Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2003
Wednesday September 24 -
Thursday September 25 2003
at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. John (Jay) R. Boisseau
Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center
University of Texas at Austin
After graduating with a degree in astronomy and physics from the
University of Virginia in 1986, Jay Boisseau obtained his doctorate
in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he
specialized in modeling the dynamics of Type Ia supernovae using Cray
vector supercomputers. While completing his doctoral research, Dr.
Boisseau worked in user support at the Arctic Region Supercomputing
Center (ARSC) in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 1996, he joined the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to continue his career in high performance
computing. At SDSC, Dr. Boisseau became an Associate Director and
created the Scientific Computing Department, with groups specializing
in performance optimization, performance modeling, parallel tools
development, and Grid portals development. He led several major SDSC
projects for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI) and also led SDSC's participation in the
Department of Defense (DoD) Programming Environments and Training
(PET) program. Dr. Boisseau also founded the IBM Scientific Computing
User Group while at SDSC.
Dr. Boisseau returned to UT Austin in June 2001 to become the
director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). He is
developing a strong research and development program at TACC while
enhancing the computational capabilities and coordinating the
development of a campus Grid. TACC is a resource partner in NPACI,
so Dr. Boisseau continues to participate in that program as well as
the DoD PET program. He also leads UT Austin's involvement in the
High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT) consortium. His
current professional interests include performance characteristics
of high-end computing systems and the development of Grid
technologies for computational science.
