- CV (pdf )
- Short Bio
- Sched./Calendar - Teaching

Dr. Anne C. Elster

Assoc. Prof. of Computer and Info. Science ,
Founder and leader of IDI/NTNU's HPC Lab,

Visiting Scientist, ECE, Univ. of Texas at Austin, and
Co-Founder & Co-Director (2003-Jan. 2007, and May 2012-present) of NTNU's Computational Science and Visualization Program

Senior Member of IEEE since 2000.

- My IDI/NTNU HPC Lab, - Current & Former PostDocs & Grad. Students,

- Publications and Talks , Google Scholar ; - Professional Activities (highlights)

- Media Articles and Interviews - Women in CS links (by AWICS at Texas A&M)

Dr. Elster's HPC-Lab at SC'10

NEWS:

· Received Statoil grant for my PhD student Ivar Ursin Nikolaisen starting March 2012 with Dr. Alf B. Rustad, Statoil Research as co-advisor.

· My HPC-LAB has received NOK 1. Million for equipment from NTNU/IME for 2012.

· Current opening -- PhD stipend/position in HPC with application towards Medical Visualization. Stay tuned. Will post here when available in May 2012.

· PhD student Grant Strong from Memorial University, Canada, is visiting HPC-Lab for the spring 2012 semester.

NOTE: I generally have no summer stipends available since I travel a lot during summers!

Research: Heterogeneous and Parallel Computing incl. GPGPU, Cluster & Grid Technologies and Algorithms for Telecommunication

IDI/NTNU HPC-Lab details, incl. Elster's current graduate students (3 PhDs and 5 Master students)
Current & Former PostDocs & Grad. Students,, incl. links to their theses. (currently more than 40 graduate student alumni)
Research collaborations with: ARM, CERN (CERN Summer jobs and MS theses), GE Healthcare, Schlumberger, StatoilHydro, as well as with colleagues from other NTNU Departments.
Funding sources: NFR, NOTUR, NTNU, NVIDIA (incl. NVIDIA's Professor Affiliates Program), Statoil, Schlumberger and others.

Education/Personal:

Ph.D. Cornell University (1994) Electrical Engineering (Minor: Computer Science )
M.S. Cornell University (1988) Electrical Engineering
B.S. University of Massachusetts (1985) Computer Systems Engineering (cum laude). Also enrolled in their Honors Math program.
Business Studies, University of Oregon , 1981-1982
Personal stuff: Dr. Elster's Academic Genealogy, hubby, Marie, hotlist, hobbies, photos from SC'05 in Seattle.

Teaching

TDT 4205 Compilers/Kompilatorteknikk ( Spring 2012 67+ students attended!) Spring 2010) (Fall 2006-2008)
TDT 24 Parallel Environments & Numerical Methods ( Fall 2009) (Fall 2006-2008, 2001-2003)
TDT 4200 Parallel Computing (Fall 2011) (also Spring 2006-Fall 2009, 2003-2004)
DT8117 Grid Technologies and Heterogeneous Computing -- new PhD-level course Sping 2009
DIF 8916 -- Topics in Computer and Information Science (Spring 2001) -- PhD research techniques course
SIF 8041 -- Operating Systems & Databases (Spring 2001)

Courses taught at Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA (ECE, CS and Math):

EE 360 "Conference course" (indiv. lesepensum) on "Special Problems in Parallel Computing" (Spring 2002). Student admitted to Ms/PhD Program in CS at UIUC, USA
Supervised EE 464H -- ECE Honors Student Project,(Summer 2001).
EE 360P -- Operating Systems (Fall 2000)
EE 360C -- Data Structures in C++ (CS7) (Summer 2000)
CS/M 393N -- Numerical Solutions to Elliptic Partial Differential Equations (Spring 1999)
-- a second level grad. course on iterative PDE methods (lectured for Dr. David M. Young)
M 340L (Spring 1999) -- Linear Algebra for non-math majors. -- Assisted with exams and gave several guest lectures.
CS 328 -- Abstract Data Types (CS7, incl. graph algorithms) (Summer 1998) -- taught in C++.
CS 315 -- Data Structures (CS2)(Summer 1997) -- taught in C++.

