Giving Out Grades For Exascale Efforts
Just by being the chief architect of the IBM’s BlueGene massively parallel supercomputer, which was built as part of a protein folding simulation grand challenge effort undertaken by IBM in the late 1990s, Al Gara would be someone whom the HPC community would listen to whenever he spoke. But Gara is now an Intel Fellow and also chief exascale architect at Intel, which has emerged as the second dominant supplier of supercomputer architectures alongside Big Blue’s OpenPower partnership with founding members Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Google.
It may seem ironic that Gara did not stay around IBM to help this …
Giving Out Grades For Exascale Efforts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.