Presenter

Jeffrey S. Vetter, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). At ORNL, Vetter is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member, and the founding group leader of the Future Technologies Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. At GT, Vetter is a Joint Professor in the Computational Science and Engineering School of the College of Computing and the Director of the NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence. Vetter earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined ORNL in 2003 after stints as a computer scientist and project leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, Vetter's research addresses problems in analyzing new architectures for HPC using measurement, modeling, and simulation. His recent books, entitled "Contemporary High Performance Computing: From Petascale toward Exascale (Vols. 1 and 2)," survey the international landscape of HPC. Vetter is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Scientist Member of the ACM. As part of an interdisciplinary team from Georgia Tech, NYU, and ORNL, he was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 2010. His work has won awards at major conferences: Best Paper Awards at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) and EuroPar, Best Student Paper Finalist at SC14, and Best Presentation at EASC 2015. Most recently, Vetter was the Technical Program Chair of SC15.