GSA Technology Council

James Pepin is Clemson University’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of High Performance Computing.

Pepin has worked on a number of high profile projects, including heading up the Los Angeles Access Point, a key Internet utility operated by USC’s Information Sciences Institute that serves all major Southern California colleges and Universities (including Caltech and the UC and CSU systems).

“Jim Pepin is a world-class authority on high performance computing, communications and the facilities necessary to operate at the very high-end of performance. He will help pave the way for a top-20 ranking for Clemson by leading our technical efforts to build the kind of cyberinfrastructure that is necessary for our faculty and students to perform serious computational research”, said Jim Bottum, Clemson’s Vice Provost for Computing and Information Technology and CIO.

Pepin’s role is advisory and strategic in nature. His duties include advising the CIO on technical issues; leading the development of Clemson’s technical road maps; working with the community to define our technical architecture; leading the development of Clemson’s HPC environment; serving as an adjunct in Clemson’s School of Computing; evaluating new technologies and serving on national level technical committees.

Jim Pepin speaks to the GSA Technology Council on June 4, 2008.