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EAC FOCUS
Sid Karin
Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center; Adjunct Professor, Computer
Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego; Vice
President, Advanced Computing , General Atomics; and General Conference
Chair, SUPERCOMPUTING '95
Sid Karin earned his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the City
College of New York, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering
from the University of Michigan, after which he embarked on a career in
computer programming and engineering at General Atomics, San Diego, in
1973. A registered professional engineer, Karin held several engineering
and management positions there before becoming founder and director of
the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in 1985. Karin has been an
adjunct professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University
of California at San Diego since 1986.
Karin's research interests include scalable parallel and distributed
computing, high-speed networking, archival storage, scientific
visualization, and, more recently, security. "SDSC's new initiative in
security, " says Karin, "leverages some previous work in active attack
analysis by senior fellow Tsutomu Shimomura and security analyst Andrew
Gross. The importance of their work was brought to the nation's
attention in February of this year when they helped the FBI locate and
arrest fugitive computer criminal Kevin Mitnick."
Currently, Karin is Principal Investigator for the National Biomedical
Computation Resource (NBCR). "NBCR's main goal," says Karin, "is to move
biomedical researchers onto scalable parallel computers to further their
work in a broad range of scales from the atomic to the cellular levels."
Karin points out that he is also co-PI for the Collaboratory for
Microscopic Digital Anatomy (CMDA). "The Internet offers new
opportunities for remote access to centralized, expensive
instrumentation," he says. "CMDA will provide such access to an
intermediate-voltage electron microscope to support new insights into
biological structure and function."
As SUPERCOMPUTING '95 Chair, Karin brings more than two decades of
professional experience in computer science, engineering, research, and
management to the leadership of this widely attended, eighth annual
high-performance computing conference. "One of the things we're the most
excited about," says Karin, "is the network we're designing and
installing for the conference. Normally, presenters and exhibitors are
constrained by the technology of the convention center where the
conference is held. This year, we're challenging their imaginations to
take full advantage of the new capabilities we'll be providing. They
will be able to use the most advanced network ever constructed for a
conference, which we believe will forever change how future high-tech
conferences are run."
Karin is also a member of the Federal Networking Council Advisory
Committee and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Space
Microelectronics Technology Advisory Panel. His honors include an Atomic
Energy Commission Special Fellowship in Nuclear Science and Engineering,
National Defense Education Act Fellowship, New York State Regents
College Scholarship, and Outstanding Alumnus, University of Michigan
Nuclear Engineering Department.
As a member of the CRPC External Advisory Committee, Karin believes that
the CRPC plays a critical role in the computational community's efforts
to advance computing technology. "The CRPC is making parallel computers
useful for a broad range of the nation's scientists," he says.
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