Author

Dr. Olivier Franza is the Principal Investigator and chief architect of the Aurora supercomputer. He leads Intel’s Supercomputing Advanced System Architecture team in the Datacenter and AI (DCAI) group. With 25 years of professional experience, he has been responsible for technology pathfinding, architecture definition, and design execution on several Itanium, Xeon, Knights, and custom silicon products since joining Intel from Digital Equipment Corporation. He received a “diplôme d'ingénieur” degree from CenraleSupélec (France), a “doctorat en sciences” degree from Université Paris-Saclay (France), a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), as well as an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College (USA).