About me

IBM Fellow and Blue Gene chief architect
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Dr. Alan Gara is the chief architect of the BlueGene supercomputer. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1987. Dr. Gara is a 1998 Gordon Bell recipient for the QCDOC machine, a custom supercomputer optimized for Quantum Chromodynamics. He joined IBM Research in 1999 and has been leading high performance computing architecture and design efforts.
Last updated 9 Jun 2006
