Corporate Vice President, Extreme Computing Group (XCG)
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Dan Reed
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Executive Assistant:
Rebecca Phipps Office: +1-425-706-5606
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Office: +1-425-706-0689 |
As Corporate Vice President of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), I am responsible for R&D on parallel and extreme scale computing. These activities include John Manferdelli's Incubations Group, Burton Smith's multicore activities, and the Cloud Computing Futures team. XCG was formed in June of 2009 with the goal of developing radical new approaches to ultrascale and high-performance computing hardware and software. The group's research activities include work in computer security, cryptography, operating system design, parallel programming models, cloud software, data center architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.
My team also coordinates our academic multicore relations via the Universal Parallel Computing Reserach Centers (UPCRCs), a joint activity between Microsoft and Intel that supports client multicore research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California at Berkeley, along with other projects. In addition to technical activities related to extrme scale computing, clouds and multicore, I am also deeply involed in federal policy initiatives related to science, technology, research and innovation.
Brief Biography
Dan Reed is Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Extreme Computing. Previously, he was the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Chancellor’s Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation for UNC Chapel Hill.
Dr. Reed has served as a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and as a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). As chair of PITAC’s computational science subcommittee, he was lead author of the report “Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness.” On PCAST, he co-chaired the Networking and Information Technology subcommittee (with George Scalise of the Semiconductor Industry Association) and co-authored a report on the National Coordination Office’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program called “Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in Competitive World.”
In June, he completed two terms of service as chair of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association, which represents the research interests of Ph.D. granting university departments, industrial research groups and national laboratories.
He was previously Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where the held the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship. He has also been Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, where he also led National Computational Science Alliance, a fifty institution partnership devoted to creating the next generation of computational science tools. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid. He received his B.S. (summa cum laude) from Missouri University of Science and Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University.
He is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE and the AAAS.
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Awards and Honors
- IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984-1985
- ACM SIGMETRICS Best Award Paper, 1987
- National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1987-1992
- University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
- Xerox Senior Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991
- Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, 2000-2003
- Chancellor’s Eminent Professor, 2004-2007
- Best Technical Paper Award, Supercomputing 2004
- Distinguished Alumnus, School of Science, Purdue University , 2008
Selected Professional Service
- President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2003-2005
- President’s Council of Science and Technology Advisors (PCAST), 2006-2008
- Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archive, National Archives, 2005-present
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Policy Board, chair, 2001-present
- Steering Committee, e, SC’XY Conference on High-Performance Computing, 2007-present
