Oklahoma
Supercomputing Symposium 2003
Wednesday September 24 -
Thursday September 25 2003
at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. Stephen Wheat
Principal Scientist
Intel High Performance Computing Program Office
Dr. Stephen Wheat is a Principal Scientist in Intel's HPC (High
Performance Computing) Program Office. Dr. Wheat interacts with the HPC
end user community to educate them on Intel architecture and participate
with users in architecting complex computing solutions using standard
Intel building blocks. Dr. Wheat also acts as an end user advocate on
behalf of the HPC end user community to provide feedback into Intel's
multiple business units responsible for strategies and product
decisions.
Dr. Wheat has a wide breadth of experience that gives him a unique
perspective in understanding large scale HPC deployments. Dr. Wheat was
the Advanced Development manager for the Storage Components Division,
the manager of the RAID Products Development group, the manager of the
Workstation Products Group software and validation groups, and manager
of the systems software group within the Supercomputing Systems Division
(SSD). At SSD, he was one of four Product Line Architects and was the
systems software architect for the ASCI Red system. Before joining Intel
in 1995, Dr. Wheat worked at Sandia National Laboratories, performing
leading research in distributed systems software. While at Sandia, he
created and led the SUNMOS and PUMA programs. Dr. Wheat is a Gordon
Bell prize winner and has been awarded Intel's prestigious Achievement
Award. Dr. Wheat has a patent in Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems.
Dr. Wheat holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has several publications
as papers and conference proceedings on the subjects of load balancing,
inter-process communication, and parallel I/O in large-scale HPC
systems. Outside of Intel, Dr. Wheat is a commercial multi-engine pilot
and a certified flight instructor.
