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

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Data Center / Cloud Sep 10, 2024

Accelerating the HPCG Benchmark with NVIDIA Math Sparse Libraries

In the realm of high-performance computing (HPC), NVIDIA has continually advanced HPC by offering its highly optimized NVIDIA High-Performance Conjugate... 9 MIN READ
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Data Center / Cloud Aug 02, 2024

Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency with the NVIDIA Grace Family

The exponential growth in data processing demand is projected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025. This contrasts sharply with the slowing pace of CPU performance... 16 MIN READ
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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
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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