Advisory Board

Dr. Andrew A. Chien, Chair of the Technology Advisory Board

Dr. Chien is a global research leader in high-performance computing, and recently served as Vice President of Intel Labs and Director of Future Technologies Research where he was instrumental in organizing and launching Intel's DARPA-funded UHPC research project. He is well-known in the industry and research community, having served in leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, Entropia (founder), UCSD's Center for Networked Systems (CNS), San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), and Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Dr. Chien received his Bachelor's in electrical engineering, Master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Thomas Sterling, Corporate Advisor

Dr. Thomas Sterling is the Arnaud and Edwards Professor of Computer Science at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of the LSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and System Science and Engineering Focus Area Head of the Center of Computation and Technology. He also serves as a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge national Laboratory and CSRI Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories.
Since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1984 as a Hertz Fellow he has engaged in applied research in related fields associated with parallel computing system structures, and operation in industry, government labs, and academia. Dr. Sterling is best known as the “father of Beowulf: for his pioneering research in commodity/Linux cluster computing. He was awarded the Golden Bell Prize in 1997 with his collaborators for his work. Thomas Sterling currently leads the ParalleX Research Group to devise a new model of computation establishing the foundation principles to guide the co-design for the development of future generation Exascale computing systems by the end of this decade. His research has been sponsored by NSF, NASA, NSA, DOE, DARPA, Army Core of Engineers, and Microsoft. He is the co-author of six books and holds six patents.

Addison Snell, Industry Advisor

Addison Snell is the CEO of Intersect360 Research and veteran of the High Performance Computing industry. He launched the company in 2007 as Tabor Research, a division of Tabor Communications, and served as that company’s VP/GM until he and his partner, Christopher Willard, Ph.D., acquired Tabor Research in 2009. During his tenure, Mr. Snell has established Intersect360 Research as a premier source of market information, analysis, and consulting. HPCWire recently names him one of 2010’s “People to Watch”.

Mr. Snell was previously an HPC industry analyst for IDC, where he was well known among industry stakeholders. Prior to IDC, he gained recognition as a marketing leader and spokesperson for SGI’s supercomputing products and strategy. He holds a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from University of Pennsylvania.

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