Steve Louis

Steve Louis is Assistant Department Head for Integrated Computing and Communications at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974, he began his career as one of the first employees at the National Energy Research Supercomputer Center, and has worked in high-performance computing, mass storage and scientific visualization for more than 30 years. He received an R&D 100 Award in 1997 for development of the High Performance Storage System, and a DOE Defense Programs Award of Excellence in 2001 for integration and initial deployment of ASC White. He has been the coordinator for early science calculations on BlueGene/L for the past two years.