Presenter

John Stone is the lead developer of VMD, a high performance tool for preparation, analysis, and visualization of biomolecular simulations used by over 100,000 researchers all over the world. His research interests include molecular visualization, parallel computing, ray tracing, GPU computing, haptics, virtual environments, and immersive visualization. Mr. Stone is a frequent presenter and mentor in HPC and exascale computing training workshops and related “hackathon” events that aim to give computational scientists both the knowledge of theory and the practical experience they need to successfully develop high performance scientific software for next-generation parallel computing systems. He also provides consulting services for projects involving computer graphics, GPU computing, and high performance computing.