Dan M. Davis
Director,
JESPP Project
Computational Science Division
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
http:www.isi.edu/~ddavis
Off: (310) 448-8434
Cell: (310) 909-3487
ddavis@isi.edu
Dan
Davis focuses his research and community activities on large-scale military
simulations and the use of high performance, parallel computers. Currently
funded by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, his team has produced products that
have been demonstrated to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, the
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology, Senator Hillary
Clinton, former Speaker Newt Gingrich and other major policy setters. He has published
several peer-reviewed articles on this work (see below) and is frequently
invited to speak on this and associated topics.
Educational
achievements include a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1973 and a Juris
Doctors in 1975, both from the University of Colorado in Boulder. While at
Boulder, he was a student in the Quantitative Psychology Department and did
computational science research on intelligent agents and computer-assisted
learning. Later work in the Graduate School of Business Administration at CU
focused on Organizational Behavior and the quantification and computer analysis
of management topics. His studies in Law School there were capped by a study on
the impact of tax policy on social behavior. He has served as a cryptologist
and linguist on active duty in the USMC, including two combat-zone tours in
Southeast Asia, and recently retired with the rank of Commander, US Naval
Reserve, where he served in the Cryptologic Specialty area.
He
has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is certified to
teach Psychology, Business Law, Corporations, Statistics, and Personnel
Management by the State of Colorado. He taught primarily Introduction to
Psychology and Business Law at Blair College, Colorado Springs, from 1980 to
1985, where he was once selected as Instructor of the Term. In 1986 he also
taught a course in Negotiations to Masters candidates in Denver for the
University of Phoenix.
After
practicing law for 10 years (admitted to Colorado State, Federal and the US
Supreme Courts) he was employed by Martin Marietta to act as federal
subcontracts manager and counsel on a large DoD classified contract. In 1988 he
was transferred to JPL in Pasadena to act as Classification Manager and to
advise on contractual issues on a large data fusion project. In 1993, he was
appointed as the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Computing
Research at Caltech, where he participated in research proposals, external
relations, administrative and executive duties for a $15M/year supercomputer
center. In 1999, he assumed the position of Associate Director for Strategic
Development at the Information Sciences Institute, a 350-person research
division of the University of Southern California. He left for a brief time
(2001 to 2002) to participate in the proposal for, and then function as the
Director for Finance and Contracts of, the Maui High Performance Computing
Center, University of Hawai'i. Over the last two decades, he has participated
in and led proposal efforts up to $200M and he was a section lead on a proposal
that just won a $181M contract. He has had extensive experience with
government, industry and foundation relations. He currently is the Director of
the Joint Experimentation on Scalable Parallel Processors project at the
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California. This project
provides scalable code to the U.S. Joint Forces Command allowing more than one
million individual vehicle and pedestrian independent agents to be simulated in
a global-scale terrain database.
He
has been active in design rule checking algorithm research, large-scale
distributed simulations for the DoD and in researching supercomputer uses in
the K-12 area. He was the Chairman of the Coalition of Academic Supercomputing
Centers for 1998 and Chaired the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
in 1999. He is on several committees at the University of Southern California
and various professional conferences.
Selected Recent Papers
Davis, D.& Moore, J., (2007), “FPGA and GPUs as Accelerators for Linux Clusters,” in the Proceedings of the International Test and Evaluation Association M&S Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 2007
Davis, L.K. & Davis, D.M., (2007), “Implementing New Educational Technology for 21st Century DoD Leadership Development,” in the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Simulation, Training and Education Conference,” Orlando, Florida, 2007
Lucas, R.F., Davis, D.M. & Wagenbreth, G., (2007), “Implementing a GPU-Enhanced Cluster for Large-Scale Simulations,” in the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Simulation, Training and Education Conference,” Orlando, Florida, 2007
Davis, D.M., Lucas, R.F., Wagenbreth, G.,
& Tran, J.J., (2008), “Effectively using a Large GPGPU-Enhanced Linux Cluster”
in the Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users'
Group Conference, Seattle, WA, 2008
Gottschalk, T. & Davis, D.
(2006), “Application of Proven Parallel Programming Algorithmic Design to
Aggregation-Deaggregation Problems,” in the Proceedings of the
Interservice/Industry Simulation, Training and Education Conference,” Orlando,
Florida, 2006
Davis, D. and Davis, L, (2006),
“Educational Extensions of Large-Scale Simulations Enabled by High Performance
Computing in the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Simulation,
Training and Education Conference,” Orlando, Florida, 2006
Lucas, R., Davis, D. & Yao,
K-T., (2006)," Supercomputing’s Role in Data
Problems and Its Contribution to Solutions," The ITEA Journal of
Test and Evaluation, Fairfax, Virginia, Sep-Oct, 2006.
