Gregor von Laszewski

Research Professor, University of Virginia, laszewski@gmail.com
Biocomplexity Institute, 946 Grady Avenue, Suite 100, Charlottesville, VA 22903

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Interests

Machine Learning
MLCommons Benchmarking of Deep Learning Applications
Cloud Computing and Multicloud Environments
Cloudmesh

Education

PhD in Computer Science Syracuse University, 1996
MS Computer Science (Diplom) University of Bonn, 1989
BSc in Computer Science University of Bonn

Quick Links

GitHub
- https://github.com/laszewsk
- https://github.com/laszewski
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) including links to most papers.
- Publications

Biography

He received a Masters Degree in 1990 from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Syracuse University in Computer Science. He held a position at Argonne National Laboratory from Nov. 1996 – Aug. 2009, where he was last a scientist and a fellow of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. During his last two years at ANL, he was on sabbatical as an Associate Professor and the Director of an institution at Rochester Institute of Technology, focusing on Cyberinfrastructure. At Indiana University, he was an Assistant Director in the Digital Science Center (DSC) in the School of Informatics and Computing. He was also the Chief Architect of FutureGrid an OnPremisse Cloud.

Academic Appointments

Currently, he holds an appointment at University of Virginia as a Research Professor. Past academic appointments include Adjunct Professor in the Intelligent Systems Engineering Department at Indiana University, Adjunct Professor positions at the Computer Science Department at Indiana University, Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas. He has also taught voluntarily at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Highlights from Previous Projects

He initiated the Cloudmesh project, a hybrid multicloud toolkit to enable cloud computing across various Cloud and Container IaaS such as OpenStack, AWS, Azure, Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes. This prroject is still maintained.

He provided leadership to interface with the San Diego Supercomputing Center on virtual clusters for XSEDE comet. He was the co-PI on developing a scientific impact metric for the longest-running high-performance computing infrastructure funded by NSF spanning XSEDE, reaching as far back as TeraGrid. Previously, he was the architect of FutureGrid, one of the first successful clouds in US academia.

He was previously involved in Grid computing since the term was coined. Before that, he initiated and led the Java Commodity Grid Kit, which provided the basis for hundreds of Grid-related projects, including the Globus Toolkit. The Java CoG Kit was used in a single year on over 100 demonstrations on the SC exhibit, the primier conference in supercomputing. It guranteed portability for over 10 years in the community to access Grid Resources. The CoG Kit was also the first project that used a browser controlled interface to file transfers. The CoG Kit evolved to Cloudmesh while focussing on cloud resources instead of Grids.

Prior to this he developped one of the first metacomputers connecting several super computing with a transparent centers through client side interface to compute resources. This was a precurser to Grid Computing.