"I love Dr. John L. Gustafson: Gustafson's Law"

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HomeUnums and Posits™SupercomputingCurriculum VitaeGustafson's LawWeb LinksPublication LinksAtanasoff-Berry ComputerBenchmarking & PerformancePicture GalleryFun StuffFeatured HPCwire ArticlePodcast: John Gustafson on What's Next for Parallel ComputingThe End of Numeric Error an interview with John Gustafson on UbiquityDr. John L. Gustafson (born January 19, 1955)Gustafson was raised in Des Moines, Iowa. After completing a degree in Applied Mathematics at California Institute of Technology in 1977 he moved to Ames, Iowa and completed his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1982) at Iowa State University.Dr. Gustafson is an American computer scientist and businessman, chiefly known for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC) such as the invention of Gustafson's Law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer,and several awards for computer speedup.Dr. Gustafson previously held the positions of Senior Fellow and Chief Product Architect at AMD in Sunnyvale, CA, Director at Intel Labs-SC, CEO of Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. and CTO at ClearSpeed Technology. Since November 2013, he has been CTO of Ceranovo, Inc.Dr. Gustafson has recently finished writing a book, The End of Error: Unum Computing, that presents a new approach to computer arithmetic: the unum. The universal number, or unum format, encompasses all IEEE floating-point formats as well as fixed-point and exact integer arithmetic. This approach obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power. The book is published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science, ISBN-13: 978-1482239867.This site provides links to some of Dr. John L. Gustafson's publications, research projects, accomplishments and interests.This is only a partial accounting of Dr. Gustafson's honors and awards. This page is continuously evolving asnew awards are added.2010-20192015 The End of Error: Unum Computing published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science2011 Atanasoff Achievement Award, Iowa State University2000-20092007 IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award (highest membership level)2006 International Atanasoff Award (inaugural)2000 Iowa State University Inventor of the Year Award1990-19991998 Distinguished Visiting Professor, New Mexico State University 1997 PDPTA Outstanding Achievement Award 1995 R&D 100 Award 1980-19891989 R&D 100 Award1988 Parallel computing breakthrough read into U.S. Congressional Record 1988 Gordon Bell Award (inaugural) (Greatest annual contribution to the science of parallel processing)1988 Karp Challenge (Unique award: First demonstration of parallel speedup of over 200 times) 1970-19791977 Richter Fellowship 1977 Graduation with Honors, Election to Gnome Club (Caltech honor society) 1974 Eric Temple Bell Award (Caltech; for "Outstanding Original Research in Mathematics") 1973 National Merit Scholar 1973 Drake Physics PrizeCopyright © Dr. John L. Gustafson. All Rights Reserved.