User:Hrachya.astsatryan

Biography
Dr. Astsatryan was born in Armenia. He received his MSc degree in Mathematics in 1998 in the Yerevan State University, and PhD degree in informatics at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in 2001. He is currently the Head of the High Performance Computing Laboratory of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.

Awards

 * 2011	“Best Young Scientist in the Field of Information and Communication Technology in 2010” Award, Rinicom LTD (Lancaster, UK)
 * 2004	Armenian President Prize and Gold Medal in Technical Sciences and Information Technologies

International Research Projects

 * 2011 - 2013	Swiss National Science Foundation, Deploying ARmenian distributed Processing capacities for Environmental GEOspatial data
 * 2010 - 2014	European Commission 7th Framework Programme, EGI-InSPIRE (Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe)
 * 2010 - 2012	European Commission 7th Framework Programme, High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s Research Communities
 * 2010 - 2012	Joint Project between CNRS France and Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, Development of a Second Generation Scientific Computing Infrastructure Based on P-Grade Portal.
 * 2008 - 2010	European Commission 7th Framework Programme, South East European GRID eInfrastructure for Regional eScience
 * 2008 - 2010	ISTC (International Scientific Technology Center) Nr. A-1606 Project, Development of Armenian-Georgian Grid Infrastructure and Applications in the Fields of High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Physics
 * 2007 - 2009	ISTC (International Scientific Technology Center) Nr. A-1451 Project, Development of Scientific Computing Grid on the Base of Armcluster for South Caucasus Region
 * 2006 - 2008	INTAS (International Association for the Promotion of co-operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union) Nr. 05-109-4390 Post Doctoral Project, Development of a Web Grid Scientific Computing Environment for Distributed Computing Systems
 * 2005 - 2008	CRDF (U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation) Nr. SCI-01002-SC-05 Project, Creation of Biotechnological Network with Establishment of Regional Microbial Culture Collections of the Caucasus
 * 2004 - 2007	EU Marie Curie Fellowship for the Transfer of Knowledge, Nr. 509252, GRID Computer Station for Handling and Analysing Compact Muon Solenoid Data at RIPNP, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2003 - 2006	ISTC (International Scientific Technology Center) Nr. A-823 Project, ArmCluster: Creation of High-Performance Computation Cluster and Databases in Armenia
 * 2003 – 2005	EU Information Society Technologies (IST) programme: ADONIS (Application Development Outsourcing to New Independent States) Project
 * 2002 - 2005	ISTC (International Scientific Technology Center) Nr. A-092.2 Project, Database and Culture Collection of Microorganisms Degradation Synthetic Polymers and Toxic Chemicals

Member of Scientific Societies and Boards

 * 2010 -	Member of International Desktop Grid Federation
 * 2009 -	Policy Board Member of European Grid Initiative
 * 2007 -	Scientific Council of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Programme Committee Member

 * 2011	International Workshop on Parallel Numerics 2011, Oct. 5-7, Leibnitz, Austria
 * 2011	ICT Innovations Conference 2011, Sep. 14-16, Skopje, Macedonia

Research Interests
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 * Distributed Computing Infrastructures (Grid, Cloud, GPU), Parallel (MPI, PVM, OpenMP, CUDA)
 * Scientific Computing (SCALAPACK, BLAS, PBLAS, HPL)
 * Internet computing
 * Networks (Security, Routing)
 * Linux Administration (MAIL, WEB, PROXY, LDAP)
 * Web Programming (PHP, JAVA, MYSQL, PERL, WIKIPEDIA, BLOG)