Massively Parallel Technologies Announces John Gustafson Joining Its Board Of Directors

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 17, 2008 – Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. (MPT), announces that John Gustafson, Ph.D. has joined its Board of Directors, pending shareholder vote. Dr. Gustafson has been directly involved in developing MPT’s recently revised product roadmap. He is a well-known luminary in the field of High Performance Computing, having introduced the first commercial cluster system in 1985 and the first demonstration of scalable performance on real applications in 1988, for which he won the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2007 Golden Core Award, famed re-builder of the Atanasoff-Berry computer system in 2004, and inventor of Gustafson’s Law of parallel computing (sometimes called “weak scaling”).
An honors graduate of Caltech and Iowa State University, Dr. Gustafson is currently the CTO at ClearSpeed Technology and was formerly Principal Engineer, Scientist and Senior Manager at Sun Labs, a computational scientist at Ames Laboratory, a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
About Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc.
Massively Parallel Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company based in Louisville, CO.   MPT offers high performance functional computing services and hardware to enhance parallel processing on clusters.