Scott Le Grand
| Scott Le Grand, Ph.D.
NVIDIA CUDA Fellow |
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| Bio: Scott Le Grand is currently a principal engineer at Amazon Web Services. He developed the first molecular modeling system for home computers, Genesis, in 1987, Folderol, the distributed computing project targeted at the protein folding problem in 2000, and BattleSphere, a networkable 3D space shooter for the Atari Jaguar the same year. Surprisingly, all three of these efforts shared a common codebase. More recently, he ported the Folding@Home codebase to CUDA, achieving a 5x speedup over previous efforts, and which currently accounts for ~2.6 petaFLOPs of the project’s computational firepower. He is best known for his work porting the AMBER molecular dynamics package to CUDA, attaining record-breaking performance in the process. In a previous life, Scott picked up a B.S. in biology from Siena College and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Pennsylvania State University. In the current life, he is developing life science services on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). |
| Research Interests: Cloud Computing, Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Chemistry, Financial Engineering, Game Design |
| Publications:
Parallel Computing Experiences with CUDA |