Poll of the Week - Rock stars of scientific computing
Image courtesy of Gus Cunh.
Over the past few months, our esteemed colleagues at insideHPC have published a fun series of (almost) monthly profiles called "Rock Stars of HPC."
So far, they've celebrated five rock stars with well-written, in-depth profile interviews:
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ricky Kendall, National Center for Computational Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thomas Sterling, Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University
Marc Snir, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Shalf, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Every one of them is an accomplished and respected researcher in the field of high performance computing. But is that all there is to being a rock star? And if you slice and dic