JOHN MORRISON

John Morrison is Leader of the Computing, Communications, and Networking (CCN) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Working in CCN, and its predecessors, CIC and C Divisions, since 1971, he has held increasingly responsible leadership roles in computing and networking development at the Laboratory.

As CCN Leader, John manages the Laboratory’s high-performance computing resources; networking, communications, and desktop systems; and is responsible for a $147M budget and approximately 500 people. He leads the Q executive team of senior managers charged with providing direction and guidance to the Q Project, a 30-TeraOPS supercomputer, for the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI) Program for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Technical areas within ASCI include high-performance computing, advanced networking, high-speed storage, visualizations, systems tools, and distributed computing.

From 1997-1998, John went on assignment to the Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Computing and Simulation Office under Dr. Gil Weigand, Defense Programs. There he coordinated the technical integration of ASCI computer science programs across three national Laboratories.

He has served as leader of the ASCI Blue Mountain project, the Problem-Solving Environments (PSE) project, and the Advanced Networking project. He led the ASCI Blue Mountain procurement team that resulted in two successful awards of the most powerful computer system that DOE had ever acquired. He developed and implemented, through the ASCI Blue procurement, a new strategy for achieving high-performance computing using market-based components. John established the initial high-performance computer system infrastructure to support ASCI applications and computer systems.

Member, Association of Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society

BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois, 1969

MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New Mexico, 1975