Presenter

Steven Dean, Distinguished Technologist at HPE, currently leads its Liquid Cooling Center of Excellence. Steve has worked in the HPC industry for 40 years, initially at Cray Research, then at SGI, and finally at HPE. He has specialized in HPC system hardware architectures and is well versed in implementing system packaging, power, cooling, controls, and interconnect solutions. Steve initially worked on high-powered refrigeration-cooled (Cray XMP) and liquid-cooled systems (Cray YMP) before moving to air-cooled solutions. At SGI, he led work on high-end air-cooled systems (Origin, Altix, and ICE) until power densities drove a return to liquid cooling with the ICE X in 2011and ICE XA systems in 2014. At HPE he led the development of the Apollo 9000 liquid-cooled system, followed by evaluating next-generation system architecture concepts. Steve has developed liquid-cooled system designs for 20 years and has numerous patents in this area.