NPSF Group Members System Administration Group, NPSF Supporting StaffBetatesting
team members with the help of NPSF system administration team members
are involved in designing and conducting PCOPP-2002 workshop. Betatesting
team members are responsible to test PARAM 10000 parallel machines.
Their project activities include design, develop and deliver communication
Overhead Measurement suites(P-COMS), and extract sustained performance
on PARAM 10000 for several applications and System benchmarks. Betatesting
team members are involved in development of Job Accounting, Dedicated
Slot booking software, a part of Job Management Software on PARAM 10000.
Betatesting team members are involved in testing HPCC (KSHIPRA) software
on PARAM 10000 and testing of C-DAC HPCC tools on PARAM. They also
evaluate third Party (Public Domain) High Performance Computing Tools
on PARAM. Dr.
Pradeep K. Sinha heads the National PARAM Supercomputing Facility
(NPSF) at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune, India. He is also the Chief R&D Projects Coordinator at
C-DAC.He was one of the chief architects of the PARAM 10000 Supercomputer
developed by India. Dr.
Sinha obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science
in 1980 from the Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, his Master
of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1983 from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his Doctor of Science
degree in Information Science in 1991 from the University of Tokyo,
Japan. Dr.
Sinha has authored a number of papers and three books. His
book titled "Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Design" is
published by IEEE PRESS, USA.This book is used as a textbook in many
universities in the USA and in India at Postgraduate level.Prentice-Hall
of India has brought out the low-priced Edition of this book.The
book has become popular worldwide and is getting translated in foreign
languages as well.SciTech Press, Inc., has brought out Tokyo, Japan
the Japanese language edition of the book for use in Japanese Universities. Dr. Sinha's second book on Computer Fundamentals has been recommended as a textbook for 'O' level module defined by the Department of Electronics. This book is widely used all over India in many colleges and universities. His third book titled “Foundations of Computing” has been recently published and is targeted for a wide range of audience interested in knowing about various aspects of computing. He is also a subject of biographical record in the Sixteenth Edition(1999) of the American Publication "Marquis Who's Who in the World", inclusion in which is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their own fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of contemporary society. Dr. Sinha is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA.According to IEEE, Senior Member grade in IEEE requires experience reflecting professional maturity and significant professional achievements.He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, and a Life Member of the Computer Society of India (CSI). Dr.VCV.
Rao received Ph.D degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India in 1992. He worked on Structured
and Unstructured adaptive grid computations and its applications
to Computational Fluid Dynamics by Finite Element Method.Later, he
was involved in software development of dynamic crack growth for
the hull of naval submarine by adaptive finite element method in
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur, 1993. He
joined in Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, (CDAC), Pune,
in the year 1994 as a Member Technical Staff. He was working on parallelization
of scientific and Engineering Applications, and porting third party
applications PARAM during 1995-1997. During
the year 1997-98, he worked as a visiting faculty at Department of
Computer Science, University of Minnesota (UofM) and Post Doctoral
fellow at Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC),
UofM, and Minneapolis. He was team member of Advance Fluid Flow Simulation
group at AHPCRC and he extensively worked various parallel graph-partitioning
algorithms and implemented their usage to large-scale CFD applications
at AHPCRC. He was involved in various short-term courses on High
Performance Computing in AHPCRC and Minnesota Super Computing Institute
(MSI). He attended several workshops at MSI related to High Performance
Computers IBM SP2, Origin 2000, Cray J90, Cray T3D, and Cray T3E.
