Wolfgang Gentzsch

President
UberCloud Community
Uber
Germany

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Wolfgang Gentzsch is the President and Co-founder of the UberCloud Community and Marketplace for engineers and scientists to discover, try, and buy computing on demand, in the cloud. From 2010 to 2015, he was the co-chairman of the International ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference series. Previously, he was Advisor to the EU projects EUDAT and DEISA, directed the 150 Million Euro German D-Grid Initiative, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum and of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST. Previously, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at several universities in the US and Germany, and held leading positions at the North Carolina Grid and Data Center in Durham, Sun Microsystems in California, the DLR German Aerospace Center in Gottingen, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma physics in Munich. In the 90s, he founded HPC software companies Genias and Gridware. The latter, which has been acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000, developed the well-known distributed cluster workload and management system Grid Engine.   Wolfgang Gentzsch is the President and Co-founder of the UberCloud Community and Marketplace for engineers and scientists to discover, try, and buy computing on demand, in the cloud. From 2010 to 2015, he was the co-chairman of the International ISC Cloud & Big Data Conference series. Previously, he was Advisor to the EU projects EUDAT and DEISA, directed the 150 Million Euro German D-Grid Initiative, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum and of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST. Previously, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at several universities in the US and Germany, and held leading positions at the North Carolina Grid and Data Center in Durham, Sun Microsystems in California, the DLR German Aerospace Center in Gottingen, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma physics in Munich. In the 90s, he founded HPC software companies Genias and Gridware. The latter, which has been acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000, developed the well-known distributed cluster workload and management system Grid Engine.  

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