Robert Pearson
Principal Engineer at Cray Inc.
Round Rock, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Pearson is a seasoned principal engineer and technology leader with over two decades of high-performance networking and communications experience. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he currently drives architectural strategy and R&D as Principal Engineer at Cray Inc., focusing on IO architecture and scalable systems. His career spans entrepreneurship and engineering leadership, including a decade as CEO of System Fabric Works and senior roles at IBM, with a track record of turning complex research into deliverable products. He holds a PhD in Physics from Stanford and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, blending deep technical depth with strategic business insight. His background also includes research and postdoctoral work at Fermilab and membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, underscoring a long-standing commitment to advancing performance-oriented computing.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at Texas McCombs School of BusinessUniversity of California, Irvineearl warren high schoolPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (38)
64-bit10
bit10
transport9
low-level9
reference-implementation9
snl-applications9
fabric9
mac-os9
shared-memory8
optimization8
cdma8
api8
udp8
intel8
portals7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sandialabs/portals4
Sep 2011 - Nov 2011
Portals is a low-level network API for high-performance networking on high-performance computing systems developed by Sandia National Laboratories, Intel Corporation, and the University of New Mexico. The Portals 4 Reference Implementation is a complete implementation of Portals 4, with transport over InfiniBand VERBS and UDP. Shared memory transport is available as an optimization, including Linux KNEM support. The Portals 4 reference implementation is supported on both modern 64 bit Linux and 64 bit Mac OS X. The reference implementation has been developed by Sandia National Laboratories, Intel Corporation, and System Fabric Works. For more information on the Portals 4 standard, please see the Portals 4 page.
Contributions:108 commits in 1 month
memorynationalportalsbitverbs
LeeDroid-/Shooter-2.6.35-MR
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:27 commits in 1 day
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