Dr. Thomas Sterling

Dr. Thomas Sterling is the Arnaud & Edwards Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, CSRI Fellow at Sandia National Laboratory, and Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is best known for his work in Linux clusters as the "father" of Beowulf and for his research in advanced system architectures for Petaflops and Exaflops performance. He currently leads the ParalleX Group to develop an advanced execution model for co-design of future Exascale architectures and programming models. Professor Sterling holds 6 patents and has co-authored 6 books on computer systems technology. He received his PhD from MIT as a Hertz Fellow in 1984. He may be contacted at tron@cct.lsu.edu.