Office

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8910
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8910

Voice: (301) 975-4317
FAX: (301) 990-4127
E-mail: pozo@nist.gov
World Wide Web: http://math.nist.gov/pozo

Research Interests

• high performance scientific computing
• tools and environments for parallel programming
• computational linear algebra
• performance modeling and analysis of large-scale applications

Education

• Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Colorado, 1991
• M.S. (Computer Science), University of Colorado, 1988
• M.S. (Mathematics), University of California at Los Angeles, 1986
• B.A. (Mathematics), California State University, 1983

Awards

• Bronze Medal Award, US Department of Commerece, 2001.
• Presidential Early Career Award, US White House, 1997.

Professional Experience

• Leader, Mathematical Software Group, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1998-present
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1994-present
• Research Scientist, Mathematical Software Group, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1994-1998
• Visiting Scientist, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan, 1995
• Assistant Professor and Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1992-1994
• Visiting Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1992-1993
• Visiting Scientist, Centre Europeen de Recherche et de Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), Toulouse, France, 1991
• Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1988-1991
• Consultant for Forecast Systems Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, Colorado, 1988-1990
• Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, 1989
• Software Developer, Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek), Louisville, Colorado, 1988
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1986-1989
• Software Engineer, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), LOGICON, San Pedro, California, 1984-1986
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1984-1985

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2001-.
• Co-chair, Numerics Working Group, Java Grande Forum, 1998-.
• Chair, Sparse BLAS Subcommittee, Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) Technical Forum, 1996-.
• Proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Army Research Office, and the NIST Advanced Technology Program.
• Referee for the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency: Practice and Experience. Computing Systems in Engineering, and SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,
• Organizing committee member for ACM Java Grande Conference, 1999-,
• Minisymposium organizer for Annual SIAM Meeting, 1999.
• Program committee member, International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments, 1998-.
• Editorial Board member for the International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, Scotland, 1988-.

Major Software Packages (Co-)Developed

• Template Numerical Toolkit (TNT), an ANSI C++ numerical library.
• Jama: a Java matrix package.
• NIST Sparse BLAS
a suite of computational kernels for sparse matrix applications.
• SparseLib++ : package for sparse matrix computations.
• IML++ : Iterative Methods Library
• MV++ : Matrix/Vector Library
• LAPACK++: object oriented linear algebra package.

Web Services Developed

• Java Numerics Working Group
• SciMark: an interactive benchmark for Java Numerics.
• JazzNet: a distributed cluster based on high-speed networks.
• Matrix Market: a visual database for matrix collections

Publications

Books
1. Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods, R. Barrett, M. Berry, T. F. Chan, J. Demmel, J. Donato, J. J. Dongarra, V. Eijkhout, R. Pozo, C. Romine, H. van der Vorst, SIAM Press, 1993.
   In Refereed Journals

2. R. F.Boisvert, J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, K. Remington, G. W. Stewart, Developing Numerical Libraries in Java, Concurrency: Practice and Experience, vol. 10 (No. 11-13), 1998, pp. 1117-1129.
3. R. Pozo, Template Numerical Toolkit for Linear Algebra: High Performance Computing with C++ and the Standard Template Library, Journal of Supercomputing Applications and High Performance Computing, Vol. 11.3, 1997.
4. J.Choi, J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, D. Sorrensen, D. Walker, CRPC Research into Linear Algebra Software for High Performance Computers, International Journal of Supercomputing Applications, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1994.
5. R. Pozo, K. Remington, Fast Three-Dimensional Elliptic Solvers on Heterogeneous Systems using SMP++, Parallel Computing: Trends and Applications G. R. Joubert, D. Trystram, F. J. Peters, D. J. Evans, eds., Elsevier Science B. V., 1994.
6. R. Pozo, Stream-Based Interface in C++ Programmming Heterogeneous Systems, Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing, J. J. Dongarra, B. Tourancheau, eds., North-Holland, 1993.
7. R. Barrett, M. Berry, J. J. Dongarra, J. Donato, V. Eijkhout, R. Pozo, C. Romine, Building Blocks for Iterative Solution of Linear Systems, Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing J. J. Dongarra, B. Tourancheau, eds., North-Holland, 1993.
8. R. Pozo, Performance Modeling of Sparse Matrix Computations for Distributed Memory Architectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
   In Conference Proceedings

