Stephen Poole worked in HPC starting with the MPP64 with Steve Chen. Went to IBM Special Projects and worked with SSI, TMC and others on projects for various government agencies. Started working with LANL as one of the original HIPPI Software folks as well as FCS. Worked with SGI on GSN and various other government projects. Currently at Los Alamos working in algorithms applied to particular architectures as well as working on Advanced Architectures in Systems designs and Networks, Infiniband, OpenIB and codes/algorithms of interest.