Presenter

James H. Laros III is a Distinguished Member of Technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Over his more than 30-year career, James has served the nation in a number of capacities beginning with the United States Air Force and Air National Guard. James continued his service with the Strategic Defense Initiative program in Colorado as a Systems Analyst. James has served at Sandia focusing on various technical disciplines related to High Performance Computing (HPC) including Hierarchical Mass Storage, file-systems, systems management and systems software, Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) systems and light-weight kernel operating systems. Over the past ten years James has focused on technical leadership in the area of HPC platform architecture. James currently serves as a program lead for the Vanguard Advanced Technology Prototype program, the Advanced Architecture Testbed program and other HPC related efforts. James has won numerous awards including three R&D100 awards.