Author

Johann Lombardi is a senior principal engineer in the Extreme Scale Architecture & Development Division at Intel. He is the lead architect of the Distributed Asynchronous Object Store (DAOS). Prior to DAOS, Johann led the sustaining team in charge of the Lustre filesystem worldwide support for 5 years. He then transitioned to research problems (Fast Forward, ESSIO, CORAL &
Path Forward) to lead the development of a storage stack for Exascale HPC, Big Data, and AI.