Arthur Bernard Maccabe


Arthur Bernard Maccabe

Since January 2009, Dr. Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe has served as the director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSMD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As director of CSMD that role encompasses 10 groups, which range from computational science research, computer application, and computational engineering. In addition to being the director for CSMD, he also serves as the director for Extreme Scale Systems Center, which is a collaboration of ORNL and Department of Defense in High Performance Computing Research. Prior to his appointment at ORNL, he spent over twenty-five years as a member of the Computer Science Department faculty at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He has graduated eleven PhD’s and nine Master’s students. While at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Maccabe also served as the director of UNM’s Center for High Performance Computing and as the university’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). His research has focused on the design and development of system software for massively parallel systems. He was an architect for a series of lightweight operating systems for massively parallel computing systems. Dr. Maccabe has also conducted sponsored research in a wide-range of areas, including: dependence representation for compilers, network intrusion detection, network protocol offload, lightweight file and I/O systems, system software for sensor networks, and virtualization in high end computing systems. Barney received his Ph.D. (1982) and his M.S. (1980) in Information and Computer Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Barney received his B.S. (1977) in Mathematics from the University of Arizona.