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Rusty Lusk Award for the Best Paper at EuroMPI/Australia 2024
The Best Paper Award at EuroMPI/Australia 2024 is named after Rusty Lusk.
Ewing "Rusty" Lusk (1943–2022) received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1965 and his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1970. He began his career as an assistant professor of mathematics at Northern Illinois University. He later moved to the Computer Science Department, where he eventually became a full professor and the department's acting chair. In 1982, Rusty joined Argonne National Laboratory as a computer scientist and later became a senior computer scientist and Argonne Distinguished Fellow. Along with Paul Messina and Jack Dongarra, Rusty was instrumental in founding Argonne's Advanced Computing Research Facility, which signaled the beginning of Argonne's commitment to parallel computing research. He also served as the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne from 2005 to 2011.
Rusty was one of the founders of the MPI Forum. He chaired MPI-2, started the MPICH project with Bill Gropp, and was a close friend, collaborator, and mentor to many in the MPI community.
Rusty has said, "I think that the development of the MPI Standard is probably the most important thing that I have worked on. Developing a community standard in cooperation with vendors, computer scientists, and users was fascinating to participate in. The experience was social and technical and succeeded because of the many people who worked hard to achieve a common goal. It was then possible to work on implementation research for MPI to convince a broad range of people that the standard was efficient to implement and use. We realized that we would be impacting a whole generation of parallel programmers if we succeeded."
