Srinidhi Varadarajan

Who is Srinidhi Varadarajan?

Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of the Terascale Computing Facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He joined the Department of Computer Science in August 1999. His research interests are in the area of high performance computer systems. In particular, fault tolerance in large-scale distributed systems, network emulation, network routing algorithms, compiler directed frameworks and parallel simulation algorithms. He currently heads the Computing Systems Research Laboratory and serves as a core faculty member in the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications. He is also the architect of System X, one of the world's fastest and least expensive supercomputers. In 2004, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.