UPCRC Team
UPCRC Co-Directors
Marc Snir
Area(s) of Expertise: Parallel Computing Systems, High Performance Computing
One of the primary architects of the NYU Ultracomputer; led the IBM Scalable POWERParallel system development; developer of MPI, the leading API paradigm for distributed memory computing MPI.
Current UPCRC Projects: Disciplined Shared Memory
Department: Computer Science
Email: snir@illinois.edu
Wen-mei Hwu
Area(s) of Expertise: Compiler Design, Computer Architecture, Computer Microarchitecture, Parallel Processing
Leads the design of the IMPACT compiler infrastructure. His team created the first HP-PD compiler, which was used by Intel in the early Itanium design process. Received the Grace Murray Hopper Award and the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for his contributions to instruction-level parallel processing in compilers, computer architecture, and computer microarchitecture. Leads the MARCO/SRC GSRC Concurrent Theme. One of the original founders and serves on the steering committee of Gelato, a consortium for improving compiler and OS software for Itanium.
Current UPCRC Projects: Translation Environment
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: w-hwu@illinois.edu
UPCRC Illinois is a joint research effort of the Illinois department of computer science and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, with funding from corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. Its work is conducted by faculty members and graduate students from the departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois.