Douglas Pase earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northern Arizona University in 1982 and a Doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Graduate Center. His doctorate research investigated parallel languages and architectures, and algorithms for scheduling tasks in parallel. He has been part of the compiler development teams for Honeywell Large Information Systems, McDonnell Douglas and for Floating-Point Systems. At NASA Ames Research Center he investigated the capabilities of parallelizing compilers and the future of parallel computing architectures. He later joined Cray Research to co-author the CRAFT Programming Model and to develop the MPP Apprentice performance analysis tool. After Cray he moved to IBM to create the Dynamic Probe Class Library (DPCL), based on DynInst from U. Wisc., Madison. DPCL allows instrumentation to be placed into a parallel application while it is running, and provides a complete infrastructure to support that instrumentation. Since then he has been the Team Lead for System x Design Guidance and System x HPC Performance, the Technical Lead for IBM System x Performance and a Performance Engineer at NetApp. He has also served on the Linux Cluster Institute Steering and Workshop Committees and has taught many graduate and undergraduate courses in Computer Science for Marist College, Meredith College, NCCU and North Carolina State University.
Dr. Pase currently serves as a Performance Analyst for Data Domain. He is the author of 29 technical papers and 8 patents.