new applications for LONI.
During his work in Poznan, Nabrzyski has established international partnerships to advance Grid computing, networking and high-performance computing capabilities among academic and industrial organizations. He has served as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on many international, European Union-funded projects and was the coordinator and co-principal investigator on the GridLab project, which developed the Grid Application Toolkit and the GridSphere portal framework.
Nabrzyski has a master’s degree in information sciences and a doctor of philosophy degree in computer science from the Poznan University of Technology. He has published more than 20 scholarly papers and authored two books. He also serves as the European Commission’s expert on Grid and distributed computing.
Prior to joining the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in 1995, Nabrzyski managed the IT department for the Polish Bank of Agriculture Development and also worked as a research programmer at Poznan University of Technology.
Nabrzyski will begin coordinating CCT projects and initiatives from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center in the spring 2008 semester, transitioning into his new position with the CCT. He will move to Louisiana and assume an office full-time at the CCT in May 2008.
CCT in the News:
LSU Center for Computation & Technology Hires Director
1-17-2007/HPC Wire
BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 16 -- The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2035543.html
LSU Computation Center Hires Executive Director
1-18-2008/The Advocate
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has hired Jarek Nabrzyski as its executive director.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/13867652.html
Pats On The Back:
· Congratulations to CCT student Ana Elena Buleu on making the Dean's List for the Fall 2007 semester.
· Dr. Tevfik Kosar is organizing and chairing the International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC ’08) in conjunction with the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-17) June 24th 2008 in Boston, Mass. For more details visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/dadc08/
Upcoming Lectures:
· There will not be a CCT Colloquium lecture on Friday, Feb. 1 because of the Mardi Gras Conference.
· Clayton Webster of Sandia National Laboratories will deliver a special guest lecture on “A Dimension-Adpative Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Technique for Partial Differential Equations with High-Dimensional Random Input Data” Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Jack Ox, artist in residence and research associate at ARTSLab will deliver a Computing the Arts & Humanities lecture on the Gridjam project on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Dr. Don Liu from Louisiana Technical University will give a special guest lecture on “A Spectral/hp Element Method Particle-Fluid Interaction” Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Jianlin Xia, University of California, Berkeley, will deliver a special guest lecture on “Superfast Solvers for Some Large Structured Matrix Problems” Thursday Jan. 24 at 3:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
· The Red Stick International Animation festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for the festival. If you wish to be on this year's jury, go to http://www.redstickfestival.org/judging/register. If you were on the jury last year, your login is still valid. Contact Steve Beck at sdbeck@cct.lsu.edu if you have any questions.
· Anyone organizing a lecture should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that we can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in one of our standard lecture series that needs to be filled.
· The 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 at the Hilton in downtown Baton Rouge. Daniel S. Katz, Ph.D., is hosting this year’s conference. Please see www.mardigrasconference.org for more information.
· CCT will host the Finite Element Circus and Rodeo March 5-8 on campus. Please contact Dr. Susanne Brenner if you have questions or want to participate. http://www.math.lsu.edu/~brenner/circus_rodeo.html
· Dr. Brenner also is organizing the Workshop on Automating the Development of Scientific Computing Software at CCT March 5-7. Please contact her to participate. http://www.cct.lsu.edu/scientificomputing
· The Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place from April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
· If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
NSF MRI
January 24, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08503/nsf08503.htm
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: The Fundamental Research Supplements for I/UCRCs
February 6, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07012/nsf07012.jsp
NSF Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
NSF BRIGE
February 8, 2008 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07589/nsf07589.htm
Publish Date:
01-22-2008
