About me
IBM Master Inventor
Research lab: Watson Research Center
Valentina Salapura is currently a Research Staff Member in the Exploratory Server Systems group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Valentina Salapura is recipient of the 2006 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Special Achievements for the BlueGene/L supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics. Dr. Salapura's contributions to IBM's technology leadership have been recognized with the honorary title of IBM Master Inventor. Dr. Salapura is the recipient of 11 IBM Invention Plateaus, several top licensing patent awards, and a variety of other corporate awards including an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award in recognition for her technical contributions. She is the author of over 60 papers on processor architecture and high-performance computing. Dr. Salapura is a speaker for the CRA-W/CDC Distinugusihed Lectures Series. Dr. Salapura is a senior member of the IEEE, member of IFIP WG10.3, an ACM distinguished speaker, and has Erdös number 3.
Research
Dr. Salapura has been a technical leader for the Blue Gene program since its inception. She has contributed to the architecture and implementation of several generations of Blue Gene Systems focusing on multiprocessor interconnect and synchronization and multithreaded, multicore architecture design and evaluation. Most recently, she has been unit lead for several units of BlueGene/P, as well as a leader of the chip and system bringup effort.
In November 2004, a BlueGene/L system became the world's fastest supercomputer in accordance with the TOP 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, and it is holding this position ever since. This work was recognized as an IBM Outstanding Research Accomplishment, and the IBM BlueGene team was recognized with the 2004 Team of the Year Award by EE Times.
In November 2007, a Blue Gene/P system with 16 cabinets became the world's second fastest computer system.
Valentina Salapura is a Program co-chair of the 2009 ACM/SIGARCH International Conference on Supercomputing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Computer Systems Design and Applications Track, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Computer Systems Design and Applications Track, a General Co-Chair of the 2006 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers and a Program co-chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Computer Systems Design and Applications Track. Dr. Salapura is program committee member of the 2007 International Conference on Supercomputing, the 2007 ACM Computing Frontiers, the 2006 International Conference on Supercomputing, the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, the IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, and the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance and Correctness. Dr. Salapura is a steering committee member of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers.
Before joining IBM Research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2000, Dr. Salapura was Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Wien. She received the Ph.D. degree from Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Zagreb, Croatia.
IN THE MEDIA
Women's Radio: Super Architect for Super Computers
HPCwire: Q&A with Dr. Valentina Salapura
Keynotes and invited talks
From early RISC to CMPs: Perspectives on Computer Architecture
CompArch Summer School on Parallel Programming and Architectures, Brown University, Providence, RI, August 2008.
Scaling Up Next Generation Supercomputers
ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2008, Ischia, Italy, May 2008.
Next generation supercomputers: Exploiting innovative massively parallel system architecture to facilitate breakthrough scientific discoveries
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 (GHC 2007), Orlando, Fl, October 2007.
System design of supercomputers for performance, power and reliability
IEEE International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation Processors and Systems, January 2006.
Understanding technology and its metrics for future systems
CRA-W Computer Architecture Summer School, July 2006.
The Future of Supercomputing: optimizing performance with power-efficient system design
International Symposium on High Performance Computing ISHPC-VI, Nara, Japan, September 2005.
Power and performance optimization at the system level
ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2005, Ischia, Italy, May 2005.
BlueGene/L: Architecture, Applications and Future Challenges
2005 International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, College Park, MD, May 2005.
Tutorials
The Blue Gene/L supercomputer: a hardware and software story
MICRO-39, December 2006.
Optimizing performance and power across the hardware/software stack with the Blue Gene/L supercomputer
ISCA 2006, June 2006.
Hardware and software architecture of the BlueGene/L supercomputer
ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, May 2006.
Last updated 10 Mar 2009