Managing Director, High Performance Computing Center at TTU; Co-Director, NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center
Alan Sill is the Managin Director of the High Performance Computing Center at Texas Tech University, where he is also adjunct professor of physics. He also co-directs the US National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC). Dr. Sill holds a PhD in particle physics from American University and has an extensive track record of work in scientific computing. He has published in topics spanning cloud and grid computing, scientific computing, particle and nuclear physics, cosmic ray physics and radioisotope analysis. He serves as President of the Open Grid Forum, an international computing standards organization.