OPN Talks with Alan Gara

Lyndsay Basista

Our conversation with Alan Gara, IBM Fellow, Blue Gene chief architect and OFC/NFOEC keynote speaker.

 

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As computer technology advances at the speed of light, today's supercomputer often becomes tomorrow's personal computer. Many of these advances would not have been possible without Alan Gara, who dedicated his career to being at the forefront of supercomputing. Today, Gara is an IBM Fellow and the chief architect of the Blue Gene supercomputer system at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he is leading the industry in high-performance computing architecture and design efforts.

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