CRE2017 Special Issue CRE2017 Special Issue Introduction IJHPCA Michael Mascagni 1,2 1. Biographies of the CRE2017 co-organizers 1.1. Walid Keyrouz Walid Keyrouz is a computer scientist in the Software and Systems Group of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr Keyrouz received his MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. His first involvement with high-performance computing (HPC) was in his master’s thesis which analyzed the use of array processors and multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) machines for finite element implementations. Before joining National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), he was a research scientist at Schlumberger and a professor of Com- puter Science at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. 1.2. Mirian Leeser Miriam Leeser is a professor at Northeastern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Cor- nell University, and Diploma and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Cambridge University in England. After completion of her PhD, she joined the faculty of Cornell University, Department of Electrical Engineering. In Jan- uary 1996, she joined the faculty of Northeastern Univer- sity, where she is head of the Reconfigurable and GPU Computing Laboratory and a member of the Computer Engineering Group. Her research interests include applica- tion acceleration with Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Graphics Processing Units, programming paradigms for heterogeneous computers, computer arithmetic, and repro- ducibility in high-performance computing. In 1992, she received an NSF Young Investigator Award. Throughout her career, she has been funded by both government agen- cies and companies and is currently funded by the NSF, Google, MathWorks, and Microsoft. She is the leader of a partnership between MathWorks and Northeastern that has brought significant support from MathWorks for research and curricular development projects across the university and is a member of the MathWorks Industrial advisory Board. She is associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Systems, the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, and the International Journal of Recon- figurable Computing. She has been active in recruiting women and underrepresented minorities at all levels to the University, including serving on the NEU Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) committee. She is a senior member of ACM, a senior member of IEEE, and a senior member of SWE. 1.3. Michael Mascagni Michael Mascagni is professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Scientific Computing at Florida State University. He is also a Faculty Appointee at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. Prof. Mascagni expertise is in numerical and scientific computing, espe- cially in aspects of stochastic computing. In particular, he is an expert in Monte Carlo methods and random number generation and their application to scientific problems and their implementation on high-performance computing (HPC) architectures. In particular, his work on random number generation and the Scalable Parallel Random Num- ber Generators (SPRNG) library have included consider- ation of the reproducibility of random number streams when computations are undertaken in diverse HPC envir- onments. SPRNG was absolutely reproducible on distribu- ted memory parallel machines, but the notion of reproducibility has had to be modified for multicore and accelerator-based architectures. This motivated his interest in the more general problem of numerical reproducibility for HPC systems, especially at the Exascale. Prof. Mas- cagni has been a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg, the University of Toulon and Var, and the Swiss Federal Technical Institute, Zurich (ETH). He is a 1 Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA 2 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA Corresponding author: Michael Mascagni, Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. Email: mascagni@fsu.edu The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 2019, Vol. 33(5) 761–762 ª The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1094342019868861 journals.sagepub.com/home/hpc