Program Director, Grid and Cluster Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Phil Papadopoulos received his PhD in 1993 from UC Santa Barbara in Electrical Engineering. He spent five years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) development team. Currently, he is program director of Grid and Cluster Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Papadopoulos is deeply involved in key research projects including the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), OptIPuter, the Geosciences Network (GEON), and the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middlware Assembly (PRAGMA). He is also well known for development of the open-source Rocks Cluster toolkit, which has an installed base of 100s of clusters. His research interests focus on distributed and clustered systems and how they can be used more effectively in an expanding bandwidth-rich environment. Papadopoulos is co-investigator for the OptIPuter and CAMERA projects.