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| In Memoriam |
| HPC Pioneer Ed Oliver Passes Away |
| Ed Oliver (figure 4), who led Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) early efforts in high-performance computing, died on July 22 in Washington, DC, following an illness. |
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| Figure 4. Dr. Carl Edward Oliver. |
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| Oliver founded and directed ORNL's Office of Laboratory Computing in the 1990s. He recognized the scientific promise of high-performance computing early on and was instrumental in establishing ORNL's High-Performance Computing Research Center, which featured the Intel Paragon, the first of ORNL's state-of-the-art supercomputers. |
| "It was Ed Oliver's vision that Oak Ridge National Laboratory would one day be the world leader in scientific computing and its application to solving some of the most compelling problems facing humanity," said Dr. Thomas Zacharia, ORNL Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Science. "He always had high expectations of the promise of supercomputing and therefore had high expectations of ORNL." More of Dr. Zacharia's remembrances appear on the Editorial page of this issue ("Final Farewell to Dr. Ed Oliver," p54). |
| Oliver went from ORNL to head the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, which laid the groundwork for the DOE Office of Science's current leadership role in scientific computing. |
A former chief scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Carl Edward Oliver was a native of Anniston, AL and a University of Alabama alumnus.
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