Pete Beckman

This is my home page, which is not often updated:

Projects that keep me busy:

• ALCF: I'm the Director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. It is home to one of the world's fastest computers and supports scientific discovery via simulation and modeling
• ZeptoOS: Petascale computers need specialized operating systems. The ZeptoOS project explores the limits of Linux. Can it work for an extreme-scale platform with one million cores? What must we do to build OSes for the world's largest platforms?
• IESP: The International Exascale Computing Project brings together computer scientists from around the world to plan and design the next generation of extreme-scale software for scientific computing platforms.
• SPRUCE Urgent Computing: I lead the Urgent Computing project for the TeraGrid GIG. The concept is simple, create a system that can support urgent computing applications that need near-immediate access to supercomputers.
• Coordinated Infrastructure for Fault Tolerant Systems: CIFTS: The larger we build supercomputers, the more complex and prone to errors they become. The CIFTS project is building a fault tolerance backplane so all HPC components can respond to faults.