Presenter

Pete Beckman is the co-director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering. From 2008-2010 he was the director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, where he led the Argonne team working with IBM on the design of Mira, a 10 petaflop Blue Gene/Q. Pete coordinates the collaborative research activities in extreme-scale computing between the US Department of Energy and Japan’s ministry of education, science, and technology (MEXT), and leads Argo, an Exascale Computing Project focused on low-level resource management for the OS and runtime. He is the founder and leader of the Waggle project for AI@Edge. The Waggle technology and software framework is being used by the Chicago Array of Things project and is deployed in over 10 cities around the world. Dr. Beckman has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University (1993)