Course taught through Acenor Inc.: Parallel numerical methods course for US Air Force's Research Lab at WPAFB, May 2000

Professional activities (highlights) See also CV

Upcomming and Recent conferences
Kronikk in Dagbladet (one of 3 main newspapers in Norway ), May 7, 2010, (main debate article contributions that was almost 2-pages in print-verion) "Forbigått av Kina og Saudi-Arabia" on why and how Norway should invest more in research and infrastructure. Well received and lead to meeting with policy makers.
IDI Open 2010 (Elster has been the faculty sponsor of this annual event since 2007. ( 2008 and 2009: 60+ teams with 2-3 participants on each team!)
NCPC Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (Elster is the National faculty sponsor for the Norwegian programming teams)

NCPC 2008, Result summary and photos by Elster

Working Group Leader (1 of 4) and MC Member, EU COST Action IC0805: Open European Network for High Performance Computing on Complex Environments (2009-present).
Expert Panel on Reach Infrastructure, Danish Research Council EFI Link Budget: 600M DKr, (2007-2009)
HPC Committee (TRP III), Research Council of Norway (2003-2004) -- Defined Norway's current National HPC program
Committees 2011 include:

IEEE IPDPS 2011 (Program Committee)
ParCo'11 ( PC member)

Committees 2010 include:

IPDPS 2010 (Program Committe, Software)
EuroGraphics 2010 (Program Committee, Short Papers)
PARA 2010: (Steering committee and MS Organizer)
CCP 2010 ( Local Committee , Session Chair , Invited talk )
Cluster 2010 (Workshop co-organizer)
HiPC 2010 (Program Commitee)

Program Committees 2009 include:

IEEE IPDPS 2009,
ParCo'09,
PPAM 2009,
SC'09 (Technical Papers reviewer)

Commitees 2008 include:

PARA 2008 (General Chair and Co-organizer of two minisymposia -- 230+ attendees from 20+ countries; raised $$s in funding from several sources)
SC'08 ( Co-Chair Poster Committee -- personally reviewed over 80 abstracts))

Reviewer of journal papers for:

IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2003-present),
International Journal of HPCA,
Comm. in Num. Methods in Engineering (CNME),
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC),
SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing (SISSC),
Distributed Computing by Springer Verlag, as well as
reviewer of technical papers, posters and tutorials for many international conferences.

Member of:

ACM
IEEE (Senior Member since 2000)
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Signal Processing Society
SIAM (Life Member)
AAAS
AAUW
AGU (Life Member)
NFA
NORSIG
SIMS
Tekna

Founder of the NCSGSC (NTNU Comp. Sci. Grad. Student Conference) which has been held yearly ever since 2001.
Commitee member MPI: The Message Passing Interfaces Forum -- international standards committee (1992-1997).
More details including University Service: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster/doc/cv-acelster.pdf

Upcomming cand Recent Conferences and Meeetings:

2011

Dr. Elster to give 50 minute invited talk at IMA workshop High Performance Computing and Emerging Architectures , January 10-14, 2011, University of Minnesota, USA
Eurographics 2011, April 11-15, Ladudno, UK

Short papers due Dec 10, 2010

(Elster will prob. not participate due to US sabattical)

COST Action IC0805 Open Network for High-Performance Computing on Complex Environments" -- Spring School, May 9-13, 2011, Amsterdam, Netherland
IPDPS 2011, May 16-20, Anchorage, Alaska (Elster is PC member, Applications) >
Householder Symposium XVIII June 12-17, 2011, Granlibakken Conference Center & Lodge Tahoe City, California (Elster will not attend)
ParCo 2011 , August 30-September 2, 2011, Ghent, Belgium (Elster is a PC member)
PPAM 2011 , September 11-14, 2001, Torun, Poland (Elster inivted to be a PC member, but declined due to previous commitments)
SC'11 , Nov. 12-18, Seattle, Wa, USA (Papers abstracts due April 1, 2011)

2010

PPoPP 2010 15th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming January 9-14, 2010, Bangalore, India
(Elster was invited to join the Program Committee, but had to decline due to prior commitments)
IPDPS 2010 (24th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 19-23, 2010 at Downtown Sheraton, Atlanta (Georgia) USA
(Elster is on the Program Committee (Software))

Dr. showcases due Dec 14

EuroGraphics 2010 , May 3-5, Norrköping, Sweden
(Elster is on the Program Committee (Short papers))

Short, area and educational papers due Dec 11, 2009
Posters due Feb 5, 2010

CCGrid-10: The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 17-20, Melbourne Australia.
MMA 2010 15th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Ananlysis, May 26-29, Druskininkai, Lithuania,

Abstracts due March 30, 2010.

ICCS 2010: 2010 International Conference on Computational Science, May 31- June 2, 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Full paper submissions: Dec 20, 2009

ISC10: Innternational Supercomputer Conference, May 31 - June 3, 2010, Hamburg, Germany.

