Michela Taufer (born 23 April 1971)
[Michela Taufer. (2002]
''Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing''
PhD). ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich); retrieved 26 April 2020 is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the
Jack Dongarra
Jack Joseph Dongarra (born July 18, 1950) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Unive ...
Professorship in
High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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.
She is an
ACM Distinguished Scientist
and an
IEEE Senior Member.
In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
Education
Taufer attended the
University of Padua
The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...
where she obtained a
Laurea
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in
Computer Engineering
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in 1996. She later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) in 2002.
The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) was titled, ''Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing'', and was supervised by Thomas M. Stricker and
Daniel A. Reed.
Research
Her current research interests
include
high performance computing,
[M. Taufer, C. An, A. Kerstens, and C.L. Brooks III,]
"Predictor@Home: A Protein Structure Prediction Supercomputer' Based on Global Computing"
''IEEE
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Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,''; 17(8), pp. 786-796 (2006) scientific applications, and their programmability on
multi-core and
many-core platforms.
[M. Taufer, B. Mohr, and J. M. Kunkel (2016)]
"High Performance Computing: ISC High Performance 2016 International Workshops, ExaComm, E-MuCoCoS, HPC-IODC, IXPUG, IWOPH, P^3MA, VHPC, WOPSSS, June 19–23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers"
''Springer'', Frankfurt, Germany; . She applies advances in computational and algorithmic solutions for high-performance computing technologies (i.e., volunteer computing, accelerators and GPUs, and in situ analytics workflows)
[M. Taufer, O. Padron, P Saponaro, and S. Patel,]
"Improving numerical reproducibility and stability in large-scale numerical simulations on GPUs"
''2010 IEEE
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International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing (IPDPS), Atlanta, GA''; pp. 1-9 (2010) to multi-disciplinary fields including molecular dynamics,
[M. Taufer, D.P. Anderson, P. Cicotti, and C.L. Brooks,]
"Homogeneous Redundancy: a Technique to Ensure Integrity of Molecular Simulation Results Using Public Computing"
''19th IEEE
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International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium''; 9, pp. - (2005) ecoinformatics, seismology, and biology.
References
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American computer scientists
American expatriates in Switzerland
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Women computer scientists
ETH Zurich alumni
University of Padua alumni
Italian computer scientists
University of Tennessee faculty
Italian emigrants to the United States
Italian expatriates in Switzerland
University of Delaware faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
1971 births
Living people