John L. Gustafson

Dr. John L. Gustafson is an applied physicist and mathematician. Dr. John spent more than 35 years in various sectors such as Semiconductor, Embedded, IoT, High-Performance Computing System, etc. He is a former Director at Intel Labs, former Chief Product Architect at AMD and Principal Investigator at Sun Microsystems. He is also an alma mater Iowa State University. A pioneer in high-performance computing, he introduced cluster computing in 1985 and first demonstrated scalable massively parallel performance on real applications in 1988. This became known as Gustafson's Law, for which he won the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize. He is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core Award. He provides technical and business guidance to Faststream with an advanced, off-road map and far-future research in the areas of VLSI Design and Internet of Things.