Albert I. Reuther

Dr. Albert Reuther is a senior staff member in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC). He brought supercomputing to Lincoln Laboratory through the establishment of LLGrid, founded the LLSC, and leads the LLSC Computational Science and Engineering team. He developed the gridMatlab high-performance computing (HPC) cluster toolbox for pMatlab and is the computer system architect of the MIT Supercloud and numerous interactive supercomputing clusters based on Supercloud, including those in the LLSC.

As a computational engineer, he has worked with many teams within the Laboratory and beyond to develop efficient parallel and distributed algorithms to solve a wide array of computational problems. The Supercloud architecture earned him an Eaton Award for Design Excellence and his computational engineering work earned him a 2017 R&D 100 Award. He is the technical chair of the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference and has organized numerous workshops on interactive HPC, cloud HPC, economics of HPC, and HPC security. His areas of research include interactive HPC; computer architectures for machine learning, graph analytics, and parallel signal processing; and computational engineering.

Reuther earned a dual BS degree in computer and electrical engineering in 1994, an MS degree in electrical engineering in 1996, and a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2000, all from Purdue University. In 2001, he earned an MBA degree from the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris, France, and Stuttgart, Germany.