Full Papers due Jan 11, 2010
BOFs and Posters due March 21, 2010

PARA 2010: Conference on the State of the Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing June 6-9, University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
(Elster is on the Steering Committee and is organizing an MS on GPU computing - EuroGPU2010)

Dec 15, 2009: Minisymposium tpics
Feb 28, 2010: Abstracts
Sep 1, 2010: Full Papers

CCP 2010 (Conference on Computational Physics), June 23-26, 2010, Trondheim, Norway. 550+ attendee expected.
(Elster is on the Local and National Committees)
Cluster 2010 2010 IEEE International Confenrence on Cluster Computing, Sept 20-24, Heraklion, Creete, Greece.
(As the WG Leader for EU COST IC0805 Elster is part of co-organizing a proposed workhop related to the action.)

Abtracts due March 8, 2010

SC'10, Nov. 2010 in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
(Elster will organize a large 20x30 stand for NTNU)
HiPC 2010 -- 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Goa, India, Dec. 19-22. Sponsored by IEEE
(Elster is on the Program Committee)

Recent conferences and interesting events:

2009

IEEE IPDPS'09 (23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium) May 25-29, 2009, Rome, Italy.
(Elster was on the Program Committee)
MTAAP'09 Workshop on Multithreaded Architectures and Applications held in conjuction with IPDPS'09
(Elster was co-author of two accepted papers that will be published in the IPDPS'09 proceedings)
ISC'09 (International Supercomputing Conference) June 23-26, Hamburg, Germany
IEEE IPDPS'09 (23rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium) May 25-29, 2009, Rome, Italy.
(Elster was on the Program Committee)
ParCo'09, International Conference on Parallel Computing, Sept 1-4, Lyon, France.
(Elster was on the Program Committee and co-organizer of the 2-day Minisymposium "EuroGPU")
GAMM09 The 9th GAMM Workshop on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra takes place at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Sep. 10-11, 2009.
(Elster will unfortunately not be attending due to too many other commitments.)
PPAM 2009, 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Wroclaw (Poland), September 13-16, 2009
(Elster was on the Program Committee and will be giving an invited paper on GPU Computing)
Workshop on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations on Surfaces , September 14 -- 17, 2009, Freiburg (Germany). This workshop is part of the program of the newly established SFB/Transregio 71 "Geometric partial differential equations" at the universities of Freiburg and Tubingen, which is financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
(Elster will unfortunately not be attending due to too many other commitments.)
SIMS 50, Lyngby, Denmark, Oct 8-9
NVIDIA workshop at NTNU, Monday Oct 24, 2009: Program
COST Action IC0508 Management committee and working group meeting , October 19-20 2009, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portgual.
(Elster is one of 4 WG leaders)
SC'09 Portland, Oregon, USA, Nov 14-20. (Elster is on the Technical Program Committee)

2008

MuCoCoS'08 (2008 Workshop on Multi-core Computing Systems), March 7, 2008, Barcelona as part of CISIS'08 March 4-7, 2008, Barcelona, Spain. (Elster's PhD student Jan Christian Meyer presented a joint paper with her)
MRSC'08 ( Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference) April 1-3, 2008, The Queen's University of Belfast, Nothern Ireland.
SIAM Conference of Parallel Processing and Scientific Computing , March 12-14, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
IEEE IPDPS'08 <7a>(22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium) , April 14-18, 2008, Miami, Florida
Cray User Group (CUG 2008) , Helsinki, Finland
PARA'08 May 13-16, 2008 in Trondheim, Norway
(Organized and Chaired by Elster) . Over 230 attendees from ca. 30 countries.
(CCGrid 2008) 8th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 19-22, Lyon, France.
Householder Symposium XVII , June 1-6, Zeuthen, Germany
NOTUR 2008 , The 7th Annual Meeting on High Performance Computing and Infrastructure in Norway, June 3-5, Tromsø, Norway.
(Elster presented posters with several of her students.)
Euro-Par 2008 August 26-29, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
SIMS 2008 , Oct 7-8, Oslo, Norway. (Elster was unfortunately too busy to make it this year... )
The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008) Sept. 8-12, 2008, Portland, Oregon.
SC'08 (Supercomputing), Nov.2007, Austin, TX, USA
(Elster was Co-Chair of Poster Committee with Dr. Mootaz Elnozahy , IBM.)

