Luke directs NVIDIA’s Enterprise Performance Engineering and Technical Marketing teams. Luke has held roles as sales engineer, solution architect, consultant, and system administrator for various hypervisor technologies in both public and private industry. An early evangelist of virtualization, Luke now sees the cloud delivery of the GPU as the key to solving the last hurdle of desktop and app virtualization and to the delivery of an amazing end-user experience.

Shawn Hall is a high-performance computing systems administrator in the Numerical Algorithms Group for one of NVIDIA’s oil and gas customers. Shawn's experience is in large-scale system administration working with high-performance computing clusters in industry and academia. He has worked on many aspects of large-scale systems, and his interests include parallel file systems, configuration management, performance analysis, and security.