Presenter
Paul Messina
Biography
Paul Messina is Director of Argonne National Laboratory’s Computational Science Division and . During 2015-2017, he served as Project Director for the U.S. Department of Energy Exascale Computing Project. From 2008-2015, he was Director of Science for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
From 1987-2002, he was founding Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), PI for the CASA gigabit network testbed, Chief Architect for NPACI, and co-PI for the National Virtual Observatory and TeraGrid. In 1990, he conceived and led the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium that created and operated the Intel Touchstone Delta, at the time the world’s most powerful scientific computer and in 1999-2000 led the DOE-NNSA ASCI program while on leave from Caltech.
From 1973-1987, he held a number of positions in the Applied Mathematics Division and was founding Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne.
From 1987-2002, he was founding Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), PI for the CASA gigabit network testbed, Chief Architect for NPACI, and co-PI for the National Virtual Observatory and TeraGrid. In 1990, he conceived and led the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium that created and operated the Intel Touchstone Delta, at the time the world’s most powerful scientific computer and in 1999-2000 led the DOE-NNSA ASCI program while on leave from Caltech.
From 1973-1987, he held a number of positions in the Applied Mathematics Division and was founding Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne.