He was involved in Summer Institute workshops on high Performance
Computing at AHPCRC. He actively participated in parallel computing
courses at Department of Computer Science, UofM. Currently,
he is group co-coordinator, National PARAM Supercomputing Facility
at C-DAC, Pune. He is heading betatesting group. Betatestig group
works on performance and scalability issues of PARAM 10000/PARAM
Padma by executing several system and application benchmarks.During
August 2004, he conducted Grid Computing Workshops at C-DAC, Pune,
Bangalore and MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai. He is a C-DAC
Grid Task Force member and he works on Grid Benchmarks Performance
metrics, Grid Testing Methodlogy, and Grid Performance and Grid Accouting
tools and Quality of Service on the Grid via Co Scheduling and Co-Reservation
for C-DAC Grid Computing Technology projects. He was a key member for design, develop, and deliver Parallel Computing training course on PARAM 10000 for C-DAC and Premier Institutes joint project work.He delivered lectures on Parallel Computing and conducting parallel computing workshop at premier institutes such as IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore, BITS-Pilani, BIT-Ranchi in India during the period 2000-2001.He was workshop coordinator for Parallel Computing Algorithms and Applications (PCAA-99) in June'99 at C-DAC, Pune. He delivered several numbers of lectures in the workshop titled Parallel Computing Algorithms and Applications (PCAA-99) – a five-day workshop in June'99 at CDAC-Pune. He was actively involved in design of workshop hands-on session for PCAA-99. He delivered a half-day tutorial on "Parallel Graph Partitioning Algorithms” and Optimizing Performance of Parallel Programs in HPC ASIA 2001 at Brisbane, Australia. Mr. Ravi Kumar completed his B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2000 and he has been working in Betatesting Group since July 2000. He worked on testing large clusters of computers with different system area networks and he was involved in porting several application and system benchmarks on PARAM 10000. He made a significant contribution in testing PARAM 10000 with CDAC HPCC software KSHIPRA that involves porting Active Messages over MPI with PARAMNet as system area network. He exposed to measuring communication overheads on PARAM 10000 at MPI – Application layer.He worked on Dedicated Slot Booking Software that helps user to book dedicated slot on PARAM 10000 which can be used to book nodes at different intervals of time to execute the jobs in dedicated mode. This software reduces dependency on system administrators and operators, freeing them to focus on other important activities.He also actively involved in development of Job Accounting software on PARAM 10000, which is a part of Job Management software available on many parallel computers. He has experience with Portable Batch System (PBS) software, which is used to submit jobs on large clusters. He is also working on Web-enabled job execution on PARAM 10000. He conducted parallel computing workshop in IIT Kanpur in 2001 and at India Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) 2002-2003. He also participated in Hipc-Conference in 2000 and 2001. In PCOPP-2002, he made significant contribution in writing Programs for MPI, OpenMP and MPI-OpenMP. He was also part of team to test programs written in Pthreads, Serial programs optimization in PCOPP-2002 workshop.He is currently involved in Grid Computing Activity at C-DAC. He presently works on Globus 2.4 Configuration and operational issues of Grid Computing Facility to user community. Mr. B. Subba Ramanna has completed his B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2001 and he has been working in Betatesting Group since July 2001. He worked on testing large clusters of computers with different system area networks. He was actively involved in estimating overheads in large clusters at MPI–application layer. He developed test suites to measure communication overheads for MPI communication library calls. He also worked on uni-processor optimization techniques such as loop optimization techniques and memory optimization techniques to reduce the overheads in given sequential and parallel programs. He ported several system benchmarks such as LMBench, Stream and LLC Bench on PARAM 10000. He also ported popular benchmarks such as NAS and LINPACK on PARAM 10000. He played key role to test PARAM 10000 with CDAC HPCC software KSHIPRA that involves porting Active Messages over MPI with PARAMNet as system area network. In PCOPP-2002, he was written several programs for uni-processor optimization techniques using compiler techniques, and loop optimization techniques. He was part of testing team to test programs on OpenMP and Pthreads. He worked on performance of tuning several benchmarks such as LINPACK and NAS on PARAM 10000. Mr. Sridhar completed his