John Gustafson (scientist)

John Leroy Gustafson
Born (1955-01-19) January 19, 1955 (age 69)
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
Thesis Asymptotic Expansions of Elliptic Integrals  (1982)
Doctoral advisorBille C. Carlson
Websitejohngustafson.net

John Leroy Gustafson (born January 19, 1955) is an American computer scientist and businessman, chiefly known for his work in high-performance computing (HPC) such as the invention of Gustafson's law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster,[citation needed] measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Berry computer, inventing the unum number format and computation system,[1] and several awards for computer speedup. Currently he is the Chief Technology Officer at Ceranovo, Inc.[2] He was the Chief Graphics Product Architect and Senior Fellow at AMD from September 2012 until June 2013,[3][4] and he previously held the positions of Architect of Intel Labs-SC,[5] CEO of Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.[6] and CTO at ClearSpeed Technology.[7] Gustafson holds applied mathematics degrees from the California Institute of Technology and Iowa State University.

  1. ^ Gustafson, John L. (2016-02-04) [2015-02-05]. The End of Error: Unum Computing. Chapman & Hall / CRC Computational Science. Vol. 24 (2nd corrected printing, 1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4822-3986-7. Retrieved 2016-05-30. [1] [2]
  2. ^ Anton, Lewey (2014-01-20). "John Gustafson Moves to Ceranovo as CTO". insideHPC. Retrieved 2015-06-27.
  3. ^ "AMD Hires John Gustafson as Chief Graphics Product Architect". AMD. 2012-08-28.
  4. ^ Feldman, Michael (2012-09-13). "Now at AMD John Gustafson Wants to Light a Fire Under GPU Computing". HPCwire. Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  5. ^ Shimpi, Anand Lal (2012-08-28). "AMD Hires Ex-Intel Labs Architect, John Gustafson, As Chief Graphics Product Architecture". AnandTech. Archived from the original on 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  6. ^ Kendall, Abbie (2008-05-15). "Massively Parallel Names HPC Industry Leader John Gustafson CEO". BusinessWire. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
  7. ^ Owen, Paul (2005-09-06). "Dr. John Gustafson Accepts Position with ClearSpeed Technology; HPC Industry Pioneer Joins the Company as CTO, HPC". BusinessWire. Retrieved 2016-07-11.

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