ClearSpeed CTO Receives IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award.John Gustafson One of Select Group Recognized for Commitment and Service to the Society SAN JOSE, Calif. -- John Gustafson, chief technical officer for High Performance Computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) for ClearSpeed Technology (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSD), has been named a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. Golden Core Award which recognizes IEEE Computer Society members for their long-standing membership and outstanding service. Each year the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Awards Committee selects up to a maximum of 50 recipients out of the more than 100,000 current IEEE Computer Society members and permanently includes the names in the Golden Core Member master list. The Golden Core is the highest level of membership designation in the IEEE Computer Society. Gustafson first became a member of the IEEE Computer Society in 1982. "John is an experienced and highly-regarded engineer who has contributed a great deal to the IEEE Computer Society and its programs," said Dr, Michael R. Williams, 2007 President of the IEEE Computer Society. "The Golden Core Award is given to those long-standing members or staff for service to the Society. Awardees must have previously received one of our other awards for service and demonstrated active involvement in one of our programs." Gustafson was also recently recognized for his work on replicating the first fully-operational electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ). Last fall, he received the John Atanasoff Award from President Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria and the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award for his contribution to the ABC. Gustafson joined ClearSpeed in 2005 after leading HPC efforts at Sun Microsystems. He has 33 years experience using and designing compute-intensive systems, including the first matrix algebra accelerator and, while at Floating Point Systems, the first commercial massively-parallel cluster. His pioneering work on a 1024-processor nCUBE at Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New created a watershed in parallel computing, for which he received the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. He also has received three R&D 100 Awards for innovative performance models, including the model commonly known as Gustafson's Law or Scaled Speedup. He received his B.S. degree from Caltech and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University Academics ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering, and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. , all in Applied Mathematics. About ClearSpeed ClearSpeed Technology is a semiconductor company that develops massively parallel coprocessors and accelerator boards delivering unmatched performance per watt for high performance computing applications on industry-standard systems. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. and Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information, visit www.clearspeed.com. |
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