David A. Bader (born May 4, 1969) is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for

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at the

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. Previously, he served as the Chair of the

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, where he was also a founding professor, and the executive director of High-Performance Computing at the

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College of Computing. In 2007, he was named the first director of the

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at Georgia Tech. Bader has served on the

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's board of directors, the

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's advisory committee on cyberinfrastructure, and on

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Computer Society's board of governors. He is an expert in the design and analysis of parallel and

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algorithms for real-world applications such as those in

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and

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. His main areas of research are at the intersection of high-performance computing and real-world applications, including

, massive-scale analytics, and

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. Bader built the first Linux

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using commodity processors and a high-speed interconnection network. Bader is an

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, an AAAS Fellow,

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, and an

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. He has won awards from IBM,

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, Facebook, Intel,

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, and

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. He has served on numerous conference program committees related to parallel processing and has edited numerous journals. In 2018, Bader was recognized as one of the most impactful authors in the history of the IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC).

Early life and education

Bader is the son of chemistry professor Morris Bader and his wife Karen. He is an

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in the

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, earning the rank in 1985. Bader graduated from Liberty High School in

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in 1987. He received a

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in 1990 and an

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in 1991 from

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in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He then received a

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in electrical engineering in 1996 from the

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. While at UMD in 1992, Bader was awarded a

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Graduate Student Researchers Fellowship by

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, project scientist for the

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missions to Mars, at

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Career

Bader was hired as an assistant professor and Regents' Lecturer in the electrical and computer engineering department at the

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(UNM) in 1998. In 2003, he was elected chair of the IEEE Computer Society's technical committee on parallel processing. Bader remained at UNM until 2005, when he accepted a position with the College of Computing at

. Shortly after arriving at Georgia Tech, Bader began working, along with several other faculty members, to establish a School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. Two years later, in 2007, these efforts resulted in the school's establishment as an official academic unit, and Bader became a full professor in 2008 as one of the school's founding faculty.

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was named the school's first chair, and Bader was later named the second chair of the school of CSE in July 2014. He served in that role until his term expired in June 2019. Bader was involved in a number of research partnerships between Georgia Tech and the public and private sectors. In November 2006,

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, and IBM selected Bader to direct the first Center of Competence for the Cell Processor. In 2010, Bader was a lead investigator on the

Echelon project, a $25 million

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Award through the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. The four-year research collaboration with Nvidia covered work to develop new GPU technologies required to build the new class of exascale supercomputers. Bader and his lab partnered with Nvidia again in April 2019 to develop data analytics solutions for their GPUs. In 2011, Bader began working with the

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on the Proactive Discovery of Insider Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning (PRODIGAL) project. On July 29, 2015, President

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announced the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). Bader was invited by the White House on October 20–21, 2015, to serve as a panelist at the White House's National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Workshop. Following this, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) invited Bader to serve as a panelist at the NITRD High End Computing (HEC) Interagency Working Group (IWG) and Big Data Senior Steering Group (SSG) "Supercomputing and Big Data: From Collision to Convergence" Panel, at the 27th IEEE and ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC15) in Austin, Texas, on November 18, 2015. On July 29, 2016, Bader was an invited attendee to the White House's National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Anniversary Workshop. Bader also co-founded the Graph500 List in 2015 for benchmarking "Big Data" computing platforms. Bader was elected as an

in 2009. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), from 2013 to 2017 and serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). Bader has been an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE DSOnline, Parallel Computing, and the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, and has published over 250 articles in

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ed journals and conferences. In October 2018, Bader was named Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing. In July 2019, Bader joined the

as a Distinguished Professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences and was named the first director of the school's new Institute for Data Science. The institute combines existing research centers in

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, and

at NJIT and conducts both basic and applied research. In May 2020, Bader joined the leadership team of the NSF-sponsored Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub as its inaugural seed fund steering committee chair. Bader is the 2021 General Co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing Symposium (IPDPS).

First Linux supercomputer

Bader is credited with the development of the first

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supercomputer using commodity parts. In 1998, while at the University of New Mexico, Bader sought to build a supercomputer running Linux using consumer off-the-shelf parts and a high-speed low-latency interconnection network. The prototype utilized an Alta Technologies "AltaCluster" of eight dual, 333 MHz, Intel Pentium II computers running a modified Linux kernel. Bader ported a significant amount of software to provide Linux support for necessary components as well as code from members of the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) to ensure interoperability, as none of it had been run on Linux previously. Using the successful prototype design, he led the development of "RoadRunner," the first Linux supercomputer for open use by the national science and engineering community via the National Science Foundation's National Technology Grid. RoadRunner was put into production use in April 1999. At the time of its deployment, it was considered one of the 100 fastest supercomputers in the world. Though Linux-based clusters using consumer-grade parts, such as

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, existed prior to the development of Bader's prototype and RoadRunner, they lacked the scalability, bandwidth, and parallel computing capabilities to be considered "true" supercomputers. Soon after RoadRunner went into production, Bader led the technical design of "LosLobos," the first-ever Linux production system built by IBM. IBM turned Bader's design into the industry's first pre-assembled and pre-configured Linux server cluster for business. Today, all of the world's top 500 supercomputers are Linux HPC systems. A study by Hyperion Research estimates that the use of these supercomputers in product development in the automotive, aircraft, and pharmaceutical industries has generated an economic value of over $100 trillion in 25 years. Steve Wallach, a

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(NAE) member and

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recipient, remarked that Bader's technical contributions and leadership are "one of the most significant technical foundations of HPC."

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, a UC San Diego Distinguished Professor Emeritus, founding director of the

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, and NAE member also cited Bader's early and continuing contributions to the development of Linux HPC as having "enormous historic resonance."

Awards and recognitions

2005 *

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CAREER Award 2006 * IBM Faculty Award for making fundamental contributions to the design and optimization of parallel scientific libraries for multicore processors. 2007 * Georgia Tech College of Computing Dean's Award 2009 * IEEE Fellow 2010 * In June 2010, Intel supported Bader's research on graph analytics with a 3-year award from the Intel Labs Academic Research Office for the Parallel Algorithms for Non-Numeric Computing Program. * Golden Core Member of the

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* IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award 2011 * AAAS Fellow * InsideHPC "Rock Star of High Performance Computing" 2012 * HPCWire "People to Watch" * University of Maryland's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering presented Bader as the first recipient of their Distinguished Alumni Award. 2013 * IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing Outstanding Service Award 2014 * Georgia Tech College of Computing Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award * HPCWire "People to Watch" 2015 *Accenture Open Innovation Award. 2016 * IBM Faculty Award in Big Data / Analytics for optimizing graph analytics for cognitive computing. 2019 * SIAM Fellow * Facebook AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design Research Award to develop "high-performance AI solutions for existing as well as future AI hardware." 2021 * ROI-NJ recognized Bader on its inaugural list of technology influencers. * IEEE Computer Society

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"For the development of Linux-based massively parallel production computers and for pioneering contributions to scalable discrete parallel algorithms for real-world applications." * ACM Fellow "For contributions to high-performance computing systems, graph analytics, and technical leadership in parallel computing." 2022 * ROI-NJ Technology Influencer * Innovation Hall of Fame, University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering

Personal life

Bader has one child, Sadie "Sage" Rose, who is an avid artist.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bader, David A. 1969 births Living people American computer scientists Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Georgia Tech faculty Lehigh University alumni Liberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) alumni People from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania University of Maryland, College Park alumni