9. R. F. Boisvert, R.Pozo K. Remington, R. Barrett, J. J. Dongarra, The Matrix Market: a web repository for test matrix data, in The Quality of Numerical Software, Assessment and Enhancement, R.F. Boisvert, ed., Chapman Hall, London, 1997, pp. 125-137.
10. S. L. Smith, R. Pozo, Limited Resource Scheduling in Sparse Matrix Algorithms, Proceedings of the Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, 1994.
11. K. Remington, R. Pozo, Performance Characteristics of Fast Elliptic Solvers on Parallel Platforms}, Proceedings of European PVM Users Meeting, 1994.
12. J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, D. Walker, LAPACK++: A Design Overview of Object-Oriented Extensions for High Performance Linear Algebra, Proceedings of Supercomputing '93, IEEE Press, 1993, pp. 162-171.
13. J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, D. Walker, An Object Oriented Design for High Performance Linear Algebra on Distributed Memory Architectures, Proceedings of the Object Oriented Numerics Conference Oregon, April, 1993.
14. R. Pozo, S. Smith, Performance Evaluation of the Parallel Multifrontal Method in a Distributed Memory Environment, Sixth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Norfolk, Virginia, March, 1993.
15. J. J. Dongarra, J. Choi, R. Pozo, D. Walker, ScaLAPACK: A Scalable Linear Algebra Library for Distributed Memory Concurrent Computers, Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computing Virginia, 1992.
16. J. J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, D. Walker, ScaLAPACK++: An Object Oriented Linear Algebra Library for Scalable Systems, Proceedings of Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference, Mississippi State, October 1993.
17. R. Pozo, An Object Oriented Stream Interface for PVM, Proceedings of the PVM Users' Group Meeting, Tennessee, 1993.
18. R. Pozo, Performance Simulation and Modeling of Numerical Computations on the Connection Machine CM-2, Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pennsylvania, 1992.
19. R. Pozo, PVM++: An Object Oriented Interface for Heterogeneous Computing, Proceedings of First CRPC Workshop on Standards for Message Passing in an Distributed Memory Environment Virginia, 1991, pp. 325-341.
20. O. McBryan, R. Pozo, Comparison of Parallel Architectures, Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Texas, 1991.
21. R. Pozo, Performance Models of Numerical Computations on the Connection Machine CM-2, Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Texas, 1991.
22. R. Pozo, B. Rodriguez, Modeling Vector Operations on the Intel i860 RISC Microprocessor, Fifth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Texas, 1991.
23. R. Pozo, Atmospheric Modeling on Massively Parallel Architectures, Proceedings of the Seventh NCAR SCD User Conference, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, 1989.
24. R. Pozo, Primitive Equation Atmospheric Modeling on the Connection Machine, Proceedings of Supercomputing '89, Nevada, 1989.
    Technical Reports

25. V. Eijkhout, R. Pozo, Basic Concepts for Distributed Sparse Linear Algebra Operations: LAPACK Working Note 77, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-94-240, 1994.
26. O. McBryan, R. Pozo, Performance Evaluation of the Evans & Sutherland ES-1, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, University of Colorado, June 1990.
27. R. Pozo The Role of Parallel Supercomputing in Numerical Weather Forecasting}, Forecast System Laboratory, Technical Report of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June 1990.
28. R. Pozo, A. E. MacDonald, Performance Characteristics of Scientific Computation on the Connection Machine CM-2, Department of Computer Science Technical Report CU-CS-440-89, University of Colorado, June 1989.