Gara now leads IBM’s technical team working to achieve computing at the exascale level. IBM was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene in 2009. Innovations in the Blue Gene architecture have resulted in more than 70 patents for Dr. Listen to Superconductor Supercollider from Rob Giless This Is All In Your Mind for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Gara received another Gordon Bell award for QCD calculations done on the Blue Gene machine in 2006. The first generation Blue Gene/L machine was number one on the Top500 list from November 2004 to November 2007. Gara joined IBM Watson research, where he has been the technical leader for three generations of Blue Gene machines. Gara was awarded his first Gordon Bell award for this work in 1998. This group designed and built the QCDSP supercomputer, optimized for Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations. In parallel with this experimental physics work, he collaborated with the Columbia University theory group lead by Professor Norman Christ. Allan Bromley, Texas congressman Joe Barton, and deputy undersecretary of energy Linda Stuntz. Accompanying them are, from left, presidential science adviser D.
Note: The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia. Bush (center) on a tour of the SSC magnet test laboratory on 30 July 1992. The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was a ring particle accelerator which was planned to be built in the area around Waxahachie, Texas. This was followed by research at the Superconductor supercollider (SSC) in Texas and then the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Superconducting Super Collider director Roy Schwitters (right) guides President George H. After a year of world travel, he joined Columbia University where he became a member of the E690 experimental group at Fermilab. Watson Research Center and is now leading exascale system research for IBM.Īlan Gara received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1987 for his work calculating the meson mass spectra utilizing a relativistic Bethe-Salpeter approach. Alan Gara is the chief system architect for the three generations of BlueGene supercomputers.