Thomas Sterling (computing)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Sterling is a colleague of Don Becker and co-author of the original Beowulf Howto. He worked at NASA and is now associated with The Center for Computation and Technology at LSU.[1]
Dr. Thomas Sterling is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD as a Hertz Fellow from MIT in 1984. He is probably best known as the father of Beowulf clusters and for his research on Petaflops computing architecture. His current research is focused on the ParalleX execution model and its practical implementation in computer architecture and programming methods. Professor Sterling is the co-author of six books and holds six patents. He was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize with collaborators in 1997.[2]
[edit] External References
 |
This biographical article relating to a computer specialist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
