Advanced Computing Leadership

Gary Grider is the Acting Leader of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As Director, Gary is responsible for all aspects of High Performance Computing technologies and deployment at Los Alamos. Additionally, Gary is responsible for managing the R&D portfolio for keeping the new technology pipeline full to provide solutions to problems in the Lab’s HPC environment, through funding of university and industry partners.

Gary is also the US Department of Energy Exascale Storage, IO, and Data Management National Coordinator. In this role, Gary helps managed the US government investments in Data Management, Mass Storage, and IO.

Gary also is the technical adviser to the Los Alamos/UCSC/CMU Information Science and Technology Institute, an education and R&D funding institute.