2026 William Gropp: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	93	501	485	269	259	500	54514

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016 - ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award For highly influential contributions to the programmability of high-performance parallel and distributed computers, and extraordinary service to the profession.
2015 - SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering The PETSc Core Development Team: Satish Balay, Jed Brown, William Gropp, Matthew Knepley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Barry Smith, and Hong Zhang
2011 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to algorithms and software for high performance scientific computing, including the development of MPI.
2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to high performance computing and message passing
2010 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to numerical software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation.
2006 - ACM Fellow For contributions to message passing protocols.

Overview

William Gropp is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily in high-performance computing, parallel computing, and scientific computing.

Gropp's recent papers include:

"HAL: Computer System for Scalable Deep Learning," 2020, Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
"Quantum-centric supercomputing for materials science: A perspective on challenges and future directions," 2024, Future Generation Computer Systems
"Convergence of artificial intelligence and high performance computing on NSF-supported cyberinfrastructure," 2020, Journal Of Big Data
"CFD Vision 2030 Road Map: Progress and Perspectives," 2021, AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM
"IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Frequent co-authors with whom Gropp has extensively collaborated include:

Riccardo Mariani
Forrest Shull
Melissa Russell
Grace A. Lewis
Hironori Washizaki

Gropp's publications are often found in venues such as:

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
arXiv (Cornell University)
Computing in Science & Engineering
IEEE Internet Computing
AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM

Their subfields of study concentrate on topics including:

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Information Systems
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Materials Chemistry

Gropp's main research themes cover:

Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Interconnection Networks and Systems
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Machine Learning in Materials Science

Gropp has received numerous awards over the course of their career, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, 2016, for contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel and distributed computers
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering, 2015
SIAM Fellow, 2011, for contributions to high performance scientific computing and development of MPI
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2010
IEEE Fellow, 2010, for contributions to high performance computing and message passing
ACM Fellow, 2006, for contributions to message passing protocols

Best Publications

Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface

William Gropp;Ewing Lusk;Anthony Skjellum

6249
Citations
PETSc Users Manual

S Balay;S Abhyankar;M Adams;J Brown

4460
Citations
A high-performance, portable implementation of the MPI message passing interface standard

William Gropp;Ewing Lusk;Nathan Doss;Anthony Skjellum

3488
Citations
Efficient management of parallelism in object-oriented numerical software libraries

Satish Balay;William D. Gropp;Lois Curfman McInnes;Barry F. Smith

2765
Citations
PETSc Users Manual Revision 3.7

Satish Balay;S. Abhyankar;M. Adams;P. Brune

2756
Citations
Skjellum using mpi: portable parallel programming with the message-passing interface

William D. Gropp;Ewing L. Lusk

1591
Citations
Optimization of Collective Communication Operations in MPICH

Rajeev Thakur;Rolf Rabenseifner;William Gropp

1127
Citations
CFD Vision 2030 Study: A Path to Revolutionary Computational Aerosciences

Jeffrey P Slotnick;Abdollah Khodadoust;Juan Alonso;David Darmofal

975
Citations
The International Exascale Software Project roadmap

Jack Dongarra;Pete Beckman;Terry Moore;Patrick Aerts

965
Citations
Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface

William Gropp;Ewing Lusk;Rajeev Thakur

922
Citations
Data sieving and collective I/O in ROMIO

R. Thakur;W. Gropp;W. Gropp;E. Lusk

744
Citations
Sourcebook of parallel computing

Jack Dongarra;Ian Foster;Geoffrey Fox;William Gropp

686
Citations
Mpi the complete reference: the mpi-2 extensions

William D. Gropp;H. Huss-lederman

650
Citations
On implementing MPI-IO portably and with high performance

Rajeev Thakur;William Gropp;Ewing Lusk

530
Citations
Parallel netCDF: A High-Performance Scientific I/O Interface

Jianwei Li;Wei-keng Liao;Alok Choudhary;Robert Ross

522
Citations
PETSc 2.0 users manual

Satish Balay;William D. Gropp;Lois Curfman McInnes;Barry F. Smith

492
Citations
Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux

Thomas Sterling;Ewing Lusk;William Gropp

488
Citations
Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities

David E Keyes;Lois C Mcinnes;Carol Woodward;William Gropp

485
Citations
Toward Exascale Resilience

Franck Cappello;Al Geist;Bill Gropp;Laxmikant Kale

473
Citations
Toward Exascale Resilience: 2014 Update

Franck Cappello;Geist Al;William Gropp;Sanjay Kale

416
Citations
An adaptive performance modeling tool for GPU architectures

Sara S. Baghsorkhi;Matthieu Delahaye;Sanjay J. Patel;William D. Gropp

412
Citations
Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing

Satish Balay;William D. Gropp

378
Citations
MPI - The Complete Reference: Volume 2, The MPI Extensions

William Gropp;Steven Huss-Lederman;Andrew Lumsdaine;Ewing Lusk

364
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory

Ewing Lusk Argonne National Laboratory

David E. Keyes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Barry Smith Argonne National Laboratory

Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory

Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich

Robert Ross Argonne National Laboratory

Marc Snir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Martin Schulz Technical University of Munich

Alok Choudhary Northwestern University

External Links

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