Presenter

Ron Brightwell leads the Scalable System Software Department in the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories. After joining Sandia in 1995, he was a key contributor to the high-performance interconnect software and lightweight operating system for the world’s first terascale system, the Intel ASCI Red machine. He was also part of the team responsible for the high-performance interconnect and lightweight operating system for the Cray Red Storm machine, which was the prototype for the Cray XT product line. He has authored more than 115 peer-reviewed publications. The impact of his research is visible in HPC network technologies from HPE, Nvidia, Cornelis, and Eviden. He has also contributed to the MPI-2, MPI-3, and MPI-4 specifications. He has served on numerous technical and organizing committees for HPC conferences and is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM.