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HomeAl Gara

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Giving Out Grades For Exascale Efforts

June 27, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Just by being the chief architect of the IBM’s BlueGene massively parallel supercomputer, which was built as part of a protein folding simulation grand challenge effort undertaken by IBM in the late 1990s, Al Gara would be someone whom the HPC community would listen to whenever he spoke. …

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