John Leroy Gustafson (born January 19, 1955) is an American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law, describing scalability in parallel computing systems, and for pioneering the first commercial computer cluster. He also developed the unum number format for numerical computation and led a project to reconstruct the Atanasoff-Berry computer. He has held senior technical roles including Chief Graphics Product Architect at AMD, positions at Intel Labs, and Chief Technology Officer at ClearSpeed Technology, and received the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize in 1988 and the International Atanasoff Award in 2006.
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John Gustafson (scientist) (born 1955), computer scientist and inventor of Gustafson's law
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