John Linford

Dr. John Linford is a principal technical manager at NVIDIA focused on developing the CPU software ecosystem. John previously worked as the Arm director of HPC engineering. John has almost two decades of front-line HPC applications, systems, and optimization experience and particularly enjoys working with emerging technologies and extreme-scale systems. John is based in Austin, Texas.
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Posts by John Linford

Illustration representing HPC.
Data Center / Cloud Mar 25, 2024

Building High-Performance Applications in the Era of Accelerated Computing

AI is augmenting high-performance computing (HPC) with novel approaches to data processing, simulation, and modeling. Because of the computational requirements... 6 MIN READ
Grace CPU Superchip illustration.
Simulation / Modeling / Design Jan 20, 2023

NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip Architecture In Depth

The NVIDIA Grace CPU is the first data center CPU developed by NVIDIA. Combining NVIDIA expertise with Arm processors, on-chip fabrics, system-on-chip (SoC)... 9 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Sep 19, 2022

Accelerating NVIDIA HPC Software with SVE on AWS Graviton3

The latest NVIDIA HPC SDK update expands portability and now supports the Arm-based AWS Graviton3 processor. In this post, you learn how to enable Scalable... 6 MIN READ