HPCwire Unveils 2024 People to Watch
San Diego, CA — March 11, 2024 – HPCwire, the leading publication for news and information for the high performance computing industry, today unveiled its People to Watch for 2024. This feature highlights key community members who are driving the industry forward, people you should be keeping an eye on in the year to come.
Over the course of the program, HPCwire has recognized more than 200 HPC luminaries who have gone on to achieve extraordinary things. One dozen additional individuals are being honored in 2024, the 22nd year of the People to Watch program.
“I am pleased to announce the HPCwire People to Watch for 2024. The editorial board considered a wide-ranging worldwide ensemble of remarkable individuals and narrowed our list to just twelve HPC innovators,” said HPCwire Managing Editor Doug Eadline. “These twelve individuals have established an impactful trajectory in the HPC community and market, and they have certainly garnered our attention for the coming year.”
2024 is an exciting year for HPC; the considerable growth of Generative AI has strained infrastructure and, at the same time, opened up new avenues for HPC progress. In addition, advances in processors, cooling/packaging designs, energy efficiency, and the steady growth of Quantum computing continue to push HPC to new heights. Our 12 People to Watch are at the forefront of these trends, adapting new technology to our rapidly-changing world in order to unlock the answers to the biggest societal challenges of our time and make the impossible, possible.
The 2024 HPCwire People to Watch selections are:
Katie Antypas
Director, NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
David Flynn
Founder and CEO, Hammerspace
Todd Gamblin
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Livermore Computing Division at LLNL
Raj Hazra
CEO, Quantinuum
Justin Hotard
Executive Vice President and General Manager the Data Center and AI Group, Intel
Dieter Kranzlmüller
Chair of the Board of Directors, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
Yann Lecun
VP & Chief AI Scientist, Meta openAI and Professor, NYU
Celia Merzbacher
Executive Director, Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
Calista Redmond
CEO of RISC-V International
Philip Roth
Leader, Algorithms and Performance Analysis Group, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Happy Sitole
Center Manager, National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure System (NICIS)
Gina Tourassi
Associate Laboratory Director for the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
To read exclusive interviews with each Person to Watch, please visit:
www.hpcwire.com/people-to-watch-2024
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