Ian Foster

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Ian T. Foster (* 1959 in Wellington , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand-American computer scientist who deals with parallel and distributed computing for high performance. He is a professor at the University of Chicago . He is Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor and Distinguished Fellow of the Argonne Lab.

Foster studied at the University of Canterbury with a bachelor's degree in computer science and at Imperial College London , where he received his doctorate in 1988 with Keith Clark ( Parlog as a systems programming language ). He was at the Argonne National Laboratory before becoming a professor in Chicago. He is director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and the Argonne Lab.

He is considered the inventor of grid computing with Carl Kesselman and Steven Tuecke . Foster was a co-founder of the open source Globus project (Globus Online, Globus Toolkit ).

He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the British Computer Society (2001). He received the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society and the Gordon Bell Prize (2001), the IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award (2011), the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation Award, and in 2012 the High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing Achievement Award. He is an honorary doctor from the University of Canterbury and the Mexican Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV).

In 2004 he was a co-founder of Univa UD Inc., a grid and cloud computing company.

Fonts

  • with Carl Kesselman: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure , 2nd edition, Elsevier, 2004
  • with C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke: The anatomy of the grid: Enabling scalable virtual organizations , International journal of high performance computing applications, Volume 15, 2001, pp. 200–222
  • with C. Kesselman: Globus: A metacomputing infrastructure toolkit , International journal of high performance computing applications, Volume 11, 1997, pp. 115-128
  • with C. Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, S. Tuecke: The physiology of the grid , in: Grid computing: making the global infrastructure a reality , 2003, pp. 217-249
  • with C. Kesselman, JM Nick, S. Tuecke: Grid services for distributed system integration , Computer, Volume 35, 2002, pp. 37-46

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Foster in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foster, Ian T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington