Thomas Sterling (computing)

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| name = Thomas Sterling

| image = Thomas Sterling.jpg

| caption = Thomas Sterling

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|12|18}}

| birth_place = New York City, United States

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| field = Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Parallel computing
Cluster computing
Non-von Neumann Architecture

| work_institution = Indiana University
Louisiana State University
California Institute of Technology
NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
University of Maryland
Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
Harris Corporation

| alma_mater = Old Dominion University(BSEE)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SMEE, EE, and PhD)

| occupation = Professor, Researcher

| doctoral_advisor = Robert H. Halstead

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| thesis_title = Parallel Control Flow

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| website = http://www.soic.indiana.edu/all-people/profile.html?profile_id=303

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| known_for = Beowulf Commodity Cluster Computing,

Hybrid Technology Multi-Threaded Architecture,

ParalleX Execution Model,

HPX Runtime System,

Continuum Computer Architecture,

Active Memory Architecture,

| prizes =

| awards = Fellow at American Association for Advancement of Science(2015)(AAAS)

Senior Member of Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering(2012)(IEEE)

Gordon Bell Prize(1997)

Vanguard Award(2016)

Fellow of International Supercomputing Conference(2007)(ISC)

Hertz Fellowship(1981)

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Thomas Sterling (born December 18, 1949) is a full professor for the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington. At IU, he is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Computing Systems Laboratory (AICSL). He received his Ph.D. in 1984 at MIT. For more than four decades, Thomas Sterling has dedicated his professional contributions to research for advancements in parallel high-performance computing. Dr. Sterling is best known as the “father of Beowulf” clusters. Among his other early accomplishments, Dr. Sterling was Principal investigator for the multi-agency multi-institution Hybrid Technology Multi-Threaded Project (HTMT) for advanced research on Petaflops computing systems. Professor Sterling currently leads advanced research in non-von Neumann parallel architecture, ParalleX execution model, and HPX+ runtime system for scalable dynamic irregular graph-based knowledge-oriented artificial intelligence applications. Thomas Sterling is also President and co-founder of Simultac LLC, an advanced computing technology engineering company. Professor Sterling is the co-author of eight books and holds seven patents. Thomas Sterling is a Fellow of the AAAS and winner of the Gordon Bell Prize.