Alan Gara
Alan Gara (* before 1987) is an American computer engineer and physicist . He was the lead architect of three generations of BlueGene supercomputers at IBM and was an IBM Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center .
Gara received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1987 . His dissertation was in theoretical experimental particle physics, but he then did research in experimental particle physics at Fermilab (E 690 experiment) and Columbia University , at the Superconducting Supercollider (before it was discontinued) and at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN . He worked with Norman Christ's theory group at Columbia University on the design of the QCDSP supercomputer, a special computer for lattice theory calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). For this he received the Gordon Bell Award in 1998.
In 1999 he went to the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he was the technical director of three generations of BlueGene computers. The first generation of BlueGene machines (BlueGene / L) topped the list of the fastest computers in the world from November 2004 to 2007. BlueGene / P and BlueGene / Q followed. In 2006 he received his second Gordon Bell Award for QCD invoices at BlueGene. In 2009, IBM received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for BlueGene.
He then headed IBM research on exascale computing, but moved to Intel in 2011 .
In 2010 he received the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gara, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1987 |