Presenter

Pete Beckman is a global expert in high-end computing systems. During the past 30 years, his research has been focused on software and architectures for large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems. For the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project, Beckman leads the Argo project focused on low-level resource management for operating systems and runtime. He is the founder and leader of Argonne’s Waggle project for AI and edge computing. Pete also co-directs the Northwestern University/Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering and leads the Sage project funded by the NSF to build a nationwide infrastructure for AI at the edge to support ecological research for the National Ecological Observatory Network and urban research for the Array of Things. Pete also coordinates the collaborative technical research activities in extreme-scale computing between the U.S. DOE and Japan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and helps lead the Big Data and Extreme Computing workshops.