Walt Ligon
Associate Professor Emeritus
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolWalt Ligon is an Associate Professor Emeritus and seasoned high-performance computing researcher with 23 years at Clemson University and a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He co-developed the influential Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) during the Beowulf cluster era and now leads development on its descendant OrangeFS, driving next-generation parallel file system work at Omnibond Systems. He has graduated multiple PhD students, collaborated with national labs like Argonne and NASA Goddard, and focuses on parallel processing, file I/O, middleware, and reconfigurable computing. Based in Clemson, he balances continuing technical contributions to production-ready open-source storage with a creative side as the frontman and songwriter for a regional "Swamp Rock" band.
23 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
ntfs10
nfs9
dub7
apl7
multicore6
idris6
gleam6
ocaml6
dune5
lwt4
ppx4
opam4
compiler4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
waltligon/orangefs
Jan 2003 - Aug 2022
Official repository for PVFS/OrangeFS
Contributions:677 commits, 48 pushes, 4 branches in 19 years 10 months
nfsntfs
ocaml/ocaml
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
functional-languagecompilersruntime-systemapllwt
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