Subhash Saini

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Dr. Subhash Saini is a senior computer scientist at NASA. In 2024, he is a member of the Ames Research and Technology Council. [1] [2]

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Education and academic positions

He received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and has held positions at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Publications

He has published extensively in fields such as High End Computing (HEC), producing three conference proceedings and 257 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Performance Evaluation and Engineering . He also co-wrote a chapter in the Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (Academic Press). [3]

In late 2024 he had an h-index of 31. [4]

Professional activities

Saini joined NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division (NAS) at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1989. [5] He has served on the program committees of several national and international conferences including the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC) 2004, [6] HiPC[ which? ] 2004, HPCC 2016, [7] IPDPS 2006 [8] and IARIA INFOCOMP 2014. [9]

He has also held the following board and panel positions:

Awards

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References

  1. NASA website, Ames Research and Technology Council, retrieved 9 December 2024
  2. NASA Ames Data Processing Software Receives Honorable Mention
  3. VDOC website, Handbook Of Nanostructured Materials And Nanotechnology
  4. Google Scholar website, Subhash Saini, retrieved 9 December 2024
  5. Saini, Subhash; Chang, Johnny; Hood, Robert; Jin, Haoqiang (2006). "A scalability Study of Columbia using the NAS Parallel Benchmarks". Computational Methods in Science and Technology. Special Issue (1): 33–45. doi:10.12921/cmst.2006.SI.01.33-45.
  6. "Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing | ACM Conferences". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  7. IEEE Xplore website, Performance Evaluation of an Intel Haswell-and Ivy Bridge-Based Supercomputer Using Scientific and Engineering Applications, article by Subhash Saini, Robert Hood, Johnny Chang and John Baron, published at the 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
  8. Proceedings 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2006 Abstracts and CD-ROM (PDF). IPDPS. 2006. ISBN   1-4244-0054-6 . Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  9. "INFOCOMP 2014 Committees". www.iaria.org. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  10. "Sweden's Most Powerful Supercomputer Inaugurated at KTH". KTH. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  11. "2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Recipients". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 9 June 2024.