CJ Newburn

Chris J. Newburn, who goes by CJ, is a principal architect in the Compute Software Group at NVIDIA, where he leads HPC strategy and the software product roadmap, with a special focus on systems and programming models for scale. CJ is the architect of Magnum IO and the co-architect of GPUDirect Storage, heads the Summit Dev2Dev Series with the Department of Energy, and leads the HPC Containers Advisory Council. CJ has contributed to both hardware and software technologies for the past 20 years and has over 100 patents. He's a community builder with a passion for extending the core capabilities of hardware and software platforms from HPC into AI, data science, and visualization. Before getting his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, CJ did stints at a couple of startups, working on a voice recognizer and a VLIW supercomputer. He's delighted to have worked on volume products that his mom used.
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Posts by CJ Newburn

Data Center / Cloud Nov 09, 2021

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Magnum IO Storage Partnerships

With computation shifting from the CPU to faster GPUs for AI, ML and HPC applications, IO into and out of the GPU can become the primary bottleneck to the... 16 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Aug 23, 2021

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Magnum IO Storage

This is the fourth post in the Accelerating IO series. It addresses storage issues and shares recent results and directions with our partners. We cover the new... 9 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Feb 05, 2021

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Computing and IO Management

This is the third post in the Accelerating IO series, which has the goal of describing the architecture, components, and benefits of Magnum IO, the IO subsystem... 14 MIN READ
Robotics Oct 20, 2020

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Network IO

This is the second post in the Accelerating IO series, which describes the architecture, components, and benefits of Magnum IO, the IO subsystem of the modern... 19 MIN READ
Data Center / Cloud Oct 05, 2020

Accelerating IO in the Modern Data Center: Magnum IO Architecture

This is the first post in the Accelerating IO series, which describes the architecture, components, storage, and benefits of Magnum IO, the IO subsystem of the... 10 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design Aug 25, 2020

Scaling Scientific Computing with NVSHMEM

Figure 1. In the NVSHMEM memory model, each process (PE) has private memory, as well as symmetric memory that forms a partition of the partitioned global... 10 MIN READ