Davis, D. (2006), “Large-Scale
Simulations and Transcontinental Data Management and Analysis”, 4th Cluster
Symposium On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific
Applications 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2006
Davis, D. & Lucas, R., (2006), Joint Experimentation,
Data Management and Analysis Enabled by Trans-Continentally Distributed Linux
Clusters, HPCMP Users’ Group Conference, Denver, Colorado. June, 2006
Davis, D. & Baer, G.(
2006),"Providing Scalable Simulations, Environments and Data Structures
for Theatre of War Analysis and Training ," International Training and
Education Conference, London, UK
Lucas, R., Davis, D. & Yao,
K-T., (2006)," High Performance Computing Facilities for Joint Military
Simulation Data Management," The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation,
Fairfax, Virginia, Publication Pending.
Davis, D., & Baer, G.,
(2005)," High Performance Computing Facilities for Joint Military
Simulation Data Management," ITEA Modeling and Simulation Conference, Las
Cruces, NM, 2005
Wagenbreth, G., Yao, K-T.,
Davis, D., Lucas, R., and Gottschalk, T., (2005),"Enabling
1,000,000-Entity Simulations on Distributed Linux Clusters," WSC05-The
Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida,
Davis, D., Lucas, R., Amburn,
P. & Gottschalk, T., (2005), "Joint Experimentation on
Scalable Parallel Processors," The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation,
Fairfax, Virginia, 2005
Gottschalk, T., Amburn, P.
&Davis, D., (Forthcoming, 2005), "Advanced Message Routing for
Scalable Distributed Simulations," The Journal of Defense Modeling and
Simulation, San Diego, California, Publication pending
Davis, D., Baer, G., &
Gottschalk, T., (2004), "21st Century Simulation: Exploiting High
Performance Parallel Computing and Advanced Data Analysis," Proceedings of
the Interservice / Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference,
Orlando, Florida
Lucas, R., & Davis, D.,
"Joint Experimentation on Scalable Parallel Processors," (2003), in
the Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Simulation, Training and Education
Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2003
Brunett, S., Davis, D.,
Gottschalk, T., Messina, P., & Kesselman, C., (1998) "Implementing
Distributed Synthetic Forces Simulations in Metacomputing Environments,"
in the Proceedings of the Seventh Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, Orlando,
Florida, March 1998
Messina, P., Brunett, S.,
Davis, D., Gottschalk, T., Curkendall, D., & Seigel, H., (1997)
"Distributed Interactive Simulation for Synthetic Forces," in the
Proceedings of the 11th International Parallel Processing Symposium, Geneva,
Switzerland, April 97
Messina, P., Davis, D. et al.,
(1997) "Synthetic Forces Express: A New Initiative in Scalable Computing
for Military Simulations." Proceedings of the Simulation Interoperability
Workshop, Orlando, March 1997
Invited Speaker
Davis, D.M., Gottschalk, T.D., & Lucas, R.F., (2007), “Consistency between Various Abstraction Layers: Approaches to the Aggregation/De-aggregation Problem,” at the DARPA Future of Constructive Simulation Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2007
Lucas, R.F., Gottschalk, T.D., & Davis, D.M., (2007),“Scalable Distributed Systems and Data Management: Advanced Architectures and Individual Entity Parallelization,” at the DARPA Future of Constructive Simulation Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2007
Davis, D.M., “Interactive
High Performance Computing: Lessons Learned,”, in the Interactive
Computing Birds of a Feather, at the 4th Cluster Symposium On the Use of
Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2006, Baltimore,
Maryland, July, 2006
Davis, D., "Scoping,
Specifying and Satisfying the Need for Large-Scale Distributed Data
Management," at the 3rd Cluster Symposium On the Use of Commodity Clusters
for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2005, Arlington, Virginia, July, 2005
Davis, D., "Interactive HPC
for Forces Modeling and Simulation: HPCMP's Distributed Center for JFCOM's
JESPP Project," at the HPCMP User Group Conference, Nashville, Tennessee,
June, 2005
Davis, D., "Joint
Experimentation on Scalable Parallel Processors," at the International Test
and Evaluation Association (ITEA), Modeling and Simulation Workshop, Las
Cruces, New Mexico, December, 2004
Davis, D., "Large-Scale
Military Simulations on Linux Clusters: Update, Remote DCs and Interactive
Ops," at the 2nd Annual Symposium on the On the Use of Commodity Clusters
for Large-Scale Scientific Applications, Arlington, Virginia, July, 2004
Davis, D., "Large-Scale
Intelligent Agent Simulations on Linux Clusters: Applications, Implementations,
and Implications," at the Symposium on the On the Use of Commodity
Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications, Arlington, Virginia, July,
2003