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                <span class="style10"><strong>Northwestern University, Evanston IL -- 
                May 3rd, 2013</strong></span><h3>Keynote</h3>
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                <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~beckman/Home.html">Dr. Pete Beckman</a></strong></p>
                <p class="style9"><strong>Director, Exascale Technology and Computing 
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                <p class="style9"><strong>Co-Director, Northwestern-Argonne Institute 
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                <img height="225" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2594/3919178633_4bd4f053f1_z.jpg" width="150" style="float: left" /><a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~beckman/Home.html">Pete 
                Beckman</a> is the founder and director of the Exascale Technology and 
                Computing Institute at Argonne National Laboratory and the co-director 
                of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering. From 
                2008-2010 he was the director of the Argonne Leadership Computing 
                Facility, where he led the Argonne team working with IBM on the design 
                of Mira, a 10 petaflop Blue Gene/Q, and helped found the International 
                Exascale Software Project. Pete joined Argonne in 2002, serving first as 
                director of engineering and later as chief architect for the TeraGrid, 
                where he led the design and deployment team that created the world's 
                most powerful Grid computing system for linking production HPC computing 
                centers for the National Science Foundation. After the TeraGrid became 
                fully operational, Pete started a research team focusing on petascale 
                high-performance system software. As an industry leader, he founded a 
                Turbolinux-sponsored research laboratory in 2000 that developed the 
                world's first dynamic provisioning system for cloud computing and HPC 
                clusters. The following year, Pete became vice president of Turbolinux's 
                worldwide engineering efforts, managing development offices in the U.S., 
                Japan, China, Korea, and Slovenia. Dr. Beckman has a Ph.D. in computer 
                science from Indiana University (1993) and a B.A. in Computer Science, 
                Physics, and Math from Anderson University (1985). </p>
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