Dr. Stephen Wheat is an Intel Principal Engineer and is Senior Director for Platforms and Initiatives Intel’s High Performance Computing division. He is responsible Intel’s High-end HPC strategy and the pursuit of that strategy through platform architecture, eco-system development and collaborations. While in this role, Dr. Wheat has influenced the deployment of several Top10 systems and many more Top500 HPC systems.
Dr. Wheat has
a wide breadth of experience that gives him a unique perspective in
understanding large scale HPC deployments. He was the Advanced
Development manager for the Storage Components Division, the manager of the
RAID Products Development group, the manager of the Workstation Products Group
software and validation groups, and manager of the systems software group
within the Supercomputing Systems Division (SSD). At SSD, he was a Product Line Architect and was the systems
software architect for the ASCI Red system. Before joining Intel in 1995,
Dr. Wheat worked at Sandia National Laboratories, performing leading research
in distributed systems software, where he created and led the SUNMOS and
PUMA/Cougar programs. Dr. Wheat is a Gordon Bell prize winner and has
been awarded Intel's prestigious Achievement Award. He has a patent in
Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems.
Dr. Wheat
holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has several publications on the subjects
of load balancing, inter-process communication, and parallel I/O in large-scale
HPC systems. Outside of Intel, he is a commercial
multi-engine pilot and a FAA certified multi-engine flight
instructor.