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ClearSpeed’s HPC CTO receives IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Award |
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Apr 24, 2007 at 03:44 PM |
 John Gustafson has been nominated as this year's recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core Award in recognition of his outstanding service to the organization over the years. The company selects up to 50 recipients from a possible 100,000 every year for the award, which is the highest level of membership designation in the society.
Gustafson joined ClearSpeed in 2005 after leading Sun Microsystems' HPC drive. He has worked with such companies as Floating Point Systems, where he designed the first matrix algebra accelerator, and Sandia National Laboratories, where he developed the watershed in parallel computing, for which he received the inaugural Gordon Bell Award.
He has also received three R&D 100 Awards for his part in developing performance models including his eponymous Gustafson's Law, or the Scaled Speedup. He also recently received the John Atanasoff Award for his work on the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. Gustafson has a B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Caltech and an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from Iowa State University.
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By Síle Mc Mahon
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