Bill Gropp
Director, National Center For Supercomputing Applications
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolBill Gropp is a veteran researcher and technology leader with 23 years of experience in high-performance computing, currently serving as Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on scalable parallel algorithms, message-passing for parallel computation, domain decomposition, and tools that make parallel programs practical at extreme scale. Trained with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and an MS in Physics, he blends deep theoretical insight with decades of systems and tool-building experience. Under his leadership, NCSA has advanced infrastructure and software that enable large-scale scientific computing across disciplines. Colleagues know him for translating complex numerical methods into robust, usable software rather than purely theoretical results. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he continues to shape the intersection of academia, national-scale resources, and applied computational science.
23 years of coding experience
MS, Physics, MS, Physics at University of WashingtonBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Case Western Reserve UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (22)
parallel10
fortran10
mpi10
parallel-io10
netcdf10
mpi-io10
svn9
hpc9
gitlab7
github-api7
petsc7
forum6
python6
git-addons6
cli5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mpiwg-rma/rma-issues
Dec 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 comments in 9 years 5 months
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