Presenter

Pete Beckman is a global expert in high-end computing systems. During the past 30 years, his research has focused on software and architectures for large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems. For the DOE Exascale Computing Project, Beckman leads the Argo effort on optimizing and augmenting operating system and runtime components. He is founder and leader of Argonne’s Waggle project for artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing. He also co-directs the Northwestern / Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering and leads the NSF-funded Sage project to build a nationwide infrastructure for AI at the edge to support applications ranging from ecological to urban research. Beckman also coordinates the collaborative technical research activities in extreme-scale computing between the U.S. DOE and Japan’s ministry of education, science, and technology and helps lead the Big Data and Extreme Computing series of international workshops. He also coordinates 5G wireless research activities at Argonne.