Ron Brightwell, SNL Ron Brightwell currently leads the Scalable System Software Department at Sandia National Laboratories. After joining Sandia in 1995, he was a key contributor to the high-performance interconnect software and lightweight operating system for the world’s first terascale system, the Intel ASCI Red machine. He was also part of the team responsible for the high-performance interconnect and lightweight operating system for the Cray Red Storm machine, which was the prototype for Cray’s successful XT product line. The impact of his interconnect research is visible in technologies available today from Bull, Intel, and Mellanox. He has also contributed to the development of the MPI-2 and MPI-3 specifications. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal, conference, and workshop publications. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, has served on the technical program and organizing committees for numerous high-performance and parallel computing conferences, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the ACM.