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John E. West is the founding publisher of insideHPC. He works in a computing strategy role in R&D in the public sector. He is a former Top 20 supercomputing center director, computational science researcher, and scientific visualization specialist.

John Leidel recently joined as an HPC architect and technical junkie for Convey Computer (and as a consequence of our editorial policy, you won’t find John reporting on Convey).  Previously, he was a senior architect and technical lead for a federal supercomputing laboratory.  Having started his career as a classical software engineer, he participates in several open source projects centered around large enterprise computing/HPC environments. His recent interests include general purpose offload computing (FPGA/GPU/etc) in beowulf clusters. When he’s not writing for insideHPC.com or slinging code for various open source pursuits, you can find him spending time with his family or whittling away at homemade briar pipes. And yes, cowboy boots can be considered formal attire.