Peter Lindstrom ’94 received a $2.5 million Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research he is conducting at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Lindstrom is a computer scientist in the lab's Center for Applied Scientific Computing.
The funding will support Lindstrom’s research into software solutions to reduce the amount of data transferred between memory banks, across distributed computer nodes and between main memory and secondary storage. His work will lead to new tools for greatly reducing data movement with commensurate increases in performance and reductions in power consumption on next-generation massively multi-core computer architectures.
“Given how competitive the Early Career Research Program is, I feel very honored that they chose to fund my proposal,” Lindstrom said in a press release. “I am thrilled to now have the funding and time to continue this research. I am particularly pleased to have secured stable funding for the next several years, which will allow me to pursue a long-term, coherent research agenda. I am eager to get started and hope to contribute to the lab’s efforts in exascale computing.”
Lindstrom has worked at the lab since 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech and triple-majored in math, computer science and physics while at Elon. In addition, Lindstrom was a standout tennis player for Elon College and is a member of the Elon Sports Hall of Fame. He received Elon’s Young Alumnus of the Year Award in 2002.
Lindstrom and his wife, Kerrie Hudzinski Lindstrom ’93, live in Livermore.