Facts: - caption: william d. '' bill '' gropp - workplaces: university of illinois - awards: sidney fernbach award - name: william d. '' bill '' gropp - image: bill gropp.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of bill gropp .
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william douglas '' bill '' gropp is a professor of computer science at the university of illinois urbana-champaign , where , since 2013 , he has held the thomas m. siebel chair .he is also the deputy director for research institute for advanced computing applications and technologies , and the director of the parallel computing institute .gropp helped to create the message passing interface , also known as mpi , and the portable , extensible toolkit for scientific computation , also known as petsc .gropp was awarded the sidney fernbach award in 2008 , '' for outstanding contributions to the development of domain decomposition algorithms , scalable tools for the parallel numerical solution of pdes , and the dominant hpc communications interface '' .in 2009 , gropp received an r&d 100 award for petsc .in february 2010 , he was elected to the national academy of engineering , '' for contributions to numerical software in the area of linear algebra and high-performance parallel and distributed computation . ''in march 2010 , he was honored with the ieee tcsc medal for excellence in scalable computing .