Presenter

Kevin Pedretti is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Scalable System Software department at Sandia National Laboratories. He has helped develop several large-scale parallel computers, including the Red Storm system that was commercialized as the Cray XT line of supercomputers, and Astra, the first petascale supercomputer based on Arm processors. Prior to joining Sandia in 2001, he studied engineering at the University of Iowa, where he received a BSE in electrical engineering in 1999 and an MS in computer engineering in 2001. His current research interests include operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers, full-stack hardware and software co-design, and exploring cloud technologies in the context of high performance computing.