Dr. John Gustafson – John is well known in High Performance Computing, having introduced the first commercial cluster system in 1985 and having first demonstrated 1000x, scalable parallel performance on real applications in 1988, for which he won the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. That demonstration broke the “Karp Challenge” that claimed speedup of more than 200x was a practical impossibility; it created a watershed that led to the widespread manufacture and use of highly parallel computers. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2007 Golden Core Award, re-builder of the Atanasoff-Berry computer system, and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law of parallel computing (sometimes called “weak scaling”). His parallel processing innovations have netted him three R&D 100 awards and two Inventor of the Year awards. An honors graduate of Caltech and Iowa State University, John was previously CEO of Massively Parallel Technologies, CTO of ClearSpeed Technology, and Principal Investigator at Sun Labs where he won and led Sun’s $47M DARPA HPCS contract. His commercial decisions are guided by his experience as an HPC user while a computational scientist at Ames Laboratory, a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.