2007

Stanford 50: State of the Art and Future Directions of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Computing , March 29-31, 2007, Stanford, California, USA (Elster and her graduate student Leif Christian Larsen attended and presented a poster.)
IEEE HPDC 2007 June 25-29, Monterey, California, USA (incl workshops June 25-26)
The 13th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) August 28-31, 2007, IRISA, Rennes, France.
Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC) August 28, 2007, IRISA, Rennes, France (in conjunction w/ Euro-Par 2007)
(Prof. Lasse Natvig from IDI on Program Commitee)
IEEE Cluster 2007, Sept. 17-20, Austin, Texas, USA co-located with:

HeteroPar'07 Sixth International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks, Sept. 17-21, 2007 , Austin, Texas, USA
Grid 2007 -- The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Sept. 19-21, Austin, Texas, USA

ParCo 2007 Sept. 4-7, Jülich and Achen, Germany. (Elster attended as part of the Programming Committee)
PPAM 2007) (Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics), Gdánsk, Poland
(Elster presented invited paper on Scientific Computing on GPUs)
SC'07 (Supercomputing), Nov. 10-16, 2007, Reno, Nevada, USA (Elster was a member of the SC'07 Tutorial Committee.)
NIK 2007 (Norwegian computing conference), Nov. 19-21, 2007, Oslo, Norway (Elster was reviewer)
NOTUR 2006 , May 11-12, Bergen, Norway (Elster and several students presented posters, incl. one receiving honorable mention)
PARA'06 18-21 in Umeå, Sweden (Elster organized Minisyposium on HPC Visualization and Parallelization Tools with 12 speakers)

Older News:

Dr. Elster was on sabattical at Univ. of Texas at Austin's ECE Department for the 2010/11 academic year.
Gave invited talk at "International Symposium on Computer Simulations onGPU and other non-standard architectures", Germany, May 30-June 1, 2011
2 co-authored papers with HPC-Lab members accepted to IEEE IPDPS 2011 (HCW and MTAAP), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2011.
Opponent at PhD defence at Dept of Computer Science, U of Tromsoe, Feb 24, 2011. Giving invited seminar talk there on the next day.
Gave invited talk at IMA Workshop High Performance Computing and Emerging Architectures , January 10-14, 2011, Univ. of Minnesota, USA.
My PhD student Thorvald Natvig defended his disertation on Dec 20, 2010. Profs. Brian Vinter(Copenhagen Univ.) and Otto Anshus (U of Tromsoe) as well as NTNU's Dr. Joern Amundsen were opponents.
PC member of IEEE IPDPS 2011 (finished 12 paper reviews Nov/Dec 2010), as well as ParCo 2011, GHC'11 and SC'11 Tutorial Committee.
Primary organizer og BoF on Towards Exa-Scale: Heterogeneous Clouds (CPUs, GPUs and Embedded Devices)", at SC'10 (with Jose Luis Vasquez-Poletti and Jan Perhac)
My whole research group joined me at our SC'10 booth (NTNU no 1113)
Gave invited talk on "Optimizing Codes for OpenCl and CUDA" at INFORMS 2010, Austin, TX, Nov.7, 2010.
Organized Minisymposium on GPUs at PARA 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland
Min Kronikk:"Forbigått av Kina og Saudi-Arabia: in Dagbladet , May 2010 (one of Norway's largest news papers);
Received award plaque at CSGCS'10 banquet May 20 for being founder of the conference for our PhD students, now in its 10th year;
Nominated by Dept. of Computer and Info. Science for Dean-level 2010 Teaching Award for excellent advising of Master students;
Photos from IDI Open 2010 (Record attendance: 92 Teams, 250+students!) -- I was Co-Founder and Faculty Advisor 2007-2010
Old Schedule

Leisure Interests:

Ham Radio (N3ACE),
Photography,
Swimming,
Tennis (USTA rating 3.0),
Tropical Fish, and
Voice (studied under Nadia Brown and Dr. Cynthia Karnstadt).

Dr. Elster's HPC-Lab at SC'10:

Photos from SC'08

HPC-LAB had a nice booth at SC'08. The event drew a record 11 000+ attendees! 8 master students and 1 PhD student attended in addition to Dr. Elster, who was Co-Chair for Posters. NOTUR and the IO Center also had booths this year.

HPC-Lab at SC'08	Skeleton & Snow simulation at SC'08
Robin interviewed by NVIDIA at SC'08	Åsmund Eldhuset showing his Line finding algorithm (project w/ Elster in colaborations with Schlumberger)