Background
Foster, Ian Tremere was born on January 1, 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand. Arrived in United States, 1989. Son of Peter Kinnear and Eileen June (Gapes) Foster.
( In this book, Foster builds actual applications program...)
In this book, Foster builds actual applications programs used to solve real engineering problems in a variety of disciplines while using the parallel computing platform, the platform of choice within the commercial world. Parallel computing-once found only in academic/research environments-is now becoming the computing platform of choice in a wide range of disciplines within the academic and commercial world. This text introduces the parallel paradigm, introduces tools of parallel programming through a variety of programming languages, and concludes by detailing actual applications examples from engineering, scientific and financial viewpoints.
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Foster, Ian Tremere was born on January 1, 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand. Arrived in United States, 1989. Son of Peter Kinnear and Eileen June (Gapes) Foster.
Bachelor of Science with honors, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1979. Doctor of Science honoris causa, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006. Doctor of Philosophy, Imperial College, London, 1988.
Research associate, department computing Imperial College, London, 1985-1988. Assistant computer scientist Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, 1989-1993, scientist, 1993-1996. Associate professor University Chicago, 1996-2000.
Senior scientist Argonne National Laboratory, 1997-2000, associate division director, senior scientist, head, Distributed Systems Lab Mathematics & Computer Science Argonne. Arthur Holly Compton professor computer science University Chicago, since 2000. Software architect I-Way Experiment University Chicago, 1995.
Co-founder Global Grid Forum. Program chair High Performance Distributed Computing Conference, 1997, general chair, 2000, 01. Program chair Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation Conference, 1998.
Application evangelist chair Information Architect Committee Conference, 2000. Member SCxy Steering Committee. Co-program chair HPC Asia, 2001.
Information architect chair South Carolina'2001, 2001. Member World Technology Network, 2003.
( In this book, Foster builds actual applications program...)
Fellow: British Computer Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: Association for Computing Machinery.
Married Angela Claire Smyth. Children: Alexander Peter, Imogen Teresa.