B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2001 and he has been working in Betatesting Group since July 2001. He actively worked on Dedicated Slot Booking software on PARAM 10000. This software helps users to book dedicated slot on PARAM 10000 which can be used to book nodes at different intervals of time to execute the jobs in dedicated mode. He also worked on testing Parallel Visualization tools developed by C-DAC such as Profviz, Parvid and Sun cluster High performance tools such as PRISM. He is involved in testing Communication overhead measurement suites (P-COMS) to measure overheads for MPI communication library calls on PARAM. He also ported several application and system benchmarks on PARAM 10000. He is mainly involved in PCOPP-2002 in testing the parallel programs such as MPI, OpenMP and PThreads and uni-processor optimization techniques for Sequential programs. Ms. Satya Sudha completed her B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2001 and She has been working in Betatesting Group since October 2001. She worked on Performance Visualization Tools for MPI programs. She has good exposure of several High Performance Tools like Performance Visual Debugger, Profiler Visualization, Sun Cluster High Performance tools to test the parallel programs. She also developed programs for testing various third party tools on PARAM 10000. She extensively used most popular tools such as UPSHOT, JUMPSHOT, PRISM, Vampir on PARAM 10000. She also works on Parallel Debuggers. She is mainly involved in PCOPP-2002 to Test parallel programs written in MPI, OpenMP and Pthreads and testing Performance visualization tools.She played pivotal role for testing of High Performance Computing and Communication tools (HPCC) developed by C-DAC on PARAM 10000. System Administration Group, NPSF Dr. Sandeep K Joshi is system in-charge of PARAM 10000 Machines at C-DAC, Pune and he works on building prototype Grid Computing Facility at C-DAC, Pune. He actively involved in development of Cluster management tools for PARAM 10000. He played crucial role for TOP-500 project of PARAM Padma to handle important issues of larage teeraflop cluster. He was involved in several projects such as stability issues of PARAM Padma – A teraflop Computing System using C-DAC developed PARAMNet technology. He is currently working on building Grid services of Globus 2.4/3.0 on heterogeneous PARAM 10000 and PARAM Padma clusters. He is actvely involved on strategies for usage of C-DAC Grid and its Operational Issues. He did Ph.D in Physics from Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhuneaswar, in the year 2000 and did his Master degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Mumbai in the year 1995. He presently works on Globus 3.0 & 3.2 and operational issues of Grid Computing Facility to user community. Mr. Devendranath Tannu is looking after PARAM 10000 System administration activities at National PARAM SuperComputing Facility (NPSF), C-DAC, Pune. Mr. Devandrabnath is a Graduate in Electronics Sciences. He works on building large clusters Facility at C-DAC, Pune. He actively uses Cluster management tools for PARAM 10000 and involved in design of PARAM 10000 upgradation activities. He played crucial role for making PARAM 10000 stable from user point of view. He was involved in several projects such as stability issues of PARAM 10000 - 100 Gflops Cluster, and maintain different System Area Networks on PARAM 10000. He is currently working on Operational issues of Grid Computing Facility Mr. Y.S.Swarup is a Graduate in Science. He is looking after System Administration activities of PARAM 10000 - 100GF cluster. He is actively involved in integration of PARAM series of clusters since last three years. Currently he is working on upgradation of PARAM 10000 at NPSF. Also Mr.Swarup provides System and Network services to the user community. He is having five years rich experience in maintaining large clusters and trouble shooring analysis. Parimal Khade, Graduate in Physics, GNX with Diploma in Business Management and also pursuing his Masters in Personal Management. He is looking after complete management of National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF). He’s outspoken quality makes him enable to handle Public Relation (PR) very effectively for NPSF. He has managed many events and workshop as Event Manager like workshop conducted on Grid Computing at Pune, Bangalore, Chennai etc. Supporting Staff, NPSF Mrs. Sushma Pawar completed her Graduation in Commerce from Mysore University in 1992 and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore in 1994.Currently she is in the NPSF Coordination Team and involved in the secretarial activities of Mission (HPC & Grid), all projects involving use of NPSF. She has extensively worked on Microsoft Office Tools and gained expertise in these.
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