The National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), home to the Kraken supercomputer, has named Gregory Peterson as its new project director.
Peterson will continue his role as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UT, a role he has held since 2000 when he joined the university from the Air Force Research Laboratory.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and bachelor’s, master’s, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include emerging computing architectures, parallel processing, computational science, and performance evaluation.
For more information, visit the NICS web site.