Sverre Jarp

CERN  

Sverre Jarp is active in the CERN openlab, a joint collaboration with leading industrial partners in order to assess cutting-edge information technology for the Large Hadron Collider’s Computing Grid.  He has been working in computing at CERN for well over 30 years and has held various managerial and technical positions promoting advanced but cost-effective computing solutions for the Laboratory.  In 2001-02 he spent a sabbatical year in HP Labs (Palo Alto, USA). Inside openlab, his main focus is currently compilers and platform optimization as well as virtualization and Grid middleware. S. Jarp holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.